Events

Startup Roots Speaker Series #6 Preview – Product Management

July 5, 2011 Events

On the heels of an intimate fireside chat with Bunnie last week, we are taking a practical turn in our 6th Startup Roots Speaker Series. This week: a power-packed panel on product management and design. These are skills essential to every startup, which are sometimes overlooked and maligned. So, we have put together a pretty [...]

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Startup Roots Speaker Series #5 Preview – Bunnie

June 26, 2011 Events
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After a 1+ week hiatus, the Startup Roots Singapore Speaker Series will be having its 5th session on June 30th this Thursday at 7:00pm with Andrew Huang, who’s more commonly and affectionately known to many of us as Bunnie – RSVP here. Andrew Shane Huang is a 35 year old hardware hacker, known to some [...]

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Startup Roots Speaker Series #4 Recap – Jeff Jonas & Ian McFarland

June 21, 2011 Events
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On top of the double billing at Startup Roots Singapore last Saturday with Jeff Jonas and Ian McFarland, we had another surprise in the form of a Channel News Asia filming crew, which had joined us at the last minute to collect some video footage for their up-coming 4-part series on innovation and entrepreneurship in [...]

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Startup Roots Speaker Series #4 Preview – Jeff Jonas & Ian McFarland

June 14, 2011 Events
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For our upcoming fourth Startup Roots Singapore Speaker Series on 18 Jun, I’m pleased to announce that we’ll be having a double “Saturday matinee” blockbuster with Jeff Jonas and Ian McFarland as speakers at HackerspaceSG. RSVPs have just gone live, and if you haven’t noticed by now, we made the switch from Eventbrite to FlickEvents [...]

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Startup Roots Speaker Series #3 Recap – Derek Sivers

June 11, 2011 Events
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If you missed out on last Thursday’s Startup Roots talk by Derek Sivers at Hackerspace, you’ll have a chance to hear him at next week’s Echelon 2011. Still, I’m sure the folks who made it to our event would attest that it couldn’t get any closer at Hackerspace than coffee with the man himself. Derek [...]

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Startup Roots Speaker Series #3 Preview – Derek Sivers

June 6, 2011 Events
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Our 3rd speaker for the Startup Roots Speaker Series is Derek Sivers, who is best known for being the founder and former president of CD Baby. RSVP your attendance if you haven’t already. As usual, the talk will begin this Thursday at 7:00pm at Hackerspace.SG. The Startup Roots Singapore Summer Fellows will be having their [...]

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Startup Roots Speaker Series #2 Recap – Carl Coryell-Martin

June 6, 2011 Events
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Here’s a video of the aftermath of Startup Roots Singapore’s 2nd Speaker Series at Hackerspace.SG. Over 40 people showed up to listen to Carl’s new talk on waste in software engineering, and mingle and network with each other afterwards. One of our Summer Fellows, Laurence, wrote a blog post summarizing what he learnt from the [...]

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SingTel i.Challenge 2011 – design tablet apps for businesses & win S$20,000

May 31, 2011 Events
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A tablet war has broken out amongst consumer electronic brands this year, with the shadow of Apple’s iPad 2 looming large over upstarts like RIM, Samsung, HP and Motorola. No coincidence then, that SingTel Innovation eXchange (SIX) has recently announced the SingTel i.Challenge11, to spur adoption of tablets by businesses to increase productivity. You often [...]

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