We heard Chindia (China, India) so many times. It's time to get fresh perspectives on Southeast Asia and its opportunities and challenges

1. 5 reasons why US can’t ignore SoutheastAsia any longer

2. Singapore Indonesia Thailand Malaysia Brunei Philippine Vietnam

3. 1 Market Size

4. 600Million People Twice the size of United States

5. 330billion USD Consumer Market

6. Among the top heavy mobile users Mobile is the way of their digital life style Indonesia, alone, has 210 million mobile subscribers In Philippines, SMS is heavily used in financial, ecommerce transactions

7. 2 US, You’re welcome here

8. The region is highly diversified Malay Sundanese Chinese Javanese Indian Muslim Catholics Buddhist

9. Getting used to accepting other cultures …especially US

10. Embracing US Culture as part of daily life

11. Did you know? Many US High-Tech companies found success in Southeast-Asia? with no or minor modification to their products?

12. Indonesia has the 3rdlargest Facebook population and as popular in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand

13. Indonesia has the largest Twitterpopulation in Asia

14. Four-square like service is quickly acquired by Yahoo!

15. Blackberrydominates Indonesia, Thailand in a short period of time iPhone is very popular In Singapore

16. Your company here

17. 3 Blank Canvas (relatively speaking…)

18. Southeast Asia High Tech landscape is still very green

19. IT jobs consider non-glamorous, so-so paying jobs Financial, multi-national companies are more desirable

20. The best and brightest are still staying in United States after graduation contrast this with China

21. Local education system prepares and encourages students to work for a company Culturally, work for a large company considers a better path

22. Yes, there are signs of startuplife http://tcrn.ch/9yp6Op http://tcrn.ch/aYUE0Q

23. Except in Singapore, capital isn’t flowing to high tech startups in Southeast Asia ..well, not many startups to begin with..

24. It creates imbalance supply and demand Demand. high quality software services for online and mobile applications Supply. High-tech startups backed by experienced developers, entrepreneurs and investors

25. 4 Others are coming

26. China, India recognizes these uniqueopportunities … starts pouring investments..

27. Heard it on CHINICT and GMIC CEO/VC Panelists - Beijing 2010 “Next big opportunity will be in Southeast Asia, for example, just look at Indonesia with 170 million mobile Internet enabled users and fast growing”

28. With the exception of Yahoo!, not many US companies are active in SE-Asia high tech communities

29. US repeats the same pattern as in 70s & 80s Today, Vast majority of cars in SE-Asia are Japanese cars

30. 5 That’s the good… here are the bad and the ugly

31. After decades of nearly dictatorships, democracy countries emerge Fairer Elections Social Unrest Freedom of Speech Indonesia Philippine Thailand Malaysia

32. Except in Singapore, infrastructures are not as advanced as US or Western Europe

33. Still weak Intellectual Property policies and reinforcement However, with… Software as Services, Cloud Computing, Social-Networking, it becomes less of an issue

34. The business decision process takes a lot longer. For startups, be prepared for a longer runway

35. despites all of these, the opportunitiesare there.

36. Go Ahead, Go Grab Them

37. Who are we? Access Your Business Data From Any Phone A US based startup with businesses in Southeast Asia We’d love to share many more stories with you

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