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Accelerator Spotlight: Influencer Direct

View from Seed

I grew up in Houston, TX and come from humble beginnings; my mom was a single parent and refugee from Cambodia. RH: Founders, please introduce yourselves. . DC: Hi, I’m Dennis and I’m currently living in Dallas, TX. Growing up, I loved solving problems and building things; I was a curious and adventurous kid.

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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

Beneficiaries include ASEAN mainland cities like Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. To exploit this opportunity, the author suggests that greater emphasis could be placed on improving cross-border connectivity.

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26 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Word That Could Represent Them and Their Business in 2021

Hearpreneur

As a serial entrepreneur who runs multiple software companies from Cambodia, I know exactly what it feels like. This is because this year has seen the rise of tech startups not only from the traditional centers of innovation like the US, East Asia and Europe, but also in countries that you wouldn’t normally associate with it.

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Today’s Tech Savvy Millennials Still Need A Helping Hand To Achieve Their Entrepreneurial Dreams

YoungUpstarts

In Cambodia for example, the Liger Leadership Academy equips its students with entrepreneurial skills, in addition to teaching an essential curriculum. Nonetheless, there is a process to entrepreneurship that can and should be taught and there are institutions and organizations in the region that have been established to deliver it.

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Female Founders: Two Women Disrupt Shower Head Industry

The Startup Magazine

Vitaclean is also releasing a Shimmer, Coffee Coconut scrub in partnership with Solyna , a foundation that fights against human trafficking in Cambodia. VitacleanXSolyna aim to spread the message to stop human trafficking through ‘Daring people to GLOW’ on social media by sharing their shimmer and support.

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Tired Of Your Job? Do Something Different With Escape The City

YoungUpstarts

Past “escapes” included managing a beach lodge in Mozambique, trekking across the Gobi desert, running a post office in Antarctica, or even clearing land mines in Cambodia. More fun that watching icons on your computer screens squiggle, for sure.

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Join Techbikers 2016 – Paris to London

VC Cafe

Over the past 5 years, we’ve sponsored the building of 5 schools, 8 libraries and 3,000 scholarships for girls in Nepal, Cambodia and India. To help children get access to education in the developing world by raising money for Room to Read. This year we’re raising the bar and launching 5 new rides, to make the biggest impact yet.