The Business Angel Network (Southeast Asia) (BANSEA) is bringing you a workshop that aims to provide an insight into the mindsets of Angels and equip participants with powerful and practical fund raising strategies, useful tips to win angel investors and avoid common entrepreneur pitfalls.
Participants will benefit from the vast knowledge and experience of the trainer, Dr Wong Poh Kam, a reputable angel in SE Asia with strong ties with overseas angels and angel groups. Dr Wong is also the Chairman of BANSEA. Read more
If you have attempted to go global but found yourself fumbling around, this iStart project by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) might interest you. iStart is multi-pronged approach designed to help entrepreneurs and developers build talent and go global with their companies. Through some of the initiatives under iStart, startups can be connected to potential customers, partners and investors. You will also be able to participate in pitching events and have consultation sessions with industry practitioners. Read more
If you’re looking for an event to connect with “a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists”, Startup Weekend is for you. Held in over 100 cities in over 25 countries, this is the first ever Singapore Startup Weekend. Marc Nager, Director of Startup Weekend Global Operations will be coming out for the weekend to help facilitate the weekend and share his experience after being to dozens of successful Startup Weekends around the world. Read more
As part of JFDI.Asia’s Visiting Mentor Program, Margaret Manning of Reading Room will be hosting a series of business clinics from 25 October to 14 November. Read more
It is every girl’s (and boy’s) dream to enjoy the pleasures of ice cream without the accompanying guilt. An age of scientific progress, together with the bombarding of media images, inculcates in us a degree of health-consciousness. This is complemented by a proliferation of frozen yoghurt shops in Singapore, such as Frolick and Yoguru, an indication of a shift in consumer preference. However, can the lightly masked sourness of yoghurt really replace the wonderful flavours of ice cream? As Verleen Goh, the young founder of Soyato, mentions, even chocolate is sour. Read more
Why aren’t more youth actively involved in social change? Why don’t they feel like they can truly make a difference? Why don’t we change that? Syinconnect 2010 is a radically different two day event/experience that mixes social innovation, design thinking, and energetic youth to create _____________ (social change, empowered youth, unforgettable memories, and who knows what else?). Aspiring or active changemakers (roughly of university and polytechnic age) are encouraged to apply to attend. Read more
The Mobile Alliance Executive Committee would like to invite you to their upcoming Meet-the-Members Session on this coming 4th Oct 2010. They are organizing this session to share with you their progress for 2010 and would like to get feedback from members regarding the services and initiatives that are coming up. There will also be networking among fellow member companies. Read more
Singapore location-based ad network, Chalkboard (formerly Chlkboard) today launched their web solution. Their app solution for native solutions launched a few months ago and about a month ago, they reached 1M impressions. We are happy today to be Chalkboard’s first publisher to put up their location-based web ads. You can see us serving their solution in our header (468×60 ad space). Read more
Localization is an essential part of a business strategy. Hear from Hong Qu, who led YouTube’s localization strategy for Asia. He will talk about the importance of a localization strategy and how to design for different cultures, countries or markets. Read more
This geek managed to get hold of Eric for an interview in during Intel AppUp Elements 2010 Conference in Marriott Hotel, San Francisco and we discussed about what Adobe’s strategy for developers are and how Adobe sees themselves helping developers, why they got into a partnership with Intel AppUp, their new service for developers called Melrose, about their thoughts on MeeGo and the status of Flash and AIR support for MeeGo as well as product roadmap.
A special one for the tech startups who are developing apps on Flash and thinking about the business viability of MeeGo and AppUp. Pardon the pretty raw editing though, this geek is so not a video editor and I tried to shorten the video to fast forward to the important parts. Read more
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