Taiwan has one major startup event annually, the IDEAS Show, which happened on Wednesday, June 27. It’s mainly a platform for local startups to pitch to a live audience and judging panel. This year’s best pitch, beating 19 others, went to an Internet radio platform called Now.In. Chief operating…
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IDEAS Show is a conference and startup pitching platform that’s the highlight of the Taiwan scene’s calendar. The keynote for this year’s event is social gaming giant Zynga’s Japan country manager, Shintaro Yamada. He joined Zynga through its acquisition of Unoh, the social game developer he founded right out…
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Remember Foound? Well, the Singapore startup is going to be relaunched as Found (that’s one ‘O’). We got Danny Tan, the company’s founder, to show us some exclusive screenshots of the new product.
We last talked to Tan about the new Found at the Echelon alumni session at…
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A new Singapore startup called Impulseflyer hopes to apply the private-sale model popularized by sites like Gilt to Asia’s boutique hotels. The company gets its name from what it calls a new breed of Asian travellers: People who book a trip on impulse, based on a great deal they…
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Wow. What a week it’s been. We hosted more than 1,000 startuppy folks at Echelon 2011 last Thursday and Friday, and it was a blast. We’re still recovering.
We had a pretty active hashtag at #echelon2011 and I’m seeing a few albums and comments pop up on Facebook, so I’m going…
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With Asia’s technology startup ecosystem exploding in recent months, we’ve found it difficult to keep up with everything that’s going on. There are always new funds, angels, events and, of course, startups appearing on the scene.
So we thought we’d create a tool to make tracking things easier for ourselves,…
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Here’s another meetup for startups and entrepreneurs in Singapore: The Lion City StartupGuild Breakfast. Most of the startup events in town centre around drinks (often containing alcohol!) and happen at night. This morning meetup should work better for the non-nocturnal members of the startup community in Singapore.
The meetup developed…
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My curiosity was piqued by a Daily Social story on a new investor in Indonesa, Investidea. The firm already has three companies in its portfolio, and seems to have been flying under the radar for some time. One of its investments is in Kartumuu, a social greeting…
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Yeoh Siew Hoon runs Singapore’s major annual travel tech conference, Web In Travel. She’s also an experience journalist covering the travel space, having reported for several trade titles, and publishes the active WIT blog. Plus, she’s curating our session on travel tech at Echelon 2011 in the ‘Breaking the…
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Since DailySocial beat us to the punch announcing the Indonesian companies who will be pitching at Echelon 2011, I’m going to make this quick and dirty!
I’m pleased to announce the final 11 startups who will present at the Launchpad during Echelon 2011 in Singapore. Just to recap,…
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