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SupportBee Turns Complaints Into Customer Conversations
Providing customer support can involve using some ugly and awkward apps and interfaces, and so India-based SupportBee proposes to make it a smoother process whereby communicating with customers...
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Promoote Wants to Show You Local Services in Indonesia
Indonesia-based Promoote pitched in Startup Arena Jakarta this afternoon, pushing their solution for helping people find services that they can trust in their local area. Promoote says that instead of...
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Japanese Startup Moso Takes the Headache Out of Video Editing
At our Startup Arena Jakarta event, Japanese startup Moso pitched its video editing software for Mac OS X. We wrote about Moso once before, but the startup has fresh aspirations for the coming months....
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Steven Goh on How Mig33 Scaled in Indonesia
To start the morning session of Startup Asia Jakarta 2012, Willis Wee spoke to Steven Goh, the CEO and founder of Mig33. Below are some of the paraphrased highlights of Steven’s insights. #09:34:...
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Coffee Chat: Success in China, with an Eye to Indonesia [LIVE BLOG]
Fritz (left) talks to our own Batik-clad blogger. In order to help our startups learn from a success story, we’re talking to Fritz Demopoulos, the co-founder of the China-based travel booking site...
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Map of the World’s Most Dominant Websites: Who Rules Asia?
Here’s a great map visualization from the folks over at WebEmpires.org, showing which websites are dominant in each country around the world. As you can see, Google is winning in most of the English...
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Discussion: What’s Wrong With E-payment in Indonesia?
Andrew Darwis, Donald Wihardja, David Ratner, Tedy Djajawinata, Ryu Kawano, Moderator Andi S. Boediman For the first panel discussion on our Startup Asia Jakarta day 2 conference, we’ve assembled an...
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Evan Spytma on PopCap’s Plans for Southeast Asia
At our Startup Asia Jakarta 2012 conference in Indonesia, we heard from Evan Spytma, the regional director of PopCap Games for Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Our editor Charlie Custer...
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Edi Taslim on Kompas, Digital Media, and Startups
At our Startup Asia Jakarta 2012 event in Indonesia, we were lucky to hear from the vice director of Kompas.com, Edi Taslim, on his company and the startup scene in Indonesia. Below is are some...
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PropertyGuru Secures US$47 million Investment from ImmobilienScout24
Singapore portals seem to be reaping the fruits of labour of late after having it rough out for the last couple of years. Just a few weeks back, we saw HungryGoWhere getting acquired by SingTel to...
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Discussion: Inside the Mind of Local Investors
Full disclosure: East Ventures is an investor in Tech in Asia. Left to right: Willson Cuaca, Kevin Mintargaa, moderator Vanessa Tan, Antonny Liem, Andi S. Boediman At a packed afternoon panel at...
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Coffee Chat: The Entrepreneurial Story Behind Kaskus, and its E-Commerce Future
Indonesia’s Kaskus was started up way back in 1999 as a BBS and news portal. Its metamorphosis into a local web giant, more recently expanding to e-commerce and online payments, can provide a lot of...
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All Things Mobile in Indonesia: A Conversation with Andy Zain
Before our Startup Asia Jakarta 2012 event kicked off, we had a chance to hear JFI director Andy Zain, outline five tips for surviving in Indonesia’s mobile market. Thankfully, Andy brought his...
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Coffee Chat: A Foreigner Building a Startup in Indonesia
Building a startup is never a smooth-sailing journey, let alone building a startup in a foreign land. It takes a lot of understanding, localization of mindsets, and a whole lot of guts. Our very own...
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Coffee Chat: Daniel Saito on Entrepreneurship, Passion, and Hacking
Taking a break from serving as a firm-but-fair judge of our Startup Arena contenders here in Jakarta, Daniel Saito (pictured above) now sits down with our own blogger, Charlie, to discuss his...
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Discussion: E-Commerce in Indonesia – The Challenges Ahead
For the last panel of our two-day Startup Asia Jakarta conference, we’ve aggregated an expert panel discussing on the e-commerce landscape in Indonesia. The panel was moderated by Andi S. Boediman,...
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Cabara is the Marketplace to Find Good Domestic Helpers
We’re living in a fast-paced world where most husbands and wives are working full-time. Hence, most households would need a domestic helper to aid in household chores. According to the Cabara‘s pitch...
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Onigi Offers SMEs a Turnkey Online Sales Solution in Facebook
The team from Onigi took the stage at Startup Asia this afternoon to talk about its product, a simple solution that allows small and medium-sized businesses to set up online stores via Facebook. The...
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Singapore’s Loan Garage is a Marketplace for Credit and Loans
At our Startup Arena Jakarta competition on Friday, Singapore-based Loan Garage pitched its mobile platform for helping consumers find credit from safe and trusted providers. The pitch outlined how...
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PinjamBuku: A New Chapter in Social Book-Sharing
“We build friendships through books,” says PinjamBuku’s co-founder in the startup’s pitch. And so the emphasis is on the social elements in the book lending and borrowing website. Users who submit a...
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