Tomorrow, there will be a Chinese New Year Gathering 2012 celebration by Garag3. During the session, Natasha Foong will share about the challenges in engaging large corporations, whether for business partnerships or corporate investments. Natasha Foong was previously Head of EDB VC, co-founder of Valuair Ltd and currently consultant to Club21 as well as Managing Partner of IncuVest, an investor in start-ups.
Event Details
When: Frdaiy, 3rd February 2012
Time: 6pm-8pm
Where: 8, Prince George’s Park (Map)
Register here.
On Aug 5, Garag3 will organize a talk with topic how social media has affected marketing for businesses. The speaker for this event will be Kelly Choo of Brandtology. He will share about his experiences in analyzing social media over the last few years. Increasingly, businesses need to be aware of how to use social media in their marketing strategy. Read more
On Jul 30, Garag3 and NUS Enterprise will organize an iOS Development workshop. The workshop will be conducted by Peter Jihoon Kim, director of creative engineering at ViKi. He will be explaining iOS development using Objective C. Interested participants are required to have basic programming knowledge. Read more
NUS Enterprise and Garag3 will organize an event with title “Funding++: Cash vs the Rest” this upcoming Monday, 20 Jun. Tuff Yen, President of Seraph Group will be the speaker for this event. This event aims to identify founder’s problems in having a balance between smart money vs dumb money. Few questions will be elaborated, such as: What are the principles involved in making such a decision for an investment around? How do then value “networks and contacts? How do we value mentorship? And many more. Read more
Next week, NUS Entrepreneurship Centre and Garag3 is holding a workshop titled “Cracking the UX code User eXperience” with Richard White, CEO of UserVoice, as their expert speaker. Read more
Aarti Gumaledar from Yahoo! Corporate Development team will be here to share Yahoo!’s interest in investing and acquiring potential start-ups. Following are the event details. Read more
TGIF with Stanley Han and Sean Bonner! Stanley of Personal E-Motion will share with his experience in incubating with NUS Enterprise while Sean will share his 16 years of media experience. Read more

Zopim is a company incubating under Garag3 from NUS that helps improve your visitors’ experience on your website. Their product enables your visitors and clients to stay in touch with you through your website, using the most convenient form of communication, instant messages. Of course, they have a larger than life story on how they got started. So, we managed to lock Julian Low and his fellow team mates in the Zopim team (Wenxiang, Royston Tay, Yang Bin) for an interview to tell us about ZopIM. Read more