Events

TiE Singapore – The Dynamics of Financing Tech Startups

October 28, 2011 Events
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We’re organizing our second event for the TiE Singapore “Technology” Special Interests Group (SIG) next Wednesday evening (2 Nov) from 6:30PM – 8:00PM at the Mochtar Riady Auditorium on Level 5 of the SMU Administration Building, and I’d like to invite you to join us for a panel discussion on the topic of Dynamics of Financing Continue reading →

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TiE Singapore – Engineering Management in Tech Startups

October 14, 2011 Events
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Earlier this year in August, I was invited to attend TiE Global’s annual retreat in Bali and experienced the camaraderie of the TiE network first-hand. I bonded with many other Charter Members over glasses of sake and got myself a new moniker; Ashok Rao (Chairman of TiE Global) thought “motochan” wasn’t snazzy enough and went on to Continue reading →

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Startup Roots Graduation & Future Plans

July 22, 2011 Events
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Tonight was graduation night for our inaugural Startup Roots Singapore Summer Fellows.  Our fellows got up in front of the community and shared what they learnt and accomplished over the past 10 weeks.  It was very gratifying to know that they all benefited from the fellowship in ways that weren’t obvious to us when Derrick, Continue reading →

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Startup Roots Speaker Series #8 Preview – Our Fellows

July 19, 2011 Events
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This Speaker Series will be our fellows’ final week with their respective startups, which is why we thought it would be cool to put them in the spotlight instead.  We’re going to hear each of them spend 5 minutes telling us what they’ve achieved and learnt over the past 10 weeks, and wrap up their Continue reading →

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Startup Roots Speaker Series #7 Recap – Darius Cheung

July 19, 2011 Events
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It was almost like old times when I sat next to Darius in HackerspaceSG at last week’s 7th Startup Roots Speaker Series, until you realize he’s already walked the talk with the successful sale of tenCube to McAfee, while I’m still slogging away as a peon, trying to make sure I run Neoteny Labs right. Continue reading →

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Startup Roots Speaker Series #6 Recap – Product Management

July 12, 2011 Events
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I wasn’t in town last Thursday, so I asked two of our fellows, @sharonlourdes and @laurenceputra to write the session recap as seen through their eyes. Slight edits have been made for the purposes of consistency, grammar or style . Last Thursday, Startup Roots held the Product Management panel with Andy Croll, Navjot Pawera from Continue reading →

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Startup Roots Speaker Series #7 Preview – Darius Cheung

July 10, 2011 Events
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I‘m happy to welcome an old pal of mine – Darius Cheung, CEO and co-founder of tenCube – to join us for a fireside chat at the 7th Startup Roots Singapore Speaker Series, on July 14th, 2011. If you want to hear about tenCube’s most challenging moments and how they managed to pull through, curious Continue reading →

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Startup Roots Speaker Series #5 Recap – Bunnie

July 6, 2011 Events
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The downpour before the session may have resulted in a smaller crowd, but the 30-odd group that made it to HackerspaceSG were treated to an up-close and personal conversation with Bunnie last Thursday at Startup Roots Singapore’s 5th Speaker Series. If you were there, you’d agree with me that misfit is probably the best adjective to Continue reading →

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