Analyse Asia With Bernard Leong

Rui Ma (@ruima), partner from 500 Startups covering Greater China, joins us to discuss her investment thesis and the kind of founders she back in a vibrant and dynamic ecosystem. She gives an introduction to 500 Startups and how they help startups with their mentors network and events, and discuss some interesting companies under her portfolio. The post Episode 18: The 500 Startups footprint in Greater China & Angel Investing with Rui Ma appeared first on Analyse Asia.

Hans Tung (@hanstung), the managing partner of GGV Capital and #69 on The Forbes Midas List joins us for an interesting conversation on his journey as a venture capitalist which traverse between China and US. He also discuss some of the interesting companies on his portfolio. Starting his time as a venture capitalist in China, The post Episode 17: Analyse China and Xiaomi with Hans Tung appeared first on Analyse Asia.

With Casey Lau (@casey_lau) from StartupsHK.com in this episode, he share with us the origins of the interesting nascent Hong Kong startup ecosystem and why Hong Kong is now a port of call for prominent investors out there. We discussed the culture, infrastructure & the type of start-ups (financial tech, logistics and ecommerce) that are The post Episode 16: Dim Sum & Startups in Hong Kong with Casey Lau appeared first on Analyse Asia.

We interview Vinnie Lauria (@vlauria), founding partner of Golden Gate Ventures in Singapore. We discuss how Vinnie moved from Silicon Valley to Singapore with his wife Kristine Lauria (our guest on episode 6), the Kauffman fellowship, the back stories behind the most interesting start-ups in Southeast Asia: RedMart, 99.co, Carousell, Bilna and Coda Payments where The post Episode 15: The Golden Gate from San Francisco to Singapore appeared first on Analyse Asia.

Catherine Shu (@catherineshu) from TechCrunch shares with us her perspectives on the state of Northeast Asia (China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan & Hong Kong) from interesting companies to startups. In the discussion, we analysed the BAT (Baidu-Alibaba-Tencent) companies in China and the emerging Xiaomi gearing to step out globally out of China. We also deep dived The post Episode 14: State of North East Asia & Taiwan appeared first on Analyse Asia.

Hiro Maeda (aka @djtokyo), managing partner from Beenos Venture Capital joins us on an interesting conversation about the nascent and exciting ecosystem in Japan. Covering the landscape of entrepreneurs & investors in Tokyo and describing the ongoing three wars between startups within the ecosystem, Hiro provides a fresh perspective about Japan that we have not The post Episode 13: Big in Japan with DJ Tokyo appeared first on Analyse Asia.

Sameer Singh (@sameer_singh17) from Tech-Thoughts.net comes online with our host Bernard Leong (@bleongcw) to discuss and debate with an Asian perspective on Benedict Evans’ recent piece “New Questions in Mobile”. We first return to a lost discussion where we discuss Uber and its recent problems in Asia and categorically provide an answer to some US The post Episode 12: New Questions in Mobile, the Asia Edition appeared first on Analyse Asia.

Benjamin Joffe (@benjaminjoffe) from HAXLR8R joins us for an interesting discussion spanning from his travels around the world to his current role to help hardware companies to incubate and scale in the Shenzhen on-demand hardware global factory. In this discussion, Ben offered a primer to how entrepreneurs from all over the world can leverage on The post Episode 11: Ben and the Shenzhen Hardware Factory appeared first on Analyse Asia.

Gabey Goh (@gabeygoh) from Digital News Asia joined us to dissect the technology entrepreneurial scene in Malaysia and her perspectives on how it is different from Singapore given her recent move down south. In this interview,  we discussed some stories which are never aired in public: (a) the origins of GrabTaxi, (b) how MOL made The post Episode 10: The Malaysia Magic Show appeared first on Analyse Asia.

In this episode, Nathan Millard from beSuccess joined us in a conversation on the Korean startup and investor ecosystem and provide the perspective on how the major players (Samsung, LG and SK Planet) are shaping in South Korea. The surprise is that PSY’s Gangnam style is the startup style, where most of the startups are The post Episode 9: Gangnam Style is Startup Style! appeared first on Analyse Asia.

Jon Russell (aka @JonRussell) from TechCrunch joined us in this exciting episode to discuss the state of Southeast Asia from entrepreneurs, investors to infrastructure and the influence of Rocket Internet in this market. We mulled over whether Southeast Asia companies can truly go regional given that the fragmentation of the markets and users being more The post Episode 8: State of Southeast Asia and Rocket Internet appeared first on Analyse Asia.

In this episode, we have Rama Mamuaya, the Chief Executive of DailySocial.net, Indonesia’s equivalent of TechCrunch and GigaOm combined to discuss the state of affairs in Indonesia five years later after Echelon 2009, where the technology scene exploded there. Our focus in this episode is to discuss the few growing areas of the technology scene The post Episode 7: Five years later on Indonesia after Echelon 2009 appeared first on Analyse Asia.

In this episode, Kristine Lauria, the country manager Elance-oDesk in Singapore  joined us for a conversation on her interesting work in building and managing communities in Singapore (TheList.SG and Walkabout.SG). Starting from San Francisco, she told the story of her adventures in Asia through her blog: UrbanHikers. After settling in Singapore, she created two major The post Episode 6: From Adventures to Communities in Southeast Asia with Kristine appeared first on Analyse Asia.

In this episode, Michael Smith (otherwise known as “Smithy” or @dreampipe) from Spuul joins us here for an interesting conversation on Southeast Asia from the past to present. Starting from his current gig at Spuul, Smithy offered insights on the global video streaming market with respect to Indian content and how Spuul has to apply The post Episode 5: Tying the knots of Location, Communication & Video in Asia appeared first on Analyse Asia.

In this episode, Hugh Mason, co-founder and CEO of Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI) joined us on an interesting discussion on the role of incubators and accelerators in Asia @ Blk 71 (where most startups in Singapore are located with a total valuation of US$1.5B). We traced the story of JFDI, from how they started The post Episode 4: JFDI, the YCombinator of Southeast Asia appeared first on Analyse Asia.

In this episode, we discuss the impact of Apple’s announcement of the new iPhones, Apple Pay and Apple Watch and Google’s new “Android One” on Asia with Sameer Singh. Of course, we discuss two interesting observations: the bifurcation of Asian companies moving upstream but unable to break into an upstream brand like Apple or Louis The post Episode 3: The Battle against Apple & Android One onslaught in Asia appeared first on Analyse Asia.

Our second episode of Analyse Asia features Dr Serkan Toto (@serkantoto), CEO of Kantan Games Inc and former TechCrunch correspondent in Asia. We focus on the evolution of the gaming scene in Japan from its leadership position in console games through Sony, SEGA and Nintendo to the present state in mobile and social gaming with The post Episode 2: Console, Social & Mobile Gaming in Japan appeared first on Analyse Asia.

We kicked off the first episode of Analyse Asia with Sameer Singh, author of Tech Thoughts. Our first conversation centers on the mobile ecosystems in Asia, focusing on a few interesting topics: (a) the mobile operating systems in Asia with Apple iOS and Google Android leading the way, and the implications for platforms with small The post Episode 1: Mobile Ecosystems in Asia with Micromax, Xiaomi and Samsung appeared first on Analyse Asia.