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Survival Tips From A Seasoned Digital Nomad Who Made It Out The Other Side

YoungUpstarts

” by Spencer Johnson to be overly simplified, the heart-warming tale of mice and little people learning to adapt under ever-changing conditions was exactly the push in the right direction that me and my wife needed to pack our bags and head off in search of personal growth and adventure.

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NYU Commencement Speech 2016

Steve Blank

Established businesses execute business models while startups search for them. When I was 18 I served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. Soon I began to pester the head of the department about this new idea I had… that startups are not smaller versions of large companies. Actually they’re entirely different.

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5 Ways Venture Capital Is Shaking Up The Tech Startup Landscape In Asia

YoungUpstarts

In Vietnam, a suitable climate for the startup landscape to thrive lies in state-owned enterprise reform. Programmes such as China 2025 help cities to modernise industrial manufacturing, whilst in Hong Kong, a $256 million fund encourages investment in local innovation and technology startups. Creates a startup ecosystem.

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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

The Next Web

Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, and Vietnam each have a couple of very good VC firms. If you search for funds when you’re desperate, you have no leverage and investors will smell that a mile away. But unfortunately, if you’re based in one of those countries and cannot impress one of them, then there are not many other options.

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4 Ways Social Networks Can Boost A Company’s Reputation

YoungUpstarts

Many economists have speculated that the future economy will be based in large part on reputation: As the Internet gives clients the opportunity to find out how a company is regarded through an online search, in other words, the business world will be more “what you know” than “who you know.”

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[Asia] Small Businesses Look To The Internet For Growth Opportunities

YoungUpstarts

Anu Madgavkar, senior fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute , shared these and more interesting insights into small businesses in Asia during a sharing session organized by search giant Google. In Vietnam, a 2011 McKinsey survey revealed that Vietnamese SMEs reported a 19.3% increase in productivity from using web technologies.

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Philadelphia University Commencement Speech – May 15th 2011

Steve Blank

In the early 1970’s, as some of you might remember, our country was in the middle of the Vietnam War—-and the Air Force was happy to have me. My job was to replace failed electronic warfare equipment in fighter planes as they returned from bombing missions over North Vietnam. The answer turned out to be a war.