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A once-aspiring lawyer, Xun-Lin abandoned a bright legal career (a woeful exaggeration) and stumbled quite unwittingly into the world of technology, start-ups and digital marketing.

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The Ethics of Business Copying: “Tweakers”, not Copycats

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Start-up companies in a cut-throat, fast-growing business world are familiar with the accusation “copycat”, often hurled at them by bigger and more established businesses...
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Ecommerce in India – 2016’s Online Shopping Destination

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Ecommerce in India is looking pretty so far, but 99% of the canvas is still unpainted. The country’s online retail sales currently account for less...
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Startups Adapt The Cashback Shopping Model To Southeast Asia

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In a surprisingly short amount of time, cashback websites in Southeast Asia have started to produce results that exceed the expectations of industry experts,...
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How Quantum Supremacy will Impact the Public Relations Industry

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What is this quantum supremacy thing? Some have already seen the headlines; a Google paper leaked that their research team...
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AirPods Are A Powerful Symbol of Our Unsustainable Economy

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A tweet last month by Midas Kwant about Apple’s AirPods did a napkin analysis of the earphones’ profitability: if instead of being launched by Apple in 2016, they...
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How to Build a Personal Brand

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Looking to evolve your personal brand? With the internet, we all have the tools we need to build...
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Critical Mass in Social Media – How Many Followers Do You Really Need?

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How many followers is good enough? Everyone wants more followers in social media. Businesses, too. At the same time,...
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How I Used Machine Learning to Predict Football Games for 24 Months Straight

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Can machine learning make you rich from sports betting? Two years ago, I asked myself if it would...
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What the Online Grocery Wars Really Mean?

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The online grocery wars are heating up and the stakes are far bigger than any battle between Amazon and Walmart. The real...
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The Rise and Fall of Tech Companies

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Over the years since its creation in 2007, Glassdoor, the site that allows employees of companies in the United States to anonymously provide...
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How Quantum Supremacy will Impact the Public Relations Industry

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What is this quantum supremacy thing? Some have already seen the headlines; a Google paper leaked that their research team...
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How Useful are Long-Term Career Plans?

There are two main types of mistakes one can make with career plans: having an overly rigid and specific plan, and having...
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The Cost of Commodifying Failure

With start-up culture’s rise in popularity, insight and transparency around the conditions that produce successful innovations are talked about more than ever. One of...
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Saket Singhi, President of Quick eSelling Inc.

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Saket Singhi, a serial entrepreneur, has 17 years of experience in successfully incubating and building new teams and ventures.
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Ina Bajaj, Owner of Spring Spa

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A trip to Bali in 2003 prompted Ina Bajaj to buy land, build a home and later build a successful spa business....
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Eleanor Yap, Founder of Ageless Online

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An advocate for seniors, Eleanor Yap, wants to make her future and others around her better. What's your story?...
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Delphine Lefay, Co-Founder & CEO of OnTheList

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Delphine and Diego noticed a lack of options for brands looking to dispose of excess stock and with that they started OnTheList,...
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Carla Snajder Naisbitt, Owner of Carla Personal Styling

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Carla Snajder, an image consultant, brings personalized shopping and styling experiences to clients in Hong Kong and Singapore. What's...

Bryan Koh, Executive Producer of Graphiss Media

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For Bryan Koh what started off as a hobby, a one-man show has grown into a successful video production company with a...

Damien, Founder of Denzy Gelato

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What's your story?Cooking has always been my escape. I used to work as a recruiter and when I was stressed out chasing...

Natalia Segura, Founder & Partner of Mediative Ltd.

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Natalia Segura’s true love for photography and the demand from private clients motivated her to start her own business focusing on wedding photography. What's your...
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Taiwanese Counter Strike Fanatic Who Sold His First Business At 20

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Conversations Between Gen X and Y: “Sorry, I Broke My Employee”

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Are You the Biggest Obstacle to Scaling Up Your Business?

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So you’re looking to scale up your business. This is a challenge for all companies and for many leaders it’s a befuddling experience. I’ve...
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5 Important Reasons Not to Raise Capital for Your Startup

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I recently had dinner with co-founders of a startup who’d just raised quite a bit of money for their company, a deal which incidentally...
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5 Branding Tips for Startups

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The Business Model for Content Startups

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A business model helps to clarify a company’s main purpose, such as who they’re serving, how they help, and how the company can sustain...
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What Everybody Should Know About Building Great Apps

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The Cost of Commodifying Failure

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