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When sleeping with your co-founder is a great idea: 3 couples share their...
Love is complex, so much so that thousands of movies have been made and songs composed about it. Our fascination with love stretches back all the way to Shakespeare and his star-crossed lovers. A lot...
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Australia’s startup wunderkind Lachy Groom on the next big thing, tips for...
17-year-old Lachy Groom knows a thing or two about running full-fledged, online businesses. At 11-years-old, he started learning to code in HTML and CSS, and by the age of 13, he founded PSDtoWP, a...
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Brand guru Martin Lindstrom’s advice to startups: Provocate, gamble, and...
With the advent of social media, consumers could be having a bigger say about your company’s brand than ever before, and they’re doing a better job of popularizing your brand better than your marketers...
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Navtej Singh of Tagit wants to be Asia’s mobile banking czar
If you’re using a mobile banking app in Singapore to review your finances, chances are, it is made by Tagit. Started by serial entrepreneur Navtej Singh in 2004, Tagit is a mobile solutions company...
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ChopChop founder Aaron Hee gives up investment banking scholarship to run a...
Entrepreneurs suffer in the short-term so that they might enjoy a pay-off in the future. For Aaron Hee, founder of Malaysia-based startup ChopChop, that reality takes on an extra dimension. Recently,...
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Two-time Imagine Cup Singapore winner Sunny Singh hits National Service snag...
Sunny(second from left) with his Imagine Cup teammates in 2011. The first time I met Satrughan Kumar Singh — or Sunny, as he prefers to be called — I was surprised by his height. Towering almost a head...
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19-year-old student entrepreneur Gian Javelona catapults into national...
Fame has found 19-year-old student Gian Javelona. Soon after launching PUP Mobile Portal, the first mobile app for a school in the Philippines, he transformed from just another enthusiastic app...
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Singapore needs Silicon Valley’s open source culture, says Meng Weng Wong of...
Meng savors wine and cheese in the new JFDI premises on the fifth floor of Block 71. Photo: Yvan Meng Weng Wong, a serial entrepreneur, founded JFDI with Hugh Mason in 2010 with a vision of nurturing...
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Albert Mai joins SGE, focused on the Vietnam startup scene
We love working with dynamic, talented and passionate folks and one of our latest additions to our team, Albert is just like that. SGE welcomes Albert Mai on board our team, focused on scouting the...
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Stephanie Sutanto brings some SGE glam into Los Angeles
Sometime in the middle of last year, a certain Stephanie Sutanto emailed the early stage fund that I used to run, asking for internship positions. I told her that we were no longer looking for people...
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For Noi.vn CEO William Vu Huynh, going offline was key to the dating site’s...
William Vu Huynh, co-founder and CEO of Vietnamese dating site Noi.vn, has been preoccupied with one question ever since he started his venture in 2008 with Phung Tien Cong: How do you get shy...
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Jason Lusk, ClickSpace founder, on making room for entrepreneurship in Vietnam
From left: Tien Dung Le, Jason Lusk, and Thuy Nguyen. Photo: ClickSpace Jason Lusk first came to Hanoi to work on a freelance project but ended up becoming a co-founder of ClickSpace, one of the first...
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Being a CEO eats into you, says Tan Teik Guan of recently-acquired DS3
The DS3 family. Teik Guan is wearing a yellow shirt. Photo: DS3 For twelve years, Tan Teik Guan has been carrying the weight of the company and its employees on his back, first as DS3‘s CTO and then as...
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Now Showing: An Entrepreneur’s Journey Into The Real Time Web
Meet Tan Siok Siok – Singaporean filmmaker and entrepreneur who has a deep passion for great storytelling in the age of real time web. Siok’s journey with the rise of social media is one peppered with...
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Steven Goh of mig33: Emerging Markets Are Where It’s At
Do you need to go to Silicon Valley to succeed as a start-up? Steven Goh, co-founder and CEO of mobile content and entertainment provider mig33, thinks not. In fact, he considers moving the company’s...
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Cofounder of Kazaa and Skype, Niklas Zennström Speaks To Singapore Audience
For a time, Niklas Zennström had to share an apartment with two people: His wife and business partner Janus Friis. The environment for technopreneurs was tough then, at the turn of the millenium. The...
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Can Identifii Match You and Your Dream Job?
Stuck in a job you hate? Still don’t know what you want to do with your life despite the fact that you’re about to graduate from university soon? If this sounds like you, perhaps you should head on...
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A Startup Roots Speaker Teaser With Derek Sivers
This Thursday, the Startup Roots Speaker Series will have as speaker Derek Sivers, founder of former president of CD Baby. One of the people behind it, Neoteny Labs’ James Chan, had a chance to...
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Inside Real Innovation: Follow The Innovation, Not The Company
Inside Real Innovation is a book that tries to show “how fundamental innovators really work” and looks at “explaining why the “innovation system” in the United States is failing to work as it once did,...
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“Kopi” with Ruiwen Chua of Hackerspace and SquareCrumbs
Today I have the privilege of featuring Ruiwen Chua, one of the co-founders of local coworking space, HackerspaceSG and Alumni linuxNUS (now renamed NUS Hackers) on SGE. I’ve known Ruiwen for quite...
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