#41: Christina Teo Director of PortXL

Ms. Teo has held senior roles in Acer, IBM, 3Com and CSL Hong Kong. She was Yahoo! Singapore’s first general manager in 1999 and launched the world’s first Windows-based smartphone O2 built by HTC in 2002. She has actively taken part in the global start-up scene since 2016, launching other initiatives such as Asia Corporate Women and Startup Asia Women. She is also the Director of PortXL, world's first maritime startup accelerator. As an accelerator, we are empowering startups and in the maritime space, the best chance at success for startups is to engage maritime conglomerates to proof their "product".

Some of the episode's highlight:

How PortXL accelerate startups?Instead of telling the startups, you should go to an accelerator, why not be one.How PortXL helps a startup get the attention of Maritime companies.Memorable startup stories like Magnetic.Every startup will get very interesting feedback from 20 companies and more than 60 professionals at one goal with PortXL."Scale-up for us are companies who are already generating a revenue of $750,000 and more.""B2B startups journey is a long selling cycle, a long negotiation cycle, and a long development customization cycle."How PortXL select and engage their mentors."90% or 95% of our startups are founded by people who have been in the industry.""Even though you can digitalize everything, the people are the ones who are still thinking and the ones who implement all these processes.""It is so important in every corporate culture to empower the employees with a "test and learn attitude."

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