May 31, 2011 by Gwendolyn Regina T
After LinkedIn‘s IPO (some say spectacular, some argue otherwise), the professional social network is opening an office in Singapore to be their Asia Pacific headquarters. While we already know that LinkedIn Japan is also in the works, the Singapore office seems more firmed up with Arvind Rajan, LinkedIn’s managing director and vice president for Asia-Pacific and Japan moving here. Read more
May 31, 2011 by SGEntrepreneurs
This year, 2011, is all about tablets. If you develop apps for tablets, the SingTel i.Challenge11 might interest you. This Thursday, Singtel Innovation Exchange (SiX) is official launching the SingTel i.Challenge 11. Take this opportunity to hear the latest on tablets, network with industry experts and meet with fellow developers to discuss the next big thing in Enterprise Apps. Read more
May 30, 2011 by SGEntrepreneurs
Attend this Drupal Meetup to learn how to allow your CRM to be integrated to 3rd party applications or create a RESTful server when you build a mobile app.
Arul Kumaran is a Flash Platform Consultant and Chief Technology Officer at LuraCast, a company that build Tools, Utilities and Services for Web/Mobile/Application/Content Developers to ease and improve their productivity. Sven Berg Ryen is creative director at Maxus Media & Software, a Singapore based company that delivers Drupal solutions and knowledge to empower web developers and editors. Read more
May 30, 2011 by Gwendolyn Regina T
Looks like the interactive digital media incubation centre, Blk71 just got a new tenant in FounderHQ. Affiliated with Founder Institute Singapore, FounderHQ is a co-working space (~ 2000 sq ft) for founders of early stage startups. Read more
May 30, 2011 by Gwendolyn Regina T
When you want to map something like the “startup genome”, you know you need more than just your four co-working founder friends – you need an army of people and organisations who work with startups to make it happen. Enter the seed accelerator, Blackbox. Co-founded by techVenture, StartupSchool, and FoundersFirst, Blackbox’s extended team has a track record of working with 100+ startups, including 15 exits such as Bebo, Tapulous and Lala. Now, having profiled more than 650 web startups, Blackbox has released its first Startup Genome Report. It is the first major step toward cracking the innovation code and in their words, “spreading the magic of Silicon Valley to the rest of the world”. Read more
May 29, 2011 by SGEntrepreneurs
After the official kickoff of the Singapore Startup Roots Speaker Series by Neoteny Labs’ Joichi “Joi” Ito two weeks ago, next up we have Carl Coreyll-Martin, the Managing Director of Pivotal Labs Singapore. He will speak about the “Wringing out the Muda, Mura and Muri in your Software Process”. Read more
May 28, 2011 by SGEntrepreneurs
Female entrepreneurs/geeks, pencil into your calendar the evening of 6th June. Together with Women 2.0 and PlayMoolah, SGE is co-hosting a women-only mixer to meet fellow founders (both aspiring and current) and the Women 2.0 Pitch Director from Silicon Valley over appetizers and drinks. Read more
May 28, 2011 by Guest Contributor
Angel investor and professor Dr. Wong Poh Kam here provides an overview of the angel investing scene in Singapore. An extended version of this article will appear as a chapter in a forthcoming book on Angel Investing in Asia, edited by John Lo.
As in other newly industrialized economies in Asia, business angel investing in early stage start-up companies has been relatively new in Singapore. This is due to the fact that the phenomenon of high tech start-ups is itself relatively new in Singapore, having really taken off only since the late-1990s as the Singapore economy began its shift towards a knowledge-based, innovation-driven economy. While business angel investment deals are known to have existed in the 1980s and early 1990s, they were mainly in the traditional trading and manufacturing sectors, as was found in a study of 29 angel investors. Read more
May 27, 2011 by SGEntrepreneurs
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. Events are mostly in Singapore (generally 30 minutes drive from anywhere), but we also include key events from around Southeast Asia and beyond. Read more
May 27, 2011 by Gwendolyn Regina T
When we wrote about DEMO coming to Singapore with DEMO Asia (ex-China), there was a huge buzz. Produced primarily in the US, DEMO is a conference that focuses on launching new technologies and products.
Some of the innovations that were launched at past DEMO events have become well-known brands. These include Adobe Acrobat, Skype Mobile and Sun Microsystems’ Java, among others. Read more
