The Awards Ceremony is a culmination of the 13th Start-Up@Singapore, Singapore’s premier business plan competition, and it will be the platform where the finalists will showcase their ideas and the winners for the competition will be announced. It will be held on the 19th May 2012, Saturday, from 1.15 pm to 3.45 pm.

Start-Up@Singapore (S@S) is supported by the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre, NUS Business School Alumni Association and NUS Business School. Having seen more than 2500 teams participating in the past 12 years, S@S has established itself as a credible and competitive platform, helping entrepreneurs make the critical transition from paper to product. We have helped spin off over 90 companies, doling out up to half a million in cash and in-kind prizes such as incubation space and mentorship support.

Some of the success stories who emerged from Start-up@Singapore include tenCube, which was recently acquired by McAfee, and Soyato, to name a few.

Building on this outstanding track record, 13th Start-Up@Singapore (S@S) has seen more than 1100 participants in the Open and Youth categories from the world over, making this edition the most successful one thus far. For the first time in our competition history, Start-Up@Singapore has introduced the Social Enterprise/Co-operative category in recognition of the growing tide of social entrepreneurs in Singapore.

Out of sixteen Social Enterprise/Co-operative Finalists, winners will receive the top cash prizes of $15,000 and $3,000 in the open and youth categories respectively. In addition, they will also be granted as direct entry into the S@S Grand Finals on 19th May.

The Awards Ceremony will proudly showcase the innovative ideas of the finalists. Having undergone months of rigorous judging and mentoring, the finalists will enter a final showdown on the day itself, with the winning teams from both categories walking away with attractive prizes worth SGD$85,000. Gracing this event will be Mr Chan Chun Sing, Acting minister for MCYS, who will deliver a keynote speech about the Social Enterprise community in Singapore.

During the awards ceremony, competition finalists will each be given 90 seconds to pitch their ideas to the audience. The audience would then vote for their favorite contestant which would determine the “People’s Choice Award”. The prize presentation ceremony will be followed up by an exhibition of the finalists’ ideas and networking tea reception where you will get to network with over 100 leading professionals from the private and public sector.

Event Details

When: Saturday 19th May 2012
Time: 1.15pm to 3.45pm
Where: Genexis Theatre, Fusionopolis, 1 Fusionopolis Way, Singapore 138632. (One North MRT Station) [map]

Register here.

SGE is proud to be the Online Media Partner for the 13th Start-Up@Singapore.

Think of the last banking conference you went to. It probably was just like the last one, and the one before that. Too often, too many banking or financial services conferences are either too corporate, too close-minded or just plain boring.

They don’t include certain fringe players in the industry who can bring new innovative ideas to the table. They don’t include entrepreneurs with new business models for fear of the threat they pose. They don’t connect thought leaders together, or enable the serendipidous coming together of different industries.

Most importantly, these conferences often don’t talk about the reality of the change in front of the industry. The changing consumer, fast evolving technology, increasing uncertainty and volatility at the same time as increasing opportunity are all key environmental factors in any financial services firms roadmap.

Next Bank Asia aims to confront all these issues. Taking place over May 9-10th 2012, Next Bank Asia will create an open dialogue about all these things, using innovative new formats and agenda items.

When: Wed-Thurs 9-10th May 2012
Where: Red Dot Design Museum, 28 Maxwell Rd, Singapore 069120 [map]

Register here.

You are invited to take part in this upcoming JFDI.Asia’s Bookkeeping for Start-ups in Singapore event. Understand the principles of do-it-yourself bookkeeping and refresh your knowledge of incorporating a Singapore Private Limited Company.
This event will explore the role of bookkeepers, accountants, auditors and company secretaries, and important dates to mark in your calendar.

Learn stuff like:

Budget for accounting services in year 1 + 2;
Identify your company’s unique transaction DNA;
Better manage paperwork and cash books;
Managing personal expenses;
Methods of remunerating directors.

Bookkeeping tips for power users

In the second half we will show power users how to get the most out of DIY bookkeeping including credit payments, credit control, credit checking and financial reporting. Discover the most appropriate time for your business to take advantage of outsource bookkeeping.

Plus we will demo QuickBooks Online, Intuit’s small business accounting application in the cloud. Bookkeeping for Start-ups is proudly sponsored by JFDI.Asia and Intuit.

When: Wednesday 9 May 2012
Time: 7pm
Where: Plug-in@Blk71 71 Ayer Rajah Crescent #02-18 Singapore 139951

RSVP to this free event by Monday 7 May 2012

On 2nd May, ACE will be holding an Award Ceremony to recognize the inaugural batch of ACE Startups companies.

During the event, Dr Steven Fang will be sharing about the ACE Mentorship Programme and there will be a panel discussion on “How to Make Mentoring Work for You”. The panel will consist of Dr Steven Fang (Founder and Group CEO of CordLife Limited), Irene Ang (Founder of FLY Entertainment), Jerry Chen (Founder of Express In Music), Jeffrey Paine (Director at Founders’ Institute Singapore) and moderated by Isaac from SGE.

The ACE Startups:

Innervative Learning

Innervative Learning will revolutionise the instruction of Economics, through the creation of a unique and exciting mobile edu-game app, Econopolis.

Vulcheers

Bidmygoods.com is a proposal management platform that allows merchants receive competitive proposals from websites that wish to feature the merchant’s inventory for sale. This platform will therefore allow users to source for finished (excess) goods inventory, just like how alibaba.com exist for primary producers, suppliers and retailers.

CoordSafe

CoordSafe provides tracking and risk prevention services to protect elders through their accessory-like device.

Windphony.com

Windphony aims to breach the current convention by allowing all composers to self-publish their music scores via Windphony’s digital music score distribution platform.

Zinicat

Zinicat is developing a patentable algorithm to match people to food & food outlets.

Biggest Baddest Parties Inc

BBP is a mobile app akin to the compass of the party world. The app will be a one-stop guide for partygoers, offering information about clubs, drink specials, location based services such as where are the nearest watering holes, cover charges, and redeemable rewards systems.

All ID Asia

All ID offers innovative and comprehensive Automatic Identification and Data Collection solutions to industry clients. The flagship solution suite, Pesona comprises 4 basic software engines and portfolio of add-ons for front end applications.

Discarver

Discarver, a smart car solution, mashes and analyses in-car data with contextual data to generate actionable insights to help drivers reduce unnecessary costs and risks.

NIPTE

NIPTE is an internet platform to provide quality financial information and knowledge at affordable prices to amateur or young traders. The platform is designed as a dedicated platform for experienced traders to teach others of their trading strategies and/or systems. In exchange for information, members have to pay subscription fees.

Greendot Gourmet

Greendot Gourmet intends to develop a vegetarian fast food concept that will appeal to youths by repackaging vegetarian cusines prepared at Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant into fast food to be sold at food stalls within tertiary institutions.

ARCSIS

ARCSIS is working with the Food Innovation Resource Centre to develop cooking processes which produce healthier and tasty specialty food choices.

Date & Time: 2 May, 10.00am – 2.00pm
Venue:
OCBC Conference Room, 50th floor
63 Chulia Street, OCBC Centre East,
Singapore 049514

One of the newly minted Technology Incubation Scheme-firm in Singapore, TNF Ventures is launching its fund with rivers and turns, it turns out. Mini-poker is the name of the game this 18th May.

TNF Ventures Launch

When: Friday 18 May 2012, 430pm – 7.30pm
Where: Media Development Authority, F11 Screening Room, 3 Fusionopolis Way, Symbiosis Singapore 138633 [Map]

Register for the launch here.

Poker Video Pitch Submission for Startups

The tournament is however, not open to all. Startups have to partake in a Poker Video Pitch Submission. In two minutes, you have to: “Tell us [them] your Compelling Technology-Based Innovation or Story and why YOU!”

Startups can then stand a chance of being selected to pit their poker face-reading skills against one another other!

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Jerome Punzalan from SpinMeBuddy

While the judges huddled for an hour to decide the winners of the second Startup Weekend Manila, an unlikely person kept the crowd thoroughly entertained.

Call it the first Standup Weekend ever. SW Manila participant Jerome Punzalan came out swinging like Manny Pacquiao, dropping one joke after another, leaving the packed room exploding in laughter and applause. Chants of “More, more!” followed after each punchline.

You would think everyone would be sullen after 54 hours of preparing their pitches, but it turned out that they had an extra fuel tank for the final stretch, with the finishing line clearly in sight.

Finally, the judges streamed back in one by one, and it was time to announce the winners. Read more

Startup Weekend is an intense 54-hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application that could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend. The weekend brings together people with different skillsets – primarily software developers, graphics designers and business people – to build applications and develop a commercial case around them.

This is Cambodia’s second Startup Weekend and it promises to be even BIGGER and BETTER than the last one! There is increased capacity, hosted at a much larger, more modern venue: Yellow Tower and several members of the Startup Weekend Core Team flying for a visit!

When: Friday-Sunday, 22-24th June 2012
Where: Yellow Tower, No. 191, Tonle Sap (Rd.), Village 12, Sangkat Chroy Changva, 12110, Phnom Penh, Cambodia [map]

Register here.

For a one-stop to all events related to or concerning entrepreneurship, certain industry-meets-business forums and seminars in Singapore, check out our Calendar. If not, you can also follow our bite-size updated posts for upcoming events for the week.

Events range from simple get-togethers to full-blown conferences. Get to meet fellow developers, entrepreneurs, startup CEOs & founders, and meet & learn from CEOs of established companies who have seen it all.

Our aim here at SGE is to make it easy for you to pick & choose from the event buffet. Enjoy.

Here are the events for this week. Events are mostly in Singapore (generally 30 minutes drive from anywhere), but we also include key events from around Southeast Asia and beyond. Read more

Remembrance and productive app company, Evernote‘s second annual worldwide developer competition is here: the Evernote Devcup! Devcup challenges software developers and designers to create awesome products that help our 25 million users do more with Evernote. They’ll be awarding over $100,000 in prizes and giving finalists the chance to present their work to the attendees of this year’s Evernote Trunk Conference in San Francisco. Read more

SG Geek Girls, is a Singapore-based initiative to connect females in the tech scene together, is organising a volunteer get-together session on Saturday, 4 May.

During this session, you will find out more about the plans ahead, understand the goals of SG Geek Girls, apply for positions you are interested in and meet the rest of the ladies on the team!

Please note that this is a ladies only event.

Event Details

When: 5th May, Saturday, 11am – 2pm,
Where: Microsoft Singapore, Level 22, NTUC Building, One Marina Boulevard Singapore 018989

Nearest MRT: Raffles Place, Exit J (Ladies only event)

Register here