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Last night, I ordered dinner at a foodcourt in a shopping mall.It tasted appalling. Perhaps I should have hesitated when I saw the mainland Chinese cook manning the kitchen.Before you rais …
Singapore’s media powerhouse Singapore Press Holdings yesterday completed the acquisition of local web-based share trading platform Shareinvestor.com, founded by ex-doctor Michael Le …
I just came back from the ACE BlueSky Exchange & Evening event “Challenging Times & Managing Challenges” organized by ACE and Hong Leong Finance, which is part of the Global Entrepreneurship Week series of events. The event featured a panel with Tracy Chua from Hong Leong Finance, Mohamed Abdul Jaleel of MES Group of Companies, ...
Local property tycoon Chua Thian Poh, who’s head kahuna of Ho Bee Group and also president of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI), gave S$5 million to the …
Food can unite people. In the case of Sumit Shah, Ravi Bhushan and Siddharth Vanchinathan - the founders of Locomi.com - also discovered that the love for food can be a source of innovation, and the basis for a startup venture. I first heard of Locomi on Plurk, when co-founder Ravi was asking around for ...
The Real Group launches Rentspace.sg, an online full-featured map-based search engine that makes it easy for users find apartments and rooms for rent in Singapore. Currently with around one thousand listings, the site allows users to simply key in landmarks such as schools, neighborhoods or roads and will return a map with all the available ...
17-23 November this year marks the Global Entrepreneurship Week (also known as The Week, for short), in which 75 countries all around the world coordinate an entire week of events that celebrate innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship. In Singapore, NUS Enterprise and Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) will host a series of activities that will hopefully ...
What if customer service folks were among the most highly-paid in a business?Or if businesses hired the best and the brightest to handle customer service?What happens if customer service personnel are empowered to make decisions?Would that change the level of customer service?I reckon it will, but I don’t think this will ever happen here in ...
During one of the recent events I attended, I spoke to this guy working in a new local startup who proudly declared, “We’re in stealth mode.”Stealth mode. Wow I don’t really know that means, but doesn’t that sound cool?When I asked him in greater detail about why his venture was in ’stealth mode’ he couldn’t ...
Being an entrepreneur is hard, but for a student entrepreneur, things can get immeasurably harder. With no money and armed only with an idea, where can a young entrepreneur find funding and support? For Jordan Goldman, founder of Unigo.com, his answer - and salvation - lay in his college alumni.The recent graduate from Wesleyan University ...
Two years ago this date, this blog put up its first post.Reading it again, I’m pleasantly reminded that YoungUpstarts has stuck quite closely to its mission and intent for promoting entrepreneurial thinking and a “can-do” spirit. There have been some changes along the way - an incorporation of a more technology focus and an experimentation ...
It’s not a very big amount, but I asked three people - an entrepreneur and two investors - what they would do with $10,000 Singapore dollars in these economically-challenging times.Independent consultant Natasha Golding, of The Right Words, says all the negative news of bank collapses makes her so nervous she’d use the money to clear ...
Jack Sim, founder of World Toilet Organization. (Jim Orca, TIME)Jack Sim, a largely forgotten son of Singapore, is far more famous outside of our country than within. The social entrepreneur and founder of the World Toilet Organization was recently recognized and lauded in TIME magazine’s Oct 6, 2008 Heroes of the Environment special report.We’re proud ...
I was invited to a pre-event session for the Singapore Digital Media Festival 2008 by the kind folks of PR outfit Text100, where I had the opportunity to meet some of the festival’s speakers and panelists such as Muvee COO Philip Morgan, Ultimate Video FX director Stefano Vergilli, Seesmic Flex developer Hu Shunjie, as well ...
Here’s a shout-out to Patrick Cushing who writes at NYC-based EnterVenture.com, for counting my blog amongst the sites to follow on entrepreneurship and startups in Asia.It’s heartwarming to find like-minded people around the world who share a similar passion, and also a testament to collaborative social media tools that allows us to connect with one ...
Sales is a key function in any company, and SalesConx.com CEO Evan Sohn believes that his company can help other small to medium businesses strive for better results in this area.SalesConx.com is essentially an online marketplace for sales leads and referrals, somewhat like Leadvine.com (which we recently featured). However, instead of crowdsourcing various leads of ...
Sometimes it’s good to revisit an old idea. That’s what Chua Khim Teck, founder of Hibernater.com, did when he took an idea he was working on when he was still in school and gave it new life.Hibernater’s concept is simple - it allows user to put their work states into ‘hibernation’, a process which allows ...
New York has its cheesecake, Chicago its deep dish pizza. But I’d never really heard of anything famous food-wise coming out of Cincinnati, so when I was sent there for a whole 2 weeks, I set about experiencing the local cuisine. I had the signature Cincinnati chili that comes 3-way (cheese topping), 4-way (+onions) or ...
First there was Jorbb.com - which we recently featured - and now Freelancezone.com.sg - it seems that casual job sites in Singapore are sprouting out of the ground like mushrooms after a downpour to challenge traditional print classifieds.Launched in early July 2008, Freelancezone.com.sg is owned by e-commerce company Dovalize Pte Ltd and provides online tools ...
And so I was up early last Saturday morning for Social Media Breakfast 4 at the theatrette in URA Centre where I was invited to participate in a panel discussion on “Corporate Adoption of Social Media” along with Derrick Koh of Lenovo, Supriya Addanki of Text 100 and fellow bloggers Benjamin Koe of local startup ...
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