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Power To The People – Creating Trust In Data With Collaborative Governance

YoungUpstarts

They must adopt a model of collaborative governance. The good news is that IT professionals have a blueprint from the companies that pioneered the use of the World Wide Web for collaborative data governance. Airbnb is another excellent example of collaborative governance in action. Just as Web 2.0 As the Web 2.0

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

The Next Web

The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60M in funding. We’ve asked him to give us some insight into starting, building, and funding a company across Asia. Asia has far fewer VC firms and institutional investors, each of which invests a far smaller amount of capital.

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What Are the Risks of Using Personal Email for Board Business?

Board Effect

In the context of governance, board directors and executives are the new targets of choice. The survey contains responses from 411 governance professionals across 11 countries in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. European boards were slightly lower at 41% and the Asia Pacific was 48%.

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[Malaysia] [Event] InfoSecurity World 2012 – Combating The Rapid Rise In Cyber Threats

YoungUpstarts

Multiple high-profile attacks on organizations and governments around the world, including Malaysia, have grabbed international headlines due to their well-coordinated nature and the scale of the data breach. An Acknowledgement of Rising Security Threats in Asia. 2011 was a Watershed Year for Hacktivism.

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[Singapore] National Research Foundation Selects Six VC Firms To Administer S$120M Startup War Kitty

YoungUpstarts

“The six venture capital funds and fund managers selected have an excellent reputation of helping build the companies that they fund, and their successes will further strengthen our tech-startup ecosystem.” “In 2010 I traveled Asia, meeting over 80 startups from a dozen countries. .”

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Transportation, On-Demand And The Asian Economy – Asian Horizons

YoungUpstarts

We intend to focus on the ride-sharing, transportation market in South Asia, as it is the most eventful zone in this regard: along with also being a sector that’s making leaps and strides in its scope and revenue. Focusing on word-of-mouth referrals and reputation, Grab may not be the most time-sensitive in terms of on-boarding.

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Applying Lean Startup Beyond Silicon Valley

Startup Lessons Learned

September 25 in Asia), international Lean Startup experts Kevin Dewalt , Takashi Tsutsumi and Justin Wilcox will meet for a webcast to compare notes and hash out solutions. government fund and as Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the National Science Foundation. This is not to say that you can’t get out of the building in Asia, too.