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Making Music His Life
Producer and songwriter Gilbert Ong has high hopes for Singapore's music industry. The founder of Rhythmiz Music Production believes that given the right platform,...
When Film Imitates Life
Royston Tan may be the more familiar name in the local film-making scene, but Terence Koh also has similar film-making dreams. Having wanted to be a filmmaker...
BluMesh – Putting Customers First
Being customer-oriented is crucial when running your own business.
And it's even more critical when your clients are brides-to-be, as Corinna Yap found out as...
CT Ventures – Drink To Success
The wine industry may be sexy and intoxicating (pardon the pun), but it's also a saturated one that has seen many aspiring wine entrepreneurs...
Geek Terminal: A Hub for Technopreneurs
Where? Geek Terminal, 55 Market Street, #01-01 Singapore 048941.
What? A cafe that combines the latest technology, free wireless and great coffee, perfect for the...
Tech65 – New Geek Media.
The Tech65 crew celebrating the recording of their 65th podcast. (From L-R): Jerrick, Daniel, Farinelli, Kai Yi and NTT.
Who? Tech65.org, featuring Tech65bits and...
Mobile Concierge At Your Service
Who: Digital Concierge 2Go®, by Cellcity Pte Ltd
What: A local mobile digital concierge service - which includes a mobile application, WAP application and a...
Out-Of-The-Box Retail
Who: InQbox
What: A unique rental service that allows you to lease a variety of different-sized display shelves in a urban retail concept store to...
Shoplette Till You Drop
Who: Shoplette
What: A social networking site for the avid shopper, where you can share about your latest buys to your network or find out...
Property Finds A New Home
What: Findpropertysg, a new online portal for Singapore property buyers and sellers. The site provides home owners, sellers and real estate agents DIY (Do-It-Yourself)...
Mithn Makes Things Happen Now
Getting your first customer is always difficult, as Collin and his business partner Joe found out.
The two co-founders of Mithn Singapore had realised in...
Matchmaking Students And Their Startups
It's amazing what ideas people can come up with while taking public transport. Harvard students Vivek Ramaswamy and Travis May were sitting on a...
Widgeo.us – Communications ‘R Us
Local startup Widgeo.us has been attracting some attention lately since featuring recently at CommunicAsia 2008, BarCamp Singapore as well as Unconference Singapore 2008. We...
Ogywawa – Sending A Pint Your Way!
I'll let you in on the latest idea if you buy me a drink.
Ogywawa, one of the latest startups brewed up in Singapore, lets...
Vawch – Job Recommendation Gets Social
What do you get when you combine social networking and talent search?
If you said LinkedIn, you're close. But I'm talking about Vawch.com. Founded in...
Jorbb.com – Employment Goes Casual
Local entrepreneurs must be seeing opportunity in rising unemployment rates during the current economic climate. First it was job-matching service Vawch.com, which we recently...
Guest Blogger Finder – Bloggers Finding Bloggers
Tom Schmitz recently dropped me an email to announce his newly launched Guest Blogger Finder, a directory or database that matches bloggers with guest...
LeadVine.com – Sharing Leads Made Easy
Sometimes it pays to talk to your competitors. In Allan Margate's case, talking to his competitor led to them founding LeadVine.com together.
In 2002, Allan...
Claytorial – Turn Your Ideas Into Clay
When newly-launched mobile services startup Tagga.com was looking for a way to explain its text messaging services to customers and investors, it turned to...
Ideablob.com – Sharing Ideas Makes The World A Better Place
Being called a blobber doesn't sound particularly flattering, but that doesn't seem to bother the more than 70,000-strong community on Ideablob.com. The small business...
The Great Book of Ideas
Fredrik Härén holding The Idea Book.
Which book:
1. To date sold 150,000 copies in the author's home country of Sweden,
2. Sold 3,000 copies in a...
ShowNearby.com – It’s All About Location, Location, Location
Online location-based information services are all the rage now with Singapore-based startups, and one of the more recent to emerge is ShowNearby.com. Launched in...
Freelancezone.com.sg – Name Says It All
First there was Jorbb.com - which we recently featured - and now Freelancezone.com.sg. It seems that casual job sites in Singapore are sprouting out...
Hibernater.com – An Idea Out Of Cold Storage
Sometimes it's good to revisit an old idea. That's what Chua Khim Teck, founder of Hibernater.com, did when he took an idea he was...
Salesconx.com – Good Ol’ Fashioned Sales Leads, Virtually
Sales is a key function in any company, and SalesConx.com CEO Evan Sohn believes that his company can help other small to medium businesses...
How Would You Invest S$10,000?
It's not a very big amount, but I asked three people - an entrepreneur and two investors - what they would do with $10,000...
Zapoint.com – Talent Management Gets Zapped
Anybody who's worked in human resources and have sorted through hundreds of resumes from job applicants know how painfully tedious this part of the...
Flex-ing His Developer Muscle: A Chat With Seesmic’s Hu Shun Jie
Flex developer Hu Shun Jie from online video microblogging service Seesmic (think a video version of Twitter) is taking some time off his extremely...
It Pays To Follow Your Passion (Most Of The Time)
Passion makes things happen.
This is never so clearly evident as with Finnish video-making cult hero Timo Vuorensola or Hugh Hancock of Strange Company. Timo created...
How An Alumni Helped Unigo.com Get Off The Ground
Being an entrepreneur is hard, but for a student entrepreneur, things can get immeasurably harder. With no money and armed only with an idea,...