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Melvin Poh is the Founder of The Asian Entrepreneur and a private equity investor. Melvin was listed on Forbes in 2019 for his work and received his education at University of Cambridge, Imperial College London and Harvard University.

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The Future Of Entrepreneurship After The Pandemic

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The coronavirus pandemic raging across the world has taken a huge toll on global lives and economies. Already it is being seen...
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Why Startup Financing Is So Difficult

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Okay, let's get serious and talk private equity. The process of realising and growing a business venture inevitably raises the important question of how...
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P2P and the Future of Finance

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P2P is now an utterance that commonly haunts and regularly hangs by the mouths of both pin-stripe suited financiers at Wall Street as well...
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How I.P. Fits Into Netflix’s Business Model

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As part of its overall strategy, Netflix actively employs  intellectual properties in its attempt to innovate and secure its long term competitive advantage. Reflecting...
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What Makes Warren Buffett So Successful

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Did you know that if you invested $10,000 in Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffett's company) in 1945, your investment would’ve grown into $30M by 2005?...
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A Guide To Angel Investments

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In my time working in the financial sector in London, the financial capital of the U.K., I have come to learn first-hand how the...
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First principles thinking, which is sometimes called reasoning from first principles, is one of the most effective strategies you can employ for...
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We Don’t Need More Coders In Entrepreneurship

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People in the tech world love to say that everybody should learn to code — and there are a lot of good...
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The Future Of Entrepreneurship After The Pandemic

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The coronavirus pandemic raging across the world has taken a huge toll on global lives and economies. Already it is being seen...
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The Pandemic’s Impact On The Sport Sponsorship Industry

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The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the sport sponsorship industry will have multiple consequences and, although these days most analyses focus on assessing the loss...
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Crytopgraph Will Disrupt Art With Blockchain

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Perpetual Altruism,  the company behind Cryptograph, (cryptograph.co), will officially launch their new platform on July 6, 2020.  Positioned to become a market...
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TikTok: Beneath Its Fun, A Sinister Purpose?

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Three years since TikTok was launched, the video-sharing social network grown rapidly to accumulate more than two billion downloads, one of the most popular apps of the...
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New Times Call For New Energies

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With the stock market capitalization of the five-biggest US oil companies slashed by half since the beginning of the year, the future is increasingly...
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How To Think Like Elon Musk

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First principles thinking, which is sometimes called reasoning from first principles, is one of the most effective strategies you can employ for...
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New Times Call For New Energies

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How to Spot Technology Trends & Make Them Happen

“The future’s so bright I gotta wear shades.” Pat MacDonald How do we visualize the present to create the future? One way to predict the...
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Financial Inclusion Defies Business Sense But Leon “Get”s Micro-Entrepreneurs What's your story?In my previous life I was a private...
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