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StudentofFortune.com – Homework Hire
Where should you turn to when you need help with homework? From friends, via the Internet, of course. That was what college friends Sean McCleese and Nikhil Sreenath believed when they started StudentofFortune.com.
SocialWok’s TechCrunch50 Experience
I took the opportunity to ask Yong Ming Guang, CEO of SocialWok, of the Singapore startup's experience presenting at TechCrunch50 Conference 2009, the massive showcase of the latest cutting-edge technology startups in San Francisco.
GIVE.sg – A Better Way to Give
If giving is a blessing, GIVE.sg wants to make it easier to bless others by democratizing the act of giving.
A Brief Interview with Jon Petersen of buUuk.com
We grab founder Jon Petersen of mobile restaurant guide app BuUuk.com for a short interview.
MyTimeWall.com – Collaborating Memories On A Timeline
Would you leave a high-paying consultancy job to run a startup? Shawn Cheong and Joseph Chua did, and founded an online social networking and life-blogging service mashup, myTimeWall.com.
Rochor Beancurd – Bean There, Done That?
30 year-old Singaporean Jason Koh did something totally unthinkable to many in his generation - he eschewed his very respectable IT degree from Queensland University of Technology and a systems engineer job to sell beancurd.
isocket – A New Way To Sell Advertising
Recognize the limits people have built into themselves. "Then get rid of them", says John Ramey of isocket, an advertising platform startup. "Think different, go big, be genuine."
AsiaVentureSchwag.com – Wear Your Support for Asian Startups
AsiaVentureSchwag.com launches! Co-founder Ng Cheng Wei unveils the e-commerce subscription service focusing on startup merchandise.
Tibesti.com – An Online Classifieds and Social Network Mashup?
Tibesti.com is a new and unique social network designed to connect people around particular interests, and enables users to earn cash while talking about, recommending and showcasing their favorite products.
Visual Factory – Stitching Together A 3D Virtual World of Opportunity
Ilan Ofek is a 20-year veteran in the defense industry. However, these days he brings his knowledge in image understanding, simulation systems and advanced artificial intelligence to build his 3D immersive social network startup, Visual Factory.
ArticleBuff – Crowdsourcing Your Writing
Andrew Elliot is a self-confessed serial entrepreneur and, he readily admits, one who has 'failed' often. But the founder of ArticleBuff - an online marketplace and resource site for writers - chooses to view those experiences positively.
Blogertizeworld – Pixellating the World
Ever heard of a 'mutual fund' for bloggers? Probably not, but that's only because Mumbai, India-based Blogertizeworld has just reintroduced a concept that died some three years ago.
FriendShopper – You’ll Never Shop Alone
Here's a new service that promises to revolutionize your online shopping experience. Friendshopper.com is an online social shopping platform that connects friends in a real-time web environment so that you don't have to shop alone.
ExpressINMusic – Taking Song Dedication To Another Level
Music may make the world go round, but everyone knows the music business can be tough. Yet this not stopping the young entrepreneurs at ExpressINMusic, an online service that matches those who need personalized music with those who can make it.
ThoughtBuzz – Measuring Social Media Buzz in Real-Time
How do we measure social media? That question may seem simple, but startup ThoughtBuzz was founded just to answer that question.
Status Search – Searching Within A Social Network
Lior Levin, who hails from the troubled country of Israel, is one of the co-founders of Status Search, a social status search engine currently in beta that allows users to perform searches within Twitter and Facebook status updates.
AzukiSoft: Putting A Business Together, Piece By Piece
As a child, Gibson Tang was already entrepreneurial - his first experience at making money was when he sold answers to math homework to his classmates in Primary school. Gibson is today the founder of AzukiSoft, a two-person game development outfit that produced Piecehunters for the iPhone.
No Ordinary Phlook
I first came across online photo-hosting service Phlook.com at Unconference 2008. Founders Ng Wee Kiat and Justine Ho was pitching their idea to the audience but, at that time, I wasn't sure if the World Wide Web needed another Flickr clone.
TheMobileGamer: Trying Games On The Go
Alvin Yap, CEO of Singapore consumer technology startup TheMobileGamer (TMG), admits that he has always been a dreamer. Having studied entrepreneurship as a business student in Singapore's Ngee Ann Polytechnic, he had always wanted to start and run his own business.
Socialwok.com – Making Enterprises More Social
Socialwok plans to make small-to-medium sized companies a lot more social in the way that they work. Developed by the team at Singapore-based Voiceroute, Socialwok is an on-demand enterprise social platform that lets organizations collaborate more effectively and manage social media interactions better.
Gothere.sg – Helping Singapore Find Its Way
Dominic Ee, Toh Kian Khai, Kuan Chih Yuan and Ang Jun Han is the team behind one of Singapore's most promising startups gothere.sg, a location-based service provider whose map and directional search engine that is steadily becoming the quintessential service for finding your way around Singapore.
Tempostand – Putting The Beat Into Indie Music
Gaurav Dhobal, Naman Arora, Rahul Tyagi, Aditya Thakur and Ujjwal Singh Grover started Tempostand to provide a stage - and a revenue model - for budding, talented musicians.
Indochino – Online Retailer That Will Suit You Just Fine
Entrepreneurs Heikal Gani and Kyle Vucko found the traditional process of buying men's suits so intimidating, confusing and discouraging that they decided to start their own online menswear retail business, Indochino.
Lexani Limousines – Driving Its Way To The Top
Billy Jinks is the president and CEO of Lexani Limousines, a leader in Arizona's transportation industry since 2004. And he just turned 20.
Psydex – Making Data Psyng
Atlanta-based Psydex believes its online news service Psyng can monitor web chatter to derive useful, coherent data.
Branserv – Applying Itself To Helping Software Startups
Chicago-based startup hardware appliance maker Branserv has an incredibly lofty vision - to rebuild the American economy.
OrSiSo Helps You Organize Your Virtual Life
Being a member of multiple social networks can be a pain, as Thorben Linneberg found out. In frustration, the Singapore-based Dane started OrSiSo, a social network tool to help users manage and organize their online lives.
CrowdSPRING – A Springboard For Creative Ideas
The creative agency business that insists on its traditional way of sourcing for work could be in peril. Not because of the worsening global economy, although that is one reason, but because of one little company based in Chicago called crowdSPRING.
Innovating The Singapore Blogosphere
The way the Singapore blogosphere is growing, throw a stone randomly these days and you're likely to hit a self-proclaimed social media expert, guru or master. Mention Facebook, Twitter or Plurk, and you'd be swamped with unsolicited advice from all over on how such social media platforms do, or do not work, in the Singapore context.
Singapore To Get New Posterboy For Entrepreneurial Success?
The room was totally packed at the keynote presentation in BlogOUT! '09, but you can't truly be sure what the crowd was here for.