Asia Tech Podcast

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Jun Yamadera founded Eyes Japan in 1995, the first IT startup from the University of Aizu, Fukushima. In the past 20 years, he has been working on various cutting edge projects such as exporting Fukushima rice via web in 1995, making worlds first virtual pottery system, making CG of historical archives of national treasure of Japanese castles, temples, traditional dances and medical motions using motion capture. He is a pioneer in Augmented Reality wearable technologies, Medical x IT and has been organizing worlds first medical security hackathon since 2012. His team won the the championship in Developers Challenge 2013 Health 2.0 in Silicon Valley. He is the Health 2.0 Fukushima Chapter Leader and a TEDxKobe 2015 Speaker. He started a project called FUKUSHIMA Wheel in the aftermath of the terrible disaster caused by the earthquake and nuclear accident in Fukushima, JAPAN in March 11, 2011.

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Jakob Lyykegaard is a Danish entrepreneur and the founder of Lykke Studios, a privately held studio creating Augmented Reality experiences. Prior to this he has, from Bangkok, built and sold 2 companies, Playlab and Pagemodo, the first of which employed 100 people and served 28 million players. Jakob came to Bangkok in 2009, a journey in itself which is quite inspiring. He dropped out of college in year 1 to go and seek his future in Asia, contrary to the advice of those around him. Was it a good decision in the end? We'll find out in this interview. We are also going to talk about building and selling a mobile tech startup, life in Thailand and Augmented Reality.

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Harprem (Prem) Doowa comes from a multigenerational, entrepreneurial family. Two generations ago, his family immigrated to Thailand from India and began a trading business. As the business started to grow and prosper, more family members joined in Thailand to help build that original business and branch out into other businesses. Prem learned at an early age that reinvesting into a growing business is one of the best ways to fuel its growth, as opposed to using the profits to enhance personal consumption. Fast forward to one of the first "Startup Weekends" in Bangkok, Thailand and Prem and his team conceived and began developing a social network for dog (pet) lovers. While the idea won second place, it was all Prem needed to join the startup world and become an entrepreneur himself. His first business, PetLoft.com actually grew into Orami.com , one of the region's largest and most famous eCommerce businesses. Listen to the rest of Prem's story to learn more about his current foray into FinTech.

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Grant Bertoli is the CEO of Marketbuzzz, a subsidiary of Buzzebees which is a leader in the mobile loyalty and privilege business in Thailand. Grant originally spent over two decades in the market research and marketing industry including stints a the Managing Director for TNS and the CEO, Southeast Asia for Ipsos. During this time, Grant was able to experience working globally in markets like the United States, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines, well preparing him for his current role and Thailand. Grant realized early on that mobile technology and their associated devices were going to be the best platform to take the market data business to the next level and founded Marketbuzzz in April 2015. The mobile platform he is building allows Marketbuzzz a unique ability to collect opinions, reactions, feelings and feedback for a wide range of corporate clients. The implications of the business being built are wide ranging and allowed us to have a great conversation about mobile, technology, marketing and data collection and analysis.

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In this week's episode of Asia Tech Podcast, we talk about our plans to build a Scorecard for the Asian Tech Startup Ecosystem. Our goal is to map and measure each startup city in Asia. We want to learn what makes the startup-ready (or not as the case may be) and objectively rank these cities according to criteria relevant to startup success.

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Joining us today from Hong Kong is Bay Mclaughin, hardware entrepreneur, angel investor and the man behind the AskBetaBay YouTube series. A big part of the Asian tech ecosystem is Hardware. Bay's an entrepreneur with a passion for both hardware and growing hardware businesses in Asia. He was a founding team member of Apple's global SMB channel and founder of their first entrepreneurship channel. He's the cofounder of BRINC which describes itself as part incubator, part accelerator, part investment fund, part awesome.

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After graduating from the University of California, Los Angeles, Anna Gong spent the following 20 years forging a globe spanning career in the enterprise software space, experiencing both startup life (5 of them) and corporate life (3 multi-national corporations) and in the process creating the perfect training ground for her current role as the CEO of Perx Technologies. Perx was a pioneer in the customer loyalty and rewards space in Singapore with a well defined Business to Consumer model. After joining Perx towards the end of 2014, Anna quickly realized that her enterprise software background was going to be a key ingredient to get Perx to the next level. Anna has a unique and well developed view on how to best serve both businesses and customers in this space and was convinced that moving to a B2B2C model was the best way to accelerate the growth of Perx...Her investors at Golden Gate Ventures and Eduardo Saverin agreed.

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Phil Townend is an Ad-tech entrepreneur, angel investor and Chief Commercial Officer Unruly APAC, which describes itself as one of the world's leading social video platforms. Notable successes in his career include helping raise $25m for Unruly as well as getting into the digital marketing and video space about as early as feasibly possible (nearly 20 years now). In this interview, Phil joins us from Singapore, to share his experience as an entrepreneur making the move to Asia, and ... the Future of digital marketing technology in high growth markets.

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Bart Bellers is currently setting up a new venture: a startup studio called Xpdite Ventures, that expedites travel tech startups in Asia Pacific to scale to Series A. The startup studio is a hybrid model to achieve product-market fit by investing in startups and providing an operating platform to build great companies. As founder and CEO of Atum Consulting, a management consulting company specializing in innovation, business development and collaboration between startups and corporations, he held several executive positions for the worlds leading travel tech company.

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Jayne Chan is the Head of StartmeupHK at Invest Hong Kong. StartmeupHK is InvestHK's initiative aimed at helping founders of innovative and scalable startups from overseas to set up or expand in Hong Kong. They provide information about the startup ecosystem in HK, connecting people to the startup community, host startup events and help foster a positive environment for startups to thrive.