The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In the first of a new series talking to tech industry leaders about what shaped them as entrepreneurs and the lessons they’ve learned in their careers, we speak to Netflix co-founder and CEO, Reed Hastings. RH: Well, I never planned to be an entrepreneur. As a kid I never said ‘I want to become an entrepreneur’.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2023

The last few months have been an unprecedented time for entrepreneurs and startup founders on the market. Entrepreneurs Want a Great Place for Their Startup A slowdown in economic activity has made it increasingly challenging for entrepreneurs to establish themselves against the backdrop of reluctant consumer spending and recession risks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

Want to take a year pursuing your dream to write a screenplay, travel through Asia, run a triathlon or start your own fashion line? I ran a team of 14 people (12 Japanese, 1 German and 1 Turk … both of whom were fluent in Japanese) who produced an Internet strategy for the board of Sony. If not now, then when?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 15, 2021

1- I turned to the internet. Disparaged I turned to the internet, and found two gems: leandomainsearch dot com (my favorite) and domainr dot com. 11- Inspired by the most beautiful Doe’s (Deer) from Asia. I went on a trip to Japan and came across the most beautiful Doe’s (Deer) from Asia.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 17, 2022

Different entrepreneurs take on diverse approaches to implement innovative ideas in their businesses and some emerge to be successful. This gains them recognition as innovative entrepreneurs and inspires others to be innovative as well. The entrepreneur that best represents disruption is Netflix’s Reed Hastings. 2- Elon Musk.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

Yu Yongfu is the chairman and CEO of UCWeb , whose mission is to provide a better mobile Internet experience to billions of users around the world. Whenever I visit the US, one question mobile entrepreneurs always ask me is ‘How can my startup break into China?’. Asia Entrepreneur Insider Analysis and Opinion Investigations'

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Leading business information architect and IT entrepreneur Pekka A. But the capital of the world is going to be in Asia in the coming years. It is also to promote the book for sure, but the idea is that while there is quite a lot of material around this topic, it is scattered all over the Internet. into Europe. are idiots.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

Additionally, the major factors contributing to its high growth are better Internet access, e-commerce platforms, the scope of international trade, smartphone usage, and a rise in disposable income. Why is an Uber for courier app a viable business idea for entrepreneurs? Various business models in an on-demand courier delivery app.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 23, 2012

When Internet giant Google threatened to pull out of China in 2010, few were aware of the paradox that the Internet brings to China’s leaders beyond the political fodder. This transition can bring tensions that can be magnified by the power of the Internet. by Aaron Tan. This review was first posted on technology Techgoondu. ].

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

I mention challenges and opportunities in the same breath here because it’s axiomatic among entrepreneurs that if something were easy to do well profitably at scale, it would have been done already. Perhaps most importantly, IT and Internet business are simply a breed of their own.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2012

VISA, through research firm Milward Brown, recently conducted a study on this generation in Asia that found some interesting statistics which may surprise you. In the case of Indonesia, this is overwhelming – 83-percent of Indonesian Millennials say they see themselves as entrepreneurs of the future.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2020

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Provide pet owners with the information and education. This was borne out of my personal frustrations in scouring the internet and needing to stitch together my own half-baked solutions. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. As an entrepreneur, simply enter your location online, and it will list the angel and VC organizations near you. This is a series of templated websites for matching angel investors seeking investment opportunities with entrepreneurs seeking capital.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2014

The highly diversified conglomerate includes businesses in travel, banking, music, mobile services, Internet, film, video games, and most recently space tourism. As a serial entrepreneur, Branson is well known for starting myriad businesses in seemingly unrelated fields. Let me now highlight some of its key themes. Entrepreneurship.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

When I moved to VC, I found out that there were no good consumer internet startups. Bridgette: What are you investing in South East Asia at Golden Gate Ventures? . Jeff – we look at mobile, consumer Internet, games and SaaS. A startup that made Internet based insoles, for shoes. They were sporadic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2010

For example, my personal interest is entrepreneurs, and MySpace is for tweens. Here is my characterization of the social networking scene, as it relates to business networking for entrepreneurs and startups: Twitter. Believe it or not, this is my favorite for entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs can find like-minded people here.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 23, 2014

The service solves a universal problem for companies but it happens that it was built in Ghana, where the internet penetration rate is just 40 percent. The post Startup founders in Southeast Asia, it’s time to step up appeared first on The Next Web. Asia Entrepreneur News' The Dropifi story got me thinking about.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

2011 is going to be a great year for entrepreneurs – even better than 2010. The survey indicated that the VCs surveyed felt the best prospects were for entrepreneurs in emerging markets like China, Brazil, and India. But this investment will happen globally and the US may see a decline in VC-funded startups in 2011.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2014

An older but still relevant study, published by CB Insights, Venture Capital Human Capital Report , summarizes a variety of characteristics for private early-stage Internet ventures funded in the US. If you are from outside the US, especially Asia, experts tell me that the focus is even more on relationships. No surprises here.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

I’m rarely surprised when a young entrepreneur or small business owner hasn’t fully identified how their new business will make money. But I’m always surprised when that entrepreneur or small business owner has a tough time describing the potential customers for their new business’s products and services.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

It’s part two of a series, cross-posted from his own blog , in which he draws on his experience to offer advice for aspiring entrepreneurs in Europe and beyond. But, the challenges you will face there as a first-time entrepreneur are huge. If you are an Internet/software business, take care you pick a location that helps you to start.

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. ” “Our intent is to roll up our sleeves and help entrepreneurs take their early-stage prototypes to scalable products,” said Rahul Sood, the general manager of the Bing Fund, in an interview with VentureBeat yesterday. 10 Internet comments about games that actually make us laugh.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2013

. “The caliber of the speakers and panelists we’ve invited, and the quality of the startups that are exhibiting and pitching reveal a huge groundswell of interest, excitement and opportunity for tech businesses in Southeast Asia.” Unearthing Asia’s Next Tech Star. You can find the full agenda here.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This environment allowed Jack Ma, founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, to build a modern day conglomerate: an Internet platform providing commerce, entertainment and financial services to a middle class that numbers over 300 million (and expected to reach nearly 1 billion in the next 20 years).

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Transformify

JANUARY 13, 2020

Sean Weisbrot is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of SideKick. Renting physical offices is a huge overhead cost, not to mention equipment, internet, electricity, meals, and transportation, it’s no wonder that 82% of businesses that fail do so due to poor cash management. Sean, what are the benefits associated with remote work?

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Singapore-based mobile marketplace Carousell wants more users in Southeast Asia to start buying and selling items through their mobile phones on its platform — and it has linked up with Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten to do so. Moving into Southeast Asia, however, isn’t an easy task — as it is a hugely fragmented market.

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Diego Basch

JULY 12, 2019

Back then I could think of no other place to be; it was the kitchen of the internet. I was fortunate to live through several waves of crazy growth: first, internet infrastructure and basic applications that needed to exist. If you are interested in hardware innovation, you want to be in Asia. Hardware is not made here anymore.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. angels entrepreneur funding groups startup' Keiretsu Forum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. Here are the largest flocks: Gust (formerly AngelSoft).

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Huge volumes of data are common in this time and age as people increasingly live out their lives on the Internet — but analyzing the data is a herculean task that companies find hard to tackle. Asia Entrepreneur Google analytics Data News Product Launches' Headline image via Shutterstock.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2016

Reddington, president, FedEx Express Asia Pacific. That’s opening up opportunities for smaller entrepreneurs unheard of in the past. For example, New Zealand and South Korea have 94 and 92 percent Internet penetration respectively, but Thailand is struggling to get to 30 percent [3]. By Dr. Karen M. 1] eMarketer [link]. [2]

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Austin Startup

JULY 14, 2017

Silicon Valley — another American racist/sexist shithole just like the Segregated South When the Internet first came around in the mid-1990s, it was herald as “The Great Equalizer” where anybody with a keyboard can start an e-commerce shop, publish their works and reach the world to millions who are also attached to the Internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

This was pre Internet. It was embarrassing to witness yet it was one of the least forms of gender bias I experienced in my time working in continental Europe and Asia. We got to define Internet offerings for one of the largest telcos in Europe. When I started my second company I was a serial entrepreneur. He took me.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 16, 2010

People from wealthy countries outsource to people in poorer countries in Asia and Eastern Europe, where there are plenty of skilled individuals willing to work for a fraction of the cost of hiring locally. I’ve interviewed internet marketers many times where the subject of outsourcing has come up. Yaro Starak.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

After graduation, I worked at Microsoft Research Asia and Baidu Institute of Deep Learning (IDL), both of which are well-known research institutions in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). This is the idea that all products will be connected to the internet and able to interact with humans. Tell us your story.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2014

An older but still relevant study, published by CB Insights, Venture Capital Human Capital Report , summarizes a variety of characteristics for private early-stage Internet ventures funded in the US. If you are from outside the US, especially Asia, experts tell me that the focus is even more on relationships. No surprises here.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2011

Internet entrepreneur Evan Carmichael has put together a list of the top 50 Startup Blogs for 2011 and we’re in again this year under the category of “Niche Startups&# ! is one, and Jordan-based ArabCrunch being the other).

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