Silicon Valley no longer has the monopoly on tech innovation: startups are emerging all over the world with new ideas and technologies, diversifying innovative power to various ecosystems worldwide. Asia in particular is boiling hot and setting new trends. Just think of those two figures from 2016: China’s giant messaging app WeChat processed twice as…
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A historical perspective on (online) communities: 1620-2013
I’m happy to have done this mentoring project at Change Ventur.es in the end! Fit into a hell of a schedule, I was invited by Grace Clapham, the women of several networks, to talk to a group of 20 people on social media. I’ve taken the time, at last, to put in slides my theory…
Tech and cultural trends from Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia
Startup Asia is one of South-East Asia main tech conferences, with two days of speeches, demo, contests and networking. The opening pre-event talk this week in Singapore was an opportunity to learn more about the differences between South-East Asia countries, and how you have to adapt to a large area made of different languages, religions,…
Going social in Asia #3 : a critical review of Innovation & Creativity in Singapore
Third week of discovery of the tech, digital and social scene of Singapore, with, again, more insights gained as interviews piled in my schedule. After having talked – a bit – of the social media agency industry, of the cultural aspects to remember when doing business in South-East Asia, here are a few thoughts about…
A day with the Singapore startup scene at Ideas.inc
“Normally you don’t wake up early on a Saturday morning. But you’re not normal, you’re entrepreneurs !“, and that’s a great kick-off and summary of the Ideas.Inc StartingUp 2012 Grand Finale, that took place on September 22nd at Sentosa.The events puts an end to a business challenge that builds startups and help develop a culture…
Going social in Asia #1 : a glance at agencies, products and people of social media in Singapore and Malaysia
“They’re not good at ideas”, but are more “digitally fluent” than Westerners. It’s a “huge market” (growing hugely, say), but some of the big players of the industry don’t even have the beginning of a team to go online. Their inhabitants are among the most connected and engaged on mobile and Facebook, still, it’s no…