Beyond the Age of Innocence: Our report is finally ready!

The Southeast Asian digital eco-system is at a crucial juncture. Having surpassed India last year with 3.4 billion dollars in funding, many of the start-ups are now morphing into substantial and successful businesses. While the growth is giving a boost to an entrepreneurial spirit across the region, it is also throwing up new challenges for the founders, especially on the leadership front.

As their companies expand, founders are increasingly focused on how to build leadership teams, management processes and cultures that will allow them to compete, scale and succeed. They are wrestling with questions such as:

• Should I follow the Silicon Valley model, or is there a Southeast Asian approach to building start-ups?
• Do I hire the best I know locally, or invest in finding the best there is globally?
• Can I build a world class corporate culture, or is that a superfluous luxury?

The study, "Beyond the Age of Innocence - Can Southeast Asian start-ups build world-class organisations?" conducted jointly by Yale-NUS, 6:30 Partners, and Eric Salmon & Partners, looks to address these and other questions.

The study is based on interviews with 32 CEOs and founders of Southeast Asian leading start-ups as well as six of the most respected venture capitalists in the region. The start-ups these CEOs lead have received funding in excess of three billion dollars. 

I have attached here a link to the downloadable report for your reference and I hope you will enjoy the read. 

Do let me know if you have any questions, or if you would like to speak with us about our findings