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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ViKi raises US$20M, gives Singapore tech scene something to shout about

October 21, 2011 Startups & Entrepreneurship
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By now, the good news is all over the Internet. AllThingsD and TechCrunch broke the news earlier today. Yahoo published the press release. Local tech blogs soon picked it up, with coverage by SG Entrepreneurs. I expect e27 and Penn Olsen to be publishing their coverage soon enough, followed by coverage by mainstream press next week. I helped Razmig hire his Continue reading →

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Singapore as a Tech Startup Hub, not by being Low Cost, but by being Capital Efficient

October 21, 2011 Musings
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I was involved in a 7-way conversation 2 afternoons ago at the JFDI office at Block 71. Meng and I had scheduled for 3 different meetings at the same time, and used the opportunity to introduce a whole bunch of people to each other while getting stuff done all at once. Apart from Neoteny Labs, 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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The Future of Hardware Prototyping is in China

July 12, 2011 Technology
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I‘ve been writing an awful lot about our stuff at Startup Roots, so I thought I’d shift gears a little and share what I learnt on my trip last week to the cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen in southern China. I was there to meet with an interesting early-stage hardware startup, and once we got Continue reading →

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