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30 September 2009

Innovation & Start-ups in Open Networks

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Thanks to Daryl Tan and Tan Yinglan, I was able to get my hands on their recording of Joi’s recent talk and panel discussion when he was in town earlier this month, on the 14 and 15 September.  I sent the 1+Gb file through iMovie, and broke it up into 3 parts: (1) Joi’s 20-odd [...]

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15 September 2009

VCs/Angels/Entrepreneurs Summit with Joi Ito

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I just wanted to squirt this post out before I crashed for the night.  Joi and his entourage of 12 other friends are in town these 2 days, and everyone was incredibly fortunate to have the opportunity to hear him speak about start-ups and innovation.  I’ve put up his Prezi slides below, but they’re largely [...]

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26 May 2009

NRF dishes out S$22m to turn Varsities into Entrepreneurial Hubs

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I caught this a week late via a tweet by my pal Jeffrey.  The deep-pocketed National Research Foundation (NRF) has set aside S$50 million to create the University Innovation Fund (UIF), and has handed out the first S$22 million to NUS (S$9m), NTU (S$6.5m) and SMU(S$6.5m).  The funds for UIF came from the S$360 million [...]

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22 May 2009

“Consumer Web in Focus” with Joi Ito

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I bring good tidings. Experienced entrepreneur-turned-angel-investor and CEO of Creative Commons, Joi Ito will be stopping over in Singapore for a day, and upon my request, has graciously agreed to spend the morning of 15 June to share his insights on Consumer Web with us.  In addition, 15 6 lucky consumer web start-ups will get [...]

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