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Month: August 2018
Bribes, Backdoor Deals, and Pay to Play: How Bad Rosé Took Over | Bon Appetit
Crazy stuff.
Reminds of me of some of the silly stuff I had to deal with while running a biz in Bangkok.
Bribes, Backdoor Deals, and Pay to Play: How Bad Rosé Took Over | Bon Appetit
💼 – Get a Job
Get hunting.
— Read on mailchi.mp/startintx/getajob-2837357
Surveying the travel startup landscape, part 2: Front line tips from the founders | PhocusWire
Good read. Has some solid advice from a few people but one of my fav’s is Amit from RedDoorz.
Surveying the travel startup landscape, part 2: Front line tips from the founders | PhocusWire:
Amit Saberwal is founder and CEO of RedDoorz, which has more than 500 budget properties in 16 Indonesian cities, Singapore and the Philippines. Founded in 2015, RedDoorz handles distribution, pricing, marketing, customer service and technology for properties under its brand, but it does not own them. RedDoorz has raised $20 million in funding. Before launching RedDoorz, Saberwal was chief business officer at MakeMyTrip.
Project Alpha :: Next Stop – Bangkok
We came to KL. It rocked.
We descended on GoJek – was mayhem.
Now it’s time to drop in on Bangkok.
David Jou of Pomelo is confirmed.
More to come.
Pay the Devil in Bicoin
This should be good :: https://amzn.to/2MfxJ9P
Tokyo Vice, the same author, is one of my favourite books :: https://amzn.to/2P7TgyU
Fun times.
Singapore VC Openspace closes US$135 fund that includes investment from Temasek
Congrats to Hian/Shane and team.
Putting Singapore on the map!
Singapore VC Openspace closes US$135 fund that includes investment from Temasek:
Openspace Ventures, the VC previously known as NSI Ventures, announced today it has closed its Fund 2 at US$135 million. This brings the total amount of capital invested by Limited Partners (LPs) to US$225 million.
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Beware of one-sided partnerships. Your startup’s time is too valuable
I don’t like everything Steve says but this one resonates.
I always tell startups be careful with Bizdev and partnerships early on.
Generally the other company, not the startup, is getting the benefits but the startups is doing all the work.
This takes valuable time from running the startup.
Be alert.
Beware of one-sided partnerships. Your startup’s time is too valuable:
AP Exclusive: Google tracks your movements, like it or not
Keep telling yourself Google isn’t evil.
AP Exclusive: Google tracks your movements, like it or not:
An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you’ve used a privacy setting that says it will prevent Google from doing so.
Computer-science researchers at Princeton confirmed these findings at the AP’s request.
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