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Guestlist.ph aims to revolutionize Philippines’ clubbing scene, helps partygoers save and drive club traffic

by Elizabeth Tan

Founder of Guestlist.ph, Ron Baetiong

Like to feel like a VIP everytime you party? Want to be up-to-date about the latest clubbing events? Hate to get confused on which event to go? Guestlist.ph is here to help.

An online guest list to Manila’s best nightclubs, lounges and bars, Guestlist.ph makes sure that having

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Jay Fajardo is proud to be part of the panel on the Rise of Emerging Markets

by Bianca Zen

Jay Fajardo (Founder at Proudcloud) Speaker at Echelon 2012

Jay Fajardo describes himself as a technopreneur, code jockey and startup junkie. A founder and CEO of Proudcloud, an agile Ruby on Rails development firm out of Manila, he is also founder of tech startup community Roofcamp and is the organizer of Startup Weekend Manila. Rise

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8Villages goes back to basics, targets the needs of over a billion farmers

by Goutama Bachtiar

Mathieu Le Bras (two from the right) and Yusep Rosmansyah (right) with agri-store owners in West Java (Credit: 8Villages)

Understanding the true needs of their consumers, 8Villages forgoes all kinds of new technical advancements to use simple 2G/GPRS because they want to ensure farmers in Indonesia are no longer disadvantaged.

In June 2011, Mathieu Le Bras, an agronomist with an INSEAD MBA degree, decided to address key issues faced…

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Valleys of the East – The VC industry

by Guest

Valleys of the East – The VC industry

It is hard to find an industry that is as highly centralized as the Venture Capital industry: centralized in the US, and specifically in one street in Silicon Valley: Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park. However, this is gradually changing as the VC industry is developing fast in many sometimes…

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Clint Nelsen starts Day 1 at Echelon 2012 with a panel discussion on startup growth and scaling

by Bianca Zen

Clint Nelsen (Co-Founder of Startup Weekend) Speaker at Echelon 2012

No stranger to the startup world, Clint Nelsen is the Co-founder and Director of Startup Weekend. He was listed in Forbes as a “Name You Need to Know In 2011″ and was featured on the cover of Entrepreneur Magazine.

Passionate about startups and technology, Clint Nelsen is

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The Hero at Philippines Satellite 2012

by Joash Wee

The Payroll Hero team pitching at Philippines Satellite

Payroll Hero took the Judges’ Choice at the recent Philippines Satellite.

Philippines Satellite saw seven companies pitch with Payroll Hero emerging as the winner of the Judges’ Choice Award. From the startup pitches, it is clear that the Philippines presents abundant opportunities for startups to capitalize on.…

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10 days to go for the JFDI-INNOV8 2012 bootcamp!

by Kumes Balakrishnan

Photo:JFDI

In this article, we take a quick look at the startups participating. The startups founders hail from a diverse range of countries including: Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, India, New Zealand, Canada, France and the Netherlands.

Read on for a complete list of the startups

ShopSpot: mobile phone app…

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Startup Weekend Manila 2012: Are You Ready?

by John Arce

Startup Weekend Manila

Startup Weekend Manila 2012 is coming in a few days now, The last event was amazing: brimming energy, enthusiasm and inspiration. The one thing about startups that excites us most is their fresh thinking. And if there’s anything which comes close to that it is the experience…

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7 startups for the first Philippines Satellite

by Joash Wee

Hong Kong Satellite 2011

The first Philippines Satellite will be held this Thursday, 12 April, at MINT College. Witness seven startups pitch their product to secure a spot at Echelon 2012, Asia’s longest running web tech conference.

Fresh from the Indonesia Satellite in Jakarta, the e27 team have already caught…

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Freelancer.com unveils regional websites and looks to double users by end 2012

by Goutama Bachtiar

Freelancer.com CEO Matt Barrie

Freelancer.com unveils regional websites in India, Singapore and the Philippines and continues to eye bigger expansion.

Founded three years ago by Chief Executive Officer Matt Barrie, and having one staff assisting him since day one, Freelancer.com has grown phenomenally into around a hundred people with offices in Australia and the…

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