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Chef Willin Low, Wild Rocket – Cooking Up Happiness
Why would a legal eagle ever give up a comfortable, high-paying desk job for the heat and toil of a kitchen? But Willin Low, chef-owner of Wild Rocket and Wild Oats, did exactly that some 7 years ago.
SpiritHoods – Getting Into The Spirit
SpiritHoods was founded by four young men - Ashley Haber, Chase Hamilton, Marley Marotta and Alexander Mendeluk - who birthed the company out of love, love for friends and family, for their families, and all living things around them.
The Garden Slug – Slugging It Out In The Food Business
Located in an idyllic part of eastern Singapore, The Garden Slug is a quirky and bohemian diner that offers Western-style homemade comfort food. The owners share their story.
KneeBouncers.com – Simple Games For The Little Ones
Kneebouncers.com was launched by entrepreneurs Jim Robinson and Kurt Dommermuth in 2009 as a way for very young children to experience the fun of computer gaming even before they are able to really understand computer functions.
OWA Beer – From Europe And Japan, With Love.
Most people are surprised to learn that OWA Beer, with bold Japanese Kanji characters emblazoned across its washi-like bottle labels, is actually Belgian in origin.
Storably.com – Peer-to-Peer Marketplace For Renting Storage Or Carpark Space
Storably.com (www.storably.com) is an online peer-to-peer marketplace for parking and storage.
VoucherWOW Rewards Collective Buying
VoucherWOW is a new Singapore-based startup that is looking to position itself as the website where visitors tap on the power of group-buying for the best deals in Singapore.
Gothere.sg – Helping Singapore Find Its Way
Dominic Ee, Toh Kian Khai, Kuan Chih Yuan and Ang Jun Han is the team behind one of Singapore's most promising startups gothere.sg, a location-based service provider whose map and directional search engine that is steadily becoming the quintessential service for finding your way around Singapore.
Singapore Startup AFTERSHOCK PC Guns For Gaming Laptop Market
A new Singapore hardware startup, AFTERSHOCK PC, believes it can compete in the laptop market with its range of custom laptops wholly dedicated for gaming.
Private, Invite-Only Online Shopping With Brandsfever
The recent hype over online group-buying Groupon has brought an avalanche of similar clones into the fore, but an upcoming online shopping site in Singapore is taking quite a different tack. We look at Brandsfever, a members-only, exclusive online shopping club.
Open Banking Is Becoming The Norm In The Banking Industry: Here’s What You Need...
Banking that used to be tedious and costly is changing thanks, in part, to open banking. Open banking is changing the way we conduct business creating financial power and freedom for consumers.
Our Town – A Family Legacy
Michael Plummer, Jr never really wanted to follow in his entrepreneurial father's footsteps. His father Michael Plummer, Sr had built Florida-based Our Town from scratch since 1972, but Junior had never really wanted anything to do with it.
ELOHIM: God-Inspired Fashion
Early this year during the Audi Fashion Festival, featured alongside fashion heavyweights Gareth Pugh, Vivienne Westwood, Christian Lacroix and Marc Jacobs was a little known local label called ELOHIM.
[Interview] Kevin Hobbs Of Vancouver’s Vanbex Group
As CEO of Vanbex Group, Kevin Hobb aims to further the education and adoption of blockchain, DLT, and Smart Contract technology into everyday real world applications.
Inventory And Sales Management App TradeGecko Enters Public Beta
Targeted for small- to medium-sized enterprises, cloud-based inventory and sales management SaaS application TradeGecko is designed to simplify the tasks of running a wholesale business and making it more social and engaging.
[Singapore] Designs On A New Furniture Future
Singapore's furniture sector may be experiencing a new revolution, with a flood of designers taking up or venturing into creating products for a traditional industry.
Kembrel – Private Online Shopping Club For Students
Online private shopping club sites usually target higher-end, premium fashion customers. An interesting twist to this concept is US-based Kembrel, a campus-focused private shopping community catered exclusively for students.
2 Real Time-Saving Hacks That Every Entrepreneur Should Know
If you are in business, these 2 time-saving hacks could transform your working day, reduce stress and increase your personal productivity dramatically.
What Do You Want To Buy At 12Buy.sg?
Local IT retailer Challenger Technologies is now extending its reach online, and is hoping that Singaporeans will take to buying from its newly-launched, and the country's first mass category lifestyle shopping portal, 12Buy.sg.
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...
[Singapore] Crowdsourcing Week – Crowdsourcing Soon To Come Of Age In Asia
Crowdsourcing Week was an inaugural event in Singapore which aimed to bring together a diverse audience from various industries - creative, government, startup and technology - and bring about discussion on the issues surrounding crowdsourcing and how that can apply in their individual environments.
MyMela.com – An Online Marketplace For India’s Artisans
MyMela.com is a global marketplace that lets you access India’s fashion, accessories and home décor handicrafts, with a micro-lending function.
[Singapore] Daylight Studios To Tap Growing Mobile Games Market With Two New Titles
Homegrown mobile games developer Daylight Studios aims to have a piece of the growing mobile gaming market with two newly-launched mobile games, Conquest Age and Spirit Horizon.
[Singapore] GrabTaxi – Disrupting The Singapore Cab Industry, One Cab At A Time
GrabTaxi is a third-party taxi booking mobile application that can connect cab drivers directly with commuters through the driver's personal mobile phone, thereby complementing (or bypassing) the cab company's booking systems.
A Love for Books Actually
Kenny and Karen have a common, and almost obsessive, passion for books. The couple's first date was spent at the National Library, later followed...
Singapore To Get New Posterboy For Entrepreneurial Success?
The room was totally packed at the keynote presentation in BlogOUT! '09, but you can't truly be sure what the crowd was here for.
Creately.com Reshapes Project Management
Creately.com is a project management tool with built-in features for built-in reviewing, easy collaboration, and comprehensive diagramming functions that helps teams manage and deliver their projects.
Sunflower – Always Sunny, Always Different!
Contributing writer Ho Sim Yee dropped by Sunflower - a concept store focusing on unique hand-made, environmentally-friendly and socially-conscious merchandise - to find out what makes it bloom.
SpeechTrans’s Mobile App Translates Different Languages For You
SpeechTrans (www.speechtrans.com) is an automatic speech recognition and translation mobile application available for iOS devices, essentially turning your device into a portable translator.
Propmatch.com Props Up Property Search
The online property portal market in Singapore last month saw a new addition with the launch of Propmatch (www.propmatch.com), which promises to revolutionize hunting for Singapore property on the Web.