This is the second instalment of “Tech stacks in Asia” with up and coming Asian tech startups. In this blog we hear from Singapore based Klinify. Describe Klinify in 2-3 sentences. Klinify is a VC backed startup based in Singapore. We help doctors and hospitals go digital without changing their workflow. Our product combines everything healthcare professionals love about paper …
Tech Stacks in Asia: Inside Appknox’s tech stack
For all the promise that exists for startups in Asia, there persists a list of reasons why companies cant succeed. Talent, in particular, tech talent is certainly an often stated constraint. The reality is that there is home grown talent kicking ass! I order to show-case the talent that exists in Asia, I’m running a series of guest posts from …
Barkbox: Barking mad? Why some business models applied to other verticals can work
I read an article the other day (Note: I actually wrote this a few months back) on Pando Daily about a company called Barkbox in the states that has applied the Birchbox business model of monthly subscriptions to dogs. My friend sent me the link and initially I thought it was silly. I am not generally a fan of this …
Presentations: The consequence of not knowing or not having interest in a topic
I just watched the rather tragic failure of a presentation at CES, in which the director Michael Bay was lending his name to a Samsung TV and walked off stage.
Shrinking a market and owning it
I was talking shop on Saturday night with a VC and he mentioned offhandedly an anecdote about owning markets, but it was a little peculiar as it involved actually making the market smaller. In my OCD like fashion I did some reading and I think this concept is a learning worth sharing. The anecdote, you ask? Well, it is this: …