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October 2, 2012 by SGE
Gushcloud aims to be the best place in the world for people to connect with brands meaningfully. It was founded in Singapore in 2011 and has a presence in Singapore, San Francisco, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Read more
June 19, 2012 by Terence LEE
Users, it seems, can no longer log in to both Gushcloud and ChurpChurp using Facebook Connect. A reader has pointed out to us that the Facebook sign-in button has been removed from the homepages of both companies.
Notably, both services have introduced an email signup system at almost the same time — just a day apart in fact. In an email to users, Gushcloud framed the introduction as a “ transition into a VERY exciting new phase.”
ChurpChurp’s Facebook app had apparently also been inaccessible for hours.
In its place is this message: “The app ‘ChurpChurp’ is temporarily unavailable due to an issue with its third-party developer. We are investigating the situation and apologize for any inconvenience.” Read more
April 13, 2012 by SGE
Startup Asia Jakarta 2012, hosted by Tech in Asia, is pleased to invite startups across Asia to apply for the upcoming Startup Arena competition to be held in Jakarta, Indonesia, on June 7 and 8.
Startup Arena is a startup competition run within Startup Asia Jakarta 2012 for entrepreneurs, serving as a launchpad for startups to get a headstart in Asia’s mobile and internet industry today. About 20 startups will be selected to pitch and challenge on the Arena stage, in front of top investors, industry leaders, and press for US$10,000 as a top prize. Startups can send in their applications here.
Submissions will be reviewed based on a first-come-first-served basis, hence it would be an added advantage to submit your application early so that entrepreneurs can prep their killer pitches. Tech In Asia will give preference to startups who are new, struggling, and unknown but with a brilliant product to demo and an awesome team.
Demo is a primary requirement, and pitches have to be done in English. The team at Startup Arena will also provide a week-by-week pitch consultation in the run-up to the event to help practice your pitch. The recent Arena competition held at Singapore attracted about 300 applications, out of which 19 startups were selected to compete.
Teamie, an educational collaboration platform, walked away as the Startup Arena Singapore winner last time round. According to Tech In Asia, long with Teamie, other finalists at Startup Arena Singapore have gone on to secure seed funding – namely GushCloud and Phroni.
Startup Arena Jakarta will take place at Upperroom at Annex building, Jakarta, from June 7th – 8th, 2012.
April 5, 2012 by Guest Contributor
Vincent Ha, co-founder and CEO of Singapore-based Gushcloud, shares his not-so-smooth-sailing experience at SXSW 2012. Republished with permission from the company’s blog.
The sun was beating down on me. The Austin weather at SXSW is simultaneously cold and scorching. Some words come out of my mouth, but I’m not sure what I had just said. Whatever I said, it seems to have gotten a negative reaction.
‘Don’t give me another one of those we’re X for Y type of pitches. Talk to me like I’m an normal person!’
He was referring to my first elevator pitch attempt, “Gushcloud is like Task Rabbit for social media marketing.” But when I tried it at the last event, it seemed to work well!
Quick, think fast.
I brush it off and try again to illustrate what Gushcloud is with a relevant example (read our feature on Gushcloud).
“Sure, so what business do you do?”
“I build live chat software for businesses.”
Crap! B2B business! Can I cram it into the B2C example that I’ve been using all along? I’m starting to feel uncomfortable. I have a beer in hand and I take a swig. Read more
April 4, 2012 by Terence LEE
You can be sure that whenever a social network becomes successful, people will try to make money off it. Twitter is a very good example.
Of late, all sorts of people have been gaming the social network. For instance, using Twitter bots to artificially boost the number of Twitter followers, as what US Presidential nominee Newt Gingrich allegedly did.
Which was why I approached Gushcloud with some skepticism.
Gushcloud is a Singapore-based startup that, in a nutshell, rewards its users to perform certain tasks promoted by marketers: Tweeting or sharing on Facebook about a product, writing a blog post, or completing a survey. In this way, it’s similar to ChurpChurp. Read more
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