Start-up
TM, MDeC and StartupMalaysia kick off ‘corporate’ accelerator
Telekom Malaysia, the Multimedia Development Corporation and StartupMalaysia.org have kicked off a new accelerator program that they said sharpens the focus on getting startups to market quickly.
Arm yourself with an advisory board
If you don’t have a board of advisors in place, now is a good time to start putting one together. Given global uncertainty, growth companies can’t afford not to have one, writes Verne Harnish.
Vincent Tan wows start-ups at Disrupt
Berjaya Group billionaire founder Tan Sri Vincent Tan was in top form at the DNA-TeAM Disrupt session recently, regaling the audience with anecdotes and sharing his fear of the economic impact of the poor quality of English.
Code Army learning about Indonesia's start-up scene
Zafrul Noordin, founder of gamification company Code Army, attended the leading start-up competition in Indonesia called Sparxup, from Oct 3 to 5. He shares his thoughts here with DNA founder Karamjit Singh.
GIST calls for entries into Tech-I competition
The Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) Initiative has called for entries for its annual GIST Tech-I Competition.
Singapore-based email backup start-up does Dallas
Dropmyemail, which launched at Demo Asia 2012, announced it is opening a sales and business development office in Dallas, Texas. Since its launch five months ago, it has garnered 911,000+ signups and purchased US-based cloud backup service OrbitFiles.
Cebu start-up’s app tackles IT grad issue in the Philippines
The Codetoki team – with an app that allows IT graduates in the Philippines to increase their chances of employment – was recently proclaimed winner of the Ideas portion of the 1st Ideas & Apps Challenge, a competition initiated by US-based AppBridge in partnership with Globe Telecom and its wholly-owned subsidiary, start-up incubator Kickstart Ventures in the Philippines.
‘.com’ still the king of TLDs
FashionValet launched with the ‘.net’ top-level domain, but found the world out there very much fixated on ‘.com’, says its co-founder.
Dotcom (.com) still rules
It may be the Asia Pacific century and Asia does have the fastest growing Internet adoption in the world, but when it comes to getting an internet domain for your business, .com still rules over other top level domains (TLDs).
