YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

. Techventure , one of Asia’s topmost events for the venture capital community to engage with the latest technology entrepreneurs, is back. This year, Techventure has also taken on two new partner events - TechInnovation 2012 and Failcon Singapore. The three-day conference will take place with the theme of ‘Asian. Innovation.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2011

Officially launched two years ago on World Environment Day , GreenPost aims to make paperless billing a norm in Singapore and in the region, and thus helping preserve the world’s forests for the next generation. But the founders admit they’ve been extremely fortunate to ride the trends which has helped them get to this place.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

In the early 2000s, my co-publisher and I were writing a book on how to break into freelance writing by breaking the rules. 15-Inspiration from a bus card in Singapore. The other co-founders and I decided to call our company Mixmax because we wanted our clients to be able to mix up email and bring it into the 21 century.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 11, 2014

iFusion Marketing started out as a fractional CMO consultancy providing strategy development and marketing plan development services in 2006 in response to a need in the startup community. It never ceases to amaze me when I hear a founder say “yes, but we’re different” or “we don’t have competitors.”

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Here’s more proof that work, play and living are coming together as one – Singapore-based property developer Far East Organization today unveiled The Scotts Tower (TST) , a new SOHO (small office, home office) property that is set to redefine work and living spaces. ” Small Office, Home Office.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2013

The upcoming Crowdsourcing Week is a five-day conference to be held in Singapore on June 3-7, 2013, that will explore everything crowdsourcing, open innovation and crowdfunding. 99 Designs is a community portal that helps brands link with designers. Do you think it’s a fad that will die down anytime soon?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! Successful businesses that give back to the community, and it’s all on brand. March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Weve had people from Australia and Singapore. TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Car owners on RelayRides make on average about $250 a month, says founder Shelby Clark. Thats real money."

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

We already have a strong and growing community of more than 250,000 users in Singapore, and we are excited to offer them a great way to take notes by hand, but still enjoy the accessibility of all their notes, memories, photos and more in their Evernote ‘external brain’,” says Troy Malone, general manager of Evernote Asia Pacific.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2014

Memphis, Tennessee-based nonprofit venture development organization Start Co. teams were guided by Start Co. managing director Mara Lewis and founder & CEO Eric Mathews. ” Find out more about Start Co’s Demo Day here. . ” Find out more about Start Co’s Demo Day here. .

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 17, 2015

The global 2015 BattleHack , organized by leading global payments providers PayPal and Braintree , will be coming to Singapore as part of a worldwide global hackathon competition that will see developers across the globe tasked with creating applications that solve specific challenges. Visit https://2015.battlehack.org/singapore

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co. Gold Passholders can head off on the track of their choice: either tours of groundbreaking startups like Pivotal and the non-profit Defy Ventures , among other offerings, or enterprise training with Lean Startup Co. at Breather.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2012

JFDI Asia sure knows how to throw a Demo Day: it turned local nightspot TAB Singapore into part startup launchpad and part investor pitch conference for the Demo Day. In any case, the founders all felt that the time spent had been worth it. Investors were quick to speak to many of the startups once the presentations were over.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Global Entrepreneurship Week took place last month around the world, and it was a rather opportune time for me to examine the factors that have helped Singapore startups succeed. The unfortunate consequence of this is that only half of startups formed in Singapore five years ago are still currently operating.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Initially launched in London by Dom Jackson and Rob Symington (both 28), Escape the City is a community that connects corporate professionals with information, people, and opportunities to help them find exciting alternatives to their corporate jobs. Perhaps they could expand to Singapore next.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

“We take a very board view of what make a difference can mean, because we believe ‘doing good’ should go mainstream and sustainability should be an integral part of every business,” explains Rachel Chan, Convenor of the MaD Venture Fellows Programme and Founder and Chief Catalyst of InnoFoco.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Along with some friends from Yale (my alma mater), I recently brainstormed some ideas to accelerate a university’s campus tech community. Marketing of tech community : Yale Tech News , Yale Entrepreneurship Magazine. Those unique assets are sometimes leverageable into a resource for strengthening the university’s tech community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Two years ago I moved to Beijing, where, as the founder of SoHelpful.me, I take calls from all over the world, talking entrepreneurship and innovation with people in 30-minute intervals. Impatient investors and team members give little support to a founder trying to do Customer Development to verify or modify that idea.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 27, 2012

That’s the path chosen by Mark Drake and Stephen Woodcock, the successful founders of imSMB , a Web hosting and design company. Small businesses want to give back - it’s rewarding and just feels right,” says imSMB co-founder Mark Drake. Woodcock says. Gardening and Volunteering. Making the World a Better Place - with Ads.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Singapore-based mobile marketplace Carousell wants more users in Southeast Asia to start buying and selling items through their mobile phones on its platform — and it has linked up with Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten to do so. Apps Asia Entrepreneur e-commerce Japan News Singapore Southeast Asia'

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2019

As the co-founder and president of Highland Capital Management, James Dondero made sure that the company he built will include charitable giving as one of its missions right from the very beginning. This is the time when he and co-founder Mark Okada decided to relocate the firm from Los Angeles to Dallas.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 13, 2012

Benjamin Koe, co-founder of JamiQ – the social media monitoring agency that developed ReputationWatch – offers some advice on choosing search terms. So far, she says that it has been interesting discovering the online conversations that people have about their pet cats or community strays.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Online platform for Asia’s tech community Tech in Asia will round off its highly vaunted Tech In Asia Conference series for this year with Tech In Asia Jakarta 2015 , which will take place on 11 and 12 November 2015 at Balai Kartini. More speakers will be confirmed closer to date.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

In my book I cited Whole Foods as an example of a cause-driven company, and this quote by Cofounder and Co-CEO John Mackey in Harvard Business Review: “I think Whole Foods’ highest purpose is a heroic one: to try to change and improve our world. That is what animates me personally. What they don’t have is the recipe (competency).

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. Joe Lonsdale. Jim Breyer.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Stef Lewandowski , co-founder of Makeshift.io, which has launched apps attending.io , hiremyfriend.io domain also references “input/output”, something that Courtney Boyd Myers , founder of audience.io Cofounder of Greenhouse.io says founder Kellee Khalil. “These new.io and wrangler.io , says, “.io io” as well.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

It’s using sensors to collect data about the movement of people, all forms of vehicles and bikes,” Herman Chandi, co-founder of analytics company CommunityLogiq, told TechRepublic. “A SSGKC is the third project of the Sino-Singapore cooperation, following Suzhou Industrial Park and Tianjin Eco City in China.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. presented Bokér/1 - perhaps the most compelling of todays presenters.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. presented Bokér/1 - perhaps the most compelling of todays presenters.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

My co founder Jonathan Hill realised how important good food was due to his father passing away from eating poorly. I grew up in Nigeria, and have seen up close the health and safety concerns posed by communities lacking clean toilets and running water. Riku is now ready to launch in the US, UK, Singapore, Australia, and Europe!

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2020

I focused on what it is I do, I want to be approachable to the community and also I thought it important to express an idea of ‘moving with the times’, being fresh, consistent with modern practices and the such. Over these years, I got a chance to live, study and work in UK, US, and Singapore. Photo Credit: Erika Hardison.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

The Startup Arena competition, part of Penn Olson ‘s two-day Startups in Asia Singapore conference, saw nineteen startups from all over Asia battle it out, with Singapore-based social collaborative learning platform Teamie emerging victorious. Mockups (Singapore). Flocations (Singapore). Teamie (Singapore).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2015

Penny Power, author of the UK’s Digital Business Britain Manifesto and founder the Digital Youth Academy, says “If you’d just moved in to a town or village, you wouldn’t open the door of your new local pub and shout that you’re a plumber or an architect and people should give you business. Remember, you’re the newbie!

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The Co-Commerce Revolution – Well it isn’t really a revolution, more of a devolution. The co-commerce era is here and defined by the 3 C’s – Collaboration, Conversations and Creativity. They are using Singapore as their model of economic development. The top down era of one size fits all.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2013

By leveraging on the latest social technologies, new funding and payment methods, as well as the spread of niche communities with diverse interests, a new collaborative business paradigm has taken root in almost every space. Events & Happenings crowdfunding crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing Week event innovation Singapore'

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

Entrepreneurs such as Figma CEO Dylan Field, fellow investors including Moxxie Ventures founder and general partner Katie Stanton, and Coatue Management partner Jamie McGurk pitched questions to the duo. Founders ask how should I feel when I can pass on the SPAC-ing? You can listen to the podcast here. FULL TRANSCRIPT. I’m intrigued.

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