When I left university in 1999 my first job was at a small software company in the UK. There were five of us and most of the time we worked from home in different cities. We had what would now be described as an agile approach to development and created some great software that we sold to enterprise customers. We worked hard but also had fun. However something didn’t feel right.
Somehow it felt like we were cheating. Read more
For a one-stop to all events related to or concerning entrepreneurship, certain industry-meets-business forums and seminars in Singapore, check out our Calendar. If not, you can also follow our bite-size updated posts for upcoming events for the week.
Events range from simple get-togethers to full-blown conferences. Get to meet fellow developers, entrepreneurs, startup CEOs & founders, and meet & learn from CEOs of established companies who have seen it all.
Our aim here at SGE is to make it easy for you to pick & choose from the event buffet. Enjoy.
Here are the events for this week. Read more
Join James Sun, host of Channel NewsAsia’s Sun Tzu: War On Business for a luncheon seminar where he will share business insights and strategies that made him a millionaire at 22.
James is the first Asian male to land a spot on Donald Trump’s hit reality show “The Apprentice.” The show aired for 14 weeks on prime-time television, and James made it all the way through 14 weeks as a finalist in the competition. James was the first Asian finalist in the history of the show.
During the seminar this Thursday, 6th of May, James will share case studies of businesses that failed and succeeded, business tactics that can apply for different industries and how to align the mind with the heart to succeed in life and business
Thanks to Fly Entertainment, SGEntrepreneurs has a pair of tickets to give away – worth $98 each! Sign up for SGEntrepreneurs newsletter below to learn how to win this pair of tickets. On Saturday, we will be sending out the first issue of our newsletter as well as announcing the contest details. (Update: newsletter sent. You can still enter to win your ticket and sign up for our newsletter here.)
More information about James Sun, War On Business and the luncheon seminar below. Read more
This May will see the Web Wednesday meetup on THURSDAY, May 6th this week. The inaugural Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Singapore Ad Revenue 2010 report will be released and IAB Chairperson, Ken Mandel of Yahoo! will present the findings. Read more
Be inspired: how you can complement the efforts of social entrepreneurship and bring value to your business. In this 43rd ACE BlueSky Exchange, the session is themed “Entrepreneurs meet Social Entrepreneurs”. Ms Teo Mee Hong (Executive Director, Social Enterprise Association), will present on the social entrepreneurship scene in Singapore, while panelists Ms Elim Chew (Founder, 77th Street) and Claire Chiang (Senior Vice President, Banyan Tree) will share their views on how you can benefit your business through incorporating a social angle. Read more
We got the news last November of Amazon setting up “Availability Zones” in Singapore for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Now, it’s finally reality. Developers and businesses can access AWS services from the new “Singapore” Availability Zones beginning today, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon CloudFront, Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS). More details on each of these services and specific pricing for each is available here. Read more
The Intel Atom Developer Program Million Dollar Development Fund is a fund set up by Intel to address the issue in netbooks whereby applications are usually not optimized for its mobility and smaller screen size as well help accelerate innovation in software applications for Intel® Atom™ processor-based products, starting with netbooks, and eventually supporting smartphones, consumer electronics and more devices. Read more
How are cloud servers different from shared hosting and VPS offerings? International hosting company, Voxel is organising #cloudchat, an event happening this 6th May, to shed some light on the subject. Voxel’s VP of development, Michael Venzke, will be discussing basic cloud fundamentals and benefits over VPS; and will also delve deeper into more technical discussion points, such as cloud interoperability and automatic development/QA environments. Dr. Kris Beevers, Voxel’s Principle Software Architect, will also be discussing proper CDN implementation and performance optimization in cloud deployments. Read more
Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape: [1] Adobe CS5, [2] Adobe Calls it Quits for Flash on iPhone, [3] The Next iPhone Leak and [4] Recruits get laptop. Do click and check out their latest podcast here. You can now also listen to the Tech65 podcast here as well by coming to the blog post directly. Read more
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From the live show in Barcamp KL, our crew continues with our special guest Michael Smith from Yahoo! for the last segment of the event where we interview several interesting people across the technology and media space across Southeast Asia in an array of issues: (1) Colin Charles (@bytebot) from MariaDB on his recent trip on the MYSQL conference in Silicon Valley and the latest developments in IT databases, (2) Kugan (@scamboy) Malaysia Wireless blog – trends on smart phone users in across Southeast Asia and his thoughts on the upcoming 4G and Wimax networks into Asian markets, (3) Preetam Rai (@preetamrai), our Mr Barcamp Asia on all the barcamps happening across the region (Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and soon, Philippines & Indonesia), (4) Nazrul from Hackerspace KL & Code Android Malaysia and discussions on Flash vs HTML5 and how developers are caught in between. We thank Yahoo! for sponsoring the ice creams and Barcamp KL which made this live show happen. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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