This year, Start-Up@Singapore (S@S) saw 1000 participants from over 17 countries, making it the most successful installment thus far. The awards cermeony will showcase the finalists of the 12th Start-Up@Singapore and their ideas. Having been through months of rigorous judging processes 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 of close to SGD$100K (USD$80K). Check out the speakers below and view the programme here. Read more
The ideas.inc. Business Challenge 2011 has released its top 15 teams. These semi-finalists will be awarded SGD 15K (USD 12K) each to take their business idea to the next level at which they will again present their projects before 6 finalists will be chosen. Read more
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If you belong to the camp that believes in business plan competitions, there are three main ones in Singapore: Start-Up@Singapore National Business Plan Competition, Ideas.Inc and the Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition. Here’s two side-by-side comparisons of the three, with prize money, timelines and dates. Read more
If you view yourself as a thinker and global visionary, the Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition is the perfect platform for you to share your ideas with the world. Currently in its 6th installment, the competition was first launched in 2001 to provide participants with an avenue to showcase their business plans and entrepreneurial talents on a global stage, attract seed funding to further their business ambitions as well as extend their network through the Competition. Read more
We present the slides for the talk in Start-Up@Singapore on the topic “How to write an executive in 24 hours”. It provides a comprehensive guide with examples to how one can write a 2-5 pages executive summary: (a) introduction, (b) problem/opportunity, (c) technology/service/product, (d) team, (e) route to market, (f) business strategies, (g) financials and (h) exit strategy. Read more
Singapore, 26 August 2009 – Young aspiring entrepreneurs now have a unique platform to turn their innovative ideas into business ventures. Today, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and SPRING Singapore have launched the ideas. Business Challenge to spur them on. ideas.inc. is a unique competition that brings together a powerful combination of funding support and expert mentorship for aspiring entrepreneurs. It goes beyond a typical business plan competition to encompass the development and commercialisation of the innovative business ideas. Read more
This Challenge aims to catalyse social projects that are innovative, implementable and impactful in Singapore and Asia.
The Lien i3 Challenge will award up to $1 million to spur ideas and make possible new social models. Read more
This initiative called “Asia Forum for Clean Energy Financing” seeks to nurture individuals/teams/startup companies with environmentally beneficial business proposals with the eventual hope of transforming them into reality. Read more

Calling all enterprising students, aspiring entrepreneurs, curious onlookers and simply anyone who wishes to turn his/her ideas into the next big thing! Join us at the Awards Ceremony of Start-Up@Singapore 2008 – the national business plan competition – to catch a glimpse of the most innovative and promising business plans that we received this year. Some highlights of this event include pitches by the winning teams and a showcase of all the Finalists. Read more

After a couple of months of transition, team building and planning, Start-Up@Singapore (S@S) kicks off this year with our Official Launch on 15 October 2007 at the SingTel hello! Comcentre near Somerset MRT. Scheduled to run from 4.00pm to 6.00pm, our Guest-of-Honour is Mr Michael Yap who is the Deputy CEO of the Media Development Authority (MDA) and Executive Director of the Interactive Digital Media (IDM) R&D Programme Office. Read more