Tuesday, November 26, 2024

First mover curse (and other pitfalls) for fresh entrepreneurs

Coming from a team that has seen a lot of companies boom and bust - we will always be keen to hear the idea, but will also want to understand more about the management team, the business plan as well as the implementation plan.

Southeast Asians and Chinese are different, good or bad?

While there are similarities in culture and food - these modern day Chinese are seen as aggressive, ruthless and mostly ignorant.

iflix now treading deep waters

Becoming the Netflix of a smaller market is not as easy as it might sound

Amazon has this key advantage over Alibaba (for now)

Amazon, as a company, is much more international in terms of working language, talent and culture.

Can WeChat Pay and Alipay replicate their successes in Southeast Asia?

China has rapidly developed into the definite global leader in mobile payments. Every time when we go on business trips in China, our foreign...

Grab’s monopoly – first signs of trouble

Of late, we have been receiving reports of not only higher prices for rides, but also relative lack of driver supply

Those young people at Uber Southeast Asia

They have discovered themselves, and they are determined not to return to banality, but to strike something great.

Access versus privacy – is it even a choice?

The scandal involving Facebook supplying data to Cambridge Analytica indeed raised a lot of questions on the price that consumers pay for a “free” service.

How to unleash the full potential of online recruitment platforms?

Anu Shah, CEO of UShift, shares her perspectives on the potential & challenges of online recruitment platforms.

What are the handful of universal principles for venture building in...

It is not by accident that Rocket Internet executives have gone on to found very successful ventures.

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