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From services for the middle class to the search for acquisition channels, here are major trends ready for innovation in Southeast Asia

Copying ideas from other markets: the good, the bad and the how

In this episode of The Iterative Podcast, Hsu Ken and Brian talk about why hiring is important, why most founders get it wrong, what hiring is like as your startup grows, what to qualities and roles to hire for and more. This is Part 1 of 3 episodes on recruiting.

An obvious but overlooked difference between founders and investors is, founders are concerned with how to make their startup successful, and investors are concerned with how to tell if someone else’s startup will be successful. I find that thinking of each startup as a line, is a helpful mental model for assessing whether they will be successful.

Computer vision startups need a lot of data to be successful in the long run. However, I've talked a to few startups trying to go from zero data to one billion datapoints instead of taking the first steps from zero to a hundred pieces of labeled data.

This is part 3 of a 3 part series on how to build a recruiting machine. This last part will wrap up the series with how to think through compensation and negotiations to close candidates as well as onboard them effectively.

As the government pours more money into deep tech startups, it'll be more challenging for deep tech startups to rise above the rest. In this article we'll provide 4 essential tips to make any deep tech startup pitch more attractive to investors.

This is part 2 of a 3 part series on how to build a recruiting machine. It covers the motivations for why it's important to get really good at hiring plus writing your first job description, this part will address specific tactics on sourcing and interview loops, and part 3 will dig into how to close your candidates.

This is part 1 of a 3 part series on how to build a recruiting machine. This first part will dig into the motivations for why it's important to get really good at hiring plus writing your first job description, part 2 will address specific tactics on sourcing and interview loops, and part 3 will dig in how to close your candidates.

Today it’s easier than ever to get creative and build a functional experiment with a shoestring budget. Remember, you should consider your MVP to be an experiment, not a product (I know the naming is confusing). Think of it as a throwaway thing that will end up in the trash later, not the first version of your actual product.

In this episode, we have Yolanda Lee, co-founder of Uncommon. Uncommon is a private leadership network for the next generation of female leaders in the nation. Uncommon is a private leadership network for the next generation of female leaders in Asia. Uncommon provides a strong and uplifting network, a personalized development roadmap, tailored courses and workshops, and enriching speaker series, all in one membership.

Tim Grassin is a Co-Founder of TendoPay (Iterative S20), the largest online installment provider in the Philippine. On this episode, I talk to Tim about his earlier influences, switching from finance to entrepreneurship, how he built a multi-million dollar design agency, why he gave that up to start a startup in the Philippines and how they tested their initial idea by building a fake website that sold fake products to see if people would try their fake financing product.

Vibhas Jain is the co-founder and CEO of Outside Voice (Iterative S20), a no-code app builder for WhatsApp. On this episode, we talk about Vibhas (Vibes) childhood growing up in India, getting into and moving to Stanford but never actually attending Stanford, how he met his co-founder and came up with the idea of Outside Voice.

Jeff Liu and Justin Louie are the co-founders of Jenfi (YC W20). Jenfi lends to small businesses in Southeast Asia based on revenue. Jenfi has raised US$2.1M in funding.

As Bitcoin enters its tweens as a 12-year old technology, the industry has seen exciting development—from Bitcoin being adopted as legal tender in a country, to DAOs making a dent in investment and art spaces. While it is early days yet, here are some ideas we have for the technology that we would like to see more of

We are excited to kick off our first virtual Country Tour. We'll be hosting talks with Iterative founders and partners who've built successful companies in their country.

There are a number of ideas or trends we’re particularly interested in. We thought it'd be helpful to be public about them in the hopes that it would (1) encourage founders working on these ideas to apply and (2) help people get started on ideas we think are interesting.

We pick 10 startups, share them with over 200+ investors and connect you with the investors that are interested.

In the past 3 months, we've met with over 220 companies from all over Southeast Asia and are excited to announce our Winter 2021 batch.

We started a podcast! Most of the time, we will be interviewing people who start, operate, and invest in startups, on how they got started and what their experience is like. Once in a while, like in the first episode, we'll be giving practical advice around a specific topic.

We're excited to host open online office hours for startup founders every Friday throughout the month of October. Office hours are 20-minute sessions between you and one of our partners, where they try to help you with your startup as much as they can. This is very similar to the partner meetings we hold with companies during the batch.

In three short months we met with 200 founders from all over Southeast Asia and narrowed it down to the eight startups you see here. We've also included a short blurb on why we're thrilled to have them as a part of our program.

On Wednesday, 14 April at 10am, Iterative will host Demo Day for our Winter 21 batch. Demo Day is for an invite-only audience.