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Why we’re heading towards a bloodbath and four strategies to avoid it Being the new kid on the block means that e-commerce ventures in Southeast Asia have the luxury to learn from others’ mistakes, from mature e-commerce markets such as the US and China. It’s been over 20 years since Amazon (1994) and eBay (1995)...

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Why we’re heading towards a bloodbath and four strategies to avoid it Being the new kid on the block means that e-commerce ventures in Southeast Asia have the luxury to learn from others’ mistakes, from mature e-commerce markets such as the US and China. It’s been over 20 years since Amazon (1994) and eBay (1995)...

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Why we’re heading towards a bloodbath and four strategies to avoid it Being the new kid on the block means that e-commerce ventures in Southeast Asia have the luxury to learn from others’ mistakes, from mature e-commerce markets such as the US and China. It’s been over 20 years since Amazon (1994) and eBay (1995)...

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The Korean serial entrepreneur has suffered a devastating stroke and needs your help to foot his medical bills Richard Min, an influential serial entrepreneur in the South Korea ecosystem has suffered a major stroke and needs your help to foot his medical bills. Close friends of Min and his family have set up a crowdfunding...

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This funding will allow MakeLeaps to accelerate plans to build a wider range of functionality for Japanese businesses and make significant progress on the goal of eliminating paper from offices in Japan MakeLeaps, a Japan-based cloud fintech service company, has recently announced that Rakuten Ventures, the venture capital arm of Rakuten Group, is leading the MakeLeaps Series A round of...

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 A few days after announcing its banking license, N26 (formerly known as Number26) is partnering with fellow German fintech startup vaamo to add a new service to its banking offering with its first investment product for German customers. vaamo manages different portfolios of risky and not-so-risky assets thanks to robo-advisors so that you don’t have to micro-manage these portfolios. Read More