Target Accelerator Program: re-inventing retail in the digital age
Let’s continue to explore corporate innovation, with the Target Accelerator Program case study. We’ve met “both sides of the table” when visiting Bangalore’s top tech conference NASSCOM Product Conclave a few weeks ago, talking both with the teams of Target, and with Kyron, which operates their accelerator. For a quick introduction, Target is an American […]
A guided tour of Microsoft Ventures with Zack Weisfeld
From Bangalore to Beijing, through Tel-Aviv and London, Zack Weisfeld has been a serial entrepreneur and is now nurturing “the perfect global startup” as Head of Microsoft Ventures Europe & Global Accelerator Program. The program is what we call a corporate accelerator. It gives a big corporation – Microsoft here – an opportunity to support […]
A glance at startup acquisitions in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia as the next growth area for tech startups The Southeast Asian (SEA) area is and has always been an interesting area of growth with its wide diverse range of countries and markets. As startups, we are always looking for our next exit. One interesting quantifiable area of exits is startup acquisitions in Southeast […]
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, […]
[FutureCom Brazil] How to boost an emerging digital economy? Aim at SMEs!
From São Paulo, Futurecom was the occasion for David Dean, senior advisor at the Boston Consulting Group, to present a report dealing with the factors accelerating or decelerating the digital economy. Intitulated “Greasing the Wheels of the Internet Economy”, it analyzes how countries can benefit from identifying obstacles to digital driven growth, with special emphasis […]
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 […]
Make in India: meet 5 promising Internet of things startups from Bangalore
Internet of Things in India is becoming quite trendy, as a lot of the conversations happening at Bangalore’s top tech event Nasscom Product Conclave showed. Make in India vs. Innovate with China: two economic policies for Asia’s giants This trend also benefits from a broader support from the government. Back in September, India’s new Prime […]
MOOC – Beyond Silicon Valley #4: Leveraging Anchor Institutions
We saw how government, philanthropic institutions and intermediary organisations were all helping entrepreneurship in their own way. They don’t have the same time-frame, objectives, or resources, and as such, their combined and coordinated effort create what we would call a startup ecosystem. This week in Coursera’s MOOC “Beyond Silicon Valley”, we take a look at […]
Baby e-commerce in Vietnam with Taembe cofounder Don Phan
For one of our research projects, we have been in touch with taembe.com, an e-commerce website similar to Diapers.com for Vietnam. As I was asking a few questions on digital innovation for parents in South-East Asia, I found it useful to share the interview I ran with Taembe co-founder Don Phan. Born in the US to […]
