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Rakuten Branches Out to Asia (Live Blog)
Shin Hasegawa, assistant CMO and head of Asia marketing at Rakuten (JSD:4755), is onstage now to discuss how the Japanese e-commerce giant is expanding across the region. Despite the company’s...
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Coffee Chat: KakaoTalk’s Growth From Startup (Live Blog)
Next up on stage, Sirgoo Lee. He’s the Co-CEO of popular South Korea social messaging application, KakaoTalk. They’ve had an interesting year, from hitting 10 million downloads in Japan to agressive...
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Sharing Session: An Introduction to Korea’s Startup Ecosystem
James Jung, Founder and CEO at beSUCCESS, stepped up to the plate here at Startup Asia to share with us some of the insights into Korea’s startup ecosystem. #12:15: And now James is stepping on stage....
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KakaoTalk Reveals $45 Million Revenue, $7 Million Profit
During his Coffee Chat session at our Startup Asia 2013 event, Kakao co-CEO Sirgoo Lee dropped a surprise figure on us: KakaoTalk made $7 million in profit in 2012, from revenues of $45 million....
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Startup Management: Tips for Prioritizing and Scaling (Live Blog)
Kee Lock Chua (left) talks billion-dollar companies and startup strategies. Kee Lock Chua is the group president and CEO of Singapore-based Vertex Venture Holdings. Backed by Temasek, it’s one of the...
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Coffee Chat: Why Revenue Matters: The Ookbee Story (Live Blog)
Next in our packed post-lunch session – Moo Natavudh, President Director at Ookbee. Ookbee’s seen remarkable growth and success in the last few years, and Moo will talk about creativity, risk and the...
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Coffee Chat: What Rakuten Taught Me After We Got Acquired (Live Blog)
Currently onstage now is the founder of Thailand’s e-commerce site Tarad.com, Pawoot Pongvitayapanu or Pom. Interviewed by Willis Wee, Pom talks about the lessons he learned after Japan-based...
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Sharing Session: An Introduction to Vietnam’s Startup Ecosystem” (Live Blog)
Mike Tran from Keewi steps on stage to share with us a bit about Vietnam’s startup ecosystem. #15:23: Mike’s filling us in on his background studying in Canada and coming to Vietnam. #15:25: Vietnam is...
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Women in Startups: Why We Need Them, and Why You Should Care (Live Blog)
Following up, we have an all-woman discussion panel on female entreprenurship featuring the following entrepreneurs: Aileen Sim, Co-founder at BillPin Alexis Horowitz-Burdick, Founder and CEO at...
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NetizenTesting Gets Honest Feedback From Users, Improves Site UX
I believe many startups, app developers, and site owners are plagued with the issue of creating an excellent user experience for their users. Often, with lousy user experience (UX), it translates to...
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Mmixr Makes It Easy to Create, Manage, and Share Rich Media Presentations
Whether you’re a student, an individual, or a business owner, at some point you’ll probably need to create presentations that aim to impress. Second to pitch at our Startup Arena stage today is Hong...
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DodoHub Keeps Track of Your Habits and Makes Sure You Achieve Your Goals
I’m told that it takes 21 days to develop a habit. Here’s an app, DodoHub, that encourages you to develop good habits. It tracks and records your progress in a new goal, which eventually leads to...
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India’s FrameBench Seeks To Revolutionize the Creative Design Industries
Rohit Agarwal just presented here at Startup Arena on his project, Framebench. It’s a pretty cool concept. As a person who works closely with product designers and engineers, I’m digging Framebench,...
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RichMediaAds Is Looking to Streamline Banner Ads
Most folks these days making banners find them to be either very expensive or tedious. Only big digital creative agencies can afford to make nice banners that build traction with consumers. That...
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ZocialInc is Aggregating All the Most Relevant Social Media Data into One Place
Today, there is an overwhelming social media landscape that’s terribly hard to wrap our heads around. It’s huge. But never fear, the Zorro of social is here: ZocialInc. Warat Wongmaneekit just pitched...
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Cinnamon Attempts to Bring Families and Friends Together One Picture at a Time
I just came back from Japan with my family, and I’ve got a bunch of pictures on my iPhone that I wanted to share with my mom and dad. How did I do it? I sent them an email with an attachment of...
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Lots of Buttons Still Offers an Astonishing Number of Buttons
Regular Tech In Asia readers and craft enthusiasts might already be familiar with Hong Kong based Lots of Buttons, now the world’s largest button site. It hopes to expand to other craft items in the...
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Singapore-based Trii.be Gets Clever With Customer Feedback
It must be strange for the founders of Trii.be, a Singapore-based startup focused on feedback, to be themselves the recipients of some critical commentary today at Startup Asia Singapore 2013. Trii.be...
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Xunta is an Elegant, Intelligent Chinese Dating Site for Gay Men
Xunta founder Sense Luo, an ex-Baidu engineer, is tired of gay dating sites and apps that have exaggerated interfaces with either “porn all over the place” or indiscriminate use of rainbow flags. “I...
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Nokia Shuts Shanghai Flagship Store, Nobody Notices
(Image: China Radio International): Nokia’s Shanghai store is now shut, as shown on that small piece of paper taped to the door. Back on April 1st, Nokia (HEL:NOK1V; NYSE:NOK) announced that it’d be...
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