Major Announcement: Gwendolyn Tan, the current chief editor of Singapore Entrepreneurs (SGE) is slated to become the new chief editor of Malaysia Entrepreneurs (MYE). A few weeks of serious and intense negotiations over Skype were made between both managers, BL and Daniel Cerventus. There were also several last minute urgent flights that both Gwen and BL had taken to KL to meet with the team of MYE.
The appointment is slated to start in 1 May 2009 with Gwen to be a joint chief editor of both SGE and MYE with her spending at least 4 days in Kuala Lumpur this weekend. This would be the first extended trip on her end that would give her enough time to bond with the MYE team. They intend to take her on a sight-seeing tour around KL and bring her on an all-expenses paid diving holiday around Malaysia’s many wonderful islands as a welcome gift.
On the appointment, BL believes that it is a good step to the future, paving the way to a possible merger of the two online portals by the end of the year. He believes that the combined merger of SGE and MYE will allow them to take out the whole Southeast Asia market. They have ear-marked the end of July 2009 to begin discussions of this potential merger.
Originally reluctant to this joint editor deal, it took him some time to concede that it is better off than losing Gwen as a full time editor in SGE. He hopes that Gwen’s appointment in MYE will show an example that Singaporeans should stop complaining about foreign talent in Singapore and instead, focus their attention on becoming foreign talent in other countries. He joked, “If they cannot become foreign talent, they should at least try being entrepreneurs. Given the choice of failure and trying, I think that Singaporeans should learn to create new wealth for themselves.”
His counterpart, the current manager of MYE, Daniel Cerventus hails the appointment of Gwen as the chief editor, “We are looking for fresh new ideas to take us forward. SGE has established itself as the top online destination for entrepreneurship in Singapore. We did think about appointing an editor within MYE, but we thought that it is good to replicate its success in Malaysia.”
The appointment will be for 3 years but no further details can be revealed. On the appointment, Gwen thinks it’s a great step forward for entrepreneurship in both Singapore and Malaysia. Also she appreciates the welcome gifts, but insists that the free apartment is unnecessary (though the holiday was a nice gesture).
Update: This was for our April Fool’s 2009.
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With Valentine’s day in just a few days time. We have a new poll up!
Will you consider using a dating agency?
Yes.
Only if it is free.
Over my dead body.
UPDATE: A total of 33 votes were cast and each response garnered 33% of the vote. Yes, an equal distribution. What does this mean?
That if you were in the dating industry, 33% of the population will always elude you.
If you don’t charge for your dating services, you will have available a market of 66% instead of 33%.
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SGEntrepreneurs is happy to announce that we have signed on with Microsoft to be a Network Partner in their BizSpark™ programme. We are the first blog in APAC to have this privilege! From here forth, we join a global initiative aimed at helping startups by subsidizing their costs of development software for technology startups over a three year period. Read more
To all who celebrate this coming of the Ox year, let’s hope for a more bullish year for all. The team at SGE would like to thank all our readers and partners for your emails, messages and comments. We do hope to continue to hear from you. Link up with us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, FriendFeed and sign up for our newsletter.
We hope you have found inspiration from our interviews with local entrepreneurs, and gained insights from our articles. In this downturn economy, as many more entrepreneurs are struggling with cashflow and survival, we hope to be able to bring their stories to you and give them the recognition they deserve. Happy Chinese New Year.
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Yes, so we’ve finally redesigned SGEntrepreneurs again. Some of you didn’t take to the previous iteration so we now have a new one for you to throw insults at. Tell us what you think in the comments and if anything is broken. Obviously, we’re still tweaking the site so please be patient with us for a little bit longer. Take the Blue Pill if you need to.
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For your support and encouragement, the founders and the resident contributors thank all of you for a wonderful year of 2008. We have passed a very turbulent year and are about to brace in the midst of a difficult time. According to an experienced investor I know, this may be the worst financial crisis we see in our lifetime and yet there is hope. The greatest wealth are often created in the times of great difficult times. In bad times, we should conjure a famous quote by Winston Churchill during World War II in the darkest moment, “Never, never, never give up!”. We want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and hope that the coming year will bring good fortune and health to all. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Apologies for the outage, Halloween got the best of us. We bet you were having too much fun to be reading us anyway. Happy (belated) Halloween!
Press Release – 1 Sep 2008 – SGEntrepreneurs has launched in a new format. This new look is brought about by Isaac Timothy T 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.
