"Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined walking down a small street in an outer city district in Saigon/Vietnam and go to a social seller specialized in selling Japanese and Korean stroller." Google/Temasek released the latest e-eConomy report for Southeast Asia (SEA) with some astonishing numbers: SEA eCommerce has been growing by 62% … Continue reading Social Selling: A Paradigm Shift Happening Next Door
The Future of Travel and New Travel Ecosystems
Last week I attended the APAC Travel Summit organized by facebook APAC. It was an industry-leading event with a variety of stakeholders and brands from the travel industry. Facebook flew in some of their global travel experts to discuss current challenges and opportunities. I thought it’s worth sharing an executive summary about how the Future … Continue reading The Future of Travel and New Travel Ecosystems
Southeast Asia’s Online Economy to Triple to $240b in 2025
Back in 2014, we started FALCON as a passion project. We struggled to find data-driven performance marketers and instead of always building a new performance driven marketing team for each eCommerce company from scratch, we decided to set up FALCON Agency and get the best people we have worked with together. So we assembled an … Continue reading Southeast Asia’s Online Economy to Triple to $240b in 2025
The Future of eCommerce: Give Consumers What They Want Before They Know They Want It
Last month we conducted a workshop about the Future of X: a series of workshops for specific industries such as travel, FMCG, F&B and financial services that deep-dives into the future of each industry respectively. For this I prepared an introductory presentation about the Future of eCommerce as a warm up exercise for the group. I wanted to share … Continue reading The Future of eCommerce: Give Consumers What They Want Before They Know They Want It
The Next $100MM Company
Last week, I met with a good entrepreneur friend who asked me this question: If I would start a company today that I scale from 0 to $100MM what would it be? This question made me think: what does it take to build a $100MM company? Apart from a structured approach to marketing that I … Continue reading The Next $100MM Company
Born Digital: Characteristics of a Digital Company
Over the last 10 years, we have been involved in more than 20 eCommerce companies across Europe and APAC. On top of it, we started a full-service digital agency in 2014 and have worked with some of the leading brands in their respective industries. Lastly, we helped more than a dozen companies in their digital … Continue reading Born Digital: Characteristics of a Digital Company
A New Financial Ecosystem: Why Facebook’s Libra is a big thing
As you might have heard, Facebook is launching a new subsidiary called Calibra. In fact, it is much more than a new subsidiary: it is a power alliance of industry players that will transform the digital (financial) industry in ways we haven’t seen before. It’s goal is “to provide financial services that will enable people … Continue reading A New Financial Ecosystem: Why Facebook’s Libra is a big thing
Learning from the Best in Digital Transformation – Smart Summit in Singapore
I was invited to the Smart Summit 2019 in Singapore’s Marina Bay Conventional Centre where the Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, gave a keynote and government officials and industry leaders discussed about opportunities and challenges arising from digital transformation. To summarise some key points from the summit: The competitive advantage for companies and industries in the … Continue reading Learning from the Best in Digital Transformation – Smart Summit in Singapore
“Be crazy” Interview with Zaky, bukalapak
Zaky is Co-Founder and CEO of bukalapak - one of Indonesia’s unicorn companies (=worth more than $1 billion dollars). Zaky and I, we have both attended the first Innovators-Retreat consisting of a delegation of entrepreneurs, innovators and high-tech people from South-East Asia and Austria. We were also on the same EurAsian Entrepreneurship panel at the … Continue reading “Be crazy” Interview with Zaky, bukalapak
“Passion & excitement in ideas” Interview with Marco Breu
Marco and I, we got to know each other through our co-investment in OkieLa in Vietnam. Apart from his day job (Global Partner of McKinsey and Managing Partner for Vietnam) he is also supporting start-ups in the region. In addition, he has co-founded the Mekong Business Challenge to promote Entrepreneurship. Marco is currently on a sabbatical … Continue reading “Passion & excitement in ideas” Interview with Marco Breu
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