Next Wednesday, NUS Entrepreneurship Centre will hold a panel discussion entitled “Startup Asia: Top strategies for cashing in Asia’s Innovation Boom”. It will reveals the winning strategies of a new generation of entrepreneurs who no longer look to Facebook, Amazon and eBay for cues but are crafting their own business models, going global, and scoring IPOs on Wall Street. The panel includes Koh Soo Boon of iGlobe Partners, Wong Kok Cheong of Sparky Animation, Darius Cheung of tencube Wavesecure. Rebecca A. Fannin and Prof Wong Poh Kam will act as moderators.
Event Details
When: Wednesday, 16th November 2011
Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm (Registration starts at 6:00pm)
Where: Blk 71 Ayer Rajah Crescent #02-18, Singapore 139951 (Map)
Register here.
This Friday, the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre will organize a talk entitled Building A Viable Social Business with Jack Sim (see interview with SGE) of World Toilet Organization as the speaker. He will speak on the potential of the Base of Pyramid Marketplace and how the audience can seize this opportunity to make an impact regardless of current resources. Read more
Next week, NUS Entrepreneurship Centre will organize a workshop with Robin Low of Relief 2.0 as the speaker. This two-day course in marketing and PR is suitable for those who have no prior knowledge of public relations, social media or experience in copywriting. They can walk away gaining the confidence to start a social media campaign and engage with the media.
About the Speaker
Robin is an international entrepreneur who is involved in training, researching and consulting companies on the use of Social Media. Robin is currently helping in a project on rebranding Baja California in a collaboration project with Emerson College and the Mexican Tourism Board. Robin is also giving trainings to the Tourism industry in Sri Lanka and several companies in Singapore.
Robin has been training companies on Social Media since 2008, and in 2009 did a comprehensive training for Aitken Spence Hotels and Aitken Spence Travels, the largest hotel chain in Sri Lanka, which has Luxury hotels in Maldives, India, Oman and Sri Lanka. Aitken Spence has since seen an increase in hotel occupancy, customer retention and Internet bookings.
Robin is a guest speaker at many universities, including Emerson College, Harvard University, National University of Singapore and Singapore Management Institute. Robin also started @SGbrands, a twitter account helping Singapore Companies spread their brands and @SGTweetup, a twitter networking account. And managed several Twitter gatherings and talks in Singapore, Boston and New York.
Event Details
When: Thursday to Friday, 15th-16th September 2011
Time: 9am-5pm
Where: National University of Singapore, Blk 15 Prince George’s Park Residence, Basement 1, Venture Lab, Singapore 118430 (Map)
Register here by 13th Sep noon.
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
There is considerable interest among policy-makers in measuring the entrepreneurial character of nations. A number of approaches and indices have been proposed for the study of the question. But what is an ‘entrepreneurial economy’? In this talk Professor Erkko Autio, QinetiQ-EPSRC Chair in Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship in Physical Sciences, reviews different approaches to measuring the entrepreneurial character of nations and discuss their merits and weaknesses. He concludes by proposing a policy-oriented conceptual definition for the concept of an ‘entrepreneurial nation’. Read more
Boyd started the company, Enzer with S$10,000, where he was the Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Enzer became a world renowned brand with products sold in 33 countries and won the Superbrands award for 3 consecutive years. The company was listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange in May 2001. In 2006, the sales turnover reached close to S$ 80 million. Boyd will share the growth strategies Enzer adopted (including branding and international market penetration) to grow from S$10,000 to S$80million. Read more
Tech entrepreneurship is spreading throughout Asia’s innovation hotspots. The region’s advanced mobile communications and Internet markets, wealth of talented and motivated entrepreneurs and solid government support for advanced technologies all make Asia a world leader in disruptive breakthroughs. The trend has spanned now to biotech and cleantech as well. Venture capital investment has arrived in a big way too, and is helping Asian startups get to the next level and go IPO on NASDAQ and the NYSE. Meet and hear from Ms. Rebecca Fannin Journalist and Author of “Silicon Dragon” as she talks more about China, India and the Next Frontier of Tech Innovation. Read more
Localization is an essential part of a business strategy. Hear from Hong Qu, who led YouTube’s localization strategy for Asia. He will talk about the importance of a localization strategy and how to design for different cultures, countries or markets. Read more
Technology played a significant part in bringing about this fast changing world. In a simplistic way, we could summarize as follows: The advancement in Computing, Logistics and Telecommunication technology have flattened all forms of supply chain. The end result is a massive Globalization trend.
Nobody is spared. Not even us on this little red dot. To hold our place under the sun, we need to be part of the global technological thrust. We do have many of the ingredients to be successful as a viable innovator over the global technology landscape.
Drawing from his experience as the former HP general manager for the Handheld Products Division as well as the formal CEO of MediaRing, which did pioneering work in the VoIP space, Khaw will talk about the three important trends, which are fundamental to our immediate future as innovator. They are the Sharing Transaction Model in a Knowledge-Based Environment, Life at the perpetual edge of the Internet and the Third Screen. Khaw will also talk about the challenges one will face as an innovator and the joy of giving form to one’s idea. He will illustrate his talk with examples from his past works at HP and MediaRing.” Read more
Learning from the experience of others, as well as from your own, will allow you to enhance your career. Inspiring lessons learned from entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs of Apple, Jonney Shih of ASUS and Andy Rubin of Google will be featured during the discussion. The objective of the talk is to share personal business development experiences with the audience. Read more
