Asia Tech Podcast

Park N Parcel aims to minimise the frustration of missed deliveries by providing online shoppers an alternative way to receive and deliver their parcels. We are first in Singapore allow your online shopping delivered to registered residential and commercial Parkers within a 1km radius of your home to be collected at your convenience. In September 2017, we launched our Delivery service – allowing senders to drop off their parcels at shopping mall A and we will deliver them to shopping mall B for consignees to collect. This makes selling easy as sellers and buyers do not have to spend additional time to meet up or spend on expensive courier services. Now they can use our Parkers as an exchange point. *Note: If you are a Startup and want to tell your startup story on our Pitchdeck Asia show, Click here - http://www.pitchdeck.asia/pda-soundcloud*

Quality and affordable hotel stays across 50 cities in Southeast Asia! Book now! Rooms with free-wifi, AC, hot shower and spotless bed from USD9/night. *Note: If you are a Startup and want to tell your startup story on our Pitchdeck Asia show, Click here - http://www.pitchdeck.asia/pda-soundcloud*

WisePass is a subscription-based membership service that allows members to get free bottle service, lunch, dinner or Starbucks coffee at over 150 lavish venues in 3 different countries across South East Asia starting at 300$ US monthly. Starting in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in 2014, the service has expanded to Hanoi, Bangkok, and Manila with an average revenue growth rate of 50% in the past 7 quarters. Following a successful seed funding round in late 2017 with the Singapore-based VC investment firm Expara Ventures, WisePass is continuing to develop and is currently in the process of unveiling an ICO which will bridge the crypto world with the real-world economy. With our PASS tokens, WisePass intends to be the first company to successfully implement crypto-spending in a real-world context to purchase everyday lifestyle goods. *Note: If you are a Startup and want to tell your startup story on our Pitchdeck Asia show, Click here - http://www.pitchdeck.asia/pda-soundcloud*

Turnkey Lender provides cloud-based loan management systems that automate the entire origination and account servicing process. With Turnkey Lender you are getting all our expertise in credit risk management and lending automation in the form of a customizable convenient out-of-the-box solution. We are a global leader and have over 10 years of experience in creating and distributing innovative lending software solutions. Our customer support is 24/7. Turnkey Lender is a comprehensive cloud system capable of quick, secure, and accurate automatic borrowers’ evaluation, and financing decision making. *Note: If you are a Startup and want to tell your startup story on our Pitchdeck Asia show, Click here - http://www.pitchdeck.asia/pda-soundcloud*

House call doctors. Speedoc is changing the way people seek primary medical care by providing a quick, affordable option to get immediate treatment, medications, MC and/or procedures at their doorstep. *Note: If you are a Startup and want to tell your startup story on our Pitchdeck Asia show, Click here - http://www.pitchdeck.asia/pda-soundcloud*

REIDAO redefines how property ownerships and investments are done. Based on Blockchain technology (Ethereum) we are creating tokens (crypto-assets) for properties, which tokens can be sold and traded independently, creating a lower barrier of entry for participants of property opportunities. We are creating a new sales channel for property developers for their inventory, and at the same time enabling a new market (Blue Ocean) of property investors to invest in properties globally. *Note: If you are a Startup and want to tell your startup story on our Pitchdeck Asia show, Click here - http://www.pitchdeck.asia/pda-soundcloud*

[05:48] Rob Davies shares how he was mesmerised with Indonesia and its potential economy growth. Hence, all it took was two days for him to packs his bags from England and move over to Indonesia. [21:00] Coming from a telecommunications background, Rob decided that he wanted to do something new thus establishing Robs Jobs. He also shares the pain point for Indonesian job seekers and how Rob jobs is aiming to solve that issue. [34:00] Rob elaborates how he was able to find the right people for Robs Jobs, despite a significant rise in tech startups in Indonesia.

[05:12] Mohamed Hassan, Director of MARND studio, shares how it is not needed for a team to be in the same physical space anymore with the rise of digital media. [15:40] Working with a worldwide team, Hassan shares why recruiting talented individuals across the globe is a major pain point. [20:47] Having tried various methods, Hassan shares how SEO is a vital key to distinguish MARND from other bigger and well known design companies.

Podcast highlights: [03:07] At a time where Instagram was not established Clare Chan, Co-Founder & Managing Director of Her Velvet Vase, shares how she made her first dollar through blogs and built her customer base [13:00] Clare shares her initial struggles as a CEO and explains what are the characteristics needed for a CEO to run a successful business [30:05] Clare shares that she is shifting her business from online to offline, as she wants her customer's to immerse themselves into the Her Velvet Vase experience

[02:50] John Wise, CEO of loci, elaborates how learning was traditionally was only available through books or teachers. which were trustworthy. However, internet has changed the landscape of learning. Everything is available online, hence this causes an information overload and most information untrustworthy. [13:02] Kyle shares the impact globalisation has made on the way businesses are created and how products are sold. John then explains how loci is going to expand it's services on a global scale [32:48] John shares how expensive and time consuming it is to file for a patent. Hence, loci nexus expedites the process for the right to file a patent and how it will be made available for the global market

In this introductory episode of Launch Indonesia, our new host Erik ten Have shares his journey about coming to Indonesia to work for a Dutch startup telecom company. Being a very large and young market, Erik shares his thoughts as to what is interesting about Indonesia's startup ecosystem, especially for people from outside this region. He further elaborates why Indonesia is a mobile first country, GO-JEK's impact on Indonesia etc. Erik discusses what he aims to learn and share through Launch Indonesia, further elaborating that Indonesian startup companies are at a world class level thus this presents opportunity to break the stigma that surrounds the Indonesian startup eco-system.

Podcast highlights: [06:17] Simon breaks down the figures of ad clicks on Facebook. Despite having a larger population, the median number of ad clicks for Indonesia was lesser compared to Singapore. [26:05] Simon explains why ROI on Facebook is determined by what we have set as an objective. He further elaborates that ROI cannot be measured in terms of reach, engagement, likes and shares. [45:02] Graham and Simon hypothesize about the different factors that can contribute to the 20% global decline of the Facebook ad clicks. Simon also shares how the World Cup has played a small part in this decline as it takes up a significant chunk of the free time that people spend on different platforms.

[00:30] Thibault Genaitay Thibault shares his amazing story as to how he switched careers from a comfortable corporate job and decided Le Wagon as the head of operations in china [02:00] Grace Yang shares what was the trigger that made her left her corporate job and why venturing into Le wagon had help her grow her skills in a creative aspect [12:00] Grace shares what she had learnt from her Le Wagon experience, further elaborating that Le Wagon boot camp gives her the motivation to create a marketplace and explains how different it is from other coding course she has attended [20:43] Thibault and Grace share their tips, drawing from their experiences, on how organisations can redesign and improve their capability building or learning programmes for their employees [30:38] Thibault shares that he spends plenty of his time reading, writing and researching, thus through that process he will be able to teach and provide entrepreneurs with the right tool kit to learn

[05:20] Phandeeyar - the Myanmar Innovation Lab - is interested in using technology to accelerate impact in Myanmar. The Accelerator programme has been running since 2016. Every year, a new cohort of 7 to 10 startups is onboarded. Workshops are held on tech and startups, alongside a co-working space and social impact programmes for people like civic techies and activists. [08:59] Chate Sat - a platform for freelancers - is one of the startup successes of Phandeeyar. It was founded by two sisters, who joined the accelerator in 2016. [18:10] Jes Kaliebe Petersen talks about his journey; starting off in Microsoft and how he found himself in Myanmar today. He first became a developer in e-commerce, and then co-founded a business in India. He then moved back to Denmark, to a Fintech company. In 2010, he left for Kabul, Afghanistan, to develop an SMS based social network. [34:55] The sense of community in Myanmar: The phenomenon of people rallying together around common causes, even those that they may not be directly involved with. People are approachable and easy to work with

[14:58] You are investing a lot in China while many of your colleagues in the San Francisco area do not. How does this usually work? -- Each investor has a different style in terms how they want to attract companies. It tends to be easier if you're vertically focused on a particular market, for example blockchain. If you are a founder, it's necessary to find the people who are vertically focused on the products or markets you are interested in. You should know when you reach out who you want to be contacting regarding potential investments. [24:24] Turning now to the topic of blockchain, what is your vision of the future of blockchain? -- Multiple parts to this answer. Excited because it represents a change in how we think about the ownership of data. From a technology side, it's changed how people think about a lot of relationships. Obviously distributed ledger technology is not new, but what is new is the idea of tokenization. It helps creators and investors get the capital and resources they need right from the start. China and the Chinese government have been very supportive of blockchain as a technology. What they haven't been supportive of is all the cryptocurrency exchanges and initial coin offerings (ICOs). China is just a huge market that basically any company focused on establishing themselves there will have enough to attract investment. [44:25] Let's talk about women for a bit. How did it feel to be a female developer working in this space? -- First of all, we should encourage everyone, not just women to have a basic understanding of coding. This is going to be a building block for so many things in the future. Even if you don't end up being the person writing the code, you will be able to have meaningful conversations with people who do. In China, have met so many great women CEOs and investors. The important thing is to know what you're talking about. It's not about being a woman, it's about being good at what you do.