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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:

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Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware

Startup Lessons Learned

On the other extreme, modern web-based applications face almost no technical risk, and are governed by high market uncertainty. Eric) In a bar in Amsterdam in 2005, my two cofounders and I came to the sad conclusion that startup we tried to built for two years was doomed. What follows are solely his opinions. The results were amazing.

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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. Gender and venture capital decision-making: The effects of technical background and social capital on entrepreneurial evaluations. David Teten is a past Advisor to Real Ventures. *We

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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. But I didn’t start immediately; I didn’t know optics well, and I assumed that if there was to be a technical solution it would come from somebody who did. What interested me was the hydrogen-rich industry.