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Oh boy, this place seems covered in cobwebs.No I have not disappeared. Other aspects of my life consumed most of my waking moments, and well…something had to give. I’ll leave you to imagine what those aspects were :-). In another time another blog, I’d give the lowdown, but this persona on this blog does not ...
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Man, some of the things people say these days makes me sad :-(.I have been labeled a “Singapore Entrepreneur Terrorist” by a certain Peter Chan in my thread about iConnectE, that this site is not constructive, and should be removed from the Web.Share This
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One of my entries received an extremely witty response, from a certain Mr. Tyrannus Tyrannicus Lee Kuan Yew. Let me emphasize, E-X-T-R-E-M-E-L-Y witty, so witty I almost fell off my chair. Awesome stuff, the kind I’d get my kids and grand-kids to read even after I’m gone. Whoever you are, I salute you and sincerely would like to make a friend - drop me an email …
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Ask any Singaporean entrepreneur how good they think their company is compared to their peers - chances are, you’re probably not going to hear a lot of backslapping.In fact, apart from the founders of successful Asian companies such as Tata, Samsung, Huawei and *cough* Temasek Holdings *cough*, as well as pockets of entrepreneurs from China (the Wenzhou folks) and India …
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Aha! Nothing like Google search to save the day. For you peeps using Dean J. Robinson’s Redoable wordpress theme, head on over here to solve your comments woes. My most sincere apol …
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There appears to be serious problems with my site’s comments function. I will need more time to look into this, and apologize for this in the meanwhile. This is frustrating the hell out of me.Share This
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I stumbled upon Dan E’s “Of Maids and Coolies” during my nightly travels around the Singapore blogosphere. In it, he laments about the challenges that Singaporeans will f …
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No no no, Singapore did not become North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s latest member country.By N-A-T-O, I mean “No Action, Talk Only”. I guess this also applies to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and its erm…inaction. But that’s a topic for another site and another day.Don’t you agree with me? I find Singaporeans to be an awfully …
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As Singapore’s A*STAR and Exploit Technologies have so painfully discovered in the past 8 years in spite of their best efforts, success in the innovation of technology requires two fundamental steps, the intellectual and the financial. If everyone put on their big-picture, ‘helicopter-vision goggles’, I’m sure few would disagree with me when I say that …
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‘You can give a fool a thousand intellects, but the only one he will want is yours,’ says an Arabic proverb. When we start planting the garden of our life, we glance to one side and notice our neighbour is there, spying. He himself is incapable of growing anything, but he likes to give advice on when to sow actions, when to fertilize thoughts, and when to water …
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In my previous article, I raised several potential road blocks that E27 Garage might run into. If you noticed, the points I raised revolve around the Garage itself. After thinking that through and reading Vinod’s response over at E27’s blog, I decided to give another perspective on why I think E27 Garage will have limited impact, in the bigger scheme of things. …
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I read with much interest the developments over Entrepreneur 27 Singapore’s E27 Garage Launch. I also had the opportunity to hear some of the E27 folks’ plans have in mind for their garage-slash-incubator. Let me now share my thoughts.In the past year, I’ve been heartened by the swathe of activities and level of energy that seems to be swirling about the …
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It’s been slightly over 2 months since I’ve started thinking and blogging about why Singaporean entrepreneurs suck. Somehow, despite penning my thoughts down every now and then, something felt missing - until I came across ChangeThis. (more…)Share This
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I apologise to my regular readers for the recent drought of blog entries. I took a much-needed holiday in Bangkok, and have been busy with clearing the backlog of work at my day job since returning. Now that I’m refreshed and recharged, expect more of my tirades in the days ahead!Share This
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I had the extreme honour to be in the presence of one of the greats from the venture capital industry this afternoon.Yes, the very same man that started viral marketing with his investment in Hotmail, as well as other successes in Skype and Baidu. I had the opportunity to speak with John Fisher during one of my classes at Stanford GSB, so I was eagerly looking forward to …
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If you’ve attended enough networking events in Singapore, you’ll start noticing how many ‘lost sheep’ Singapore is home to. While we are certainly not home to as m …
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Someone emailed me to ask about how I translate whysgentrepreneurssuck.com into 13 different languages. I figured I’d share this cool plugin with the rest of you while I was at it.Check out the Wordpress Global Translator Plugin, created by Davide Possa. This awesome plugin is able to dynamically translate your Wordpress-powered site into English, French, Italian, …
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Did you know that Singapore has approximately 130,000 SMEs?By Spring Singapore’s definition, SMEs are those with S$15M (~US$9.8M) or less in fixed asset investment and, for non-manufacturing enterprises, 200 or fewer employees.According to an article by Xinhua, SMEs form ‘an important pillar of the city-state’s economy’, employing 56% of the workforce …
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Sometimes ignorance is bliss. I should never have opened the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2005 Singapore report. I quote excerpts from pages 37 to 39. GEM 2005 Singapore Report Downloads: not yet For the years 2000 to 2004:There was a sharp decline in venture capital funds invested in local companies, especially after 2001. In 2000, S$601.3M …
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I count myself very fortunate to have the opportunity to come across all sorts of companies in the course of my work - be it locally or around the world. After a while, you start noticing consistent traits among the more successful companies and entrepreneurs that you meet - makes me wish we had more Singaporean entrepreneurs that think like them.Let us look at 5 mental …
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