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21 May 2010

GigaOM: Want to Be an Entrepreneur?

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I caught GigaOM’s video interview with entrepreneur-turn-investor Naval Ravikant today. It is a well-balanced interview covering both entrepreneur and investor perspectives by an experienced and accomplished individual who ‘gets it’.  Take 8 minutes and hear Naval speak about topics such as: The three traits you need to look for in a partner How important it [...]

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20 May 2010

On Philip Yeo and his “Storm in an ‘Apple’ Teacup”

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It’s been over a week since Philip Yeo got into the news for one of his comments on the Apple iPad.  Apple fans were, as the Straits Times reported, “incensed by his description of those who buy ‘useless applications’ for Apple’s products as ‘gullible customers’”. Mr Yeo was guest speaker at the Fullerton-St Joseph’s Institution [...]

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20 May 2010

Net Start-ups Revisited

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Some of my comments were featured in the May 19th, 2010 copy of Digital Life, in an article by Tham Yuen-C titled “Net Start-ups Revisited”. The article is the result of the roundtable discussion a bunch of us had at SPH last week.  I had elaborated on some of the points I raised during the [...]

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17 April 2010

HackathonSG #1

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We held our inaugural hackathon.sg meet-up yesterday evening at HackerspaceSG at 7.30pm.  To be honest, the session was only several hours long, and probably qualified as a hacka-sprint instead.  We controlled the attendees and invited folks that we knew, so that we could figure out the format, i.e. hack the hackathon. Jason got the ball [...]

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16 April 2010

Terraforming Singapore into Startup-land

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I haven’t been writing much these days, thanks to the endless stream of work that awaits me in my inbox every day; meetings, follow-ups, legal agreements, investment memos, fund-raising logistics and operations, yadda yadda yadda.  But hey, I’ve never been more motivated about my work than ever!  I feel like I’m part of a terraforming [...]

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