The acquisition of Koprol by Yahoo is probably the most important tech event which rocked Southeast Asia this year. With the founders of Koprol, Fajar Budiprasetyo & Daniel Armanto together with our dear Smithy from Yahoo, we discussed the origins of Koprol (and how it was launched before FourSquare). We also found out how the founders built the mobile social network from zero to 100K users and the interesting features of Koprol before the fateful acquisition. In fact, we get an insider view behind the scenes on the day when the acquisition was announced. Finally, we hear how the founders and Smithy explain how the marriage between Yahoo & Koprol from their own perspectives and the future which lies ahead for Koprol. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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The Creative Crew Singapore July 2010 Meetup will be happening on 13 July 2010 (Tuesday) in Woodlands Regional Library from 6:30 – 8:30pm. You can sign up via facebook here. Check out here for more details of the event: Read more
Local mobile security company tenCube is having a very good run in 2010! Following on from the announcement of a strategic investment from Indian telecom apps service provider One97 to having its innovation acknowledged by China Mobile Research Institute, comes the news of tenCube making waves at two separate Silicon Valley events. WaveSecure, tenCube’s flagship product, was selected as the top product at the Plug and Play EXPO Spring 2010, and was tipped by Launch Silicon Valley as “Most Likely to Succeed”. Read more
Not for the faint hearted: Before starting Foound, Danny Tan applied for credits cards from almost all the major banks in Singapore so that he could be ensured of an operating credit of a few tens of thousands if the need ever arose. Luckily for them, there has been no need to draw on this credit line just yet.
Heard much about Foound after their successful outing at Echelon 2010 but are still clueless as to who are the people drivers behind the company? This interview brings to you Danny’s personal narrative of the foound team and his personal entrepreneurial journey thus far. Read more
In the third session of the Going Global series on 21st July (Wed), hear Mr Roland Ng (Managing Director and Group CEO, Tat Hong Holdings Ltd) as he shares his experience on how he leverages on partners and putting in place the right team to grow his company into a global player. Read more
We have been awaiting more details on the 50% tax break for angel investors scheme since it was first announced in Singapore Budget 2010.
Now, SPRING Singapore has released details on the Angel Investors Tax Deduction Scheme. Read more
Angels Den was launched in the UK in 2007 to provide a fast and effective way to connect Angels and entrepreneurs to help Angels to find great investments and entrepreneurs to get access to the growth capital vital to their success. With the help of The Standard Chartered Private Bank and Andrew Deane they launched this service in Singapore in March 2010. Check out the next Speedfunding event. Read more
In the video surveillance market, there has been a shift to IP-based and 3G technologies from analog and one company which is offering such solutions is KAI Square.
Established in 2006 by Goh Hai Kiat, Victor and Neo Shi Yong, KAI Square can be described as an “emerging company specializing in open platform technology with focus in mobile surveillance”. Read more
If you are reading SGEntrepreneurs, you are probably already partial to startups, perhaps having founded one yourself or are working in one.
If not, why not consider joining a dynamic startup to see for yourself what it is like working with just two other people in your entire company?
If you are looking for a job as a developer, programmer, or you want something in business development, sales, or perhaps you are a designer and looking for creative jobs, check out these newly listed open positions at these diverse startups. Read more
Within this short span of three years, InMobi has managed to grow so rapidly that they experienced an an 8 times increase in the number of ad impressions from 250million to 2BILLION within a 6 month period. (update: these figures are for their US market only) They are now considered to be one of the largest global independent mobile networks. The network was launched in 2007 by the founding team consisting of Naveen Tewari, Mohit Saxena, Amit K. Gupta, Abhay Singhal.
We caught up with Mr. Emmanuel Allix, VP and MD (APAC) of InMobi at ad:tech held a few weeks ago to find out more about their business strategy. Read more
