A chat with NewsCred, the best funded startup from Bangladesh
NewsCred is typically this kind of “nugget” we find while travelling in emerging markets. We usually take a list of countries, try find out the best tech event there to meet people and get to understand how the startup scene and working. And then you have big, unsuspected discoveries like a startup from Bangladesh with […]
Top startups in Bangladesh and Dhaka (2015)
Better late than sorry, as we say in French. Here’s our report on the the Top startups in Bangladesh and Dhaka, following our attendance at Innovation Xtreme, the first event fully dedicated to the startup scene of this 160m population country of South Asia, neighboring India and Myanmar. Top startups from Dhaka and Bangladesh 2015 […]
Shajgoj, a online community platform for Bangladeshi woman, in Bengali language
While attending and speaking at Innovation Xtreme in Dhaka, Bangladesh, we’ve met Shajgoj co-founder Milky Mahmud. In a nutshell, Shajgoj is an online community platform for women, with the particularity to be in Bengali language exclusively. Addressing women in a 250 million population Bengali speaking market In the early 2013, while researching about startups, […]
SaaS Business Asia: Birth of yet another startup ecosystem
South-East Asia is a booming market for pretty much everything thanks to its huge economic and demographics growth. The Philippines were last year the 2nd Asian growth after China (CNBC), and Indonesia remains a 250 million population juggernaut with about 10 million more people entering the middle-class every year (BCG). As more companies serve these […]
A visit of the Zappos Pop-up Shop in Las Vegas
During our visit of the CES in Las Vegas, we visited the Zappos Pop-up Shop, often dubbed the “shop of the future”. It’s more of a prototype, which, having opened in November 2014, should close pretty soon this January 2015 to analyze its own data and see how to move forward. Visiting is was definitely […]
Revitalizing Las Vegas: a guided tour of the Downtown Project by Zappos
Las Vegas may be famous for its casinos, attracting 40 million tourists each year, and the Consumer Electronic Show (170k attendees in 2015), but parts of it are not so shiny. The city has long been too dependent on tourism and gambling, two industries very sensitive to economic fluctuations. The workers are largely low-skilled, and […]
Meet the 24 FrenchPitch startups who pitched at CES in Las Vegas
Here’s a quick wrap-up of several French (and non-French) startups who pitched at the FrenchPitch event, organized by EPC Digital, and part of the broader #FrenchTech umbrella. It’s like the appetizer of a longer program which will take us in a tour of the Downtown Project, an initiative powered by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and […]
The best of Brazilian startups at Futurecom competition
The 2014 edition of Latin America’s biggest ICT exhibition, Futurecom, took place in São Paulo in Brazil. As such, it was the occasion for all the big players involved in the country’s telecom market, such as Ericsson, Dell, HP, Qualcomm, Telefonica, Huawei or Algar Telecom, to meet, present their new products, talk about the evolutions […]
Innovation Xtreme: Let’s go visit Bangladesh’s nascent startup ecosystem
A friend of mine told me, a few months ago, to watch Startup Dhaka, a documentary freely available on Youtube presenting the tech scene of Bangladesh’s capital city. Just take a look at the video, and you know why I’m extremely excited to go there next week to attend Innovation Xtreme, their main tech festival, […]
A journey into the Singapore startup ecosystem with Florian Cornu
For the Coursera MOOC I’m following on “Beyond Silicon Valley”, I had to interview a local entrepreneur to better understand the concept of a startup ecosystem. Living and working in Singapore for two years now, I chose to interview Florian Cornu, whose experience started with corporate innovation finance industry beforehand in London for AXA. He then came to […]
