As we slow down for the holidays and wrap this year with a bang, I wanted to leave you with enough food for thought. Kicking off the e27 community wrap up series with the Top 10 community articles for founders.
If you are a founder everything from funding to cap tables to hiring to company culture to market expansion is on your mind. And as you build your goals and plans for 2022, these tips and lessons from the e27 contributor community can come in handy.
Thank you to all our contributors for their valuable insights.
Talenox co-founder reveals the grind behind the glamour of entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is not easy to figure out. Most entrepreneurs will have their stories of adversity and business struggles to share. A clear goal and a well-thought-out plan to success will help you determine whether you want to build fast, sell fast or develop a long-lasting business. These are some of the few factors that will also help you determine if you need to raise substantial funding or not.
So, what is the grind like behind the glamour of entrepreneurship?
How EngageRocket co-founders built a sustainable partnership
Finding a co-founder that shares your vision is a big challenge, but making the relationship work in the long run is a bigger one. Even if you’re one of the lucky few, who have found a co-founder that shares your vision and ambitions, sustaining this partnership for 1, 5, and 20 years down the road will pose a new set of dynamics to navigate. The founder of EngageRocket shares tips on what it takes to build a sustainable partnership between co-founders.
What I learned about entrepreneurship through my journey as Coinhako co-founder
The first few years were challenging as the crypto market faced very low interest from the general public. We had to rely on tight financing and management of resources to tide us through. The 2017 bull run, on the other hand, ushered in huge changes in crypto trading and proved to be a big break for us. There are things he has learnt from his journey with Coinhako over the past seven years. I have condensed them into three main takeaways
Student by day, founder by night: Running a startup wasn’t my first intention. Solving a problem was
Being an entrepreneur has been the hallmark of his student life. It has been the most challenging but exciting, meaningful, and fulfilling journey as a student. In this article, he shares some insights about why he chose to run a startup as a student and how he exactly did it in the past two years of my time.
4 lessons for first-time founders embarking on their entrepreneurial journey
Having already gone through the journey of being a first-time founder and learned valuable lessons, serial founders are one of the most sought after groups of individuals for investors. After partnering with several fascinating serial founders at Picus Capital, this author shares lessons from founders about starting and building ventures from scratch, what keeps them motivated, what they learned throughout their careers as founders and early employees at different ventures, and what advice they have for future entrepreneurs.
3 learnings from KKday CEO and Founder on how his travel startup overcame the pandemic
On his journey to becoming a better founder, Jack An set out to write this piece, to document his learnings. Amongst the network of founders at AppWorks, he had the chance to closely observe Ming Ming Chen, the founder and CEO of KKday– a travel platform that provides local experiences and tours across Asia.
In 2020, TWG Tea saw growth in every market we have an online presence in. Furthermore, they noticed that this new online shopping trend is remaining consistent even in instances when social distancing measures are lifted, proving that consumer behaviour has evolved. TWG Tea learns that it can continue to register significant online sales growth— as long as it stays nimble.
How can female founders become the new normal in Asia?
A Makan for Hope roundtable discussed the steps we can take today to empower female founders in the Southeast Asian region. The roundtable took a deep dive into the headwinds women faced and discussed the steps we can take today to empower female founders and encourage more to thrive in the Southeast Asia startup scene.
5 productivity tools for busy startup founders to stay focused in 2022
When founders decide to implement yet another productivity tool, they pass on the SaaS fatigue to their team members. Modern tech workers seem to chase after productivity is like the new-age stage of attaining enlightenment. However, in the midst of this chase, it’s important to remember Ray Dalio’s guidance that “you can have virtually anything you want, but you can’t have everything you want”.
In that case, what exactly is being productive? Is it even important?
What Cambodian women taught me about being a better woman entrepreneur
Despite running on the creative route, the company operated on the traditional model that many businesses were familiar with. Besides, Zhi Ying Chai also quickly observed that most of these businesses were not understanding the changing behaviours of consumers who are always well-connected online, and she wanted to help close this gap. So she took off for Cambodia with a team from Singapore to better understand the market and here’s what her Cambodian colleagues taught her.
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