Truong Thanh Thuy is the co-founder and CEO of Greengar, the creator of real-time collaboration app Smartboard. Follow her on Twitter at @thuymuoi. Triip is looking to help tourists explore and understand Vietnam better. Although Vietnam has been well-known as a friendly country, many international articles recently about their bad experience during their vacations in Read the full article…

At Echelon 2013, we went around asking startup founders from Thailand what the biggest challenges they currently are facing, and how they think these can be resolved. As the startup ecosystem thrives in Thailand with more involvement from telecomm companies, Universities and entrepreneurship-related organizations, it is key to realize what startup founders in Thailand truly Read the full article…

Big Data has made Big Promises – everything from changing how you innovate to how you engage with customers. It is a big term and can be hard to grasp. Therefore, the panelists of this session began by defining what big data meant to them. The panelists included Simon Dale, Senior Software Executive, Asia Pacific Read the full article…

In the third session of Echelon Day 2, President and CEO of Bubble Motion shares with audiences several statistics and insights about the future of social media and mobile communications in Asia. With 52 different primary languages, more than 1000 regional dialects, 27 different currencies, and varying political and legal systems, the very diverse Asia Read the full article…

New media, social media, smart phones, and new digital experiences. These phenomena have grown exponentially in Asia that consumers now have short attention spans, and limited time. Consumers are also increasingly powerful in influencing and shaping trends, taking away autonomy from corporations. “Now it is all about consumers experience driving expectations and the enterprise space. Read the full article…

Regulations, cultures and laws vary. But your digital business has only one platform. So how can you scale it globally? In this panel, Bernard Leong, the Technology Manager of Vistaprint talks to other panelists on how they’ve managed to successfully scale their businesses globally. The panelists, who are also entrepreneurs running successful digital platforms were Read the full article…

Ending the morning session of Echelon Day 1 was a panel discussing trends in the global investment markets and the challenges that startups face in establishing their business as a compelling investment case. With so many seed funding schemes available now, is it almost as if getting funded in early stages is becoming a fad. Read the full article…

Raising money is only a means to an end, says 500 Startups’ Dave McClure. The key to success is a scalable path to customer acquisition and activation. You are not Tony Stark You are not Tony Stark*, 500 Startups founder Dave McClure said during his keynote at Echelon 2013. Even if Tony Stark is cool Read the full article…

Our first panel session for Echelon 2013 saw five experienced founders share on how startups should build and grow their companies. Vincent Lauria, managing partner at Golden Gate Ventures started the panel discussion with a question posed to the five founders, namely Jon Yongfook Cockle (director at Twenty Four Twelve Systems), Lim Cheng Soon (founder Read the full article…

Our first keynote speaker, Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia, shares on how to build products that solve problems. He shares a few great tips. “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come,” wrote Victor Hugo in The History of a Crime. Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia, in his keynote at Echelon 2013 today, shares that Read the full article…