
ShareA few months ago we had the privilege to meet John Gage from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers(KPCB) who was down in Malaysia. KPCB is one of the top investment firms in Silicon Valley and also the world. Who is John Doerr you may ask? John Doerr is a partner at [...]
ShareThere are alot of definitions to the role of Entrepreneurs, the meaning of Entrepreneurship and the Process in which one must undertake during his Entrepreneurial Pursuits. But nobody puts it clearer than Paul Graham, Founder of the Y-Combinator, a Start-Up Incubator which had produced many successful start-ups and entrepreneurs. Commenting on his original article available at [...]
ShareThroughout 2009 we’ve been noticing a fairly surprising trend rate of what we would call a ‘Shopping Spree’ by the Big Boys. Early start-ups and established companies have been acquired on average almost every 3 months throughout the year. Such as Cisco acquiring Tandberg for $3.0 billion and Starent Networks for $2.6 billion. Facebook purchasing FriendFeed [...]
Share 2009 has been an incredible year for the startup scene in the region. Despite the challenges of the painful global economic downturn, we’ve witnessed many of you grow from strength to strength and bringing much needed cheer and excitement to our community. Over the past few years, SGEntrepreneurs, E27, The Digital Movement, MY Entrepreneurs, Hackerspace and [...]
ShareHosted and organized by Joi Ito, Sean Bonner, James Chan and Tara Brown, the Neoteny Singapore Camp 1 or NSC1 is a conference and unconference that bring together people to discuss about investment, start-ups and incubations. This event is happening on the 12th and 13th Dec 2009 The first half of the event is scheduled and it [...]
Posted on 03 March 2010
ShareGoogle is doing an Analytics Master Class on the 11th March 2010 in KL and 9 March in Singapore. When: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 1.30pm -6.00pm Where: Hilton Hotel Kuala Lumpur Ballroom A 3 Jalan Stesen Sentral, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 50470 What is this event about? Basically, you will learn on how to read the Google Analytics data and how you can add [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 03 March 2010
ShareThe State government recently announced that as part of its plans to accelerate the transformation of Selangor into a knowledge-economy a number of technopreneur campuses will be set up throughout the state with i-City being the first and flagship campus. One of the programme under this technopreneur campus initiative is a State-sponsored Incubator. i-City, [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 19 February 2010
Share The TWIA crew gathers before the Chinese New Year on Valentine’s day with our typical ramblings with Google Nexus One and Google Buzz. Following on, we continue an interesting joint venture between Baidu (China’s top search engine) and Rakuten (Japan’s top e-commerce company), and examine their implications. Then we switched gears to examine why [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 11 February 2010
ShareIt seems like there will be less money for technology based entrepreneurs (technopreneurs) in 2010 in form of government grants. According to the article below by the Star dated 4th Feb 2010, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation or MOSTI has lost RM1 Billion of its budget due to a cut. As we know, [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 10 February 2010
Share SINGAPORE, February 8th, 2010 – Silicon Valley-based The Founder Institute, a four-month training and mentoring programme for technology entrepreneurs, announces its first-ever Spring 2010 semester for Singapore. With this expansion, the Institute will be the first Silicon Valley mentoring program in Singapore, and will now be on pace to graduate over 700 founders creating over [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 10 February 2010
ShareWhat is this USD 1 Million Challange? Well, YTL Communication calls it mYprize and it is a global content creation contest for it up coming 4G network devices. As a motivation, they are offering USD 1 Million in prizes for those who can develop creative application and solutions for the need of the consumers. It states in [...] Continue Reading