
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 [...]
Share BarCamp is back again and this time it will be in Melaka. What is Barcamp??? Well, BarCamp is a user organized conference that will bring together, programmers, techies, geeks, entrepreneurs and other interesting people from all around the region. For more details for BarCamp Melaka please visit our site. http://barcamp.org/BarCampMelaka Location: MMU Melaka Date: 14th and 15th November 2009 Time Morning [...]
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Posted on 09 February 2010
SharePlug & Play Technology Garden (P&P) will be presenting an informational talk on 11th February 2009, Thursday, at Plug & Play Technology Garden, The Gardens South Tower, MID VALLEY CITY. The Informational Talk, which covers Due Diligence and Corporate Governance is targeting audiences line-up from technopreneurs/start-up companies and some others who are also eyeing for the [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 08 February 2010
Share With Pamela Fox (@pamelafox) from Google Australia as our special guest this week, the TWIA crew tried to make sense out of the JooJoo’s new partnership with CSL Malaysia. We also reviewed the future of Naver, the top search engine in South Korea, the Malaysia government’s declaration of 95% adoption in OSS and most [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 08 February 2010
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Posted on 04 February 2010
ShareNo this is not a Malaysia clone of the Ipad or its clone. This is a rather interesting new twist to the JooJoo/Crunchpad incident. In case you missed out, Fusion Garage(FG), a Singaporean company was supposed to partner with Techcrunch to launch their version of the Ipad called the Crunchpad. A few days before the launch, [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 03 February 2010
Share The great bald marketeer of our time Seth Godin has been many things including, best selling author, founder of a wiki type knowledge based site and also TED speaker twice. Recently he came up with a post on Random rules of Ideas Worth Spreading. If you do not know, Ideas Worth Spreading is the tagline for [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 02 February 2010
Share Michael Smith Jr, Director YDN SE Asia from Yahoo! joins the TWIA crew as our guest for the week. The discussion centered on the aftermath of the Apple iPad after months of speculation. With the Founders’ Institute coming to Singapore following after many incubators setting up shop here, the TWIA discussion group discussed the [...] Continue Reading