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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 meeting up unofficially.)

During the two hours, Jamie and Violet answered many questions and talked about many of the thought processes they had as they made each decision along the way.

From left: Violet and Jamie.

Thanks very much to Jamie and Violet for coming down to join us. Thanks to our guests that day, and lastly, thanks for Martell and Pernod Ricard for sponsoring the space and drinks!

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, governmental feedback channels etc..

Isaac and myself moderated the session, held at The Pigeonhole cafe (more on the cafe on SGE):

Our enthusiastic audience:

There were many questions…

but alas, only 45 minutes. We couldn’t take all the questions obviously - there were also many more on Pigeonhole Live - the live Q&A software we used during this fireside chat (more on this company on SGE). But we hope that we as the moderators managed to allow for a diversity of questions and opinions during the session. You can watch a few video segments of the entire chat online.

Before and after the session, Dr Tony Tan also took time to meet with the various entrepreneurs and investors (pictures). Here is one of the SGE team meeting him:

The event couldn’t have gone on without a hitch without Terence, Egi and Joyce working tirelessly in the background. Take a look at Joyce registering a guest on arrival:

Here’s all of them looking at the guest list (and I guess figuring out some sort of logistics to-do ~> thank you!):

Finally, here is a SGE team pic with our special guest for this particular Chillin’ With session (we’re missing a few alumni!): from left, Joyce, Bernard, Isaac, Dr Tony Tan, myself, Egi and Terence:

Thank you! And, much thanks to Dr Tony Tan for his time and willingness to listen to the “grievances” of a bunch of passionate entrepreneurs and investors!