Pieter Walraven is the co-founder of Pie, a Singapore-based SaaS startup. As an Asia-based SaaS business founder, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been asked: “Why did you base your startup in Asia, and not the US?” It’s an appropriate question. For a SaaS business, there’s the usual list of compelling reasons to focus on the States. For starters, with around 60 percent_of the total global market volume in 2012, North America is still the largest and most mature economy for SaaS services. It also helps that the US has several healthy tech VC ecosystem and that there’s...

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