As a loyal reader and part of the e27 community, you may have heard of one of our latest innovations for the Southeast Asian startup ecosystem — the Ecosystem Roundup.
As part of our e27 Pro membership programme, the Ecosystem Roundup appears on members’ inbox every Monday and Thursday in the form of a newsletter that contains summaries of the most important updates in the region. It ranges from funding and appointment news to analysis of current issues.
Even better, we have started to include snippets of upcoming exclusive stories before they were being published on the e27 site.
When we launched Ecosystem Roundup earlier this year, we were humbled to receive a warm welcome from the members.
But how exactly do we select the articles that go into the newsletter? Our Editor, Sainul Abudheen K., explains the idea behind the product and how it is being implemented.
Like many other innovations, we developed this product to solve a common problem faced by users. In doing business, having first access to information is a crucial part of decision-making.
We learned that a typical investor or startup founder might spend at a great deal of time browsing through news sites to catch up with the latest updates in the industry — a process that they wish could have been more efficient.
“Since Southeast Asia consists of a group of countries, with many publications in both English and non-English languages, it is hard for industry people to scan through multiple publications and portals to update themselves about the major happenings in the region,” Sainul explains.
“We have made it easy for them by providing all the major startup news on a single platform, aggregated from over 50 sites — English and non-English,” he continues.
To do this, as the who leads the initiative, Sainul curates the most important stories from various online media platforms. After sorting out the relevant publication, he picks the most outstanding stories based on several criteria such as its potential impact on the ecosystem.
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However, he states that the best tool to help him sort out the stories is his instinct as an editor. While it might sound like a natural thing to do, the ability to instinctively perform this task is something that is developed over years of experience working as a startup writer.
This gives the product an even stronger advantage as it is being curated by people who have been working in the regional startup ecosystem for more than five years.
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