December 22, 2010 by Start-Up@Singapore
Got a new product or idea? Always wanted to launch your own business? Join Singapore’s most prestigious business plan competition, Start-Up@Singapore Business Plan Competition and stand to win up to SGD 70,000 in funding! Read more
September 26, 2010 by Start-Up@Singapore
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
July 20, 2010 by Start-Up@Singapore
The rapid growth of the Internet has contributed to the explosive growth of online content in recent years. In addition to traditional text-based content, there is now an unprecedented amount of multimedia content arising mainly from the proliferation of social networking sites and user-generated platforms.
Existing search and retrieval techniques are either text-based or content-based or a combination of both. These approaches are ineffective for abstract or complex queries from users. For a more efficient and effective web-scale media search, there is a need to move from text-based search to a concept-based search to overcome semantic gaps. There is also a need for techniques to perform large-scale indexing of multimedia features to help organisations and individuals cope with this unprecedented flood of media-rich material.
NUS researchers from the School of Computing are pioneering a new generation of media search technologies, spanning from web-scale image/video search to multilingual search, scanned text search and speech-based search.
In this seminar, our researchers will share some of their cutting-edge research results in media search technologies with you. For more details, read the abstracts and biographies of our distinguished speakers below. Read more
June 9, 2010 by Start-Up@Singapore
Organised by the NUS Entrepreneurship Society, the nation-wide business plan competition Start-Up@Singapore 2010 closed with a bang (literally) at its Awards Ceremony held at DBS Auditorium last week, when confetti and streamers were shot high to celebrate the victory of its champion. Acting Minister of Information, Communication and the Arts, Mr Lui Tuck Yew, graced this closing ceremony with the keynote address. Read more
May 22, 2010 by Start-Up@Singapore
The Semi-Final round is over, and 11 Finalists have been selected for this 11th installment of Start-Up@Singapore, the national business plan competition.
Here are the team names and their ideas in a few words: Read more
May 13, 2010 by Start-Up@Singapore
781 individuals participated in 276 teams in this year’s Start-Up@Singapore, the national business plan competition now into its 11th year. Join us at the Awards Ceremony this May and you will get to hear the finalist pitches (Update! 11 finalists have been chosen!) and network with illustrious members of the local entrepreneurship scene. Read more
February 1, 2010 by Start-Up@Singapore
Start-Up@Singapore concluded its first ever 24 Hour Biz Plan Challenge last weekend. Held overnight at the NUS Business School, it was intended for those who wanted the experience of developing a business plan in the shortest time frame possible. The event saw 33 teams of 110 participants in total fighting to keep awake while absorbing as much as they could about entrepreneurship in 24 hours. Read more
January 22, 2010 by Start-Up@Singapore
If you want to challenge yourself to create a totally new product idea, write an executive summary AND refine your pitch enough to present to a panel of unforgiving judges, check out Start-Up@Singapore’s inaugural 24 Hour Biz Plan Challenge. Read more
November 6, 2009 by Start-Up@Singapore
Hear from the Founder and President of 77th Street, Elim Chew; Founder and Managing Director of HungryGoWhere.sg, Dennis Goh; and the Founder and CEO of Plug and Play Tech Centre in Silicon Valley, Saeed Amidi. The session will be moderated by another young entrepreneur, Alvin Yap, Founder of TheMobileGamer (9th S@S Youth Category Winner). Find out how they came to establish themselves and their causes! Read more
October 20, 2009 by Start-Up@Singapore
Singapore’s biggest business plan competition is here again, and their official launch will see Mr. Hsieh Fu Hua, CEO of SGX as the Guest of Honour and also speaking at the panel will be Mr. Tan Kai Hoe, Deputy CEO of SPRING Singapore. Read more
