Are ICOs a more democratic way of fundraising?
Our own Jianggan Li moderated a panel discussion on ICO & Regulation last Thursday (12 Oct), as part of INSEAD FinTech Week. On the...
Mobile payment in Southeast Asia – overview and trends – Part...
Who owns the future? The governments or the internet giants (or someone else)?
In the first two parts of this analysis, we discussed why we...
Mobile payment in Southeast Asia – overview and trends – Part...
Plausible and implausible use cases for payment adoption in Southeast Asia
In Part 1, we discussed why we couldn’t exactly replicate Alipay and Wechat in...
Mobile payment in Southeast Asia – overview and trends – Part...
Can someone replicate the success of Wechat Pay or Alipay?
Our Chinese entrepreneur friends believe that the low penetration of banking services in South...
Decision making in a startup: give up some to gain more
Most startups a have limited runway, constantly running against time, market, and competition. It is imperative to ensure that the right person calls the...
Twitter’s problem is not 140 vs. 280, but failure to expand...
Big news that Twitter is experimenting expanding size limit of each tweet from 140 characters to 280 characters.
This is entirely missing the point
Twitter’s problem...
I brought only ¥25 cash for a two week trip in...
Yes as the title suggested, I had only ¥25 cash in my pocket when I landed in the Western Chinese city of Chongqing to...
Clash of the titans in Thailand’s ecommerce scene
Last year, Thailand witnessed the entry and subsequent overhype of 11street – a company owned and invested by South Korean telecommunications giant SK Telecom....
The Razer question: what can you do with 10 million dollars?
Razer recently published an e-payment proposal summary, which includes committing S$10M to deploy a common cashless payment solution in Singapore, maybe Razer Pay, in...
Southeast Asia’s ecommerce logistic headache: finally resolved?
Whilst catching up with some friends running e-commerce businesses in the Philippines, we chatted about changes in the logistics - for a long time...
