Posts Categorized: Startups



OgahMahal Brings Hot Online Lingerie to Indonesian Women

We’ve covered a few notable lingerie e-commerce sites across Asia, but so far none were in Indones...

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  • March 14, 2013
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The Biggest Problem Facing Southeast Asian Startups is Not the Bad Startup Ecosystem

There have been a couple of articles about issues in the Southeast Asia startup ecosystem recently, ...

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  • March 14, 2013
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Idblognetwork

Indonesia’s Affiliate Market is About to Get a Big Push from IdBlogNetwork

I remember that during our Jakarta Meetup last month, Veritrans’ Ryu Kawano and Ideosource’s And...

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  • March 14, 2013
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Founder of Luxola: Be Tough, In Every Way

In our latest post featuring female entrepreneurs in the region we have Alexis Horowitz-Burdick, fou...

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  • March 13, 2013
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raspberry-ijam

Hey Entrepreneurs, the iJAM Deal Looks Pretty Sweet Actually

Update: I made amendment to reflect that some of the terms are flexible and dependent on individual ...

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  • March 13, 2013
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Fuubo app for Weibo

Fuubo: Finally a Weibo App for Android That Isn’t Fugly

As much as we enjoy using the lively (though oft-gagged) Chinese social network that is Sina Weibo, ...

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  • March 12, 2013
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garuda riders the chosen one

Indonesian Digital Comic Game Wanara’s Second Episode is now Out on Android

Remember the Indonesian folklore-themed app that we looked at a while back? Called the Adventure of ...

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  • March 12, 2013
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After Success Overseas, Colorbox Is Bringing Games To Vietnam

Startups always seem to grow up around games. Steve Jobs used to work at Atari and Bill Gates used t...

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  • March 11, 2013
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Why Asia Is More Innovative Than Silicon Valley

I grew up looking up to Bruce Lee, as does every Asian boy with a heart. He’s the quintessenti...

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  • March 14, 2013
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Ziuma is a Blatant, Broken Indonesian Facebook Clone

In the process of digging up interesting startups, we come across a lot of bad ones, and that includ...

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  • March 14, 2013
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Singapore’s E-Commerce Startup Jooix Snags Half Million in Funding, Plans Southeast Asia Expansion

Singapore’s Jooix is a highly-curated fashion/beauty e-commerce startup that just got some goo...

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  • March 14, 2013
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Tudou Gary Wang moves into animation

Tudou Founder Gets Animated About His Next Startup Project

Tudou founder and former CEO Gary Wang cashed out of China’s biggest ever internet business de...

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  • March 13, 2013
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Guanxi.me dating app

For Some Reason, a Chinese Hook-Up App Has Made a Music Video About the Dangers of Hooking Up [VIDEO]

Getting tied up by a girl who’s into Fifty Shades of Grey, losing a kidney, getting an STD, ending...

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  • March 12, 2013
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‘Despite All the Money, I’m Not Happy.’ Startup Lessons from Sohu CEO Charles Zhang

Sohu founder and CEO Charles Zhang is, by the standards of most tech entrepreneurs, doing very well....

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  • March 12, 2013
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Shi Kaiwen, Jing.fm

15 Web Entrepreneurs Under 30 Doing Awesome Stuff in China

Forbes just put up a list of 30 young disruptors in China working across all kinds of fields. But it...

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  • March 11, 2013
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BeLAUNCH Now Open to Indian Startups, and Readers Can Get Discounts for the Seoul Event

It’s only about seven weeks until the globally-minded Korean startup conference beLAUNCH takes pla...

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  • March 11, 2013
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