Thinking Aloud
Learn From Young Upstarts
I'd love to get my hands on a copy of "Upstarts!: How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business and 8 Ways You Can Profit from Their Success" by author and journalist Donna Fenn. Simply because it'll make perfect sense for this blog.
Parable Of The Ten Talents – Taking Hold of Life’s Opportunities
What do you do when God (or life, if you're an agnostic) presents you with an opportunity to fulfill your destiny? Would you invest it, or bury it?
What Will You Find Inside Larry & Sergey’s Brain?
"Inside Larry and Sergey's Brain" delves into the minds and thinking of the two most powerful men driving the Internet.
Making An Impact on Canada’s Entrepreneurial Landscape
The Impact Entrepreneurship Group is Canada's largest non-profit, student-run organization dedicated to encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit amongst youth in Canada. Could we have a similar setup here?
Teaching Entrepreneurship Early In School
We may gotten it all wrong when we talk about teaching entrepreneurship to our youth.
Yes, Entrepreneurs Can.
Watch this inspiring video about how entrepreneurs can change the world.
TheFunded.com Launches New-Breed Incubator, Founder Institute
I've often argued that one of the reasons why the startup community in Singapore is spluttering is because of the fact that we don't have a good platform where successful and experienced entrepreneurs can help guide our newbie startups. Perhaps we can learn from TheFunded.com's latest initiative.
The Rise Of The Sellsumer
In Trendwatching.com's latest briefing report, the independent trend observation firm believes it has spotted a new trend. It claims that during these recessionary times, many ordinary consumers will increasingly become a new class of consumers called the sellsumers.
Singapore Needs A Support Ecosystem For Its Startups
I submit to you that, in Singapore's entrepreneurial scene, there is a lack of a proper ecosystem around our fragile startups to nurture, sustain and help them survive in this increasingly difficult times.
Doom And Gloom For Small Businesses In Singapore; Buggered By Greedy Landlords And Hypocritical...
According to a Straits Times story, 131 small businesses in Singapore closed down last year - an increase of almost 25 percent over 2007, with...
MyLinkup.sg – Innovative Tuition Agency Goes Web 2.0; Conducts Questionable Blogging Contest?
Picking the right home tutor for your child is an extremely important process, and it can take a long time to find someone suitable....
Ten Things You Can Do For A Better 2009
By all accounts, 2009 is shaping up to be a very bad year. The global financial crisis that has wiped out billions of dollars...
Being Smart
Most people think Levi Strauss invented the blue jean. Actually, it was Jacob Youphes (aka Jacob Davis), a Latvian immmigrant to the United States...
Merry Christmas; Pledge Your Support For Underprivileged Children
Now that the Christmas presents opened and the feasting is done, spare a thought for the needy this festive season. Drop by Samsung Hope...
An Upcoming, And Hopefully Interesting, Project
I'm currently organizing a project which I hope will add value to Singapore's entrepreneurial, and technopreneurial, scene.
Slated to start sometime in January 2009, it...
An Old Man And His Craft
During my vacation to Hong Kong last week, I made a day trip with my wife to nearby Macau. As we walked past Senado...
Greed Will Be The Death Of Singapore’s Food Culture
Last night, I ordered dinner at a foodcourt in a shopping mall.
It tasted appalling. Perhaps I should have hesitated when I saw the mainland Chinese cook manning the kitchen.
Before...
Reinventing Customer Service
What if customer service folks were among the most highly-paid in a business?
Or if businesses hired the best and the brightest to handle customer...
Stealth Mode – A Silent Way For A Startup To Die
During one of the recent events I attended, I spoke to this guy working in a new local startup who proudly declared, "We're in...
The Developer Is Everybody’s New Best Friend
I had the opportunity to meet Jeff Roberto of Friendster over lunch today, along with Ben Koe of JamiQ, Howie Chang from TDM, Michael...
When Crowdsourcing Goes Wrong – Stylis? Connexis?
Fusionopolis
Crowdsourcing, a term first coined by Jeff Howe in a Wired magazine article in June 2006, describes the trend of leveraging the masses to...
Why I Set Up This Blog…
Robert Scoble said on his Twitter:
"My biggest beef? Startups don't get covered very well by the mainstream press..."
This is one of the reasons why...
We’d Love To Hear From You…
It seems strange, but sometimes people do say no when I ask to interview them.
Here are some of the reasons they give:
1. "We're not...
What Kind of Business Relationship Are You In?
This post is inspired by a chat session I had with Su Yuen, Howie and Wayne from The Digital Movement about business relationships. We were...
Singapore’s Earliest Contribution To Science?
Many people may not have known that in 1922, a German-born scientist of Jewish descent came to - of all places - Singapore to...
Still Surfing the Web 2.0 Wave – Brightkite, Orgoo and Plurk
There's no end in sight in the Web 2.0 revolution.
Here's a look at three Web 2.0 newbies that have been wow-ing the Singapore web...
How Smart Are You?
Which is smarter - surrounding yourself with smart people, or surrounding yourself with people who tell you you're smart?
These Web Entrepreneurs Started Young
What do Digg.com, Reddit.com, NeoPets and FaceBook have in common?
Other than the fact they all made, and are still making, big splashes on the...
Idea: Mag Nation – Coffee And Magazines Do Mix
It may go against conventional thinking, but the marriage of coffee and magazines make so much business sense it's a wonder why no Singapore...
Can You Guess What They’re Selling?
Spotted this in Melbourne's city centre along Flinders Street. Yup, their signboard says it all...
It's a fun pun on the name of Nobel Prize-winning...