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Ian Goh Lab

Building products in public and helping technology companies enter difficult MENA and Southeast Asian markets.

MARKET ENTRY / MENA + SOUTHEAST ASIA

For technology companies entering difficult markets.

The Lab is the public proof layer. I help teams turn a regional ambition into a first-market thesis, a localized operating plan, and a sequence of tests.

Explore the advisory practice

01 / MARKET ENTRY

Entering MENA without treating it as one market

Choose a country, customer, channel, and proof threshold before calling a region a strategy.

02 / SOUTHEAST ASIA

Southeast Asia is a portfolio of operating systems

Sequence markets around local fit, trusted distribution, and the economics that survive fragmented operations.

03 / CREATOR ECONOMY

Creator systems need more than creator supply

Build status, community, local language, events, retention, and monetization into the creator loop.

04 / LOCALIZATION

Localization begins where translation stops

Adapt product behavior, trust, pricing, support, and distribution instead of translating the interface alone.

05 / AI SYSTEMS

AI products need local operating context

Connect model capability to local workflows, language performance, safe handoffs, and useful economics.

MARKET BRIEFINGS / SOURCE-BACKED GUIDES

Make the market decision visible.

MENAHow to choose the first MENA market for a B2B product MENASaudi Arabia or UAE: assign each market a job MENAHow to test an Arabic identity flow end to end Southeast AsiaHow to choose your first Southeast Asian market

FIELD NOTES / PUBLIC PROOF

Decisions behind shipped work.

How I reorganized iangoh.com around the work I do nowHow I turned a career timeline into case-study navigationHow I made 2,042 growth tactics easier to searchWeb 4.0: turning agent costs into a game you can breakWhat I shipped before adding more of the Fable Wars worldWhat the shared LLM layer was meant to own

ADVISORY / MENA + SOUTHEAST ASIA

Bring the market decision that is difficult to reverse.

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