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Changing the Vietnamese construction landscape with Jonathan Dao

On this episode, we explored Jonathan's journey from forming Connecty to changing the Vietnamese contrustion landscape. And how he managed to grow the company so fast despite the effect of the pandemic.

JONATHAN DAO is the co-founder of Connecty, where he has worked on 100+ interior design, renovation and furnishing real estate and commercial projects for investors and entrepreneurs coming from all around the world to invest in Vietnam.

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An eye-opening conversation with Colin Blackwell – CEO of Enablecode – the software company with a vision to bring people with disabilities into the workforce. Being in Vietnam for over 20 years including various roles in Vietnam HR  Associations and Vietnam Business Forum HR Group, Colin shared with us his insights on how to bring people with disabilities into highly-skilled Artificial Intelligence tech projects and the secret to a Vietnamese high work performance.

A Covid-19 recap from startup giant - OYO - the largest hospitality startup from India. In 2019, OYO pledged to invest 90 millions USD into Vietnam and they have grown exponentially until Covid-19 happened. I sat down with OYO's former Head of Revenue - Hitanshu Sethi to discovered how the startup handled fluctuation of tourisms because of travel bans all around the world. With his insights working in multiple countries, Hitanshu shared his insights and lessons about managing Vietnamese workforce and being adaptive during crisis.  

 2020 is probably going to be the most memorable year for many people when millions of people are effected by Covid-19 - the novel corona virus. 

This episode is recorded 3 months after Covid-19 happened in Vietnam. I sat down with the owner of Saigon Siblings - Tam Nguyen Cao - the F&B cafe and homestay and discuss how this event effect the F&B scene, future predictions on global depression and how entrepreneurs should keep them mental health and wellness to drive this storm out. 

We also recap on the Covid-19 on certain countries and how Vietnam is handling the crisis. 

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Information Technology has risen to become one of the most rapid growing industry around the globe, and the need for IT human resources is wildly increasing over the year. Because of the cost of hiring software engineering has become very high, companies have been looking into countries like India, China, Indonesia and Vietnam to outsource lots of their technical work. Or, they simply build their technical team base in these countries instead.

Today, we gonna discuss about Vietnam software engineer scene, which is currently ranked top 5 most attractive software outsourcing country in AT Kearney’s 2017 Global Services Locations Index. Our guest today, is the Founder of Coderschool, the one and only English coding school in Vietnam, Charles Lee.

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Over the past few years, Vietnam has risen to become a popular country for startups. Building a startup is all about finding undiscovered opportunities, solve it with highly scalable solutions. And Vietnam has so many reasons to become startups’ favorite spot:

- Vietnam has almost 100 million people in population.

- 60% of the population are in our prime spending years (working and spending)

- Over 70% mobile penetration.

- Skilled work force but low cost.

- And a fast growing startup ecosystem.

The amount of startup in Vietnam has grown exponentially; international startups also look into Vietnam as one of the potential market. On this episode of Vietnam Rising Podcast, I sit down with a Venture Capital expert (Long Leo Pham) and talk about the startup community, venture capital funds and things you should know about VC in Vietnam. 

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Make money from a blockchain game and blockchain's mass adoption with Axie Infinity | VIETNAM RISING Ep. 1

There are two common ways to make money from gaming: become a professional gamer or an entertainer (streamer). However, blockchain technology has unlocked monetary potential to all players. In this episode of Vietnam Rising, we will discover how Axie Infinity, a blockchain game gives its players the ability to monetize on it. The co-founder, Jeff Jee Ho, shared with us how gaming in blockchain will help to bring this technology closer to mass adoption. He also shares why they chose Vietnam as their base and why other blockchain startups should do the same .

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