Australia-based startup accelerator Pollenizer is making an entrance to Singapore, and they hope to start their first business in Southeast Asia by July.
They’re seeking a co-founder to work with. Unlike other accelerators, Pollenizer acts not just as an investor but an active co-founder. Applicants have the option of investing their own money in exchange for more equity. Read more
Recognizing the importance language has in building and maintaining relationships, Path, a mobile-centric social network app, recently rolled out seven new languages: Dutch, Norwegian, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Bahasa Indonesian, Malay, and UK English. This adds on to the nine that are currently available: Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, French, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
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Come 28th August 2012, Koprol will be no more. Indonesian tech blog DailySocial has reported that Yahoo!, which acquired the Indonesian location-based social networking startup in 2009, is shutting down the service.
The news comes three months after Yahoo! fired about 80 percent of its technical development team in Indonesia, DailySocial added. Read more
Businesses must be aware of a fundamental truth about many social networks: They are built for people, not brands.
Creating a business profile page on Facebook serves no purpose if you can’t attract people to it with a compelling social media strategy. And that requires a lot of resources and patience.
As such, B2B businesses that don’t interest consumers are better off looking elsewhere. Cyfler might be one destination.
In essence, Cyfler is a B2B social network based in Singapore that connects one company to another. It sets itself apart from Facebook and LinkedIn by being designed from the ground up to help B2B companies get customers.
Putting it another way, it’s a web billboard (think Craigslist, but more visual) with social network features tacked on.
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Plug and Play Tech Center from the US and the Science and Technology Advisory Council of Silicon Valley (STAC-SV), in cooperation with UP Cebu and CeBuinIT, recently held a pitching event, the Visayas round of the ON3 Startup Pitching Competition in the Philippines, from 10-12th April 2012.
The competition provided an opportunity for young Philippines entrepreneurs to present their technology business ideas and be heard by the same group of venture capitalists who have funded global internet brands such as Google and Facebook, among others. Check out photos of the competition here.
Now, the final few companies have been selected and they will compete in the national final round on Thursday, 12th July during the DOST National Science Week.
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We’ve just been told that Flocations, a Singapore travel discovery startup, is now powering budget airline AirAsia’s new app on Google Chrome.
Flocations is essentially a web service that lets users search for plane tickets by price. They can also set the desired destination and duration of their trip. Read more
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After two successful runs in Singapore and Shanghai, the annual Asian Business Angel Forum headed over to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) on 23rd-26th May. It saw “30 top business leaders, revolutionary angel investors, policy making venture capitalists and proven start up specialists from across the world coming together on one stage to dialogue, address and train 500 of Asia’s top entrepreneurs and angel investors”.
Check out what those present had to say about ABAF 2012:
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Calling all women entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs in Singapore!
Secret {W} Business, an organisation connecting like-minded women to fulfill their budding entrepreneurial dreams, will be launching its very first Speed {W} Networking session titled “After Hours” 2.0 at SpeakEasy, a wine bar. This event will involve girls meeting each other one at a time for a short interval of two minutes and then moving on to the next person in line.
Kara Bensley, founder of WYLD Agencies (a platform for Asia Pacific brands to be discovered), will also be sharing her tips for entrepreneurs in Singapore. Read more
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So Indonesia is now officially more entrepreneurial than United States or Germany.
That’s according to an infographic by Gist, which describes the Silicon Valleys of the world. While I’m not trying to diss Indonesians, I find the results somewhat suspicious. So I went snooping around.
It turns out that the conclusion is derived from an “Entrepreneurship Index”, which gave Indonesia a score of 2.81 and the US a score of 2.8.
The scores come from a survey in which people were asked to gauge the following about their country: Whether innovation and creativity are highly valued, how easy it is for people to start a business, whether people who start their own businesses are highly valued, and whether people with good ideas can usually put them into practice.
The infographic revealed that Indonesia ranked 48th in the world for attractiveness to investors. The country has also apparently made it easier for entrepreneurs to get funds and start a business. Read more
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