For a one-stop to all events related to or concerning entrepreneurship, certain industry-meets-business forums and seminars in Southeast Asia, check out our Calendar. If not, you can also follow our bite-size updated posts for upcoming events for the week. Events range from simple get-togethers to full-blown conferences. Get to meet fellow developers, entrepreneurs, startup CEOs [...]
Although the case studies from this book are already outdated (as it was written in 1996), the lessons learnt and the concept of a strategic inflection point together with its implications for the high technology industry by Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel Corporation, are relevant for today. This is a highly recommended book even [...]
Grant Cardone, an international sales training expert, talks about how lowering the price of your product is often a mistake: Only one product can win the price battle. Instead, convince customers that your product is solving a real problem. Grant dishes out some advice on how you can increase the value of your product in [...]
Hear it from the industry leaders. As mobile broadband adoption continues unabated in 2012, the telecom industry is facing a new era of opportunity and challenges to deliver a smooth experience in the increasingly important mobile cloud. Listen to the chief protagonists in Singapore and Southeast Asia, from Google, StarHub, HP, Tellabs, Samsung and other [...]
If you are reading SGE, you are probably already partial to startups, perhaps having founded one yourself or are working in one. If not, why not consider joining a dynamic startup to see for yourself what it is like working with just two other people in your entire company? If you are looking for a [...]
Seed Forum is a global organization hosting investor conferences in more than 30 countries and is considered as one of the most professional and experienced venues for presentations of investor ready start-up companies. The mission of Seed Forum is to create a global investor matchmaking market place for seed and venture capital without national or [...]
Live update: May 18 11.00PM EST (UTC-5) – Zopim service has been shut down May 19 12.30AM EST (UTC-5) – Voxel has started physical migration of servers May 19 3.40AM EST (UTC-5) – The physical migration of servers is over. … Con…
If you logged into GameMaki this morning, you may notice that your points have increased by a good tens … or even hundreds (if you are really that awesome). Well, your eyes aren’t kidding you! We tweaked the points system a little over the week, and here is the latest points structure! You will receive [...]
The last time we saw mobile app Chatworthy was at DEMO Asia 2012, where Keeran Janin, co-founder of Brunei startup MeSixty, gave a pitch about the product they’re developing (watch a short video interview with Keeran at DEMO Asia). Now, they have launched the iPad app as a public beta. Chatworthy lets users view and [...]
We are currently in the running for the Gamification Awards held by The Gamification Summit, specifically the Gamification Greatest Impact Award and the Best Use of Gamification in a Consumer Facing Application Award. Please vote for us, and we will love you forever! You’ll be aiding us in our quest to dominate the gamification scene [...]
Come to the Web Wednesday Singapore to find out what you need to know about “The Past, Present and Future of Location Based Media”. Join us for a conversation about this topic with Constantine Frantzeskos, Regional Digital Engagement Director, Asia-Pacific for O&M. Constantine (Con) Frantzeskos is a passionate and experienced digital marketer whose role is [...]
Loyalty cards are inefficient and generate a lot of waste. Even digital ones. A while ago, I was at a music shop and decided to preorder a music album for a friend. To my delight, I received two chops on Perx, a loyalty card app I recently featured. But to my dismay, I was eight [...]
Win the Geek Badge if you can read it upside down. Photo credit to endlesspicdump.com. Level up to Phantom of Fun if you write a comment. Get the most Likes for your comment and we’ll send you a t-shirt. Points, badges, levels, leaderboards, rewards – this is gamification, a term that describes competivizing tasks and [...]
Career Switch, Graduation, Hosting failure – these are typical situations that everyone would face and will need to migrate emails. Yet, despite how common these scenarios play out in everyone’s life, there isn’t a simple way to move emails from one place to another. Recently, Dropmyemail launched their email back up and migration service, which [...]
¡Hola Vikiers! ¡Saludos desde Seúl, Corea del Sur! Soy Jenny, la nueva asesora de soporte de la comunidad de Viki, pero a la vez no soy tan nueva! He estado con Viki por ya casi más de 2 años! De … Continue reading →
Clearbridge BioMedics has won the 2012 Asian Entrepreneurship Awards in a business plan competition held from 9-11th May 2012 in Kiashiwanoha, Japan. The company won due to its ClearCell System, a cell-based invitro diagnostic device that isolates and retrieves intact and viable circulating tumor cells from blood. It was the only Singaporean participant out of [...]
Google Southeast Asia’s senior conversion specialist, Vinoaj Vijeyakummar, has left the search company to become the head of product development at Dropmyemail, a service owned by Singapore startup DropMySite, reported techcircle. The company is started by ex-marketing professional John Fearon. Dropmyemail is a service that lets users back-up their emails on the cloud. It has [...]
Aren’t there times when you wish you could relive your high school days? The teenage crushes, the easy classes, the massive schoolyard gang fights…what, you didn’t have those? Then you must not have gone to school with Yoon Eun-Hye in … Continue reading →
Organized by the Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) and Exploit Technologies, this event provides a great platform for venture capitalists, angel & institutional investors, private sector entrepreneurs and business communities to get an insight into A*STAR and local start-ups, investor-ready spin-offs and near-to-market technologies. It is also a great opportunity to network with investors, leading [...]
Three weeks ago we had the beta release of real-time collaboration in Creately and the feedback was amazing. We are really privileged to have committed users like you who are eager to help out by giving feedback. So after a very tiring few weeks, we are ready to roll it out to everyone by default. After this release every Creately user will have real-time collaboration enabled for them. So share a diagram with your friends and experience [...]
This posts was originally published at Creately blog. Click Real-Time Collaboration is Live ! to visit the blog post. Visit the Creately website to learn more about Online Diagramming Tools.
2011 has turned out to be a breakout year for mobile commerce in Singapore, says PayPal‘s Online and Mobile Shopping Insights 2011 study. The report has revealed that the country’s mobile commerce market has grown by 660 percent reach S$328M (US$259M) last year from S4$3M (US$33M) in 2010. The study was conducted by The Nielsen [...]
Meet Chen Kai Wei at SoLoMo Thursday on 31st May in Singapore. The Chief Consulting Officer of 2359 Media will discuss the challenges of creating mobile products and some learning points on the potential pitfalls that you should look out for. Brief: In a rising flood of apps, how should you make your app stand [...]
Dropmyemail will be heading down to Mumbai, India to be part of TechSparks’s Regional Round Table on the 26th of May, 2012. The Indian market is one of the fastest growing user base in terms of sheer number. It is expected to have the 3rd largest Internet user base in the world. Over the last 10 [...]
SuperHappyDevHouse is here in Singapore again! First started in Silicon Valley back in 2005, SuperHappyDevHouse’s name conveys two ideas; first that this is a ‘Development House’ where technical developers will come together to build fun projects and presents them. Second is that it is a social event, fun to attend, and a great way to [...]
Sahil Lavingia, a 20-year-old entrepreneur, shares some tips on attracting investors. He was with the founding team of Pinterest before leaving to build his own startup Gumroad, which makes buying and selling online much easier. One of the things he did was to build relationships with investors before even building his startup. He did it [...]
Drawn from his blog “Startup Lessons Learned” and sharing his experiences as the former CTO of IMVU, The Lean Startup is Eric Ries’s (@ericries) effort, in his own words, to change how startups are built. Whether you are a business person or technologist, the book “The Lean Startup” is a must-read for any entrepreneur. The lessons [...]
Hello, everyone! This is Michael from Viki community support. I hope everyone’s having a great week so far. As some of you may remember, we launched the Viki Help Center a few months ago in an effort to quickly respond … Continue reading →
At 25 years old, Daniel Charles has built Global Racing Schools into a company that connects people to driving experiences by over 200 suppliers in 20 countries.
Hi guys,
We are excited to announce that MobDis has been used to build a mobile rich media ad for the ChannelNewsAsia iPad App.
Working with MediaCorp, 2359 Media(our parent company) built a series of Rich media mobile advertisments for Jaguar, the Launch Sponsor of Channel NewsAsia iPad App. The mobile advertisments includes rich media features such as videos, galleries and accelerometer-influenced animation. The Jaguar Ad is live in the Channel News Asia iPad App which is downloadable from the Apple iTunes App Store.
“We are proud to work with MediaCorp on this project. The adoption of Rich Media Advertisements in the Channel NewsAsia app using ORMMA/MRAID standards will provide MediaCorp the ability to engage brand advertisers looking for increase brand awareness in their mobile strategy.” – Wenhan Zhou, Co-Founder 2359 Media Pte Ltd.
ORMMA/MRAID is a standard formed by the Mobile Rich Media industry to define standards for mobile rich media ad creation. Using MobDis, 2359 Media builds ORMMA/MRAID compatible ads. MobDis is a product of 2359 Media Pte Ltd to build rich media advertisements and landing sites for mobile advertising campaigns.
If you’re a woman entrepreneur or professional and want to pick up skills to help your business succeed in the online world, Google and Athena Network Singapore has something for you. Women Entrepreneurs on the Web (WeOW), an initiative by both organizations, will kick-off in June, with the launch party on 31st May. The event [...]
Storytelling is everywhere; it influences our lives so powerfully yet is so invisible that we often take it for granted. With all the messaging out there, the difference between clutter and connection is the ability to wield the power of story. In startups, the ability to tell a good story is the key to winning over [...]
SPRING Singapore, a government organization dedicated to growing the country’s economy, issued a terse statement yesterday denouncing Interesting Mart, an online reseller of IT goods, for misusing its logo and name and that of its subsidiary, SPRING SEEDS Capital. It said in the statement that they do not “allow the use of our logo or [...]
Technology startups are today’s entrepreneurial rockstars. Not a week goes by without an announcement of a new location-based app, niche social network, or online travel discovery service. But like many hard-luck musicians, these startups burn bright at the beginning, relying on the quick fix of seed or venture funding, only to fade later on. That’s [...]
Provided there are no unexpected delays, Home24.sg, an online furniture by the Samwer Brother’s Rocket Internet, will launch in Singapore tomorrow. SGE received the news from a company insider, who declined to be named. We’ve also received details and screenshots (below) of the alpha version of the site. Based on what we know, Home24.sg will [...]
It’s no secret that the Philippines has a growing startup scene with talented designers and developers. Filled with 200 enthusiastic and hopeful individuals, the room in the University of Philippines Cebu is buzzing with excitement. More than 40 individuals took turns to pitch this time. It’s Startup Weekend Cebu, the third Startup Weekend held in the [...]
Details matter, says Richard Branson, the English business magnate that runs his Virgin Group of over 400 companies. He uses the analogy of a chef running his restaurant personally and how the quality of food often beats a chain of restaurants.
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Hello everyone, This post is to explain the current changes being made to Qualified Contributor status on Viki, and how you can get QC status back if you feel that we’ve removed it by mistake. Viki users whose accounts have … Continue reading →
[Summary] We are making it easy for you to switch between the classic Flash-based Dashboard, and the new HTML5 Dashboard that we’ve been blogging about. You will notice a new login form at dashboard.zopim.com. Log in as usual, and the User ̷…
The creators of Insync, an app that offers Dropbox-like functionality to Google Docs users, have responded to the launch of Google Drive. More than two weeks ago, I wrote that Insync is at risk of becoming redundant, since Google Drive replicates some of its features. Although Insync is the superior app for now, it’s only [...]
Joe Gebbia shares the story of how Airbnb was founded at The Next Web Conference 2012. Founded in August 2008, the San Francisco-based company is a community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique spaces around the world via the web or mobile phones. It has over 110,000 unique listings available in more than [...]
Recently, according to Cnet news, over 55,000 Twitter user names and passwords were exposed on a public website: “It’s unclear who’s responsible for posting passwords for Twitter accounts to a public Web site. The exact number of accounts is also unclear, as Twitter says many are duplicates and many had already been suspended.” Another case [...]
SingTel, Southeast Asia’s largest mobile carrier, is looking to potentially acquire non-phone businesses in China and India, in a move away from slow-growth markets in Singapore and Australia, reported Bloomberg. In a statement released last week, the phone company mentioned that it may raise its stakes in its Asian and African associaties, as well as [...]
For a one-stop to all events related to or concerning entrepreneurship, certain industry-meets-business forums and seminars in Southeast Asia, check out our Calendar. If not, you can also follow our bite-size updated posts for upcoming events for the week. Events range from simple get-togethers to full-blown conferences. Get to meet fellow developers, entrepreneurs, startup CEOs [...]
The event, which saw 75 companies involved and over 550 email signups, is a showcase of Singapore’s tech startup scene.
2359 Media would like to thank all of you for coming down to our office. We were happy to make new friends and we hope it was also a happy journey for you. Keep in touch, friends!
Today is Mother’s Day in many countries around the world. The earliest tribute to mothers dates back to annual Greek festivals, but celebrated as an official holiday in the United States nearly 105 years ago. To help honor mothers, you … Continue reading →
Congratulations on your impending graduation! Your life as a carefree student comes to an end and the looming work life beckons. As you start moving out of the dorms, tidying up your resume, planning your first career move, and partying really hard for one last time – you might have overlooked something critical – backing [...]
The process from starting to managing a start-up is a daunting process for any entrepreneur. In that journey, founders from different companies face a challenging set of questions which they struggle to come up with answers for. While browsing through the Kinokuniya bookstore on a Saturday, I came across this book “The Founder’s Dilemma” by [...]
