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The Highspark Co-founder reveals the sacrifices to pursue entrepreneurship, and why the bad experiences may have been the most important I was introduced to Kai Xin by her business partner Eugene. We were looking to improve our deck presentation and I started a conversation with her help better understand the process. The premise of their...

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Now that the Holy Month is over, let’s find out how mobile Internet users in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore had been behaving Beijing-based mobile Internet company Cheetah Mobile released a new report that revealed mobile usage behaviour in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore during the last holy month of Ramadan. As widely known, Ramadan is one...

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 Unilever creates and captures a unicorn with its plans to acquire Dollar Shave Club.
Announced this evening, the $130 billion dollar multinational consumer goods company is speculated to be paying $1 billion, all cash, for the startup, according to reports from Fortune.
If the pricing is true, the transaction will be the third largest ever in e-commerce, only beaten by zulily… Read More

Last July, Babytree secured US$300 million led by the US-listed Chinese online cosmetic retailer Jumei Leading parenting portal Babytree landed RMB3 billion (US$448 million) this June. The COO of Babytree, Wei Xiaowei, made the announcement this Tuesday. This latest round of financing is in RMB and not USD, indicating Babytree’s readiness to return to China’s...

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 “They’re going to hit some challenges and marketers are gonna start to ask questions when they get out of the experimental budget phase”, Facebook’s head of ad tech said about Snapchat today. While Facebook tries to collect as much data about users as possible to prove its ads work, Snapchat has tried to avoid being creepy despite that hindering its potential monetization. Read More

 Imagine a lawyer with a client who lives in one county and works in another. Or even a lawyer who litigates in multiple states. Both common occurrences, but situations that make it very hard to keep track of legal documents. Essentially, it should be easy to keep track of court records from multiple counties and states – but it’s not. In fact, it’s pretty awful. Most are… Read More