YoungUpstarts

JULY 20, 2014

My heart also leaped with joy when I read how he managed to achieve mobility via a motorised wheelchair which he can operate with his left foot (affectionately named as his “chicken drumstick”). Nick actually praised God when he learned that 150,000 copies of his DVDs were illegally made and sold in Indonesia.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2012

As a start, the financial institution will be providing a total of S$340,000 to four social enterprises, namely A-changin , Adrenalin Events & Education , Aii and Bizlink Centre Singapore , which were selected based on the sustainability of their business models, level of social impact and how innovative their proposed projects are.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2014

” Change Jim to any other name, and you may have heard similar conversations around the office watercooler or pantry conversations at many companies. “ Jim’s leaving the company? But I thought he was happy here! At least, that’s what he was always telling us.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 9, 2012

By 2008, around 50-percent of local furniture companies had shifted labor-intensive manufacturing operations to less expensive countries such as neighboring Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand, and increasingly to China as well.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

Over the next few decades, this young cohort would comprise a rising proportion of citizens in Asia (31%-40% in Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, and more than 51% in Malaysia, Philippines, India and Indonesia).

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The on-demand economy may have been spurred by the big names that have frequent mentions in social media or otherwise: Uber, Airbnb and the whole shebang. Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, India and some other countries have been privy to the on-demand bubble, so to speak. Hyperlocal Focus. Co-operation and Synergy.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 22, 2017

4- Stand for my name and the firm’s value. The obvious one is the M inside the circle, which represents my name, Merium Malik. We also knew that we wanted our brand name front and center within the logo so that people would remember the URL. The logo I ultimately chose was the work of a designer in Indonesia.

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entrepreMusings

AUGUST 15, 2010

During this time, I read a very interesting book (that most of the rest of the world already knows about because the movie is now out starring Julia Roberts) Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Amazon Link) by Elizabeth Gilbert. It was if the author was writing parts of my story!

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

I can remember strikes by posties at Christmas, nurses, teachers, dairy farmers, railways, and bus drivers, to name a few. It’s pretty easy to tell how powerful a union is when their members go on strike. We noticed because they caused genuine disruption to our lives. No wonder they have been such financial juggernauts.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

That may not sound like much, but I’m a massage therapist by profession without even one biology class to my name! I have some personal travel goals as well – I want to build a raft and sail from Indonesia to Papua New Guinea. I spoke in Rome at a medical conference, and had a paper published in a medical journal.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 17, 2011

To look at this on a more recent macro level there’s a great article The Art of the Posse-able on the Philanthrocapitalism site, based on the book of the same name by Matt Bishop and Mike Green, which discusses interdisciplinary and group approaches to tackling global challenges such as malaria eradication.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 11, 2016

In Cohn & Wolfe’s study (12,000 people participated from Brazil, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States), 69 percent of the participants claim customer relations is more important than the brand’s beliefs and environmental footprint.

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online.wsj.com

MARCH 4, 2013

NAME Microsoft. NAME Google. NAME Nokia. NAME Amazon.com. NAME comScore. NAME Katie McMahon. NAME Aaron Rubenson. NAME James Vaughan. NAME Scott Lahman. NAME Mark Wang. NAME Sarah Rotman Epps. NAME Greg Bensinger. Why use your real name? América Latina.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2012

Bring up social entrepreneurs and one of the first names you’re likely to encounter is that of Muhammad Yunus. Microbiologist Willie Smits never really expected to become a social entrepreneur, but when he found an abandoned baby orangutan in 1989 while working in Indonesia, his career would quickly alter direction. Willie Smits.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 19, 2017

Coming back home to Indonesia, I see that there’s a demand in wearing Batik ( our traditional culture wear and art ) but there is none in the market that caters to younger generations. Further, no business wants to tie its growth to the stump of litigation simply for being unaware and using a brand name due to wrong advice.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Founder Nick Woodman had recently been been on a surfing trip to Indonesia. Most were plastic, or they were made using boring wood, or they were poorly shaped, poorly finished, you name it. I’ll leave you with one last example. Ever heard of GoPro? They’re a camera company that got started in 2002.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Founder Nick Woodman had recently been on a surfing trip to Indonesia, and was unable to find amateur photographers who could get close enough to get good action-shot pictures of him surfing, or who could obtain quality equipment at an affordable price. Very clever.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

I was chatting to the people actually from the bar via Twitter DM and they sent me photos and they told me all their names and they described exactly what happened. Eric Ries : Well, you have a domain name in a website. The domain name I have, tell me where to point the A records. Eric Ries : Where'd that come from? And so that.

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