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Starting Up In Singapore (Part I) – Product/Market Fit

YoungUpstarts

As a startup in Asia, the top 2 markets to start from are China , and India. However, they tend to be extremely difficult to navigate especially if you do not have a cofounder from and/or experience in that country. MENASSEA includes countries below. [Tip: Global from day one (GD1).

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

Of the 30 Asia-based founders, all were natives of the country in which they built their businesses: 23 Chinese, three Japanese, two Korean and two Indian. ” (I discuss this more in Why are Revenue-Share VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders ?) Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Already a half-a-billion dollar industry in Asia, it’s still fairly new to the U.S. I hit over six figures in my first year in business – and the company revenue has increased annually ever since. So I sat at home for a year to teach myself about optics and ended up founding Light with my cofounder in 2013.