VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP – Israel ranks 2nd globally in this metric, following closely after South Korea. Global mindset – Israel’s local market is negligible, so founders have to think globally (typically that means US first) from day one.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

Asia Trade Hub, based in India, Tradekey, based in Saudi Arabia, and EC21, based in South Korea, are the only pan-Asia marketplaces. While similar from a process perspective, Asian marketplaces differ on their geographical focus. Alibaba and DHgate are both based and focused on mainland China.

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

An EU memo in 2010 stated the following discoveries: In the EU (but also in Japan and South Korea) the preference for being an employee is mainly motivated by considerations of stability (regular income, stable employment relation) and by the generally agreeable employment conditions (working hours, social protection).

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Our population churns out 181 patents per million inhabitants ranking us #8 in the world – ahead of the US, South Korea and Norway. We have three universities in the top 100 of the Shanghai ranking for engineering and technology.

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Netherlands Technical Review Stock Silicon Valley 143

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Kevin not only built relationships with many of the younger, more emerging professionals in all of the US funds but he has also developed a very active investor relationships with Asian funds in particular in Japan, South Korea and China and in Northern Europe.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

I was at a private meeting with 20 people and the president of South Korea and she was asking us what we thought made the US tech ecosystem so great. She said that Korea really wants to build a “creative economy” and that understanding why the US is so innovative was important to her.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2020

by Jun Byongnam, Regional Director of the Korea IT Cooperation Center in Singapore. In the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, South Korea has been lauded in the speed and clarity of their response. We will take a look at what those steps have done for South Korea and the possible projections.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Some of the best-known shipyards are in China, Japan, and South Korea. Ship scrap yards buy the expired vessels and recycle as many of their components as possible. Shipbuilding Areas. Other well-known shipyards are in Italy, Spain, and the United States. These shipyards produce a great number of ocean-going vessels in the world today.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

To a certain extent, Singapore is competing with countries like South Korea in that regard, which is only going to stimulate development in the biotech sector of Singapore further. The people who want to utilize Singapore’s strengths when they’re looking for a lucrative job there should take that into account.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

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., and is also buying 100% of Mexico’s Ingeniera Industrial S.A.

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Israel Technical Review South Korea Mexico 87

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Based in Seoul, South Korea, Looxid Labs aims to integrate biometrics into the VR/AR/MR platform. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 13, 2020 Imagine VR/AR/MR systems that truly understand how users think and feel. Its AI system is designed to decode the users’ cognitive and emotional states using their biosignals.

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South Korea Technical Review Open Source Vertical 89

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

In the near future or more exactly in the spring 2019, only smart cities (the USA, China along with South Korea and Japan) get a chance to test the 5G wireless network. Anyway, we’d also be ready that it’ll take a year or maybe even years before the network becomes worldwide and works smoothly.

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Technical Review Software Review South Korea Bandwidth 81

The Next Web

JUNE 1, 2017

Regardless of where your startup resides, you should always monitor where else in the world your product is gaining traction. Expanding to a new country can lead to a larger client base, a foothold in another market, more media exposure, and more investors.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2020

It takes data from South Korea, Spain, Italy and China. Compounding the age risk factor are chronic health problems (i.e. heart disease, high blood pressure, asthma and other respiratory diseases, obesity and diabetes.) In addition, racial and ethnic minorities seem to have been at greater risk. seem to track these.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

SparkLabs , an accelerator program in South Korea that is bringing a Silicon Valley-like approach to the Asian country’s startup ecosystem, showcased its second batch of startups to investors at Demo Day today. Asia Entrepreneur News Roundups South Korea startups' Headline image via Thinkstock , screenshot via MangoPlate.

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South Korea Asia Azure Silicon Valley 166

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2014

That number is 66% in India and 62% in Southeast Asia but only 53% in Greater China and 50% in South Korea. This compares to Southeast Asia’s 62% and 58% in Australia-New Zealand, yet garnered only 45% in South Korea. The APAC average is 54%.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

Not in Europe or South Korea. 20 years ago it mattered. You failed, you suck. But today failure’s okay, it really is. In California. Failure is not tolerated in most places. You fail and you’re ostracized. I’m dead serious about that. But you owe it to yourself to try, because failure is so easy these days.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 6, 2018

As the United States celebrated its Independence Day on July 4th, several jurisdictions around the world, including South Korea, Bermuda and Malta, passed legislation to support crypto assets and virtual currencies. Of these, South Korea’s appears the most detailed by providing a classification scheme as a framework for regulation.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

As the price of bitcoin rose to over $11,000 this morning (from lows near $6000 two weeks ago), governance was a key theme over the past week.

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Government South Korea SEC Silicon Valley 40

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The other foundries are Samsung in South Korea and TSMC in Taiwan. GlobalFoundries was one of the three companies that made the most advanced silicon chips for other companies (AMD, IBM, Broadcom, Qualcomm, STM and the Department of Defense.) Now there are only two pursuing the leading edge. This is a big deal.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Already the top performers in education are in Asia – Shanghai and Hong Kong leads the way, followed by Singapore, South Korea, and Japan. In fact, if the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2011

These businesses are exporters from around Asia including China, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, South Korea, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam. The Asian Exporters’ Index looks at some of the most successful businesses selling on eBay from across Asia.

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South Korea Thailand Singapore Asia 164

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2023

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. Sam Horn (19:12): What a great idea is that what actually I do certi, just like you certified people, I certified people in tongue fu and talking on eggshells. It was the most checked out book.

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South Korea Artificial Inteligence Audio Networking 68

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

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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Singapore Non-disclosure Agreement South Korea Indonesia 234

Austin Startup

JANUARY 9, 2017

My first time to Asia, specifically South Korea, happened two days after Thanksgiving. Being in the U.S. Navy Reserves has it’s perks… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Over the last 24 months, I’ve had to adapt to live in places with limited connectivity like Patagonia and the Sahara Desert to places made for the digital worker like Seoul, South Korea. Prior to Ansel, John moved to South Korea to teach English and “figure things out.”

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South Korea Entrepreneur Email Cost 159

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 22, 2011

QR codes have been used in the various countries, such as Japan and South Korea, for marketing purposes to mixed degrees of success. Possibly the best use of QR codes I’ve seen in this region was by TESCO Homeplus, who used QR codes to create an entire virtual subway supermarket store targeted at busy professionals.

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South Korea Singapore Incubator Marketing 178

Austin Startup

JANUARY 11, 2018

Because Iran, North Korea, drug cartels, tax evaders, and money launderers are using Bitcoin to evade sanctions, bank laws, taxes, and pretty much violate every lawful economic law on the books. They are already starting to do so, in China and South Korea, and the impact of this on Bitcoin value is just beginning.

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Naming North Korea South Korea Iran 54

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 26, 2024

For the newest fundraising effort, Musk has also reached out to investors in South Korea and Japan, though his office did not respond to a request for comment. Elon Musk has never made any secret about his plans to build a safer AI.

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Artificial Inteligence South Korea ChatGPT San Francisco 147

Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

The sum of these Chinese offset strategies means that in the South China Sea the U.S. This does not bode well for our treaty allies, Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea. can no longer deter a war because we can longer guarantee we can win one.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 2, 2014

The company then started its international expansion, and today has presence in 15 countries around the world in especially in Latin-speaking countries (which isn’t a surprise considering its Spain roots), but also covers parts of Asia including Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore. million euros by 2011.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2011

But then a family emergency struck – Michael Plummer Senior suffered a major heart attack, and Junior was called home from his station in South Korea. Instead Junior decided to carve out his own life by joining the military as an army nurse, putting his life at risk on the front lines to help save the lives of others.

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South Korea Pennsylvania Florida Direct Marketing 183

Agile VC

JUNE 24, 2014

Picture I took in 2002 of WC stadium Daegu, South Korea. Those of you who know me are probably aware that I’m a rabid soccer (football) fan.

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The Next Web

JUNE 6, 2018

Even though some people might have a hard time pointing out South Korea on a map, almost everybody knows South Korean companies like Samsung and LG — but they aren’t the only noteworthy companies in the country.

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South Korea Programming Web Startup 118

The Next Web

OCTOBER 1, 2019

South Korea is one of the world’s technological powerhouses, home to giants such as Samsung, LG, and Kia. The small Asian country truly punches above its weight as it’s starting to rival the digital prowess of its much bigger neighbors, China and Japan.

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South Korea Video Japan China 114

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 23, 2013

Here are other interesting Asia Pacific highlights from this quarter’s report: - The top three countries/regions in the Asia Pacific region (and in the world) with the highest average connection speeds were South Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong, - While Vietnam’s average connection speeds grew at an impressive speed 17% from Q3 to 1.5

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2012

South Korea also pretty much dominated our online searches, following the nation’s seemingly abiding love for Korean pop and TV shows. In its newly released Zeitgeist , Google revealed the top search trends this year in Singapore after analyzing over one trillion search queries it received this year.

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