iTwin Shares their TechCrunch50 Experience

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iTwin Shares their TechCrunch50 Experience

Editor’s note: Lux and Kal are the guys behind iTwin, the first Singaporean startup to launch at TechCrunch50. They share their honest and frank insights as young startup founders and give a first hand behind-the-scenes account of what happened before their pitch.

Lux and I are back from TechCrunch50…

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Wrapup for Developer Series 3: Startups and Platforms

by Mohan Belani

Wrapup for Developer Series 3: Startups and Platforms

We had our recent developer series event at the SMU School of Information Systems. The event allowed startups to share the pros and cons of the platforms they work  on, as well as how they managed to implement certain features in their products. We…

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Singapore Startup Scene Scores a Hat Trick!

by Mohan Belani

Singapore Startup Scene Scores a Hat Trick!

It’s a hat trick for Singapore! The last few days have been really crazy. Singapore startups have been reaching heights never before seen. We first had iTwin, the first ever Singapore based startup to be featured as one of the 50 launching companies at TechCrunch50. That very evening,…

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HomeCamera Bags Top Innovation Award at Broadband World Forum 2009

by Mohan Belani

HomeCamera Bags Top Innovation Award at Broadband World Forum 2009

Singapore startups are on a roll. Just today, Singapore based startup iTwin launched at the TechCrunch50 event in Silicon Valley. And now I just got word on another impressive achievement by another Singaporean startup called Pechora Technologies.

These are the guys who made HomeCamera, the award…

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Singapore Startup iTwin Launches at TechCrunch50 Conference!

by Mohan Belani

Singapore Startup iTwin Launches at TechCrunch50 Conference!

We were absolutely ecstatic to see iTwin, a Singapore based startup which spun off from Exploit Technologies A*STAR, being one of the 50 featured companies at this year’s TechCrunch50 event. Kudos to the team!

Widely known as the top event for launching web startups,…

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The 3 D’s of Starting Up

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The 3 D’s of Starting Up

Editor’s note: Ming Yong is the co-founder and CEO of Socialwok, an on-demand enterprise social platform. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Voiceroute, a platform for open source unified communications. Socialwork was one of the selected pitching startups at the recent unConference Singapore 2009 event held in

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Facebook Developer Garage Singapore Powered by Intel

by Mohan Belani

Facebook Developer Garage Singapore Powered by Intel

Ladies and gentlemen, get ready for this. The Facebook Developer Garage Singapore is back and this time round, it’s powered by Intel. We are running it alongside the Social Networking World Forum Singapore event for an extra dose of social networking nirvana. Best part of it…

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

by jitsion

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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Programmers and Startup scene in Singapore!

by Sneha Menon

Programmers and Startup scene in Singapore!

I attended the inaugural #geekcampsg about a week back and was completely blown away and also a little bit humbled by the different technologies, platforms and applications that were discussed there. It was an eye-opener, in terms of the various range of talks, from

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Startups – The Land of Opportunity

by Mohan Belani

Startups – The Land of Opportunity

Update: We have added in job postings for Make Affinity

While the financial institutions crumble and the MNCs continue laying off people, startups flourish due to the large availability of talent in the open market. For example, The Economist talked about how startups flourished the year after…

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