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Hello Baby – Not-So-Baby Steps Into Online Retail
Selling baby items online can be lucrative, as Trevor Ginn of Hello Baby found out.
CyberSynchs – Syncing A New Tune For Devices
Losing your data when your high-end mobile phone crashes can really hurt, as Amos Winbush III found out. So he decided to come up with a solution to this annoying problem, and finally founded CyberSynchs, a online service that synchronizes your mobile content to the cloud.
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.
LemonStand – From Lemons To Lemonade Stands
Collaboration knows no bounds. Danny Halarewich and Aleksey Bobkov may be separated by hundreds of miles, but that didn't stop the two from joining forces to found LemonStand.
Lexani Limousines Rides Out A Bad 2009
20-year old CEO of Lexani Limousines Billy Jinks overcomes the economic downturn and manages to grow his luxury chauffeur company in 2009.
CardHub.com Helps You Choose The Right Credit Card
One of the ways to control your personal finances is to own the right credit card, but how do you select one most suited for your personal needs? CardHub.com, an online search tool that aims to redefine the way people search, compare and apply for credit cards, believes it has the answer.
Prova Crowdsources Advertising Designs For Small Business Owners
David Gash, the CEO of San Diego-based advertising design agency Prova Advertising, created his site with the aim of 'putting advertising in the hands of business owners'.
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.
Founder Institute Singapore: Mentors Make A Difference
Welcome to the 'HotSeat' - possibly the most frightening, yet the most fruitful, time at a session of Founder Institute Singapore.
Sency.com Tells You What’s Going On Now
It's tough sorting through all that real-time online chatter in the form of tweets and such, but Santa Monica, California-based Sency believes its real-time search engine can help.
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.
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.
Gygan Lets You Store And Transfer Gygan-tic Files
For those of us who use file transfer services like RapidShare.com, YouSendIt.com or 4shared.com, here comes Oakville, Ontario-based Gygan.com.
Webklipper Lets You Klip Part Of The Web
Let's say you like the content on a certain web page, and want to share it with others. You can share its URL, but that wouldn't allow you to annotate or comment on it. Enter Webklipper.
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.
GOODSTUPH, A Bad-Ass Social Influence Marketing Agency
The 'accidental creative rebel' of Ogilvy PR's 360° Digital Influence team in Singapore, Pat Law, is now the boss lady of her own little consultancy, GOODSTUPH.
Muecs: Boy Scout Meets Foursquare
echelon 2010 is right round the corner, and we take the chance to catch up with Muecs, one of the technology companies that will feature at the upcoming web technology event.
YourAM Makes Managing Appointments Easy
YourAM is a web-based application build to automatically organize and manage business appointments in real time via the web and SMS, designed specially for small service-focused businesses that need to handle appointments for groups of people.
24seven Social Media Round-The-Clock
Dedicated social media consultancy 24seven Communications was started by three members of the Singapore social media scene hoping to fill in the gaps between marketing, advertising and public relations with social media.
pepperconn’s Groupware Manages Your Social Media From End-To-End
One of the exhibiting startups at Echelon 2010 was pepperconn. We talk to Adrian Teo, founder of pepperconn, about his startup, entrepreneurship and his thoughts on the burgeoning social media scene.
Insync Keeps Your Google Stuff In Sync
Not to be confused with the boy band N'Sync, Manila-based Insync is a synchronization platform for Gmail and Google Apps users that keep files in sync between computers, friends, coworkers and clients.
Singapore’s Startup Scene – Once Lost, But Now Am foound?
The startup star of Echelon 2010 was undoubtedly mobile location-based social networking service foound, who wowed audiences and panelists alike during a startup launchpad pitching session at the web and technology event.
Ezra Wube And Time-Based Painting
During the World Cup, Ethiopian visual artist Ezra Wube will painstakingly recreate each World Cup match - all 64 of them - on canvas using an art technique called time-based painting.
MyAdEngine Helps Businesses Manage Their Online Advertising
Some of the biggest barriers to small businesses adopting online advertising to promote their products and services can be the sheer range of choices available, and the difficulty of understanding what works in the digital space. MyAdEngine aims to alleviate such issues.
Developer Focus: Dean Michael Berris
In this new series, we talk to programmers, developers and code monkeys on their latest projects and their views on the startup scene. First up is Philippines-based Dean Michael Berris.
A Live Chat With Royston Tay Of Zopim
Contributing writer Caroline Yeung sat down with Royston Tay, CEO and co-founder of Singapore-based startup Zopim, which created a live chat application for online businesses to talk to customers, to get to know more about the company.
BaseKit Takes Websites From Design To Live Without Coding
BaseKit is a new online platform that allows web design professionals to easily produce and publish websites without writing any HTML code.
FlutterScape.com Makes Japanese Products Easily Accessible
Tokyo-based FlutterScape is a cross-border and cross-cultural social e-commerce platform that makes buying Japanese products easy and accessible.
MyBankTracker.com Tracks Banking Products So You Don’t Have To
New York-based MyBankTracker.com provides a free, easy-to-use web portal that lets consumers rate and review banks, compare interest rates and learn more about the savings and investment options available to best meet their goals.
Penn Olson on Social Media and Marketing
We talk to university undergraduates Willis Wee and Sarah Chong, the brains behind highly-influential Singapore-based social media and marketing blog Penn Olson, read by marketing practitioners from all around the region.