Feature Story
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
Blogertizeworld – Pixellating the World
Ever heard of a 'mutual fund' for bloggers? Probably not, but that's only because Mumbai, India-based Blogertizeworld has just reintroduced a concept that died some three years ago.
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.
ExpressINMusic – Taking Song Dedication To Another Level
Music may make the world go round, but everyone knows the music business can be tough. Yet this not stopping the young entrepreneurs at ExpressINMusic, an online service that matches those who need personalized music with those who can make it.
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.
Status Search – Searching Within A Social Network
Lior Levin, who hails from the troubled country of Israel, is one of the co-founders of Status Search, a social status search engine currently in beta that allows users to perform searches within Twitter and Facebook status updates.
AzukiSoft: Putting A Business Together, Piece By Piece
As a child, Gibson Tang was already entrepreneurial - his first experience at making money was when he sold answers to math homework to his classmates in Primary school. Gibson is today the founder of AzukiSoft, a two-person game development outfit that produced Piecehunters for the iPhone.
No Ordinary Phlook
I first came across online photo-hosting service Phlook.com at Unconference 2008. Founders Ng Wee Kiat and Justine Ho was pitching their idea to the audience but, at that time, I wasn't sure if the World Wide Web needed another Flickr clone.
TheMobileGamer: Trying Games On The Go
Alvin Yap, CEO of Singapore consumer technology startup TheMobileGamer (TMG), admits that he has always been a dreamer. Having studied entrepreneurship as a business student in Singapore's Ngee Ann Polytechnic, he had always wanted to start and run his own business.