Why and How Facebook should come to Southeast Asia
Should Facebook set up an Asian HQ via establishing a presence in Southeast Asia? With recent statistics from Alexa, ComScore and O’Reilly Radar that demonstrates Facebook’s dominance as an online...
View ArticleEntrepreneurship in Southeast Asian market
The focus on this talk delivered for TechInAsia‘s private investors and entrepreneurs’ gathering. Focus on technology entrepreneurship, particularly in the consumer internet space, and both business...
View ArticleRocket Internet: Is There A Method To Its Madness Or Is It Just Bad For...
Is there any method in Rocket Internet’s madness? A few months ago, I made a point that winter has landed in Southeast Asia with the fast and furious expansion of Rocket Internet from the infamous...
View ArticleA different perspective to Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem
In this article, I provide a different perspective to an article from Jon Russell (The Next Web) about the four major issues that deals with the strengths and weaknesses challenging the Southeast...
View ArticleMy Network Fund
Recently, I have made a transition from an entrepreneur in a failed startup to an employee in a multi-national corporation. I see this as part of the learning process that I need to go through before...
View ArticleAngel Investing
Over the last four years, with the rise and fall of Chalkboard and building up the startup of my family for my wife and daughter, I have taken a break from investing and am in a portfolio management...
View ArticleOpen-Source Angel Investment Templates
Today, we launch and release an open-source angel investment templates in the same spirit of what Y-Combinator did in Silicon Valley for Singapore that encompass the great Southeast Asia...
View ArticleAre Southeast Asia technology companies under-valued?
Let’s start with the question, “Are Southeast Asia technology companies under-valued? Different people will have different perspectives depending whether you sit in Singapore or in Jakarta or Bangkok....
View ArticleAdvice to Startups Targeting Small & Medium Enterprises in Southeast Asia
There is a danger for any startup to find product and market fit at the early stages of inception. Most startup founders often reached for the market that is easily accessible to them given the lack of...
View ArticleExamining the Super App Strategy in Southeast Asia
In this article, we examine the super app strategy adopted by the ride hailing companies in Southeast Asia. In the same spirit, we want to validate the strategy that are adopted by both Grab and Gojek...
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