USA E-commerce Landscape & Trends

by James Chan on 13 May ’12

Josh Yang over at Harvard Business School put together a rather comprehensive overview of the US e-commerce landscape and trends as he sees it, for 2012. I haven’t had time to go over all of it, but I found it good enough to share. I’m sure Josh will get a couple of hiring opportunities after [...]

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Thoughts on Vietnam Tech Scene

by James Chan on 22 Apr ’12

I spent 3 days in Saigon earlier this week, 1 of which was spent attending e27′s Vietnam Echelon 2012 satellite event. I’ve always wanted to visit the country since our fund started investing from May 2010 on, but was unable to tear myself away from other priorities until now. I’m glad I was able to [...]

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Neoteny Labs leads seed investment in ImpulseFlyer

April 18, 2012 Venture Capital

I am happy to announce that we led an investment in ImpulseFlyer, and would like to welcome them to the Neoteny Labs family. ImpulseFlyer is a luxury and boutique hotel-specific private sale platform with Asia Pacific inventory that is co-founded by Steven Gong (CEO) and Andy Croll (CTO). Despite the apparent dominance of regional players [...]

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Fuism – when I made the decision…

January 6, 2012 News

It’s not every day you see an internet meme spring out of boring, unartistic Singapore. In case you’ve been away from cyberspace for too long, get up to speed by first reading TODAYonline’s “Ministers’ pay-cut formula unveiled” and Yahoo’s “Singapore cuts PM pay but still world’s best paid”, then Member of Parliament Grace Fu’s Facebook response and finally New Nation’s [...]

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回顾 2011 :: the year in retrospect

December 31, 2011 Life
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I put together a short deck to share what I felt were significant events in 2011. I thought it would be a great way for relatives and friends to catch up with what I’ve been busy with this past year. The photos in the deck are courtesy of yours truly. Oh, and before I forget [...]

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WSJ Story on Creativity in Singapore – “Was Woz Right?”

December 22, 2011 News
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Sam Holmes and Shibani Mahtani of Wall Street Journal put together a balanced piece titled “Was Woz Right?” with contributions from a bunch of folks in Singapore, in response to Woz’s initial comment. I’m honored to be quoted alongside people such as Min Liang and Adrian Pang who have accomplished much more in life than [...]

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Press ballyhoos Steve Wozniak’s soundbite, misses the mark

December 16, 2011 News
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The power of the press never ceases to amaze and in this instance, tickle me. What began as an innocuous interview by BBC titled Steve Wozniak: ‘Think for Yourself’ became WSJ’s Wozniak: Apple couldn’t emerge in Singapore and Penn-Olsen’s Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak questions Singapore’s Creativity. This morning, as all of Singapore reads the news, almost all locals [...]

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NRF reopens TIS, opens floodgate on early-stage tech investments in Singapore

December 8, 2011 Startups & Entrepreneurship

It’s almost 2 years since the National Research Foundation (NRF) picked Neoteny Labs as one of the 7 technology incubators with access to the S$50 million it had set aside under the Technology Incubation Scheme (TIS). NRF would co-invest up to the lower of S$500,000 or 85% of the incubator’s investment in a qualifying company, and [...]

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