More quick and dirty video interviews with DEMO Asia companies
We’ve done more on the ground short video interviews with teams that launched or pitched, investors looking to find the next big thing here at DEMO Asia. We are still in the midst of uploading all, but...
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Again, more video interviews with attendees and teams that launched at DEMO Asia! Gwen with Roshni Mahtani of TheAsianParent Gwen with Shivanu Shukla of Teamie Gwen with Keeran Janin of MeSixty The...
View ArticlePart 4 of Quick and Dirty, on the ground VIDEO interviews at DEMO Asia 2012
Editor’s note (Gwen says): Yes, Kristine and I did take quite a few videos! If you have been following SGE’s live and post-event coverage of Asia’s largest launchpad for emerging technologies, DEMO...
View ArticleQuick and Dirty with investors Vinnie Lauria and Jeff Clavier
Okay, this is a bit overdue (my apologies) but this is the last bunch of quick and dirty videos done at DEMO Asia 2012 (part 1, 2, 3 (with investors), 4). Kristine and I interviewed two more investors,...
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DiscoverMatch is a Singapore jobs portal that spotlights your company’s culture
DiscoverMatch - A visual directory of companies “To help millions of people make informed and better career decisions” — that was, and still is, the grand goal of IDENTIFI when we covered them a year...
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This video startup is battling the odds by expanding into Korea
Video-making startup Wideo, a 500 Startups company with roots in Argentina and the US, was born to be global. With a team spanning Buenos Aires and San Francisco and services in Spanish and English, it...
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Laughing all the way to the bank: why an Indian web parody on startups got 3...
Team of The Viral Fever which created startup spoof TVF Pitchers in India. Director Amit Golani – extreme right. From the 13th floor of a Mumbai high rise, former Wall Street analyst Ashwin Suresh, 31,...
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China’s Netflix launches VR headset for $23
Image via LemallOne of China’s most popular streaming video sites today announced the release of its first virtual reality headset – and it’s going for a cool US$23. The ludicrously-named LeVR COOL1 is...
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Baidu, iQiyi CEOs offer to buy out Baidu’s iQiyi stake
Well, here’s a strange one: on Friday, Baidu said that it has received a nonbinding proposal to acquire its majority stake in video streaming site iQiyi. The guys who want to buy it up? Baidu’s own...
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Ben Horowitz on when you should IPO (VIDEO)
When Ben Horowitz headlined TIA Tokyo 2015, he dropped a lot of wisdom, including some invaluable advice on how to plan your IPO. If you want to learn more about the public markets, take a quick lesson...
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Om Malik on why you should not focus on the tech bubble (VIDEO)
At Tech in Asia Tokyo 2015, the legendary Om Malik looked back on his time with GigaOm, the state of new media, as well as the impending tech bubble that everyone is curious about. With decades of...
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Anthony Tan on the mistakes entrepreneurs should avoid (VIDEO)
Anthony Tan rocked the stage at Tech in Asia Singapore 2015, sharing how Grab (formerly known as GrabTaxi) became one of the biggest success stories of Southeast Asia. It has millions of users today,...
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Ray Chan on differences between 500 Startups and Y Combinator accelerators...
At Tech in Asia Singapore 2015, Ray Chan recounted 9GAG’s rise to prominence and his time in both 500 Startups and Y Combinator. (Disclosure: Tech in Asia is also a YC graduate. See our ethics page for...
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This startup wants to help you go viral on YouTube. Here’s its playbook
Some of India’s movie stars are larger than life. Photo credit: Nicolas Mirguet. Indian culture and entertainment go hand in hand, from movie theaters where audiences throw rupees at exciting fight...
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Nadiem Makarim on staying focused in managing your startup (VIDEO)
Nadiem Makarim shared Go-Jek’s vision at Tech in Asia Jakarta 2015. Being one of Indonesia’s most highly valued startups, Go-Jek provides a wide range of services, from instant courier to transport to...
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This startup uses AI to automatically generate videos from text articles
Photo credit: A Health Blog Publishers are continuously looking for new ways to expand their reach. One sure bet? Video. Even Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg recognizes this. Discussing the...
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Meet the video production startup in Singapore that just raised millions from...
CEO Tim Norton (holding pen) surrounded by New Zealand team as he signs the term sheet. If any startup is a reality TV show, this would be it. As I exit the lift, a man down the corridor greets me by...
View ArticleVC-funded viral video celeb ordered to stop swearing by Chinese government
Is it OK to swear in videos? Not in China, apparently. Viral video sensation Papi Jiang, who raised nearly US$2 million in VC funding last month for her high-speed humor videos, has been ordered to...
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China to roll out blacklist for paid video streamers, and stricter...
A couple of weeks ago, we learned that virtually all of China’s independent video streaming platforms were in hot water with authorities. Those sites are still under investigation, but meanwhile,...
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4 ways to scale your app organically to a million users in just four weeks
Photo credit: sozialhelden . I first wrote about video chat app Rounds in September, noting that it’s fairly frictionless and comes with a bunch of great features. The fact that most of its 22 million...
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