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Daniel Lee · · 6 min read10 most popular articles by the TIA community in 2016
2016 has been a huge year of super conferences, online segments, value packed meetups(more to come in 2017) and insanely awesome contributions from the Tech in Asia community! A big thank you to those who contributed articles featuring your insights, thoughts and opinions, and playing an important role in aiding us in our mission to build and serve Asia’s tech ecosystem.
Here are the top 10 most popular stories(based on pageviews) by the fantastic TIA community in 2016. Enjoy!
10. Here’s one powerful way to retain your best employees
By: Ryan Holmes
Ryan talks about how to keep your top talent from walking out the door, the current trends of staff turnover in companies and how to stretch employee possibilities.
9. You’re the new CEO of a sinking ship. Here’s how to survive the first 100 days.
Image credit: nightman1965 / 123RF Stock Photo
By: Sajid Rahman
How do you be the CEO who saves a sinking ship? Sajid gives us a few tips on how to get the ship out of choppy waters, from picking a core team to understanding the difference between culture and projects.
8. 5 reports every early startup must generate to stay alive
Photo credit: ideyweb / 123RF.
What do you really know about the health of your startup? Dilshan details 5 reports that early startups need to track to stay alive. Don’t go about measuring the wrong metrics.
7. Yes, ‘unicorn’ employees do exist. Here’s how you identify them.
Unicorn ahead. Photo credit: rumpleteaser/CC BY 2.0.
By: Ryan Holmes
The founder of Hootsuite gives us the lowdown on how to spot a unicorn employee, what traits do they exhibit, how they think and how execution is an essential quality.
6. Please do learn to code
By: Quincy Larson
Quincy received messages from his students who read an article titled “Please Don’t Learn to Code”, which asserted that encouraging everyone to learn programming is akin to encouraging everyone to learn plumbing. In this article, he tells us how important a skill programming, and how programming is how humans talk to machines.
5. Data scientists are leaving Southeast Asia. This Singaporean hopes to fix that.
Kai Xin speaking at the Strata + Hadoop Big Data Conference Singapore. Photo credit: Thia Kai Xin
By: Sim Yanting
Data scientists are leaving Southeast Asia for the “greener grass” on the other side. Yanting speaks to Thia Kai Xin, who co-founded DataScience SG, a community comprising of over 4,000 data scientists where they’d meet, exchange ideas, and build their data science muscles.
4. If you want better B2B sales prospecting, learn the 30-3-30 rule
Photo credit: Fabian Irsara
By: Ashwin Ramasamy
Have you been writing sales emails but to no avail? Here’s the one goal you need to aim for: positive actionable response. Ashwin explains in his article on how you can reach it.
3. 13 design tools and websites that are godsends for UI/UX designers
Photo credit: Elsie Hui.
By: Grace Jia
Grace shares with the TIA community a cool pool of websites, tools and resources to help UI/UX designers get that step ahead.
2. She dropped out of law school and founded 3 startups. And she’s only 22.
Photo credit: Payal Lal
By: Krystal Chia
At 22, Yale-NUS student Payal Lal has already founded three startups. Her latest venture is a web plugin that allows learners of online courses to connect with each other. Krystal finds out about the inspirations and journey about the serial entrepreneur.
1. What happened to Xiaomi?
Photo credit: Jon Russell.
By: Edward Tse
Xiaomi became China’s largest smartphone brand in 2014, but in recent years, the company seems to be plagued with struggles. Edward dissects what’s happening and gives his opinions on the other players in the market and how the initial hype for the Chinese company has now faded.
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