Sunday, April 8, 2012

Some recent startups in Asia


1. Crucco | China


Combining e-commerce with building your own fashion brand is one massive task – and so it’s perhaps with quite some relief that the Chinese B2C clothing site Crucco is celebrating its first anniversary online today. Crucco.com sells only its own-brand clothes, shoes, and some household goods. Its approach is quite minimalist and…

2. SalingSilang | Indonesia


Great entrepreneurs are everywhere in Asia. I recently met one who I would say is addicted to entrepreneurship. He is Didi Nugrahadi, an Indonesian serial entrepreneur who founded Detik.com (acquired by Para Group in 2011), Inmark communications, Teladan primary school, and now SalingSilang.com Didi started out as a…

3. Zomato | India


Zomato announced a somewhat surprising (but logical) move by announcing that it is expanding into print. It will publish the ‘Citibank Zomato Restaurant Guide 2012’ in four Indian cities: Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, and Pune. According …

4. LiiHo | Taiwan


A Taiwanese-made messaging app looks set to cash in on the craze for doodling that was stirred up by the OMGpop/Zynga game Draw Something. The app, LiiHo Handwriting Messenger, is free and out now for iPad, and has an English and Chinese interface. But anyone in the world can use it in any language since it’s all about chatting with your friends using handwriting, drawing, and even scribbling on photos. Actually, the LiiHo app predates Draw Something by a whole six months…

5. BingDian | China


BingDian claims to help hotels sell more directly to consumers and thereby build up better customer loyalty than on conventional e-commerce platforms…

6. Buy Me A Drink | Singapore


People are getting creative with their marketing tactics, because essentially you need to be different to stand out from the crowd. Some adopt interesting methods, and it especially impresses us when companies adopt snail mail or parcels to send invitations when they can easily use email instead. But it also took Vaneesa by surprise when she received a condom in the parcel sent to her. Well, sex sells. That’s why…

7. C2 | China


So the new C2 app – from the Beijing-based startup Square C – is a fresh perspective on a social app, permitting a random stranger a glimpse into your life – and you into theirs – while maintaining your privacy and safety. With the tagline ‘The way to another life,’ C2 is a simple app for …

8. Photozou | Japan


Tokyo-based Digital Garage today announced that it has acquired photo-sharing service Photozou, a service that has been operating since 2005. It was previously owned and operated by Unoh Inc, a company that was subsequently acquired by Zynga in 2010 and has continued as Zynga Japan…

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