Singapore Entrepreneurs

Press Release - 1 Sep 2008 - SGEntrepreneurs has launched in a new format. This new look is brought about by Ian Timothy who is joining our Editorial Team in a new role, which we shall unveil soon. Nevertheless, we thought a new look might freshen things up for us and we promise that more things will be coming up soon from us, from the perspective of new content and categories. At the moment, we will be slowly working to put the features back on the sidebars, for example, the RSS feeds from our friends in E27, The Digital Movement and Malaysia Entrepreneurs and other features which we need on our site. We continue to look forward to your support.

The SG Entrepreneurs team continues their annual tradition to wish Singapore a happy 43rd National Day. In a time of turbulence from the US credit crunch and rising costs of oil and other related commodities, we also appeal to the government to take note of the issues which the entrepreneurs in the small and medium enterprises are facing - high inflation and rising costs for office rent, transport & infrastructure resources. We wish everyone to be healthy and a thriving and vibrant economy in the coming year, and all in all, making opportunity out of the present adversity.

A few days back, Gwen and Weichang notified me that our blog is finally reaching our third birthday and our official birthday is 18 July (the day which we registered the domain). Hence it is that time of the year to have the third state of our blog. Believe it or not, our blog has already made it to the third year and we are still growing. Instead of really talking about things which we did this year or not, I like to use this third state of the blog to open up how SGE has maintained its position over the years with her partners, and the many more things which we hope to do within the two years or more. [ Read More ]

Editor’s Note: SG Entrepreneurs is happy and honoured to be part of this new Asia web initiative. Press Release: We are very excited to announce the OpenWeb.Asia Workgroup, the first workgroup in Asian Internet industry. OpenWeb.Asia Workgroup is a network of premium blogs focused on the Asian Web industry. These sites build efficient channels between Asia web and global industry, and also enhance the inter-communication of local Internet markets. [ Read More ]

Press Release - After a few months of intense negotiation, TechCrunch, the famous Silicon Valley blog on web start-ups has reached an agreement with the founders of SGEntrepreneurs.com for a major takeover of US$50K in the next couple of months. The acquisition is a move by TechCrunch to continue their rapid expansion into Southeast Asia. Within two and half years with half a million of page views and quarter of a million in unique visitors, the blog has already extended its reach beyond the shores of Singapore and adapted web startups as their focus. The blog has attracted 40% of the foreign market mainly from the other countries. The SGE blog has extensive contacts with web 2.0 start-ups and venture capital groups in both China and India that provided the incentive for a possible acquisition. The founders will stay in the blog and continue to ramp up the operations of the blog by setting up offices in Asean countries and also a TechCrunch Asia conference in Singapore at the end of 2008. Mike Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch believed that this is a match made in heaven between both blogs. He was impressed with Singapore’s current efforts in IDM, particularly, the rapping video that took the government officials in the Media Development Authority of Singapore to fame. He cited the strong support of the government and the rise of interesting internet start-ups in Singapore as reasons to why this acquisition has been done. More details will be released in the next couple of days.

Editor’s Note: It’s an April Fool’s day joke from the SGE Editorial Team. :)