Startup Roots – a fellowship program for elite students and hot startups.

We are a non-profit organization based in Singapore, co-founded by Derrick, Zaizhuang and myself.

Work at a high-potential startup for 10 weeks as an engineering, business, or design intern. Attend weekly talks by experienced investors, entrepreneurs and engineers. Leave Startup Roots with connections and understanding of Singapore’s amazing startup community. Find out more here.

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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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