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WishFi weighed its final options with a fortuneteller, by Samson Chen

Yvan Castilloux — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:03:23 +0000

In this post, we uncover the last act at Wishfi, i.e. how a fortuneteller helped them make their final decisions, and we will reveal some of his main lessons learned. In part 1, we discussed his entrepreneurial journey, i.e. how Samson became an entrepreneur and what made it work. 1) How did your story at ...

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Wifi as a service was invented in Taiwan – Samson Chen from Wishfi

Yvan Castilloux — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:26:36 +0000

Samson Chen is an inspiration for technical entrepreneurs in Asia. He pioneered free wifi as a service back home in Taiwan when founding Wishfi after many years mastering Internet technologies and living abroad in California. During our conversation over tea in a Taiwanese restaurant in the center of Taipei, Samson told me about his startup ...

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Software outsourcing is promising for Vietnam, says Minh-Tuan VU from VietGest

Yvan Castilloux — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:24:39 +0000

Helping Vietnam to become a world-class software development destination is a dream that Minh-Tuan VU, co-founder of VietGest, is pursuing. Starting a software company in Hanoi has been a fulfilling experience for him. After finishing his post-graduate studies at the University of Geneva, Minh-Tuan made a big career change in founding VietGest. Software outsourcing provides ...

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Starting a software business in Malaysia has been a good experience, says JeeShen Lee from BizVise

Yvan Castilloux — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:31:32 +0000

Interviewing serial entrepreneur JeeShen Lee in Malacca Malaysia (or Melaka) has shown me one thing: starting a tech company in a small industrial town requires lots of courage and determination. JeeShen has started a software solutions company called BizVise, and is looking to disrupt the hotel business in South-East Asia with a second company called ...

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Building an Internet business is like making pancakes, says Meng Weng Wong from JFDI

Yvan Castilloux — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:10:50 +0000

While an undergraduate at UPenn, Meng Weng Wong spent his early career in the United States starting pobox.com, the first commercial email service. He helped pioneer an antispam standard called SPF – a standard which Hotmail and Gmail still use today. He also co-founded Karmasphere, a big-data company. Building a high-tech business vs. a brick-and-mortar one takes ...

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Scaling a mobile payment business is possible in Singapore, says Zi Yong CHUA from Stream Media

Yvan Castilloux — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:02:29 +0000

Singapore-born Zi Yong CHUA is an inspiration for those who want to start up a scalable company in Asia. He has overcome many challenges founding Stream Media, a company building the Movend payment platform for mobile gaming with most of its users in the US and Europe. The company was funded by Singtel Innov8 in 2011. He tells us here ...

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Visas for Entrepreneurs are needed for Silicon Valley to keep the lead

Yvan Castilloux — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:35:26 +0000

According to the Economist, it is easier for entrepreneurs to immigrate to Australia, Canada, the New Zealand and Chile than in the United States. The article also hints that obtaining an immigration visa is more flexible in the UK, Singapore and Ireland. And here’s the complete article http://www.economist.com/node/21556636 Everyone is playing “catch up” to Silicon Valley ...

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Denmark meets Silicon Valley: Interview with Sunil Maulik from the Danish Innovation Center

Yvan Castilloux — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 23:43:19 +0000

This post is for all of those who wish to have an exciting career in Silicon Valley. I had the chance to get to know Sunil Maulik, a biophysicist by training now working in software, during my Silicon Valley experience. After a seasoned career in start-ups in the UK and the US, he’s now the ...

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Block 71: Singapore’s innovation secret

Yvan Castilloux — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 07:29:55 +0000

This post is for all of those who haven’t embraced Singapore‘s entrepreneurial ambition. Block 71, across the street from INSEAD, has a charm that is difficult to parallel in Singapore. For the first 4 months in Singapore, I overlooked the modest building every time I passed by it. I was probably not the only one. ...

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