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Kejora targets growth-stage startups with $80m fund for Southeast Asia
Kejora and its partners (L-R): Andy Zain (Managing Partner), Barry Pangestu (Advisory Committee), Sebastian Togelang (Founding Partner), Chatchaval Jiaravanon (Advisory Committee), Phengpian Laogumnerd...
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Here’s how big companies like Lazada, Ninja Van are tackling customer...
Photo credit: Pexels. Within the first minute of entering a store, many things could make you decide to leave. You could be annoyed with the layout of the store, unhappy with the inability to find...
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Inside Jack Ma’s playbook for Ant Financial’s global expansion
Ants in his pants: Alibaba and Ant Financial founder Jack Ma, 52, is China’s richest tech boss but he isn’t slowing down. Photo credit: Alibaba. Jack Ma has built up not one but two tech giants....
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Making ‘Her’ a reality: how Baidu’s AI Lab plans to solve speech recognition
Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI Lab is based in Sunnyvale, California. Photo credit: Tech in Asia. If it wasn’t for Baidu’s logo, the AI research lab of one China’s largest tech companies would be all but...
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10 marketing jobs: Bolt Media, SushiVid, LaunchPad Startup and more
Looking for opportunities in marketing & public relations? We have handpicked 10 jobs for you this week. Click on the links below and apply away! Recruiting and keen to list your jobs in future...
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Zendesk CEO gives honest tips on growing a startup: ‘It’s marriage, you stay...
Zendesk CEO Mikkel Svane. Photo credit: Official Leweb Photos. Silicon Valley’s Zendesk is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. From a scrappy startup in 2007 to a public company valued at...
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China’s Weibo will soon have more users than Twitter
Photo credit: Tech in Asia / Steven Millward. “Gotta sign up for Twitter, otherwise I’d never know what the President is doing – said nobody to nobody.” That’s how one Twitterer greeted the news that...
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With the Lazada-Alibaba marriage, is it game over for rivals?
Lazada boss Maximilian Bittner. He built up Lazada as part of the Rocket Internet empire before the Alibaba sale. Photo credit: Lazada. Before Jack Ma started Alibaba, he was a teacher. Decades later,...
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Zalora gets funding for Philippines branch
Photo credit: gloffs / 123RF. The Philippines’ Ayala Corporation has forayed into ecommerce with the purchase of a huge stake in Zalora Philippines for an undisclosed sum. The nation’s oldest...
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India’s big exit mess and what we can learn from it
Photo credit: vicnt / 123RF. There is a huge problem looming over startup investors in India, and not enough is being said about it. India’s startups have seen a funny turn of events of late, with...
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So what exactly is a drone?
Wow, a drone… Or not? Image credit: Fox Shows. Drones received flak in the past for causing civilian deaths. Now, drones are seen in a more positive light, performing tasks such as deliveries, and...
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With pre-series A funding, Indonesia’s Printerous sets sight on Southeast...
Kevin Osmond, Co-founder and CEO of Printerous Digital printing service Printerous, headquartered in Indonesia, raised a US$1.4 million pre-series A investment led by Singapore’s Golden Gate Ventures,...
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It gets worse: India’s largest homestay startup Stayzilla shuts down
A homestay in a coffee estate in Coorg, India. Photo credit: Pixabay. From hotels, homestays, and peer-to-peer rentals a la Airbnb to guest houses, jungle lodges, and boat houses: Stayzilla wanted to...
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Why Stayzilla backed by Matrix and Nexus shut down. A founder’s rare admission
Stayzilla was founded by Yogendra Vasupal (C) with his wife Rupal Yogendra (L) and his friend Sachit Singhi (R) in 2010. They were avid travelers and their passion showed in the curation of exotic...
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3 rising startups in India – Feb 23, 2017
Photo credit: 123rf. India’s largest telecom operator Bharti Airtel invests in a fintech startup, while Freecharge founders chose a supply management venture for pharmacies. Looks like it’s a jumpstart...
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Blume Ventures fellowship to give tech students a jumpstart in entrepreneurship
Photo credit: Francisco Osorio The spate of startup failures we’re seeing in India today has a lot to do with faulty business models in an immature ecosystem. “In the last 3 to 4 years, somewhere I...
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TECH WATCH: 12 trends that will define 2017
What are the technological changes entrepreneurs should be prepared for in 2017? How can they leverage these technologies to gain a competitive edge? Rather than getting disrupted, how can they ensure...
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10 intern jobs in Asia this week
Good day folks! Here are the latest intern jobs in Asia this week! This list will focus on highlighting digital and tech-centric intern jobs from a healthy mix of startups and companies across tech...
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Why you should consider joining a startup community
Swanky offices, collaborative teams, and fun work environments usually describe a startup. But before startups can even reach this point, they require support from a community of experts and...
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They’re showcasing the lighter side of Pakistan for fed-up millennials
Ali Gul (left) and Ali Ahsan (right), co-founders of Mangobaaz. Photo credit: Mangobaaz. Millennials in Pakistan aren’t too different from millennials across the world – they cackle at memes and share...
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