Have you heard about Second Life? It is a virtual world where you can enter as an avatar, explore, meet up and create communities with other people. It is generating an interesting virtual economy that is translating into dollars and cents here in the real world. Now, we have a chinese clone for Second Life, a company named HiPiHi. Our resident contributor, Bjorn Lee, co-founder of Entrepreneur27 gives us a review about HiPiHi and offers his perspective on the competition with 2nd Life in the near future. Read more
Some of us in the SG Entrepreneurs team are involved in the judging of the business plans for Start-Up@Singapore. Due to confidentiality, we cannot reveal much about what we have judged. However, there are some interesting lessons that can help to improve the quality of the executive summaries. Our resident contributor and co-founder of Entrepreneur27, Justin Lee draws from his recent experience in teaching RJC students with Bjorn and the judging of the executive summaries, and provides 10 tips to a better business plan. Read more
Do you read often? Do you usually keep track of what books you have read and share with your friends what you have read? If you have a headache about keeping a list of books, BookJetty.com is the ideal web 2.0 solution for you. SG Entrepreneurs has the honour of interviewing Herryanto Siatono (Pluit Solutions), the web 2.0 innovator behind the site, who shares with us his experiences from building BookJetty in his spare time, the interesting features behind his invention and finally his thoughts on web 2.0. Read more
When an investor puts money in your business, how much involvement do you expect him or her to have with you? Venture capitalists and business angels have different expectations on their investments and will devote their time depending on certain conditions and factors associated with the venture which they fund. It is important for you, the entrepreneur to understand how to manage the expectations of the investor. Read more
Here are some recommended tech reads for the day:
Mobile talk moves to Web 2.0 by BBC News: Spencer Kelly from Click, BBC talks about how the growing demand for a better browsing experience on our mobiles is also creating a demand for Web 2.0 on the go. You can also watch the show in the link provided.
Top 10 reviews of the week by CNET news: Here is the weekly roundup of the new products recommended by CNET reviewers. You might want to check out these new technological gadgets.
How do I set up a business in Singapore? Where do I find AJAX programmers for web 2.0 startups? What is the procedure of filing corporate tax returns? What are the conditions and contacts required for outsourcing? How do I set up a WFOE in China? SG Entrepreneurs provides a solution to your problems by launching a new discussion forum for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, educators and policy makers to discuss relevant issues.
Now, who will be the first to post?
From the Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) website, the inaugural DP Information – ACE STEPS Survey has released some results that discuss the landscape of the startup community in Singapore. Read more
In conjunction with the 50th anniversary celebrations of the NUS Faculty of Law, NUS Law is proud to bring you the first ever symposium on Entrepreneurship and the Law. The symposium will bring together four distinguished experts to speak on the legal aspects of entrepreneurship, and how the law, lawyers and law schools can play their role in fostering the entrepreneurial spirit. The event will be held on 2nd March 2007 (Friday), 2:00pm in NUS Faculty of Law. For more details, Read more
For all the talk about web 2.0 mindset, how do we actually translate the mindset into proper entrepreneurial ventures, particularly in designing products that can employ the power of communities, the wisdom of crowds and the long tail framework? Our resident contributor, Brian Ling, aka Design Translator discusses how these principles are translated into product design. Read more
In the recent E27 IV: You are the media, the first track for presentation was known as “User Generated Sessions”, which were 30-minutes “show-and-tell sessions†for any attendee to present a topic of discussion in front of the E27 audience. Kevin Lim has kindly contributed the videos free (under creative commons: attribution) for these sessions for our readers (who might have missed the event) to look at what has been discussed. You can check out the four sessions here: (i) “Virtual Worlds and MMORPGs†(ii) “Complex Networks in a Simple World” (iii) “PR 2.0″ (iv) “Web 2.0 Review and Social Sites in Japan, China and Koreaâ€
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