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Grab unveils bike- and scooter-sharing app in salvo against Mobike and Ofo

Grab unveils bike- and scooter-sharing app in salvo against Mobike and Ofo Grab is about to launch an app that will allow consumers to hire bicycles and electric scooters from a variety of providers. GrabCycle Beta will integrate offerings from oBike, GBikes, Anywheel, and Popscoot. It will be piloted on Sentosa Island in Singapore before […]

Airbnb: The Growth Story You Didn’t Know

Airbnb: The Growth Story You Didn’t Know Airbnb is now a household name that has surpassed industry legacy Hilton Hotels in nights booked. As of spring 2014, the platform had 10 million guests and 550,000 properties listed worldwide, along with a $10B valuation-making Airbnb worth more than legacy players like Wyndham and Hyatt. entrepreneurshipGrowth HackinginspirationMarketingoperating […]

Starting up in Singapore? Here’s what you need to know

Ebook: Starting up in Singapore? Here’s what you need to know This is extracted from our Market Expansion ebook, which gives tips on expanding into many Asian countries. Scroll to the bottom to download it. Thinking of setting up your company in Singapore or expanding there? Good call! The post Starting up in Singapore? Here’s what you need to know appeared first on Stage Asia - startups directory .

Ebook: What you need to know to start a business in the Philippines

Ebook: What you need to know to start a business in the Philippines This is extracted from our Market Expansion ebook, which gives tips on expanding into many Asian countries. Scroll to the bottom to download it. While it doesn’t prominently figure on investors’ radar, the Philippines holds huge potential as a market. The post Ebook: What you need to know to start a business in the Philippines appeared first on Stage Asia - startups directory .

Board Seat For Sale

Written by Brad Feld, managing director at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado.   I had lunch recently with a founder. We were talking about current and future board configuration for his company and he said “Up until this point, all my board seats were simply for sale. Whenever a new investor showed up, they wanted […] The post Board Seat For Sale appeared first on Stage Asia - startups directory .

Making My Underwear An Accessible Product

Making My Underwear An Accessible Product This is a story about My Underwear. Not my underwear -  but “My Underwear” - the mobile game for children from my old game studio. More importantly, it’s about the hard work of building accessible products, about finding and fueling previously unreachable audiences (niche markets on the internet), and ultimately about creating […] The post Making My Underwear An Accessible Product appeared first on Stage Asia - startups directory .

SaleStock scores top position in Indonesia’s best startups to work for list

SaleStock scores top position in Indonesia’s best startups to work for list Jobplanet released a report on the top companies to work for in Indonesia, including startups The post SaleStock scores top position in Indonesia’s best startups to work for list appeared first on Stage Asia - startups directory .

Phone battery life stress: Indonesians suffer more than anyone in the world

Read original post here by Steven Millward at TechinAsia Smartphone battery life stress – which turns into a panic as soon as you hear the first warning at 20 percent – is something we’re all familiar with. But it’s the tap-happy people of Indonesia who know the terror of a soon-to-be-dead battery better than anyone else […] The post Phone battery life stress: Indonesians suffer more than anyone in the world appeared first on Stage Asia - startups directory .

Go-Jek co-founder Michaelangelo Moran has left the company

[Updated] Breaking: Go-Jek co-founder Michaelangelo Moran has left the company He was known as the creator of the iconic Go-Jek logo The post Go-Jek co-founder Michaelangelo Moran has left the company appeared first on Stage Asia - startups directory .

Big sights, small cities.

The Next Big Thing is Small Towns Marc Nager has spent the past eight years of his life building Startup Weekend into one of the biggest startup ecosystems in the world. His next big bet? Small … The post Big sights, small cities. appeared first on Stage Asia - startups directory .

How our app went from $20,000/day to $2/day in revenue

Read the original post here by Robleh Jama on Medium This is a follow up to the post where we announced that we’re shutting down Next Keyboard. My goal is to share some of the hard lessons we’ve learned along the way and show a side of the App Store that’s often not talked about. We’re killing […] The post How our app went from $20,000/day to $2/day in revenue appeared first on Stage Asia - startups directory .

This Twenty-Something Forced Silicon Valley to ‘Show Her the Numbers’

This Twenty-Something Forced Silicon Valley to ‘Show Her the Numbers’ T here are at least two things you can say without controversy about Silicon Valley: It is largely white and male. It is obsessed with data. But just how white, and just how male, is the tech industry? No one knows. The post This Twenty-Something Forced Silicon Valley to ‘Show Her the Numbers’ appeared first on Stage Asia - startups directory .

How quitting my corporate job for my startup dream f*cked my life up

Read the original post here by Ali Mese on Medium Finally the SMS arrived: “Tomorrow morning 5am, flight number AZ610 from Rome to NewYork.” An SMS hitting my BlackBerry on Sunday evenings used to decide my destination and client for the coming week. I was working for one of the top three global strategy consulting firms. A […] The post How quitting my corporate job for my startup dream f*cked my life up appeared first on Stage Asia - startups directory .

Fuck You Startup World!! That’s right, I said it.

Read the original post here by Shem on Medium Fuck your startup scene with your 30 minute morning routines of reading TechCrunch, TNW, Wired, Gizmodo, Mashable, The Verge and ProductHunt- all so you don’t feel ‘left out’. Fuck your weird fucking conversations, things like “OMG did you see Snapchat’s new feature? OMG Instagram is totally copying […] The post Fuck You Startup World!! That’s right, I said it. appeared first on Stage Asia - startups directory .

A startup founder’s sudden death sparks a public discussion on work anxiety in China

A startup founder’s sudden death sparks a public discussion on work anxiety in China Months before his death, Chunyu Yisheng CEO and Founder Zhang Rui had spoken about his work-related anxiety issue The post A startup founder’s sudden death sparks a public discussion on work anxiety in China appeared first on Stage Asia - startups directory .

Inside Rocket Internet’s Ailing Startup Factory

Inside Rocket Internet’s Ailing Factory for Startups In November 2015, Oliver Samwer had a new investment to pitch. The charismatic founder of Rocket Internet, a Berlin-based incubator famous for churning out copycat startups based on successful U.S. tech companies, was touting his latest baby, a kind of Airbnb for college undergrads called Nestpick. The post Inside Rocket Internet’s Ailing Startup Factory appeared first on Stage Asia - startups directory .

Korean university students lack startup spirit, and what can be done to fix it

Korean university students lack startup spirit, and what can be done to fix it In my master’s thesis “Development of young technology companies across Asia-Pacific,” I did a survey to assess the motivations and perceptions of technology entrepreneurship in Korean university students. In agreement with previous studies on the topic, the results show a low […] The post Korean university students lack startup spirit, and what can be done to fix it appeared first on Stage Asia - Asia digital startups directory .

[Update] Last order 2 days ago: Foodpanda shuts down operations in Indonesia

[Update] Last order tonight: Foodpanda shuts down operations in Indonesia Foodpanda Indonesia Managing Director announced the end of the operation through a notification letter The post [Update] Last order 2 days ago: Foodpanda shuts down operations in Indonesia appeared first on Stage Asia - Asia digital startups directory .