September 30, 2011 by Terence LEE
Singaporeans may only be second-most irritable office workers around, but they are number one when it comes to time spent on Facebook, clocking in at 38 minutes 46 seconds per session. Read more
September 30, 2011 by Terence LEE
Here’s a shocking revelation that will blow your mind: Men don’t mind female colleagues who wear revealing clothes to work, while women tend to get pissed — or insanely jealous.
Wow. Wee.
These are findings of an admittedly non-scientific survey conducted by LinkedIn to find office worker’s pet peeves. The study polled over 17,000 LinkedIn users in 16 countries. Read more
September 29, 2011 by Egi SEPTIADI
Here are some interesting startup news from Indonesia, not only in its capital, Jakarta, but also other tech startup hubs such as Yogyakarta, Medan, Surabaya, and many more. These listed news are taken from our partner, DailySocial, a leading blog on Indonesia’s tech startup scene. Read more
September 29, 2011 by Terence LEE
People build apps for various reasons. Some do it for sheer entertainment, some just want to show that they can. There are also those who want to build a great product, and others who want to make a statement.
Shen Guyi, co-founder and CEO of LobangClub, certainly belongs to the latter category. ‘Lobang’ roughly means ‘deals’ in Malay, and the LobangClub app has a simple aim — help Singaporeans find a good deal. Read more
September 29, 2011 by Egi SEPTIADI
Here are some interesting startup news from South Korea, not only in its capital, Seoul, but also other startup hubs such as Busan, Incheon, Ulsan and many more. These stories are taken from our partner, onsuccess, a website on start-ups and entrepreneurship in South Korea. Read more
September 29, 2011 by SGEntrepreneurs
This Friday, the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre will organize a talk entitled Building A Viable Social Business with Jack Sim (see interview with SGE) of World Toilet Organization as the speaker. He will speak on the potential of the Base of Pyramid Marketplace and how the audience can seize this opportunity to make an impact regardless of current resources. Read more
September 29, 2011 by SGEntrepreneurs
This Friday, Singapore Polytechnic will organize an Entrepreneurship and Industry Talk entitled ‘Making Money From the Internet’. With Felix Lee as the speaker, this talk will incorporate three elements: Learn, Share and Network.
About the Speaker
Felix helped to develop the Guidelines on Data Privacy whilst with the SITF Wireless Chapter. A proponent of think-tanking by collaboration and crowd-sourcing, he guest lectures at NTU, NUS, SP, and RP on entrepreneurship, persona management; and at TP on digital game-based learning processes. He judged the Motorola Technoventures Competition in 2004; Startup@Singapore 2005/7; and NUS Centennial Entrepreneurship Awards (CEA). Currently, he is a designated mentor and expert panel member of MDA’s iJAM [Interactive Jumpstart and Mentoring] innovation funding programme, and conducts the New Venture Creation MBA Course at NTU Business School.
Programme Details
5pm: Registration/performance
545pm: Entrepreneurship & Industry Talk
645pm: Business Pitching
715pm: Dinner
745pm: Showcase & Networking
830pm: End
Event Details
When: Friday, 30th September 2011
Time: 5pm-830pm
Where: Innovillage, Singapore Polytechnic
Register here.
September 29, 2011 by SGEntrepreneurs
After successfully concluding the first Beercamp Singapore, John Berns will organize another one today. Beercamp is about people and connections. There is no topic, no agenda: the focus is on meeting up and finding common interests. It’s a reason for geeks to get out and socialize, and a chilled-out atmosphere where we can talk shop and talk business, stay in touch with the community and what’s happening. Read more
September 28, 2011 by Gwendolyn Regina T
This Friday we will be chilling with Brian Wey, Director of Product, Zong, which was acquired by PayPal in early July for USD 240M. At the same time, we’ll also be joining the folks behind JFDI as they are having their official launch of their JFDI-Innov8 100-day bootcamp. If you’re interested to join us, please sign up here.
September 28, 2011 by SGEntrepreneurs
This Friday, Grace Chng of Singapore Press Holdings and John Phillip of DocuBuzz will be the speakers of Developer Garage. Both speakers will give a different talk, both focusing on escalating and potentially explosive tablet sales.
Grace will give a talk on “iPad Dominance”. Google’s acquisition of Motorola and HP’s killing of WebOS has led to the question of whether there is life for non-iOS tablets. She will discuss the demise of Touchpad and its impact on RIM, Microsoft and Apple, as well as the outlook for consumers and developers.
Meanwhile, John Phillip will outline key challenges faced by DocuBuzz in developing its tablet-oriented DynaMeet meeting management solutions. Read more
