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…

What’s popular in these Asian countries, and why you should care. Because after all, Asia is not a startup bubble. The cynics sneer from afar: “Oh, Asia. They only to know how to play catch up; imitating her siblings from the Valley. There are many startups there, but hey, few exits. What does that tell Read the full article…

GREE Ventures and IMJ Fenox invest Series A in Indonesia’s online property marketplace, UrbanIndo. Indonesian online property marketplace UrbanIndo announced yesterday that it has raised Series A funding led by GREE Ventures. This latest round also saw IMJ Fenox Pte. Ltd. participating. Launched in November 2011, UrbanIndo previously raised funding from East Ventures and other 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…

After an intense hour of pitching, our esteemed set of judges has selected Waygo as the Most Promising Startup for Echelon 2013. Echelon 2013 is all about validating the promise of the startup ecosystem in the Asia Pacific region. This year, 10 of the region’s top startups have pitched their tech startups to a set 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…