Analyse Asia With Bernard Leong

Jeffrey Paine, founding partner of Golden Gate Ventures and director of the Founder Institute (FI), Singapore sits down with us to discuss the story behind Founder Institute in Asia and the state of venture capital in Southeast Asia. He start his story from the days of he first built the institute in Singapore and subsequently The post Episode 29: Founder Institute & Venture Capital in Southeast Asia with Jeff Paine appeared first on Analyse Asia.

Chai Jia Jih (aka JJ Chai), managing director of Airbnb, Southeast Asia and India sits down to discuss the story of Airbnb in Asia from how they started in a diverse market and gradually build themselves into one of the important players in travel and hospitality industry. We also discuss the challenges for US companies The post Episode 28: Airbnb in Asia with Jia Jih Chai appeared first on Analyse Asia.

Cyril Ebersweiler, the founder of HAXLR8R & venture partner of SOSventures, joins us to discuss the lean hardware startup in Asia and the metrics that investors look at to evaluate a hardware startup. He shares with us the concept of the lean hardware startup and why hardware is the new black. We also discuss the The post Episode 27: The Lean Hardware Startup with Cyril Ebersweiler appeared first on Analyse Asia.

Serkan Toto of Kantan Games is back on the podcast to discuss the mega deal between Nintendo and DeNA which created a dent in the gaming space for 2015. We discussed the pre and post press conference, speculated the motivation in what pushed Nintendo to break its sacred code of not venturing into mobile games, The post Episode 26: The Nintendo and DeNA Deal with Serkan Toto appeared first on Analyse Asia.

Sameer Singh from Tech-Thoughts is back for an interesting discussion with Bernard Leong on the three major topics which dominate the Asian technology and business landscape. Discussing in depth the Apple Watch conundrum, they explained why there are flawed misconceptions from western analysts on the Apple Watch market in Asia. The discussion also revolved around The post Episode 25: The Apple Watch Conundrum in Asia with Sameer Singh appeared first on Analyse Asia.

Professor Serguei Netessine (@snetesin) joined us to discuss his book “The Risk Driven Business Model” (co-written with Karan Girotra). In the discussion, he explained the theme of the book in coming up with the four key questions that will define any company, with examples of companies not just from the US but also in Asia. The post Episode 24: The Risk Driven Business Model with Serguei Netessine appeared first on Analyse Asia.

Bunnie Huang (@bunniestudios), founder of Bunnie Studios and Kosagi, joined us to chat about building hardware companies in Asia. From his early experience in hacking the XBox and Chumby to his recent open hardware projects: Safecast Geiger Counter Reference Design, Novena Laptop, Chibitronics: peel and stick electronics, he shared great advice and thoughts on trends The post Episode 23: Hardware 101 with Bunnie Huang appeared first on Analyse Asia.

Gen Kanai, @gen  joined us here to discuss the Mozilla footprint in the form of Firefox browser and mobile OS in Asia during the FOSS Asia 2015 conference. We discuss the new features of Firefox browser with the new Firefox hello adopting the web RTC format, the Firefox mobile OS and how it is shaping The post Episode 22: The Firefox Browser & Mobile OS with Gen Kanai appeared first on Analyse Asia.

Cheryl Yeoh (@cherylyeoh) the CEO of Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre (MaGIC) joins us to discuss her current project to support, enhance and accelerate the startups in Malaysia and scale them regionally towards the Southeast Asia market. She also discuss her background, dating back from her life as an entrepreneur with her startup ReClip.it that was The post Episode 21: MaGIC & Malaysia with Cheryl Yeoh appeared first on Analyse Asia.

David Corbin (@CorbinDB) from Tech in Asia joins us for a deep dive discussion on one of the most exciting messaging apps in Asia: LINE. We discuss the origins of LINE, analyse how LINE has successfully build up different revenue streams and grow users in a rapid rate and predict when the company will go The post Episode 20: All about LINE with David Corbin appeared first on Analyse Asia.

Ben Bajarin from Creative Strategies & Techpinions joins us in this episdode to discuss the important questions dominating mobile in the dynamic and vibrant Asian market and what matters in 2015: How does the mobile-first Asia look like in 2015? Can Apple sustain its competitive advantage in China given its stunning quarter? Is Samsung’s fate The post Episode 19: The Mobile-First Era in Asia 2015 with Ben Bajarin appeared first on Analyse Asia.

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.