The home loans industry has been a relatively untapped area for web entrepreneurs seeking to capitalize on the lack of sites servicing home buyers. That was something Smartloans’s founder, Vinod Nair, spotted early on when he launched his version of a comparison site for home buyers looking for…
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Singapore is known for its stability and efficiency in all areas of the government and governance controls over its citizens. Singapore has spent a relatively short time to achieve its reputation and has started to evolve in its progressive strategies. More and more, government in developed nations have…
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With the year coming to an end, and most of us getting into the holiday mode and putting work in the back-burner, here is an event that can get you back into the grind next year. Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) in conjunction with Sandbox network are bringing together…
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It seems like they did, though the official announcement has not been made yet. Judging from the footer of this page, it is quite clear that Ubisoft has in fact acquired Pokerama. Pokerama was the first Made-in-Singapore game out of Game Ventures,…
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During my recent trip to Jakarta, I met a lot of budding young web startup founders with interesting yet practical ideas that were applicable to their local markets. Unlike Singapore, startups in Jakarta have to battle with issues like zero government funding and support and low Internet broadband…
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2009 has been an incredible year for the startup scene in Singapore. Despite the challenges of the painful global economic downturn, we’ve witnessed many of you grow from strength to strength and bringing much needed cheer and excitement to our community.
Over the past few…
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If you asked me to pick the buzzword spoken most during this event, it would definitely have to be FAIL! However, the unconference was anything but that! This weekend, instead of lazing around and sleeping till afternoon, I decided to hurl myself and that too at 8 am…
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Editor’s Note: Aneace has spent 25 years focusing on the moment of purchase. He is an expert in creatively enhancing payment transactions with real-time marketing features. He has launched several start-ups and is the author of two payment strategy books and numerous articles published in banking magazines…
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The boys and girls at HungryGoWhere have been getting busy lately. Other than their usual restaurant hopping sessions, they have been busy ensuring that the site brings value to food lovers all around and the business remains a sustainable and long term one. And they have…
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This is pretty interesting. Imagine, if you had 760 sq ft of shop space at Clarke Quay, what would you do with it? That’s exactly what Martell, along with their partners INSEAD and Standard Chartered wish to hear from you. Welcome to the Ultimate Startup Space!…
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