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Platform Strategies Serve Go-Jek And Line Well In Southeast Asia:
Grace Xia, a venture investor with Jungle Ventures and former Tencent executive, says that startups aren’t cut out. They can become innovation pipelines to these platform companies. That could even lead to an acquisition by the biggies, which certainly is not unheard of in this fast-emerging tech innovative region.
Excited to share our next project – and especially stoked to have such an amazing partner in AWS.
Be sure to sign up for your city and please encourage any early stage startups to check it out.
Places to go in Indonesia to get your startup, started!
Research: Start-up Assistance Organizations in Indonesia: Taxonomy and Landscape | ANGIN
Skift’s Top Travel Startups to Watch 2018 – Skift:
REDDOORZ SINGAPORE AN OYO WITH SINGAPOREAN CHARACTERISTICS
Money Raised: Close to $20 million Headline Investors: Jungle Ventures, Susquehanna International Group and InnoVen Capital
Skift Take: Launched in 2015, RedDoorz is a network of budget branded lodging, with more than 500 properties primarily in Indonesia but also in Singapore and the Philippines. Yes, the company is mimicking a model that others pioneered in India. But we bet that its executives, led by co-founder and CEO Amit Saberwal, have the rare skills needed to lead their team of 180 workers in fending off looming competition from Chinese-owned budget hotels.
Crypto is real folks.
I have yet to have the time to dig in – saving this one for later.
This is such a good read. Long – but crazy worth it.
I have highlighted the paragraph that the rest of the article supports so you can get a sense of why to dig in.
Amazing,
Invisible asymptotes — Remains of the Day:
For me, in strategic planning, the question in building my forecast was to flush out what I call the invisible asymptote: a ceiling that our growth curve would bump its head against if we continued down our current path. It’s an important concept to understand for many people in a company, whether a CEO, a product person, or, as I was back then, a planner in finance.
Hadn’t seen this before. I think it makes some fair points and is a good reminder of , doing right by users, and 2, that great platforms help everyone using the platform get better, not just the platform.
Saw this today in Pro Rata:
• Terminal, a Toronto-based startup that helps companies “build and scale remote technical teams,” raised US$10 million in Series A funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Thiel Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Atomic, Craft Ventures and Jerry Yang.
Similar to a company in the SEA scene :: https://www.boltonremote.com
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