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Careers Start by Peeling Potatoes

Steve Blank

When I got to my first airbase my job was lugging electronics boxes on and off fighter planes under the broiling hot Thailand sun, to bring them into the technicians inside the air-conditioned shop, to troubleshoot and fix. Wrote technical manuals and taught microprocessor design (to customers who knew more than I did.)

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Daily Deals Still A Big Deal In Asia; All Deals Asia Launches iPhone App

YoungUpstarts

By consolidating deals from different deal websites and organizing them into a single platform, we believe this will help customers save both time and money when searching for the best discounts,” Goh says. The app allows deals to be sorted by country, date, popularity, categories or proximity, making it easy for users to browse deals.

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Innovation: The Key To Entrepreneurial Success

YoungUpstarts

Unleashing creative thinking helps drive businesses forward, improve customer value propositions and identify new opportunities that deliver on the needs of our ever changing customers. Be agile and adapt to changing market needs – your customer’s needs are not static and they will continue to evolve.

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[Interview] RIM Eyes Southeast Asia’s Developer Scene

YoungUpstarts

BlackBerry DevCon Asia 2011 will be held in Bangkok, Thailand this year. Over 35,000 applications available on App World (Note: as you know, App World is just one distribution channel where customers can download applications). • Available in more than 100 countries around the world.

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5 Mistakes We Made While Growing A Startup In Southeast Asia

YoungUpstarts

The first platform we launched was our Singaporean site and we realised that most large companies there provide their staff with basic health insurance coverage and the same goes for Malaysia and Thailand. Especially in Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines where people are a lot more responsive over the phone.

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JD.com Celebrates a Decade of Non-stop Delivery Service During Spring Festival Holidays

The Startup Magazine

JD has now offered non-stop delivery service during the Spring Festival holidays for ten years, providing its customers with timely delivery of their goods for a decade. Over 200,000 JD couriers were on duty during the sale to ensure the timely delivery of customers’ orders.

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[Interview] Benjamin Yee of EMERGE App

YoungUpstarts

Navigating a rented motorbike through the winding hills of Vietnam and swimming in secret lagoons in Thailand are just some of the things that Benjamin Yee does when he’s not typing furiously away at this laptop. Secondly, I get a flood of emails, chats and messages from customers and prospects every day.