Young Upstarts

Young Upstarts (@youngupstarts) is a small business and web/consumer technology blog that champions new ideas, innovative marketing and entrepreneurship. Part of Upstart Publishing, it highlights young people and small businesses, celebrating their vision and role in changing the world with their ideas, products and services.

The Team

Daniel Goh, Chief Editor

Founder and chief editor of Young Upstarts, Daniel Goh is interested in entrepreneurship, marketing and public relations issues. He is constantly amazed by human resilience shown by small entrepreneurs in the face of incredible odds, and aim to tell their stories. In his un-spare time, he works as a public relations professional in a multi-national consumer electronics company.

He can be contacted at daniel [at] youngupstarts [dot] com or follow him on Twitter at @danielgoh.

Speaking Engagements

30 October 2009 – Presenter, IDA Social Media Immersion Programme

25 June 2009 – Panelist, Ogilvy Open Room [Topic: Journalism's from Mars, Social Media's from Venus]

12 June 2009 – Presenter, Starcom Social Media Forum

6 March 2009 – Panel Speaker, BlogOut! 09 [Topic: Social Media in Business (Case Studies)"] (My post here)

4 October, 2008 – Panel Speaker, Social Media Breakfast 4 [Topic: Corporate Adoption of Social Media] (My post here)

Jeffrey Paine, Startup Advisor

Jeffrey Paine is the founder and executive director of Battle Ventures and Founder Institute Singapore. Jeffrey has a background in venture capital, technology, film and is always interested in issues in entrepreneurship, ideas that dominates, cool films and dramas and has co-founded 2 technology startups that will be spinning out of Battle Ventures. He can be reached on Twitter at @jpaine. His most common phrase is “There must be a freakin’ better way to do this…”

Caroline Yeung, Contributing Writer

Caroline’s public relations background enables her to reach out to both seasoned and young entrepreneurs. Apart from helping industry organizations, and individual companies both in California and Singapore for the last 14 years, Caroline also reaches out to the young, entrepreneurial community to guide them on marketing and public relations issues through her consultancy work. She is interested in mentorship, VC community, awards, and new ideas. She is reachable at olivespr [at] gmail [dot] com.

Ho Sim Yee, Contributing Writer

With a business and social sciences background, Sim Yee is constantly intrigued and inspired by entrepreneurs and their enterprises, as well as the social environment in which they thrive. She loves checking out new places, products/services, and meeting the people behind these. She is particularly interested in social entrepreneurship, writing, self-help, F&B and the arts. She can be contacted at simyee.ho.2007 [at] gmail [dot] com or on Twitter at @syleaf7.

* The views expressed here on this site are entirely the writers’ own, and do not represent the views of the company/s they work for.

Site Credentials

Media Partnerships

17-18 November 2010 – Cloud Computing World Forum Asia

22-23 September 2010 – Social Networking Forum Asia

1-2 June 2010 – echelon 2010

27 May 2010 – Unwired 2010

Spring 2010 – Founder Institute Singapore

24 October 2009 – Invent Singapore 2009 Conference

22-23 September 2009 – Social Networking Forum Asia

Others

Preliminary Judge, ideas.inc business challenge