Opinion

Reflecting back on Singapore’s startup ecosystem, we dive into the more popular means of how startups seek financing and how new alternatives such as venture debt and revenue-based financing have become more prominent in recent years.

This is a paradigm shift in the way we think of computing and how we build applications for this platform.

If 2021 is the year of deliberation and experimenting with solutions, 2022 is the year to act and implement solutions for businesses to manage energy efficiency, automate their building operations and reduce carbon emissions. 

To continue putting artists at the heart of the ecosystem, platforms need to enforce more security measures to ensure the continuous growth of the industry, and the nature of blockchain can do just that.

Digital transformation may have once merely been a means to survive. But now, more than ever, it has become a must – and not just an option – for businesses to stay ahead in this new future.

“The inevitable shift towards Web3 will increase the need for practical solutions to quickly onboard Web2 users. Merging the most useful features of centralized and decentralized exchanges can be the key to mass adoption for Web3-based crypto trading. For active market participants, this is a clear win."

One simply can not expect to take their employees for granted and expect them to stay because healthy relationships simply do not work that way. Employees make up the company you’re building and hence, it makes sense that as a business owner or business leader, you take care of the very talented pool of people who are working together to make the business…

Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem has historically been formed by learnings from more mature markets. But the growth of the region’s digital economy has uncovered uniquely emerging market challenges that have given rise to new species of venture-backed startups.

For me, it is partially catharsis, but it is more about trying to feed the narrative that we can and should talk about mental health, and because I believe normalizing getting help can genuinely be the biggest needle mover for social progress.

Corporates building platforms would have a different focus than startups, which is usually the next round of funding and the valuation game (we will come to this point as well shortly). The focus is mostly on building a platform for the future and understanding your customer and minimizing the risk of dependency on 3rd party platforms for corporates.