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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.
VentureBoard Helps Universities Help Startups
VentureBoard is a higher education software platform where students can start their ventures, but also allow universities to create and manage their own entrepreneurship ecosystems.
Fiverr.com Lets You Buy And Sell Services for Just US$5
Micha Kaufman and Shai Wininger, founders of e-commerce site Fiverr.com, believes that there can be an entire marketplace where people can purchase and sell services at the fixed price of US$5.
NakedWines.com Connects Winemakers And Wine Drinkers Via Crowdfunding
NakedWines.com uses crowdfunding to raise funds from a wine-loving public and channels that money towards a bunch of talented winemakers so that they can focus on making quality wines exclusively for funders.
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.
8 Online Businesses Disrupting Their Industry
Often the only way for companies to establish themselves in a market is to do something innovative and take the shine off their competitors. Patrick Smith of Housesimple looks at some of the most innovative online businesses disrupting their industries (including his own).
Enterprise Messaging Comes Of Age With sqoope
Everybody’s on an instant messaging app these days.
Fast, convenient and almost idiot-proof, they allow us to communicate quickly with each other via text, photos,...
An Epson 3D Vision Of A Projected Future
At a recent launch event of its EB-4000 and G6000 series of projectors, imaging hardware and solutions company Epson showcased various applications of projection technology in a commercial context that was achievable with the simple use of its high brightness projectors.
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...
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.
LogoMyWay – Designers Do It Their Way
Columbus, Ohio-based LogoMyWay.com is a community site that revolves around client-commissioned contests for crowd-sourced professional logo designs.
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.
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.
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 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.
Gaming Is Right Up Protégé Production’s Alley
Managing director of Protégé Production Janelle Lee shares with contributing writer Caroline Yeung on what inspired her - one of the few female technology entrepreneurs in Singapore - to develop games.
Prince Media Company, King Of Outdoor Advertising?
Philip Kafka hung up his racket at the age of 23 merely months into his professional tennis career to become an entrepreneur instead.
Friendgiftr.com Reinvents The Gift Card Economy
Tinseltown is better known for producing movie stars, but there may be another star in the making in Hollywood, California-based startup Friendgiftr.com.
The Nübox Way To Computer Retail
Computer retail is big business in Singapore. That's what personal computer retail chain Newstead Technologies is counting on for its growth, especially with its new Apple-focused Nübox concept stores.
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.
Fornova Enables You To Trawl And Aggregate The Deep Web
ForNova provides B2B turnkey content aggregation solutions for classified advertisers, e-commerce and other specific content verticals without the need for site-specific customizations.
Daily Deals Still A Big Deal In Asia; All Deals Asia Launches iPhone App
The daily deals industry may be taking somewhat of a beating to its reputation in recent times - stories of deals gone bad abound - but according to All Deals Asia, this space is still growing rapidly in Southeast Asia.
GIVE.sg – A Better Way to Give
If giving is a blessing, GIVE.sg wants to make it easier to bless others by democratizing the act of giving.
Manga Castle – Online Social Games For Manga Fans
Sylvia Yao and Wu Di are such intense manga and gaming enthusiasts that they decided to start Manga Castle, a social gaming company based on the Japanese style of comics and print cartoons.
Entrepreneurs: OFO Says Save Money, Buy Used Furniture
Entrepreneurs who are starting out always look out to reduce costs. When it comes to setting up an office, OFO, a e-commerce site that trades in second-hand office furniture, believes it can help.
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.
The Global Sharing Economy
The sharing economy has literally exploded in recent years across the globe. LoveHomeSwap.com has put together an interactive map featuring the world's most exciting sharing economy companies, the industry they operate in, their founders and the year they were founded.
Lexani Limousines – Driving Its Way To The Top
Billy Jinks is the president and CEO of Lexani Limousines, a leader in Arizona's transportation industry since 2004. And he just turned 20.
Make And Save Your OwnSkin
OwnSkin.com is a website that allows users to customize their mobile phones by making their own mobile phone content such as themes (also known as skins) and wallpapers.
BungoBox.com – An Eco-Friendly Move
Florida-based company BungoBox (www.BungoBox.com) rents out BungoBoxes - durable, stackable, supposedly sustainable plastic containers that helps you save on moving costs and save the environment in the process.