David Cohen

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

FounderCon 2012 was an incredible three days packed with networking, amazing keynote speakers, breakout sessions, and bonding over group meals and a rousing game of Werewolf. Thanks to all of you who came out and helped make FounderCon 2012 a huge success. Every year, all the TechStars alumni and staff come together for FounderCon.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 30, 2011

And while you’d love to feel energized and excited about jumping into 2012, instead you’re weighed down with dread. You’ll start January 2 feeling overwhelmed and incapable of getting everything done — and 2012 will become another year of wishing things were different. January of 2012 is as good a time as any.

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

UX Study The State Of E-Commerce Checkout Design 2012. September 4th, 2012. September 4th, 2012 7:05 am. September 4th, 2012 7:21 am. September 4th, 2012 7:33 am. September 4th, 2012 11:46 pm. User Experience. UI Design. E-Commerce. WP Word Press. Essentials. Techniques. By Christian Holst. 18 Comments.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The common tone going into 2012 is cautious optimism. Instead, focus in 2012 on your high payoff activities and leverage the abundance of low cost, no cost marketing tools available to you. Economies remain very fragile and so lavish spending on your marketing would be a high risk activity.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

As we enter 2012, here’s our Top 10 list of Mom Marketing Trends: 1. Moms’ overwhelming embrace of social media and the profound impact of the recommendation culture on their consumer purchasing behavior. The New Brand Dis-loyal Mom.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 13, 2012

Startup Weekend Singapore 2012 participants.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 3, 2012

So, how should you go about raising money in 2012? When times are bad, funding sources are a little tighter with their money, but fewer entrepreneurs are contacting them. So, it all evens out. Here are six rules to follow: 1. Bootstrap as much as you can. Bootstrapping is the process of running your business with no outside financing.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This year, Techventure has also taken on two new partner events - TechInnovation 2012 and Failcon Singapore. . Techventure , one of Asia’s topmost events for the venture capital community to engage with the latest technology entrepreneurs, is back. Renaissance.’, ” You can find out more at the Techventure website.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Software engineers are extremely high in demand, and over the past few years the growth in their salaries has shown exactly how much in demand they are.

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Software Engineering Salary Silicon Valley Engineer 193

deal architect

DECEMBER 20, 2012

The New Florence blog set a blistering pace during 2012 – it will end year with 750+ posts. Each one of the posts makes you go “wow”, and very tough to play favorites but I scanned the titles to come.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 10, 2012

It's called the Shopify 2012 Build-A-Business Competition and it launches today. I recently teamed up with Tim Ferriss, Daymond John, and Tina Roth Eisenberg to help you launch a business from scratch. Now is the time to take that idea you've been mulling over and put it in motion.

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San Francisco Framework Lean Stock 167

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

The whole dea of this exercise is to make sure that you are not scrambling on January 1st to pull together the documents and data that will be needed to prepare your taxes for 2012. Outstanding loans or other employee obligations.

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Small Business Startup Software Review Salary 77

For Entrepreneurs

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Today’s application developers are faced with a broad set of architectural decisions that can make or break their company going forward. This presentation, which was given as a keynote for the MassTLC application development conference, highlights the major changes that are taking place in the world of application development.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

If you look 5 years later at the 2012 vintage, top quartile TVPI is 2.29. The top quartile DPI for the 2012 vintage is 0.62. So, in a nutshell, this suggests that the 2012 vintage is appreciating in value faster than the older vintages but seem to be distributing out cash more slowly. That’s only 0.5X nearly the same as 2007.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2012

Held on April 18-20, 2012, InnovFest 2012 is an exciting festival of innovation-related activities featuring innovative technologies, dynamic startups as well as award-winning innovators and entrepreneurs.

Singapore 150

Singapore Technology Entrepreneur Startup 150

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Financial and banking technology conference Finovate comes to Asia for the first time with Finovate Asia 2012. Finovate Asia 2012 will feature a demo-only format with 32 companies – each with only 7 minutes – to demo their latest innovations to the audience.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2012

In its third year, Unwired 2012 will see speakers from companies such as Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Tellabs and StarHub analyze and discuss issues surrounding the telecommunications industry in Singapore. Key topics include: 1. The future of mobile cloud services for consumers and corporates, 2.

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Singapore Cloud Mobile Networking 140

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2012

Now there’s yet another mega startup event on the calendar – Echelon 2012 ! Startup Marketplace submissions close on March 31, 2012. Young Upstarts is an Echelon 2012 media partner. Otherwise, you can still join the event and revel in the all kinds of Asian startup wonderful by buying your ticket here.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2012

Unlike in previous years, consumer-type devices at CommunicAsia 2012 were somewhat of a rarity. Here are the very few consumer devices you may have missed at CommunicAsia 2012 : Huawei Ascend P1. China mobile giant Huawei was by far the dominant player in CommunicAsia 2012.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 15, 2012

For 2012, there are some trends that you need to be aware of. The frustrating part for online marketers when it comes to that space is that things change all the time. Which means that you have to keep on your toes and catch these fluctuating trends as they unfold. For example: - Mobile searches increased by a massive 400-percent in 2011. -

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 16, 2012

I have been in Orlando for the Sapphire event and while I missed day 1 I did take in the full experience yesterday. With no particular narrative here is a summary of thoughts I collected. Sapphire is huge, the main pavilion is easily 3-4x the size of Dreamforce and the energy is studious and focused.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2012

. “Promoting Indonesia’s tech startup scene as always been our main objective with Sparxup , as well as bringing international knowledge to local entrepreneurs,” says Rama Mamuaya, founder of DailySocial and Sparxup 2012′s chairman.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

In fact, more than half of the top 20 search terms in Singapore containing “Euro 2012″ were pegged to keywords pertaining to P2P streaming sites ( see above ). What does this mean for pay TV broadcasters? Plenty – and it’s all bad.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 2, 2011

In the event that you have gotten away from your original plan, take the end of the year and starting fresh in 2012, review where you got off course, how such a move has impacted your business, and what are the options to regaining the ship. The reason you got off course may have been necessitated by finances etc.,

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Business Plan Forecast Software Review Finance 76

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

International tourists grew around 4-percent in 2012 to reach 1.035 billion, according the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer. By region, Asia and the Pacific (+7-percent) was the best performer in 2012, while by sub-region South-East Asia, North Africa (both at +9-percent) and Central and Eastern Europe (+8-percent) topped the ranking.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Held on January 15 to 17, 2012 in Mumbai, India, the event is designed to create a forum for some of the top marketing professionals to congregate and create a marketplace for ideas and services that will help Asian companies get the marketing edge. You can register for the event here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. This year, for the first time, we've added a day of workshops and site visits to The Lean Startup Conference. We’re really proud to present the workshops, which we're holding on December 4, and we wanted to tell you more about them.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 30, 2011

With the continued explosion of Apple’s iPad and other tablets in 2011, 2012 will see an expanded focus on tablet commerce. To keep up with large online retailers in 2012, small businesses will be upping their game in the website design department. by Alex Schmelkin, co-founder and president, Alexander Interactive.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

If you loved the emerging startup vibes of the DEMO conference, Asia will be getting its very own version with DEMO Asia 2012 slated for February 29 to March 2 in Singapore next year. DEMO Asia would like to invite all startups to participate in the first audition for DEMO Asia 2012. DEMO Asia Singapore Audition.

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Asia Singapore Malaysia Indonesia 157

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2011

And, as they like to put it, it’s “by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs” Startup Asia Singapore will take place on February 2-3, 2012, and is meant for early-stage startup investors, technology enthusiasts and entrepreneurs who want to show off their product to meet one another.

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Singapore Asia Startup Early Stage 171

Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

We’ll teach over 175 NSF Innovation Corps teams in the Lean LaunchPad course in 2012. The 2012 Stanford Lean LaunchPad Presentations. The process will repeat itself, quarter by quarter – new students, new University entrepreneurship teaching teams.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2012

National Basketball Association (NBA) rising superstar Jeremy Lin emerged as the top name Singaporeans googled this year, beating out even its founding father Lee Kuan Yew (the infamous Amy Cheong of this saga also made the list), while the Olympics 2012 came out as the top trending search. 9 KONY 2012. 9 Euro 2012.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

The telecommunications giant will also unveil services and solutions targeted at consumers, businesses and government incorporating new, emerging technologies.

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Singapore Asia Government Technology 150

View from Seed

APRIL 2, 2024

When we started NextView back in 2012, we often used the metaphor of the beer industry to describe the evolution of the VC business. AB Inbev was huge back in 2012 but is only larger today. From 2012 to 2021, VC dollar inflows went from about $25B to over $128B in 2021. But consolidation has not happened at nearly the same rate.

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Gust

JULY 18, 2012

Following the huge success of the Gust-DEMO scholarship earlier this year, Gust and DEMO have teamed up again to offer Gust start-ups a full scholarship opportunity for DEMO Fall 2012. The deadline to apply for the full scholarship is August 17, 2012. DEMO Fall 2012 takes place October 1-3, 2012 in Santa Clara, CA.

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Silicon Valley Differentiation Lead Investor Distribution 142

Steve Blank

MARCH 14, 2012

Stanford e245 2012 class photo. If you can’t see the slide presentation above, click here. The Ziilion customer discovery narrative blog is here. ——— Congratulations to all the teams. They taught us a lot.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Hot on the heels of Social Media Week this week in Singapore is Social Business Week , which will take place next week on February 20-23, 2012. You can find out more about Social Business Week 2012 here.

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