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The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)

Both Sides of the Table

The company started out in South Korea by making South Korean drama available on the Internet. I have to admit I couldn’t have named a single SK drama so the team pointed me at the popularity of the show “ Boys Over Flowers ” in the US. I became more aware of it by my friends at Viki. Who knew?

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Why We Invested in Toya

VC Cafe

Traditional brands, namely eCommerce/luxury fashion and CPG brands are trying to figure out how to get in the action. The leaders here are mainly gaming-related companies such as Epic, Roblox, MantiCore Games, Unity, Animal Crossing or even newer entrants such as the earn-to-play phenomenon, Axie Infinity. Toya – more than a studio.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

You’re two guys in a garage, two guys across campus trying to make a name for yourself. But the current company he’s created, which I won’t name – he just knows it’s not going to be a $1 billion company. Not in Europe or South Korea. So what are some of the things you could do? Where do you start?

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What Every Bitcoin Investor Should Learn From a Dictator Named “Awesome”

Austin Startup

Taking his name a little too literally, Awesome decided that he needed fiat currency like that introduced by his distant cousin Kublai in China. In the end, he was pelted with all manner of foul, medieval produce without refrigeration, and openly mocked over the irony of his increasingly worthless name. Yeah, that ended badly.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter December 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

ISRAELI CROP PROTECTION GIANT MAKHTESHIM AGAN EXPANDS TO MEXICO AND KOREA. Makhteshim Agan, the world’s seventh largest agrochemicals maker, recently bought a 51% stake in South Korea’s JK Inc., MONOCLE MAGAZINE NAMES HAIFA INVESTMENT HOTSPOT. and is also buying 100% of Mexico’s Ingeniera Industrial S.A.

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[Singapore] A Look Inside Facebook’s Singapore Office

YoungUpstarts

That’s right, there are no cubicles or private offices for senior staff – you can imagine how a senior executive transplanted from an Asian office culture (say from Japan’s Sony or South Korea’s Samsung) breaking down in an apoplectic fit when they first find out they’d be sitting next to a low-level code monkey.

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Rethinking The Words You Should Lose For Those to Use

Duct Tape Marketing

Stand up, use their name, say Bob, say Sarah, you know, you are welcome to come back when you are ready to treat me with respect or enough or, you know, this is, this conversation is over. We have people, you know, in fact Tung Fu was the number three ranked book in South Korea, you know, almost 20 years after it was published.