Kim wong 
Nathan Chan is the CEO of Foundr Magazine and is a very chill dude. He is based in Australia and has a very inspirational story like many of my interviewees. He was working in a day job doing IT for a company, and he absolutely hated the daily rat race. When he was working there, … Read more
This article was co-authored by Michael Blakey. Since 2000, we have invested in over 50 digital companies across Asia, Europe, and the US and have seen great successes as well as the occasional spectacular failures. A few weeks after launching our VC firm, Cocoon Capital, my co-founder and I sat down and talked a bit … Read more
Hiring manpower can be resource-sapping, especially in the early stages of a business where there’s little resources to spare. Other obstacles include the long working hours and the risk employees could face when joining a startup (90 percent of startups fail within their first 3 years). How, then, can startups hire the best talent? What are … Read more
Millennials in Pakistan aren’t too different from millennials across the world – they cackle at memes and share videos of politicians doing hilarious things. At the same time, they’re fed up with mainstream media and its obsession with current affairs. They yearn for an alternative voice that’s hip, trendy, and has a human-oriented approach. One … Read more
It’s easy to maintain an ethical demeanor when all eyes are on you. Business owners, managers, and supervisors are always being scrutinized by their subordinates and even competitors. As an entrepreneur playing one or all of these roles (and maybe more), upholding a reputable attitude—even when nobody is looking—is critical to your business and future. Impact on communities … Read more
Question: I run an e-commerce business and am launching a mobile app. What is the No. 1 consideration I should not overlook? Simplicity “Save yourself a ton of headaches by building a simple app. Since it needs to work perfectly across the nearly infinite variety of mobile devices available today, over-complicating your app will hurt … Read more
The e27 database is a trove of information and we’d like to share what we find there with you. This week, we took a peek at our database and came up with this list of startups in Malaysia that received at least US$1M in their most recent round beginning January 2016. Round: Seed Dah Makan | US$1.3M … Read more
In just a few days, the Academy Awards will take place, bringing the world’s attention to some of the finest films out of Hollywood shown in the past year. Nine films are in the running for Best Picture, with themes ranging from family drama, to war, to the discovery of aliens, and on to music … Read more
Jaroslav Luptak, the co-founder of venture capital firm Neulogy Ventures in Slovakia, was 5 years old when Czechoslovakia, a former satellite of the Soviet Union, emerged from communist rule. Just a few short years later, Slovakia would become an independent state. “At the time, ‘entrepreneur‘ was almost a swear word,” Luptak says, adding that his … Read more
In 2007, Zopim was a scrappy bootstrapped start-up developing a live chat customer support widget for websites. Over the next two years, they would offer their product as a free beta version, and the founders – three entrepreneurial National University of Singapore students who had met in San Francisco during a study abroad stint – … Read more