Youtube is not copyright friendly and Skype is not telco friendly. A break-thru’ product or service is about “breaking the rule”.

In Singapore, one is more likely to be arrested before one can break the rule and come out with a break-thru’ product or service.

Food for thought?

Creating a new business like youtube, or a new invention, or the growth of genus depends solely on the natured instinct of the people.

The curiosity and imagination out of the natured instinct is the mother of all new creations. In the process of the natured instinct interacting with circumstance, the creativity prevails if it is maintained and developed and is stifled when it is turned into intuited instinct. Creativeness decreases generally when intelligence prevails.

The natured instinct could not be measured intelligently. It could only be easily known when it turned into great success or failure. The world is dominated intelligently that could not and chose not see it but it resides in every one of us

The instinct of people either intuited or natured decides all action based on the Total Cognitive Sense.
The Total Cognitive Sense is a state of mind, or a belief, or a feeling or a sum of the three arises on or is generated from a kind of collective or summery of the experience and knowledge that have interacted and obtained from society, family, education, self study, guidance, inculcation and any other sources plus the appropriate awareness of self capability.

The collective or summery process like a mixer continuously receiving all ingredients in a never stopping blending process that are producing a ever changing of mix- the total cognitive sense.

It embeds into the instinct that decides the best possible move consciously or unconsciously in case of emergency.

The intuited instinct base on this sense with intelligent analysis to decide the logical move or an intuition move solely base on the past experiences and knowledge in an emergency.

Natured instinct decides the move while there is no vital information of the ultimate end available to explore the unknown or the creation of new entity. By this nature the move is always abnormal or a surprise in the eye of the general public and against the intelligent belief. It inclines in an emergency, to make the move for the best possibility that is based on belief.

The value of the natured instinct could not be measured and comprehended as it is decided by the ongoing development of that value. It spurs up the creativeness, but creativeness itself is worthless until it turns into an invention, product, service, new entity or great failure.

Unless the people understand the different of this intuited and natured instinct of human, we are then nearer to the creation of great new businesses and inventions by the individual entrepreneur. An entrepreneurial nation could then be possibly built.

Many of us strand at facing the threat and opportunity brought by the globalization and technology evolution. To help ourselves and to make our life better, we need to free ourselves from our usual thinking by understanding our instinct where the “X” factor resides.

Even the government wouldn’t want you in the civil service. A failed entrepreneur is as good as dead.

Why are we talking about making a Singapore YouTube, and not a brandnew SG-made idea?

The decision makers know they want a good dot-com and seeing the success of others make them want to follow instead of creating something new.

Not saying following or coping isn’t good, since it’s proven successful by others. Many would know that Japanese are good copier and innovator such that they can make an old idea / product new.

I believe if we are going to make a Singapoe YouTube, it should be better than the current YouTube or be targeted at a different group of users with innovative functions etc.

If the Singapore YouTube we are talking is just going to be a copy of the current YouTube and with only slight improvements etc, I suggest the idea be dropped as it will only be a waste of funds.

And, instead, take on another idea.

The decision makers should:

Groom more entrepreneurs

Head-hunt potential entrepreneurs from schools and institutes.
(Self-made entrepreneur higher risk-taker, tough against failures)

VALUE THEM, not creating some worthless competition and end of story. (Should put more effort to make the entrepreneur competition pieces into reality if they are practical enough to be made reality)

There are greater opportunities of success in countries other than China and US due to less competitiveness and the ongoing globalization, and a virgin land to grow company the way as skype in Estonia.

Singapore has the ready pool of intelligent people either Singaporean or foreigner the technology mastered is sufficient to form the foundation of creating company like youtube but lack of the steering hand. If such steering hand with the marketplace idea that could move the world do exist, it could not create company like youtube due the Ignorance Of Marketplace Idea By The Decision Makers. The discision makers in the government and VCs could not see the opportunity beyond the cloud. They are the most intelligent people who think and act practically and logically following the growth path that have been proven and taken in the dotcom business.

I believe there are such steering hand with the desire exist in Singapore and if with a few million dolloars Singapore is a better place than SV to grow such a company lavaraging and providing opportunity for the local telants to excel and breakthrougth. Without the few million dollars the steering hand may still take 10 years Path To Top Dotcom.

Fix it along the way… thicken your skin… market like crazy… Get up when you fall… Try again… if you don’t stop… you will get your big hit sooner or later.