This Week in Asia Episode 58: Live from Open Web Asia SEA
It has been an exciting week for the Malaysia web/tech scene with the Open Web Asia – Southeast Asia conference happening in Kuala Lumpur on 13-14 July. The TWIA crew hosted a live show with Serkan Toto (@serkantoto) from TechCrunch & Brian Wong (@brian_wong) formerly from Digg and now followFormation as our guests. We touched on some hot topics with great seats about InMobi’s 8M fund-raising success, the feedback about the Open Web Asia Conference and interesting start-ups which caught our eye, how Asian start-ups should improve on their pitching so to attract investors (and Asian investors should be more harsh on feedback to the entrepreneurs here) and Serkan’s interesting prediction for Asian companies in the next few decades. A special treat for all our listeners that you can view the video of the live show here.
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Read MoreThis Week in Asia Episode 57: Robert & Matthew from myGengo
myGengo is a Japanese start-up which deliver value for users to order cheap and high quality translations on the web. In our virtual studio, we have both co-founders, Robert Laing (@robert_laing) & Matthew Romaine (@quanza) telling us how the idea come about, the interesting features on myGengo and also the challenges in fundraising and setting up in Japan. We also hear how they manage to get Dave McClure to be their angel investor and their journey from the far east to Silicon Valley for fundraising this year, and finally wrap up with their future plans.
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Read MoreThis Week in Asia Episode 56: Attack of The Groupon Clones
Yes, Google vs China comes to a stunning conclusion with one side making a kow-tow, and the emergence of Groupon clones taking over Asia springing from China and Singapore. How will all these change the landscape of Asia? With Chew Lin taking the helm as the moderator for the first time, the TWIA crew examines the key issues which dominate Asia, with little quibbles over Microsoft’s dropping of Kin, Huawei putting Froyo onto their Chinese Android phones, Mixi making a minor Linkedin, Amazon’s acquisition of Woot and the major differences between e-commerce in Southeast Asia & East Asia.
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