Posts Tagged: Silicon Valley


Creators of PageSnapp Get Travel Grant to Silicon Valley from First AngelHack Manila

Creators of PageSnapp Get Travel Grant to Silicon Valley from First AngelHack Manila

A group of developers took only 24 hours to develop an app and walked away with plane tickets.

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  • June 18, 2013
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Nitrous.IO from Singapore Gets $1 Million Funding From Silicon Valley Luminaries

Nitrous.IO, Action.IO’s software development platform and key product, just got $1 million in seed funding from a handful of VC firms in S...

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  • April 17, 2013
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Vietnam’s Microchip Industry Keeps Getting Bigger

If you know anything about the beginning of Silicon Valley, you know that it all started with a group of men called the Traitorous Eight, wh...

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  • March 18, 2013
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Asia, Give Up On The Dream Of Being Silicon Valley

One of my favorite jokes about Silicon Valley goes like this: A million guys walk into a Silicon Valley bar. None of them buy anything. The ...

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  • February 26, 2013
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Report: Sequoia Capital’s New China Fund to be Worth $325 Million

The Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital is reportedly close to finalizing three major new funds which will pack a total of n...

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  • August 27, 2012
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Singapore Startup Dropmysite Acquires US-Based OrbitFiles.com

Just this April, Singapore-based Dropmysite announced that it crossed half a million users. Two months on, it has just acquired OrbitFiles,...

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  • June 27, 2012
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The Magical Silicon Valley Effect

Silicon Valley has made a big impact on Asia. A good impact, of course; but I feel it’s somewhat impractical. After all, the U.S isn’...

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  • March 26, 2012
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Silicon Valley’s Singularity University Offering One Chinese Innovator a $25,000 Scholarship

Silicon Valley’s Singularity University is giving one Chinese national the chance to win a program scholarship worth US$25,000 to its ...

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  • March 5, 2012
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BootstrapAccelerator Asia launch 2013

From Silicon Valley With Love: BootstrapAccelerator Asia Launches for Southeast Asian Startups

Silicon Valley-based BootstrapLabs has announced today that it’s bringing the 12-month BootstrapAccelerator program to Southeast Asia. Aft...

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  • May 1, 2013
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9 Shocking Truths about Silicon Valley – Lessons from 100 Startup Founders (Live Blog)

Onwards to Startup Asia’s final sharing session, and we have Loo Cheng Chuan, Head of Singtel’s Local Life and Group Digital Lif...

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  • April 5, 2013
  • at 6:39 pm
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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 quintessential modern-day Asian hero. And I’m ...

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  • March 14, 2013
  • at 2:01 pm
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Australian Startup Kickfolio Raises $100,000, Enters 500 Startups

What’s better than kick-starting the day with a double-dose of good news? Our friends over at Kickfolio, a Melbourne-based startup that al...

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  • November 2, 2012
  • at 12:30 pm
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A Well-Kept Secret: China’s Tencent Has Games on Facebook, Doing Well

The fact that Facebook is inaccessible in China is not stopping the nation’s biggest web company, Tencent (HKG:0700), from getting onb...

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  • August 14, 2012
  • at 3:01 pm
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A Bubble in the Startup World?

Is there a bubble in the startup industry? It looks like it. At least that’s according to a discussion panel at GMIC, which included Robin...

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  • May 11, 2012
  • at 9:00 pm
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Give Startups Some Love: Test Out Their Apps

Vineet is the founder and CEO of Teliportme, an India-based start-up. Having first called-out three major issues with the Indian start-up sc...

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  • March 14, 2012
  • at 11:15 am
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Why a Good VC in India is So Hard to Find

My last post got me some flak from friends and fellow entrepreneurs. Their take was: Why are you writing the truth? My answer is: Because it...

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  • October 2, 2011
  • at 8:13 pm
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