Feature Story
Eegoes.com: An Answer To Social Networking Information Overload?
Boston, Massachusetts-based Eegoes (www.eegoes.com) is positioned as a social networking site that aims to provide a more user-friendly and more streamlined platform for social interaction, and one that is based around user interests.
Buy And Sell Used Video Games On Gamestaq.com
New York-based Gamestaq (www.gamestaq.com) is an online peer-to-peer marketplace for buyers and sellers of video games.
RIAH – Hair Today, Help Tomorrow
Melbourne, Australia-based architect Sue Lee Seng may spend her formal hours designing buildings, but she puts some of her free time into RIAH, her hairdressing "business" that contributes 10 percent of revenue towards the non-profit organization Operation Stitches.
Women Entrepreneurs Can Look Awesome And Run Businesses Too
Entrepreneur Tiffany Fluhme, CEO of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based direct sales skincare and cosmetics company Fluhme, says that women don't have to deny themselves to help balance the checkbook.
GrooveZoo To Connect Musicians; Enable Collaborations
Santa Cruz, California-based GrooveZoo (www.groovezoo.com) aims to connect songwriters, musicians, producers and other members of the music-making business by helping them share and collaborate on music projects.
Santa Monica Express – Growth In A Downturn
California-based Santa Monica Express was seeing a growth of 15 to 20 percent year-on-year up until 2008 when the economy tanked.
A Different Way to Browse Tweets With ReadEvery.com
ReadEvery (www.ReadyEvery.com) is an interesting way to follow Twitter. ReadEvery lets you follow tweets from the people you follow on a single page and is a good way of finding interesting Twitter users that your immediate follow circle is following.
Aaron Leischke: Franchising His Way To Success
Aaron Leischke may only be 31 years old, but he is already the owner of three Cousins Subs franchises in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota area.
Baking For Good With A Passion
New York-based Baking For Good is an online bakery with a social mission - it is based around the idea of a bake sale, selling fresh all-natural baked goods such as brownies, cookies and other treats and donating 15 percent of every purchase to a non-profit or community fundraiser of the customer's choice
Enter The Momtrepreneurs
When moms get together in a group, you sometimes get a Tupperware party. What happens when moms who happens to be entrepreneurs get together? You get a Momtrepreneur Exchange.
Tischen – Employment For All
Founded in July 2010, New York-based Tischen (www.tischen.com) is an online directory where people set up a personal webpage to showcase their skills and experience with the hope of finding a job. The site has an extremely lofty goal - to rid the world of unemployment.
Yoursphere – Safe Online Spheres Of Influence For Kids
Yoursphere is an online social network that is centred around safe and fun rewards-based interactive content and activities for children and young people up to the age of 18, with features dedicated to guarding youth privacy and safety.
Charting A New Real-Time, Collaborative Experience With LucidChart
LucidChart (www.lucidchart.com) is a collaborative web-based diagramming and flowchart application that allows users to communicate more effectively visually with the use of flowcharts, wireframes, website prototypes, process diagrams, Unified Modeling Language (UML) artifacts and models, and more.
IngBoo Likes To Share
Sunnyvale, California-based startup IngBoo aims to change social sharing as we know it. Its idea revolves around social plugins that allows web publishers to syndicate, connect and share content, based on trusted recommendations, via search, tags and feeds.
Convenient Dating With eSynchrony
Contributing writer Ho Sim Yee chats with co-founder of Singapore-based Lunch Actually, Violet Lim, to find out more about eSynchrony, its latest effort in bringing singles together.
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.
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.
N4MU Takes You from Print to Digital (and sometimes back again)
N4MU allows the content of traditional print materials to be stored and developed into a digital form that can easily and instantly be broadcast and distributed to devices such as computers, smartphones and other hand-helds.
Right Skills, Right Time With Skillendar
Ever encountered the frustration of trying to look for a service provider, but unable to find a suitable one based on locality and the availability of the service provider? Skillendar (http://www.skillendar.com) may be able to help.
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.
Appitalism – Digital Content For All
Appitalism aims to help consumers to easily and quickly discover and download the best digital content across all devices, be they smartphones, tablets, PCs or eBook readers.
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.
MoneyLine.Sg – One-Stop Financial Information Site For Singapore
MoneyLine.sg is a new comprehensive online personal banking and finance comparison portal in Singapore offering free access to information covering a range of financial, personal banking and insurance products.
SocialReport.com, the Google Analytics for Social Networks
Social Report is a social network analytics solution that helps track and analyze social network accounts - Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, for example - and provides tools to manage marketing initiatives.
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.
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.
Emergent Detection’s BodyKey Aids Your Fight Against Flab
Obesity is a major problem in America and it's only getting worse. Entrepreneurs Keegan Hall and Eric Fogel, founders of Emergent Detection, believe they have a solution to this weighty issue with their fitness technology product, BodyKey.
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.
Urban Spoils Aggregates Daily Deals; Adds Relevance
Seattle-based Urban Spoils is a daily-deal aggregation service that capitalizing on the rising trend of social buying, where the best daily deals across group buying sites are cherry-picked and aggregated on a single site.
The Drinking Partners – Inculcating A Beer Culture
The Drinking Partners is a local purveyor and distributor of specialty beers from Belgium that aims to promote a beer appreciating culture in Singapore.