Wen-Szu Lin on lessons from a franchise failure, scaling Uber across Asia, and what he looks for as an investor at WS Capital.
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Jeremy Au on founder-problem fit, the yin-and-yang of marketing, his personal mission in cancer diagnostics, and why you must play to your unfair advantages in business and life.
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Jay Fajardo on solo-founding BetterClinic at 58, why AI is a force multiplier for clinical workflows, and the rise of the solo founder movement in Southeast Asia healthtech.
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Kristie Neo of PitchBook on Middle East capital flight, the energy crisis reshaping Southeast Asia VC, the defense-tech boom, and the macro outlook for founders.
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Dennis Velasco of Prosperna on building SME e-commerce software in the Philippines and the trust gap that emerging-market founders must close to win regional customers.
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Jeremy Au lays out the three phases of startup growth, the 10x rule, network-effect moats, and the six clusters of failure that kill companies before they reach product-market fit.
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Jecky Pelaez of Kickstart Ventures on the inside reality of VC boardrooms, how to spot bad-faith founders, and navigating down rounds and startup governance in Southeast Asia.
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Jeremy Au breaks down VC fund economics, the help paradox, the Instacart IPO case study, and the Instagram vs Snapchat billion-dollar dilemma.
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MK Bertulfo shares how she built FHMoms into a 500,000+ strong community for Filipino virtual assistants and her playbook for community-led growth.
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Jeremy Au unpacks the four core functions of every great VC, the spectrum of fund strategies, and the brutal sourcing funnel that turns 5,000 startups into 10 investments a year.
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Eugene Cheah of Featherless on building open-source AI infrastructure, why open models matter, and how AI is reshaping the future of work in Southeast Asia.
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Paulo Campos shares lessons from founding Zalora Philippines and building Kaya Founders, covering startup ecosystem in the Philippines and Southeast Asian venture capital.
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