Asia Snapshot 2015A mashup of research, trends and

interesting people in Asia.Issue #2 Published at

www.CallumLaing.com“Connecting Leaders”

My usual disclaimers apply: This is not intended to be a comprehensive guide and the hard work of finding this data was done by other people who deserve all the credit. I have merely cherry picked the stuff that stood out for me and made me say ‘ooh’.

“Welcome to the second edition of Asia Snapshots.I hope you find it interesting and perhaps it will spark some ideas of how you could get more involved in this amazing region.If you’re new to this report, then it is intended for anyone looking to do business in Asia. It is quite literally a mashup of other peoples research, interspersed with highlighting some cool individuals that I’ve come across along the way.”

- Callum

@laingcallum”

BNP Paribas http://goo.gl/aeb6rd

“4 out of 6 entrepreneurial hotspots are in Asia”

“Be bold and yet be meticulous

in everything you do”

Jerome Lim, Director of Ming Fa Fishball

“Believe in yourself. If you don’t, no one else will.”

Christine Edwards, Founder of Honeycombers

What’s the best piece of advice you ever received?

“Asia’s consumers are

drivingglobal

growth.”

http://www.dbs.com/insights/index.html

“Up from 81 million households today.”

http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/asia-pacific

http://www.economistinsights.com/business-strategy/analysis/redrawing-asean-map

“ASEAN is the Association of South East Asian Nations

(about 626m people)”

What’s happening in ASEAN?

Padmini Pandya, Strategic Business

Planning of SapientNitro

What’s the best piece of advice you ever received? “Get out of your own way.”

Adrien Choux, Founder of The Chinese Timekeeper

Who inspires you? “Guy Laliberte (founder of Cirque du Soleil). Visionary, passionate, philanthropist and a great poker player … quite an

inspiration!”

http://www.economistinsights.com/business-strategy/analysis/redrawing-asean-map

“Interesting to note the homogenisation of the ASEAN consumer”

Not everything moves fast in Asia…

http://www.freetheworld.com/2013/EFW2013-complete.pdf

Pretty colours. But not that ‘free’ in Asia

yet.

Correlation of wealth and freedom

http://insights.fb.com/2014/10/08/coming-of-age-on-screens/

“Don’t worry, be happy.

Indonesia & India seeing the positives in

Facebook and beyond.”

https://www.techinasia.com/infographic-numbers-indonesia-2014

“This is Indonesia”

“Doing business is about developing trust, especially in Asia. Think ‘how can I help’ without expectation of return”

Sam Lau, Founder of Total Loyalty

“’Nothing in life comes easy’.

It reminds me that I must always work hard, be determined and persistent.”

Jia En Teo, Co-Founder of Roomorama

What’s the best piece of advice you ever received?

www.newzoo.com/insights/newzoo-report-1-1bn-southeast-asian-games-market-to-double-by-2017

“Amongst other things, Indonesia is the fastest growing Games market. Maybe that’s why they’re happy?”

https://www.techinasia.com/asia-dominates-gaming-ipos-set-earn-45b-annual-revenue-2018-report/

2014 saw a record US$24 billion worth of video game company exits worldwide in 2014

Asia accounted for over half the games IPOs in 2014

“Asia is the number one games market in terms of revenue”

“Meanwhile in China…”

The number of Chinese women in senior management positions has recently doubled, with 51% of those jobs held by females, making China a standout in Asia.

Some 550 publicly-traded companies, or about 21%, have women on their boards.

China has two of only four companies in the world with all-female boards..

http://fortune.com/2015/01/15/the-number-of-chinese-women-in-top-corporate-jobs-is-exploding

“Half of the world’s self-made female billionaires are Chinese”

www.economistinsights.com/marketing-consumer/analysis/rise-and-online/multimedia

Women in China

“That the failures I had were in fact the best things that ever happened to me.”

Mouna Aouri Langendorf, Founder of Woomentum

What have you just learnt recently that blew you away?

“There is no point doing what you are doing without an end game. Choose where you want to be, what you want to do and work out a way to get there.”

Charlie Brazier, Founder of BW Furniture

Women in China

www.economistinsights.com/marketing-consumer/analysis/rise-and-online/multimedia

www.economistinsights.com/marketing-consumer/analysis/rise-and-online/multimedia

Women in China

https://www.techinasia.com/asia-biggest-series-a-rounds-2014/

“Startups in China are seeing some funding lovin’.”

https://www.techinasia.com/

vc-investments-china-skyrocketed-2014-doubling-previous-record

“In fact all VC funding has trebled since 2013”

“Never take ‘No’ for an answer.”

Talenia Phua Gajardo, CEO of The Artling

“Communication is about what other people understand, not what you say.

Build outcomes, not outputs.”

Simon Kemp, Regional Managing Partner of We Are Social

What’s the best piece of advice you ever received?

https://www.techinasia.com/wechat-investment-fund-10-million-users/Pic from tomsguide.com

One year after launch, WeChat’s investment fund has 10 million users who’ve banked over $16 billion!

“Banks, sit up

and take note!”

“Singapore remains one of the best places to do business, not just in ASEAN but the World.”

www.economistinsights.com/business-strategy/analysis/redrawing-asean-map

Singapore ranks 2nd in Global competitiveness

global-indices.insead.edu/documents/INSEADGTCIreport2014.pdf

“Globally, CEO’s always think their country is the hardest to recruit quality talent…”

http://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2015/jan/07/singapore-building-india-city-andhra-pradesh

“The go-getting entrepreneurialism of Singapore has led its government to agree to support the Indian state Andhra Pradesh in building a new capital city. It will be a stupendous 7,235 square kilometres, 10 times the size of Singapore’s own 716 square kilometres. The new city is expected to cost £10.7bn ($16.5bn).”

“Singapore doesn’t lack ambition. But it does lack land. Creating new cities in China and India makes for a perfect collaboration.”

Mobile Internet in India 16x slower than Singapore

https://www.techinasia.com/mobile-internet-16-times-faster-singapore-than-india/

“Mobile penetration in India is currently at 75%”

BNP Paribas http://goo.gl/aeb6rd

“India leading the way in female entrepreneurs, but according to Nasscom only 1 in 17 Indian tech companies are started by woman.”

However, in terms of new wealth it is actually India’s neighbours that stole the glory.

Pakistan and Sri Lanka were in the top 5 gainers of ultra high networth individuals gaining 34

and 25% respectively.

www.wealthx.com

“If you care for others, your consciousness expands and you’re happy. If you care only for yourself, your consciousness contracts and you’re miserable.”

Jack Sim, Founder of World Toilet Organization

What’s the best piece of advice you ever received?

“’Enjoy what you do’.

It is easier to say, ‘Do what you enjoy’ but we should remember that we can choose to enjoy anything we do as well.”

Masami Soto, Founder of Buy One Give One

www.wealthx.com

Pakistan and Sri Lanka were in the top 5 gainers of ultra high networth individuals gaining 34 and

25% respectiviely. China actually declind

Wealthx.com

China actually declined in Ultra High Networth individuals last year despite churning out 159 millionaires a day.

Forbes counted a record 1,645 billionaires with a total net worth of US$6.4 trillion, up from

1,426 last year.

16 are in Singapore

And there are 35 million millionaires around the world. Give or take…

“Singapore and South Korea are truly Mobile first.”

https://www.consumerbarometer.com/en/insights/?countryCode=GLhttps://www.techinasia.com/google-asia-true-mobilefirst-region/

• Asian countries have the highest rate of internet users who go online exclusively using a smartphone.

• Japan and South Korea are the two countries with the highest frequency of internet usage in the world.

“35% of Malaysians only access the

internet through their mobile device!”

What have you recently learnt that blew you away?

“Did you know that Bukit Timah’s Nature Reserve in Singapore has more species of trees than the entire North American continent? Talk about a green dot!”

Habiba Raffa, Founder of Ayelli

What’s the best piece of advice you ever received?“People remember generosity.

Be generous, be kind, be direct, be remembered.”

Howard Lo, Founder of Standing Sushi Bar

www.wearesocial.com

www.wearesocial.com

www.wearesocial.com

“I hope you enjoyed this. Please feel free to share it with anyone you think would be interested.We’ll be back later in the year to share what’s new”- Callum@laingcallumlinkedin.com/in/callumlaing