January 2012
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Joyce's Inaugural Singapore Geek Girls Meetup!
Our very own Joyce founded Singapore Geek Girls and it had its first meetup yesterday! Here’s a picture of Joyce and myself taken by Michael Cheng:
December 2011
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Sharon's Birthday!
We had lunch and Sharon had one of her favs at Food For Thought: Red Velvet cake!
She’s 22! We celebrated one month late though.
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Christmas Cupcakes!
YUM! Larissa, SGE’s first intern and now alumnus, got us cupcakes for Christmas!
I only remembered to take a picture after two were gobbled up by yours truly.
September 2011
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Egi's Birthday!
So we celebrated our intern, Egi’s birthday last week! Here’s the first and only tame picture:
Then comes the blurry, club pics. We went to Club Avatar at Marina Mandarin Hotel and had a blast of a time.
Above, Egi forcing me to go on stage.
Can you spot myself, Sharon and Egi in the picture above?
No idea what the above was.
August 2011
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We Skydived Indoors!
Last week, Isaac and I went skydiving indoors!
How it came about is this: we were invited to a special “bloggers” session at iFly Singapore, a 3-month old outfit that holds the world’s largest wind tunnel for indoor skydiving, also known as bodyflight: it is almost 5 storeys tall: 16.5 ft (5m) wide and 56.5 ft (17.2m) tall.
So, when we got the invite to try this out, I was...
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Evening Drinks with Lunch Actually
Last week we managed to get the busy husband and wife entrepreneurial team behind Lunch Actually and Eteract, Jamie and Violet to join us at SGE and a few of our readers for drinks.
This was our 8th official networking session at 29 Boon Tat Street - the space which the Preparazzi team had just won in the Martell The Ultimate Start-Up Space competition. (I say official because we are always...
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The Dr Tony Tan Fireside Chat
A few weeks ago, we were presented with an amazing opportunity to engage Singapore presidential candidate Dr Tony Tan in a fireside chat with a small group of 30 entrepreneurs and investors from across various industries.
Throughout the entire 45 minute session, we heard from the group on issues that bug most entrepreneurs and investors: shortage and poaching of talent, funding environment,...
July 2011
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The showdown begins at Imagine Cup 2011
Last year this time, I was in Warsaw, Poland to judge the Software Design competition category of the Imagine Cup worldwide finals. It was the first time that I was exposed to the competition and the student enthusiasm I saw there amazed me. The teams buzzed around with clear excitement that they were part of something greater than themselves.
This year, I’m here in New York City to again...
January 2011
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November 2010
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What is Event Sprout?
Would like to share about the project born out of Startup Weekend SG - Event Sprout.
Based on the feedback after Startup Weekend SG, it seems like there is a need for some form of post-event analytic, management and marketing software.
Why Post-Event Marketing?
The hypothesis is that what happens after an event is as important, if not more important, than the pre-event marketing for subsequent...
October 2010
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Startup Weekend Singapore 2010
Gwen and I had been planning the development of a project for post event management for a couple of months. I cheekily, or was it earnestly, named the project MorningAfter. Along the way, we researched the idea, alternating between joy when someone writes a post like this, thus validating our idea, and dismay when someone writes a post like this which leads to great discussions that make us...
June 2010
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Getting an office
A couple of weeks ago, my father informed me of the availability of a wonderfully located, terrifically maintained office for rent.
For a couple of months now, I’ve been planning to establish a place for the team to regularly work at instead of fighting for tables at SMU or using hackerspace facilities.
After seeing the office, I went home, fired up Excel and started crunching the...
May 2010
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March 2010
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Lessons From "In Bed With The Right Investor"
Last night was SGEntrepreneur’s first networking event “In Bed With The Right Investor” held after the iMATCH pitching and keynote sessions.
The format of the event:
1. The investors would be paired and seated on the beds.
2. In front of each pair of investors would be a bowl.
3. Participants would drop the name-cards into the bowl.
4. Investors would pick name-cards from...
In Bed With The Right Investor →
SGEntrepreneur’s first event. Together with supperclub Singapore. Thought of the name ‘In Bed With’ when discussing the possibility of an event with Zach on supperclub’s signature beds..