In Conversation with P.K. Chan, CEO of EditGrid

Last night, I met up with Mr P.K. Chan, the CEO of EditGrid, a Hong Kong web 2.0 company whose main focus is about online enterprise solutions and specializing only on spreadsheets alone. Of course, I took the chance to interview him and ask him several questions about EditGrid and how his company is taking on Zoho, Microsoft and Google on a very competitive market. Read more

Dandelion Exhibition – Online Design Entrepreneurship

You have seen iPod, iPhone and Microsoft Surface. All these gadgets would not have been possible without good product design that integrates the technology with the art. Design Translator aka Brian Ling, a big advocate of design entrepreneurship (and management team of SGE) in Singapore and possibly Asia, has organized an online exhibition to showcase up and coming design talents. About 50% of the work are from Singapore designers including the MP3 player that he has told some of us in SG Entrepreneurs. The interesting part is that the designs on show in the online exhibition are all prototypes which will be commercialized in the near future. So, what are you waiting for? Check out Dandelion Exhibition put together by DT’s social entrepreneurial initiative IDasia.org.

Business Week: Support our SG Entrepreneurs for Favorite Young Entrepreneur in Asia

Recently, Business Week has put up a poll for “Who’s Your Favorite Young Entrepreneur in Asia?”. Interesting six young SG entrepreneurs are picked in the process, and guess what, they have all been interviewed by us in SGE. They are Paddy Tan Lek Han (BAK2U.com), Eric Feng, Chua U-Zyn (Ping.SG), Cheo Ming Shen (Nuffnang.com), Chew Choon Keat (SharedCopy.com) and Herryanto Siatono (Pluit/BookJetty.com). If you want to give them some support, drop by and vote for them in this URL. We wish all of them all the best. 

News Flash: HiPiHi and Intel enters into a new technology partnership

Something interesting popped up in China today – 22 Nov 2007. Remember HiPiHi (as pronounced High-P-High), the China-based company which is currently involved in the virtual worlds market. Since our last encounter with Xu Hui, CEO of HiPiHi sometime back, we have heard that Intel China and HiPiHi have announced today that they are entering into a technology partnership. The interesting part is that Intel is not entering as just a usual corporate resident but committed towards supporting technical needs of a virtual world platform. They will be setting up a brand experience centre in the Intel island that seeks to enhance the interaction with the consumers (or users), and the details will be announced later. The HiPiHi CEO has remarked that, “As China’s first company to enter into the virtual worlds market, HiPiHi has already attracted Intel and P&G which are well-established multi-national companies. We believe that there are other companies of such stature who will join us in the future and take HiPiHi to the next level such that it will add value and attract more enterprises and consumers to join us.” (Translated from eNet.com.cn). Here’s an interesting perspective to think about. This strategic collaboration between HiPiHi and Intel is reminiscent of the Second Life and IBM one sometime back. (Also check out Wagner James Au’s ‘First Looks at a ‘Chinese 2nd Life‘)

 

Event: i.JAM 500K

The i.JAM 500K is an event where 10 IDM entrepreneurs will be pitching for SGD 500K worth of investment on 23 Nov 2007 (Friday) from 6-9 pm in 140 Hill Street, 2nd Level, MICA Building, Esplanade Room. If you are keen to join this night of pitching, networking and fun, please RSVP to Ivy Tan by 20 Nov. Here are more details to how you can attend this event. Read more

Event: Singapore PHP Group Meeting on 14 Nov 2007

Two days back, the Singapore PHP Group Meeting has taken place in SMU. The event has been well-organized, kudos to Michael Cheng who have also done a presentation of PHP for beginners. If you want to know what transpired during the event, do check out Simply Jean’s live-blogging of the whole event, blogs of Keith and U-Zyn. You can also see the photos taken during the event. If you want to catch up on the notes from the speakers during the event, you can download it from here. We congratulate Michael and his team for pulling this event off and if you have missed this first event, do check out the next event.

Press release: First Meta named a Red Herring 100 Global Awards 2007 finalist

After winning the Red Herring Asia 100 Award a few months ago, local startup First Meta has just been name a Global Awards 2007 finalist. Congratulations to Douglas and Aileen! Read more

Entrepreneur Reads for the Day: 14 Nov 2007

Here are some recommended entrepreneur reads for today:

If you are about to sign a deal with the a venture capitalist, what are the hidden tricks that you need to see in a term sheet? John Nesheim talks about the need to know the hidden tricks in a term sheet. You can also learn about the some terms which you need to seek out in a term sheet which may be harmful to you. Of course, negotiating the deal with a venture capital usually takes longer than you think and term sheets are not contracts. Finally, you can read this article about how shares are issued in a company.

The Difficulty of Developing Venture Capital in Singapore

Recently, over a supper conversation in Holland Village, a friend made an interesting observation about entrepreneurs in Singapore, “Actually, there is entrepreneurship in Singapore, but the Singaporean entrepreneurs are not here but in overseas. The market here is just too small. If you are successful in business, you should be now in China, Vietnam or Cambodia.” What he is saying is that if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to set up shop in other markets. Making a few dollars in Singapore is easy, but a few million is pretty difficult. By now, if you are planning to set up a business in Singapore, you have to accept the fact that you must go global on the very first day. I thought about this for a while and come to another conclusion as to why developing venture capital is extremely difficult in Singapore. In that process, I want to sketch out an alternative model that might mitigate some of the issues involved. Read more

Events@SIT from Republic Poly: 2 Talks on Google and Silicon Valley

From the School of Information & Communications Technology in Republic Polytechnic, EVENTS@SIT will feature two interesting talks: “Silicon Valley Scene: Why and How Does It Work, When it Does” by Dr John Mashey and “The Google Game: How Maps, Media and Mobility Are Changing Mass Marketing For Ever” by Dr Angela Hey. Here are more details about both talks. Read more

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