YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2011

It’s official – we hate meetings. But we need them. WebEx recently released the findings of some original research on how coworkers communicate and interact. According to the study, even though knowledge workers say that meetings are their least favorite form of communicating, they acknowledge that brainstorming and personally interacting with co-workers is when they feel most effective.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The fashion industry has been one of those to embrace new technological trends – from online shopping to group buying, the industry is one open to constant experimentation. So when a 24-year old graduate from Brown decided it was time for a new, innovative way to hunt for and buy fashion online, she introduced her own with NMRKT. NMRKT , pronounced “in-market”, is a fully interactive e-magazine featuring the latest emerging, up-and-coming fashion designers in New York City.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2011

By Adelaide Lancaster, co-author of “ The Big Enough Company: Creating a Business That Works for You “ It’s easy to think of most entrepreneurs as big-thinking creative types, who are always innovating and taking big risks. The truth is that most of us are just everyday people who by luck, fate or circumstance have decided to work for themselves.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2011

by Jon Gordon , author of “ The Seed: Finding Purpose and Happiness in Life and Work “ In a perfect world, “work” and “home” would balance out neatly. We’d work from 8 to 5 each day, take an hour-long lunch, and then come home and spend uninterrupted time with our families. But for those of us here in the wake of the Great Recession, firmly entrenched in an “always on” society, this notion seems hopelessly outdated.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2011

It’s been a rough time for the founders of Singapore-based, mobile location-based check-in service foound. After a spectacular launch at Echelon 2010 , the startup floundered and had to reinvent itself over the past year. Now rebranded as Found , the team is now looking at a new breath of life. So what went wrong? We asked Found ‘s founder Danny Tan what’s new with Found.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Making mistakes may be your best way to learn , but learning from someone else’s mistakes is probably a lot less painful. And if you’re an entrepreneur and need advice about your small business, “ The Big Enough Company: Creating a Business That Works for You ” by Adelaide Lancaster and Amy Abrams uses plenty of case studies, success stories and personal anecdotes to dispense advice on how you can find the best way forward for your company.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2011

We can’t deny there can still be some form of discrimination against the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community in the workplace (or elsewhere, for that matter), so perhaps it’s no wonder that they would come up with an online professional networking site – dot429 ( www.dot429.com ) – a professional networking site for LGBT community and their allies. dot429 – 4-2-9 spells G-A-Y on a telephone keypad – is offered as a platform to connect with

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Terrified that your website will one day crash, making you lose all your data? Well, that’s the reason for using DropMySite.com , a free cloud-based storage service that you backup your website automatically easily. Founded in 2011 by Singapore-based Internet entrepreneur John Fearon – who also an online marketplace for buying and selling outdoor advertising called EatAds.com – when he was looking for a way to backup his websites that had user-generated content.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Run a small business and need help to manage your appointments and marketing efforts? You may want to consider GoSuite , a cloud-based business management and marketing software being offered for free by GramercyOne. GoSuite comprises of two components. GoBook provides service businesses with an online appointment book and the ability to offer online, mobile and Facebook booking to consumers.There are tools for managing customer records and profiles, as well as a real-time dashboard for trackin

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Many startup books focus on the nitty-gritties of actually setting up, running and growing a business. “ The Transformational Entrepreneur: Igniting The Mind, Heart, & Spirit For Breakthrough Business Success “, by Terry Murray, takes a different approach. The professional business coach, and founder and managing partner of business training and development solutions provider Performance Transformation instead looks at the “softer” aspects of the business, and focuses

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Professional social networking site LinkedIn has just announced a feature that allows companies to update their own status. Called “Company Status Updates”, companies can directly share updates with those who follow their pages, such as company news, announce available jobs, industry articles and so on. It’s a great tool for administrators to keep the relevant communities updated and engaged.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2011

We had the chance to ask Jenny Morehead, CEO of startup Lockboxer.com , some questions about starting up. Lockboxer.com , for those not in the know, is an online service that allows you to track and value your personal effects or any kind of inventory. Where did the idea for Lockboxer come from? Morehead: Say you lost everything in a flood or fire, would you remember everything you had?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Watching a movie isn’t exactly a social experience – sure you may attend a movie with friends, but once the film rolls it’s pretty much a personal, individual experience. With the advent of social technologies, perhaps that is set to change. That’s something the Creators of Tomorrow – a group of enthusiastic young engineers, entrepreneurs, designers and independent thinkers forged together by a common belief to inspire creativity and innovation in youth today –

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2011

China online game developer and operator The9 Limited announced today that there are establishing a Red 5 office in Singapore as its Asian operation and development center, which will manage the operations of its upcoming online multi-player first-person shooter (FPS) game Firefall in all countries outside of the North American and European markets.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2011

(Credit: www.workingnaked.com). By Pooja N. Gugnani, professional organizer and founder of Organizing With You, Inc. Working from home can be a refreshing alternative to enduring long hours in traffic and a rigid schedule – if and only if your home office has a system that complements your needs well! As a professional organizer, I’m seeing an increasing number of clients working from home so they can spend more time with their family.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Most plastic bags we use today will either get incinerated or end up in a landfill somewhere. But not if four University of Arkansas student have anything to say about that – the founders of cycleWood Solutions Inc. intends to make biodegradable plastic shopping bags into reality. Using technology developed by University of Minnesota biochemist Simo Sarkanen from its Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering , the four students started their company after creating a business pla

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2011

Part self help book, part fable, “ The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny ” by leadership guru Robin Sharma is a slim volume that packs powerful life and leadership lessons in the form of a novel. Written in a semi-autobiographical manner – Sharma himself was a hotshot lawyer before he switched paths – the book borrowed ideas from various thinkers that are woven into a spiritual tale.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

As much as people love mom-and-pop businesses, it can be hard for these small shops to compete with the big guys. Nonetheless, some of the biggest and most successful companies in the world got their start as a small mom-and-pop business. Many of these small business owners never envisioned becoming international corporate giants, but when you’ve got a great idea, the sky is the limit.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 9, 2011

According to a recent survey conducted by financial management solutions provider Intuit , over 7o-percent of men and women in Singapore – most of whom in their 30s – have considered being entrepreneurs at some point in their lives. Which must, of course, come as a shock to their extremely conservative parents who expect their children to pursue more traditional, professional and safer career paths.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2011

by Vickie Milazzo, author of “ Wicked Success Is Inside Every Woman “. Let’s say you’re on the short list for a promotion with your company. A big promotion. If you get it you’ll take on far more responsibility and you definitely feel up to the challenge. But the salary attached to the job is a little well, lackluster — especially in light of your experience.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Do you want to know what really gets someone’s goat in the office? Professional social network LinkedIn recently released some data about the top office pet peeves that really annoy professionals. The country with the most pet peeves is India and the one with the fewest is Italy. Singapore came in a close second after India, at number two out of the 16 countries represented in the survey.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Let’s face it – far too many of us are totally clueless about fashion. Most of us will have no idea how to match and pull off the outfits we see in fashion magazines. But here’s a new social networking service that is aimed at uniting the fashionistas and the fashion-cluess amongst us.Founded by California entrepreneur Azita Gandjei, Oh That’s You!

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2011

If you’re a small business or entrepreneur that needs some quality, professional media production work but have no idea where to look for a reliable provider, ProductionHUB ( www.productionhub.com ) is probably your answer (or at least, it will give you your answer). Florida-based ProductionHUB is a search engine for media and entertainment serving film, television, video, live event and digital media production.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The Washington Post has just launched On Small Business , a new online channel that focuses on entrepreneurship and small business. On Small Business is produced by the team of Capital Business , The Post’s weekly business publication, and will host a panel of experts to address important questions facing small business. There is also a daily blog that will look at the news of the day from a small business owner’s perspective.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Some business books wax so much lyrical that any nuggets of useful information or valuable learning points are hidden and buried. Not “ Building a Winning Business: 70 Takeaways for Creating a Strong Company during Good and Bad Economic Times “ Author Tom Salonek, a successful businessman and entrepreneur who grew his own IT consulting and training firm Intertech from US$2 million to US$10 million in annual revenue in the past ten years (and during the dotcom bubble burst, no less),

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 3, 2011

by Michael Feuer, author of “ The Benevolent Dictator “ If you don’t think that our society is experiencing a communication overload, you really are living under a rock. We can (over)share every aspect of our lives in real time via social media. We can record all of the ups and downs of our personal sagas through blogs. We can call or text anyone at any time.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Putting together a company and have no idea which business structure would suit you? Haven’t some of us struggled with that before – I know I did. But this infographic from Business.com should help plenty – it explains the core differences between a sole proprietorship, general partnership, the limited liability company, C corporation and S corporation, as well as the non-profit corporation: Visit Business.com for more resources on How to Start a Business.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I’m usually very wary of any book that claims of being a guide to success. But “ Go For It! ” by John Tassone , a straight-talking, shoot-from-the-hip kind entrepreneur in the insurance industry, was seriously an enjoyable read. One of the reasons is that I personally agree with Tassone’s own definition of “success” Success, he believes, is not about having a lot of money.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 11, 2011

While text messaging and social media tools like Facebook and Twitter have transformed the way that today’s students communicate, the problem is that most educational institutions haven’t quite kept up. Far too many colleges and universities still rely on traditional one-way messaging methods like old-school (forgive the pun) learning management systems, email and even print, to communicate with students.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Based on how their businesses are performing, more than one-third of small business owners (38-percent) believe we are still in recession, according to a recently released American Express OPEN® Small Business Monitor report, a semi-annual survey now in its tenth year. Although the figure has dipped from last year (44-percent), small business pessimism still persists.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Creators of the highly popular book “ Freakonomics “, hosts of the Freakonomics radio podcasts , University of Chicago economist Steven D. Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner join forces yet again in “ SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance “ Written in the same fast-paced and witty style, the authors combed through prodigious scientific and research data to present findings that astou

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2011

Asia’s Top 50 Apps is back for the second year running and looks set to be bigger and better! One of the Asia region’s leading award competitions that recognizes innovation in the white-hot web and mobile application spaces, Asia’s Top 50 Apps last year saw saw more than a thousand submissions of which 100 web and mobile applications from 10 countries nominated.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2011

In a developer conference today in Singapore, online social networking giant Facebook made its strongest indication yet of its intention to better engage developers in Asia and Southeast Asia. Facebook , which flew in some 13 executives and staff for f8 Singapore organized by Asia technology community and blog e27 , recently expanded the function of its sales and marketing office in Singapore to include developer relations for the region.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2011

We spent almost a third of our lives in it – sleeping in a mattress, that is. And how well we sleep determines how productive the rest of our waking hours are going to be, so it’s critical that we make sure we sleep well. One man has pretty much dedicated his life to ensuring that we snooze better – David Farley of Corona, California-based Anatomic Global ( www.anatomicglobal.com ), a provider of memory foam products primarily used for bedding.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Google and American Express OPEN is participating in Small Business Saturday on November 26 – held on the first Saturday after Thanksgiving to promote small local businesses – with My Business Story , a national contest that challenges small businesses to use a free toolkit to produce online videos about their companies and tell their entrepreneurial stories.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2011

by Tom Cleveland, SmallBusinessLoansDirect.com. Every entrepreneur that has ever walked this earth has always asked if now is the right time to start. If there were an easy answer to this question, then more startups would exist, and the cry for innovation from financial “talking heads” as a cure for America’s current malaise would finally subside.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 3, 2011

by Patricia D. Sadar, author of Congratulations You Aced the Interview ” and “ Congratulations You’re Hired! ” You may have aced Intermediate Accounting, but you didn’t count on getting lost on the way to your first big job interview. So you arrived late and flustered, chugged a restorative cup of coffee in the reception area, and then offered your interviewer a sweaty handshake.

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