Posts by: jitsion

January 5, 2010

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Milestone in Singapore Startup Ecosystem – Introduction to the 7 new TIS incubators

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Milestone in Singapore Startup Ecosystem – Introduction to the 7 new TIS incubators

The National Research Foundation of Singapore recently announced a list of 7 incubators(selected out of 32) that is approved under the new Technology Incubation Scheme. I have been personally very interested to see this funding space heat up especially for the Interactive Digital Media (IDM) space in Singapore…

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December 29, 2009

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Aljunied GRC’s iPhone App: Small Step Towards Gov 2.0 ?

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Aljunied GRC’s iPhone App: Small Step Towards Gov 2.0 ?

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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November 18, 2009

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Grants And More Grants, Do We Really Need Them?

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Grants And More Grants, Do We Really Need Them?

Throughout all the e27 and networking events which Singaporeans and foreigners have attended, we noticed that anyone local, looking for funds for starting up, will initially tend to look towards the government assistance schemes aka G-RanTS! Singaporeans love engaging the government to get their hands on any kind…

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October 20, 2009

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Global Entrepreneurship Week – Singapore Nov 16th

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Global Entrepreneurship Week – Singapore Nov 16th

This year’s Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) – Singapore promises to be much bigger and exciting with a total of about 25 local partners running their own entrepreneurial activities during the week. Some notable interesting niche associations such as the Association of Malay Entrepreneurs (KESUMA), a non-profit…

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October 11, 2009

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Next Gen Nationwide Broadband Network & Startups

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Next Gen Nationwide Broadband Network & Startups

The highly anticipated Next Gen Nationwide Broadband Network(Next Gen NBN) will slowly roll out in Q1 of 2010 providing speed of upto 1Gbps within Singapore. By end of 2010, it is targeted that 60% of Singapore will finish their installation and will be plugged into this fibre…

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September 22, 2009

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Explorer Grant: Call for Proposals: Games and Web Applications

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Explorer Grant: Call for Proposals: Games and Web Applications

The Singapore – MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) has initiated a call for proposal for Games and Web Applications to apply for the Explorer Grant that is operated by the Innovation Centre (Based in National University of Singapore, NUS). The Innovation Centre is funded by National…

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September 2, 2009

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Is the new NRF TIS going to kill some iJam incubators ?

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Is the new NRF TIS going to kill some iJam incubators ?

The National Research Framework has just announced a new grant scheme – (Technology Incubation Scheme, TIS). This scheme aims to provide for the following phase after protype building where startups would typically face the need to cover expansion costs. It is meant for projects that have…

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