Posts by: Sruthy Kumar

Hong Kong Government Funding for Startups

by Sruthy Kumar

We’ve added Hong Kong to our Government funding for Startups in Southeast Asia chart following our recent visit to StartUP Saturday in Hong Kong. Funding and financial support offered by Hong Kong extend to SMEs and ideas from the interactive digital media and the creative industries.

If you…

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Q&A with Casey Chan: “There is a myth that startups have to suffer”

by Sruthy Kumar

Q&A with Casey Chan: “There is a myth that startups have to suffer”

Casey Chan is a tech entrepreneur, angel investor, inventor and an adjunct professor at the  Orthopedic Surgery department at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He also has a degree in aerospace engineering and holds 35 US patents in surgical devices to boot. The man is the definition of…

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Give.sg wins SGD15k at ideas.inc contest

by Sruthy Kumar

Give.sg wins SGD15k at ideas.inc contest

Give.sg received SGD15,000 in cash for winning the ideas.inc Business Challenge organised by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and SPRING Singapore.

The peer-to-peer fundraising platform also won the Top Incubation Award, getting an offer of SGD100,000 worth of cash and business services from Invention Capital. Give.sg earlier exhibited…

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Incubators, Investments and Mistakes: Interview With Angel Investor, Joe Rouse

by Sruthy Kumar

Incubators, Investments and Mistakes: Interview With Angel Investor, Joe Rouse

I have had the pleasure of seeing Joe Rouse many a time judging business plans and conducting workshops on technology investments and entrepreneurship at Start-Up@Singapore. Intrigue pushed me to request an interview and we had a chat about investing, incubating and everything in between.

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Create Your Own App Store in a Minute – with Djuzz

by Sruthy Kumar

Create Your Own App Store in a Minute – with Djuzz

Following the launch of Djuzz, a portal that facilitates the distribution of mobile games, mobile media company BuzzCity today launches The Djuzz Catalogue, a new tool which makes use of the numerous free mobile games available for download on the Djuzz mobile internet site.…

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Buzzcity Developer Garage Meetup, 30 July

by Sruthy Kumar

Buzzcity Developer Garage Meetup, 30 July

Buzzcity will be organizing their monthly developer garage on 30 July. Developer Garage seeks to provide a channel for developers to share experience, trends and insights on developing and commercializing sites and applications on mobile Internet. This upcoming series will cover the different development platforms, which one is up…

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The Pervasiveness of Groupon Clones in Singapore

by Sruthy Kumar

The Pervasiveness of Groupon Clones in Singapore

Consumers in Singapore see value in making bulk purchases, and because of that, it is of no surprise that Singapore has caught onto social buying. Chicago-based Groupon is by far the most successful business with this model, with a valuation of over $1 billion, having started only…

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[Interview] Insync – “Dropbox for Google users” at echelon 2010

by Sruthy Kumar

[Interview] Insync – “Dropbox for Google users” at echelon 2010

Exhibiting at echelon 2010 was Insync, voted as one of the more popular startups by the other startups present. Touted as the “Dropbox for Gmail and Google users”, Insync received special mention on TechCrunch and our previous interviews with startups at echelon 2010. We caught…

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