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ThoughtBuzz – Measuring Social Media Buzz in Real-Time
How do we measure social media? That question may seem simple, but startup ThoughtBuzz was founded just to answer that question.
FriendShopper – You’ll Never Shop Alone
Here's a new service that promises to revolutionize your online shopping experience. Friendshopper.com is an online social shopping platform that connects friends in a real-time web environment so that you don't have to shop alone.
ArticleBuff – Crowdsourcing Your Writing
Andrew Elliot is a self-confessed serial entrepreneur and, he readily admits, one who has 'failed' often. But the founder of ArticleBuff - an online marketplace and resource site for writers - chooses to view those experiences positively.
Visual Factory – Stitching Together A 3D Virtual World of Opportunity
Ilan Ofek is a 20-year veteran in the defense industry. However, these days he brings his knowledge in image understanding, simulation systems and advanced artificial intelligence to build his 3D immersive social network startup, Visual Factory.
Tibesti.com – An Online Classifieds and Social Network Mashup?
Tibesti.com is a new and unique social network designed to connect people around particular interests, and enables users to earn cash while talking about, recommending and showcasing their favorite products.
AsiaVentureSchwag.com – Wear Your Support for Asian Startups
AsiaVentureSchwag.com launches! Co-founder Ng Cheng Wei unveils the e-commerce subscription service focusing on startup merchandise.
isocket – A New Way To Sell Advertising
Recognize the limits people have built into themselves. "Then get rid of them", says John Ramey of isocket, an advertising platform startup. "Think different, go big, be genuine."
Rochor Beancurd – Bean There, Done That?
30 year-old Singaporean Jason Koh did something totally unthinkable to many in his generation - he eschewed his very respectable IT degree from Queensland University of Technology and a systems engineer job to sell beancurd.
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.
MyTimeWall.com – Collaborating Memories On A Timeline
Would you leave a high-paying consultancy job to run a startup? Shawn Cheong and Joseph Chua did, and founded an online social networking and life-blogging service mashup, myTimeWall.com.
A Brief Interview with Jon Petersen of buUuk.com
We grab founder Jon Petersen of mobile restaurant guide app BuUuk.com for a short interview.
StudentofFortune.com – Homework Hire
Where should you turn to when you need help with homework? From friends, via the Internet, of course. That was what college friends Sean McCleese and Nikhil Sreenath believed when they started StudentofFortune.com.
SocialWok’s TechCrunch50 Experience
I took the opportunity to ask Yong Ming Guang, CEO of SocialWok, of the Singapore startup's experience presenting at TechCrunch50 Conference 2009, the massive showcase of the latest cutting-edge technology startups in San Francisco.
The Tang Dynasty: An Age of Innovation
The Tang Dynasty era (618-907 AD) was a period of unprecedented peace and stability in China. Chinese arts and culture flourished, and it was also a period of notable Chinese technological progress and innovation.
VoteForArt.com – Art on College Tees
24-year old Jeremy Parker, president and founder of VoteforArt.com, has always been interested in the idea of creating something out of nothing.
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.
Taggo – Making Customer Relationship Management Easy
Most people think entrepreneurship is one of the riskiest decisions they can ever make in their life. Not Taggo's Aneace Haddad.
BarCamp – The New Conference?
The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) office was surprisingly crowded on a Saturday morning. A youngish, somewhat geeky crowd has descended here, of all places, and the air is literally buzzing with excitement. Welcome to BarCamp Singapore 4.
JamiQ – Monitoring Social Media Across Languages
Just as social media has been growing and will continue to grow at an incredible rate for the foreseeable future, social media monitoring services are increasingly coming into demand. Enter JamiQ, the latest to provide such a service.
Online Marketplace Thumbtack Pins Hopes On Local Services
San Francisco-based online local services marketplace Thumbtack launched today to offer users a place to easily compare price, availability, location, and other detailed provider information on thousands of local services.
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.
SOCIALICO – In A League Of Its Own
Can you put a price on fame? Singapore social application startup SOCIALICO certainly thinks so, with its Facebook game FAME League.
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.
An Interview With Mouli Cohen, Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist
Mouli Cohen, founder of Voltage Capital, shares with us his thoughts on success, entrepreneurship, investment philosophies, and philanthropy.
PlaySay.com – Learning Languages On The Go
Philadelphia-based Playsay.com lets users download digital "language flashcards" using any mobile device such as their iPods, cell phones or personal digital assistants (PDA), allowing them to learn languages while on the move.
Om Republic – Apparel That Makes You Go Ommm…
What do people do when they are retrenched from their jobs during the financial crisis? Some, like ex-investment banker turned designer-entrepreneur Min Sim, chose to start their own businesses.
Chlkboard – Chalking Out A Model For Location-Based Services
Small-to-medium businesses with their tiny marketing budgets typically struggle with their advertising and promotion efforts, especially when it comes to mobile marketing. This is the gap Chlkboard seeks to fill.
Christian Arno & Lingo24 – Translating The Language For Success
In just eight years, Christian Arno grew his translation company Lingo24 from a home-based business to a company of 112 full-time employees working across four continents, with clients in over sixty countries and an annual turnover of over US$6m.
Proposable.com Proposes A New Way For Managing Sales Leads
Salespeople know the pain of managing and keeping track of each step of the sales process with potential sales leads. Proposable.com believes it has an answer.
Antenna Consulting – Feeling Out The Potential In Youth
Ex-schoolteacher and founder of training consultancy Antenna Consulting, Adrian Tan, has always been passionate about working with young people.