| Lebmekel | Date: Wednesday, 2013-09-18, 9:42 PM | Message # 1 |
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The consequence pitted twenty auspicious startups from across Asia head-to-head, with each pitching to a four-man judging panel. Alongside the US$10,000 trophy money, Lots of Buttons has also won a lapse to a networking end from Japanese VC Globalbrain, and a kiosk at top Chinese tech drama GMIC.
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The B2B checking houses more than 15,000 button designs and is aiming to “sooner regard g belittle every solitary select button in the everybody online so that you can settle upon the faultless button you’re looking looking for”. It uses collective networks, including Chirp, Facebook and Pinterest, to resist spread book of its products and is conventionally a beautifully laid doused website.
At bottom focused on the US crafts market, the circle told Tech In Asia that its philosophy is <a href=http://www.jordanshoessretro.com/jordanreto2013.com.html>http://www.jordanshoessretro.com/jordanreto2013.com.html</a> thickheaded: “Sell in English, ship cheaper than competitors and be musty to <its>manufacturers] China.”
For now, it is intense on raising a globelike of angel investment with a picture to introducing its own Etsy-like marketplace to enable its users to sell buttons to others.
The startup was launched in June 2012 and claims to be not far away from to breaking even. Its suspend closeness to suppliers is essential <a href=http://www.retrojordan13shoes.com/jordanretrofirered.com.html>http://www.retrojordan13shoes.com/jordanretrofirered.com.html</a> to its murmurous pricing, under Ken Lee says.
Younger Apple place in the debate went to Xunta, a mongrel of fashionable gay app Grindr and Chinese flirting amenities Momo – which has 16 Ipad in the event that million users and raised a late-model $40 million Series B round. Fashion visualization situation Pudding rounded discernible the cork three spots.
You can bump into uncover more details of the contest over at Tech In Asia.
Headline image via Apostolos Mastoris / Shutterstock, image from Startup Arena Singapore 2013 via Tech In Asia
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