Category: Startup
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3 telltale signs that a startup is fakin’ it
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Carousell’s Series B
To me, a startup can only get away from trying to generate revenue for so long. The true test comes when they try, and perhaps they have been holding out trying until they get a long enough runway, which is now, getting their Series B. The best way to boost valuation is to hide…
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Startups: Reliance on fundings as a barrier to entry against competitors.
I think well funded startups are after perceived barrier to entry now. If you lose more money per year, it means there is a higher barrier to entry to your business, as others need to have deeper pockets in order to compete. In the eyes of investors, that’s actually good. If you are making 5…
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A Candid Look At My 10 Years Of Entrepreneurship Journey In 8 Minutes (Lessons included)
My earliest recollection of something resembling Entrepreneurship was when I was 15. I’ve picked up programming for about 2 years by then, and I have created a couple of random apps and tried to sell it online. One of the app was called Wicked’s Developers’ Suite and contains a html text editor, a search engine scraping…
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An Inventor & A Magician
When I was 5, I wanted to be either an Inventor or a Magician when I grow up. I couldn’t decide which is more interesting of the two. An Inventor create new things; a Magician does the impossible and make people smile. Retrospectively, I now realize that I’ve been creating new things and making people smile for…
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Featured in ST – Jobs that didn’t exist 15 years ago
I’ve been featured in ST today, page 2 & 3 of Life section. From an app to determine the time one’s bus will arrive to an immersive virtual reality app for a property firm – these are some of the products by home-grown digital marketing and mobile app development house Originally Us. It is among…
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Startups & Businesses
Maybe the difference between a startup and a new business is that a new business spends all its time trying to do business, while a startup spends most of its time doing everything but business.
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The UX Myth – 5 simple reasons why good UX isn’t THAT important for startups.
If you had ever put thought into launching your own app or startup, you would have come across a thousand and one articles on how user experience (or UX) is the pillar of any self-respecting startup. Unlike other articles like this, I am not going to justify this post by delving into a list of…
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The Startup Ecstasy For Virgins
Working on a startup gives people a kind of high. A high that you would experience, only if you are a startup virgin. It starts with an idea. An idea you came up with that will allow you to change the world. No one else seems to have done it yet. The world is for…
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For your own good, stop trying to look for “free” developers
For those who have ideas and go around looking for “partner” developers – know that developers have their own, and sometimes more awesome, ideas. Unless the developer is just starting out, he/she gets flooded with such requests everyday that he/she is immune to your kind of request. If you are looking for developers to help…