YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 30, 2011

by Jason Womack, author of “ Your Best Just Got Better: Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make More “ Now that the presents have been unwrapped and the halls have been undecked, it’s back to the daily grind. And while you’d love to feel energized and excited about jumping into 2012, instead you’re weighed down with dread. You know the second you step foot in your office you’ll be hit with 20+ tasks to add to your to-do list and an inbox full of e-mails begging for an immediate response.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2011

By Uri Foox, founder of Pixafy. If you are a business owner who is not an expert in web development, finding someone (or an agency) you can trust to build your website is critical. To help with your vetting process, here are eleven questions to ask your would-be developers before making a decision: 1. What do you do? Developers should be able to explain what they do in terms you can understand.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Near Field Communication (NFC) – a form of data transmission that allows simplified transactions, data exchange, and wireless connections between two devices in close proximity to each other – is one of the newest technologies currently being embraced by the mobile communications industry, and especially by handset makers. Samsung, for example, together with Google recently unveiled in an event Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” on the Samsung GALAXY NEXUS smartphone.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

The trouble with a book titled “ Gamification by Design: Implementing Game Mechanics in Web and Mobile Apps ” is that most people will assume it’s meant for games – or at the very most, application – designers. But “ Gamification by Design ” by gamification expert and chair of the Gamification Summit Gabe Zimmerman, and entrepreneur and veteran technologist Christopher Cunningham, is a lot more than that.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2011

You might have more in common with your great-grandparents than that receding hairline or cleft chin; some of your favorite brands might have been used by your predecessors, even as early as the Civil War. And while your elders may not be transitioning into the digital age with ease (or at all), several of America’s oldest brands have thrived through multiple technology changes.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2011

Silicon Valley technology startup accelerator Blackbox earlier this year launched the Startup Genome Project , which seeks to type startups, identify their developmental stage and the metrics that matter, and build a system to integrate the methodologies of many of the Valley’s leading thinkers such as Steve Blank , Eric Ries , Sean Ellis and Dave McClure.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 13, 2011

by Michael Feuer, author of “ The Benevolent Dictator “. Have you ever said to yourself, How in the world did [insert name of powerful business executive] get to where he is? He’s not any smarter than I am! Well, chances are you’re right. That executive who made it big probably doesn’t have more powerful brain cells than you…but what he (or she!) probably does have are three non-glamorous but crucial qualities: focus, discipline, and follow-up.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2011

by Deborah Sweeney, CEO of MyCorporation.com. Over 50 percent of small businesses fail within the first five years of existence. Close to half of those who failed could have foreseen their failure. What this means beyond externalities, is there were factors these businesses could have worked on to prevent failure. Although there is never a guarantee a business will be successful after taking so and so steps, a business can always reduce its risks and give it the best opportunity to succeed.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 8, 2011

Trover ( www.trover.com ) is a mobile discovery app that is created for explorers who love to share their discoveries with each other in a visual way. Its defining feature is its location-based discovery mosaic, which essentially triangulates your location and lets you visually browse through an eye-catching collection of thumbnail images featuring places to see and things to do nearby that others have discovered and shared.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2011

Swiftsharing ( www.swiftsharing.net ) is a new and growing social network site that has seen over 8,000 members signed up and has more than 20,000 posts since launching in January this year. If that doesn’t sound impressive to you – compared to Facebook ‘s 500 million users – consider the fact that none on the Swiftsharing team are over the age of 19.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2011

The Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) earlier this evening announced the winners of this year’s SiTF Awards , which recognizes technology innovations developed in Singapore. This year, some of the thirteen teams out of a total of 177 entrants that emerged winners in their respective categories to clinch the top awards were a number of Singapore technology startups, perhaps a sign that the local technology startup scene is in its ascendancy.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2011

Wireless music sharing must be the “hot new thing&# – right after we wrote about MyStream , Singapore-based mobile application developer Bitsmedia announces and launches Frenzapp Music , an application that allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to share and discover music. Like MyStream , Frenzapp Music users can mutually share favorite tunes and allow friends to browse their favorite song library.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Many of us have fond childhood memories of grocery shopping with the family during weekends; I still recall struggling to lug heavy bags of groceries home from the supermarket, as a young boy, just to prove to my parents I was grown up enough to help. It was character-building for sure, but it wasn’t exactly fun. For most people, shopping for household items and groceries is possibly one of the most troublesome, time-consuming and repetitive activities around.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

Silicon Valley technology startup accelerator blackbox earlier this year launched the Startup Genome Project , which seeks to type startups, identify their developmental stage and the metrics that matter, and build a system to integrate the methodologies of many of the Valley’s leading thinkers such as Steve Blank , Eric Ries , Sean Ellis and Dave McClure.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Even though online professional networking sites and services like LinkedIn and BranchOut have changed the face of human resource recruitment, there’s still room for continued disruption. In fact, a new web-based talent sourcing solution aims to make Boolean search string training for recruiters – which they traditionally rely on – obsolete: Scavado , a simple, yet powerful, alternative to costly Boolean search training that quickly yields relevant prospects to recruit.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2011

By Nigel Collin, LeadingCreatives. Being Creative is Sexy. Being creative is sexy. Everybody is talking about it and everybody is doing it. Being creative is the new black. And in business, being creative is even sexier. Why? Because being creative drives business. It adds real value to a business. Value to its people, value to its customers, and value to its bottom line.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Storably.com ( www.storably.com ) is an online peer-to-peer marketplace for parking and storage. Say you own an apartment that comes with a carpark lot in the middle of a city where parking is limited and expensive – but you don’t drive or own a car. With Storably , you can rent the space out to others who can put that space to better use – so now you can look at unused space as waste… or potentially an opportunity for additional income.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

by Kevin Kaiser , Startup Biz Blog. There isn’t a profession in the world that wouldn’t benefit from continuing education. The world is constantly evolving especially as technology rapidly advances. Means of reaching potential clients have changed and the rough economy has restructured the common budget. While novice entrepreneurs could definitely benefit from higher education, an experienced entrepreneur could also benefit from traditional or online classes.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

by Don DeBolt, Total Defense, Inc. It’s hardly a stretch in this day and age to say that everyone in the corporate workforce has a mobile device, whether it is company issued or personal. Mobile devices have helped revolutionize the way people do business by facilitating instant communication and enabling us to store, send and receive documents right from our smartphones, anytime, anywhere.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2011

by Edward D. Hess, author of “ Growing an Entrepreneurial Business “ For many, achieving the American Dream means taking control of their destiny, quitting their 9 to 5, and opening the doors to their very own business. These brave entrepreneurial souls have shaped American enterprise, and today, they’re playing the very important role of helping to drive the nation’s economic recovery.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2011

The only thing worse than having no customers is having non-paying ones. And small businesses, with limited credit and cash flows, suffer from non-paying customers more than most. After all, it sucks doing a whole bunch of work and rack up a large number in your receivables column, but have your business go under because you can’t collect on them to pay off your own bills.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2011

We all acknowledge that small businesses are the lifeblood of the economy, and that technology is becoming increasingly important to help them survive and thrive in a poor economy. Jerry Nettuno, founder and CEO of online appointment scheduling service Schedulicity , believes that 2012 will be a year that will see a majority of small businesses harness and leverage the power of technology and online productivity tools to effective manage and grow their business.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

During the recent launch of Blackberry 7 OS in Singapore, Research In Motion (RIM) executives had shared that Southeast Asia was a potential hotbed of application developers with whom they were keen to work with. We took the opportunity to speak to Sarim Aziz, RIM ‘s Team Lead for Developer Relations and ask more about the company’s interest in the burgeoning developer ecosystem in this region. 1.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2011

Inventor and entrepreneur Stephen Key is a man who’s spent most of his working life cooking up ideas for a living. With his new book “ One Simple Idea: Turn Your Dreams into a Licensing Goldmine While Letting Others Do the Work “, the developer of products like Michael Jordan’s Wallball , the Spinformation rotating label and HotPicks guitar picks shares his blueprint of how you can also look for ways to turn your creativity into profit.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Leading business information architect and IT entrepreneur Pekka A. Viljakainen’s was recently in town to give a talk and promote his book “ No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age “, and we were fortunate enough to catch him for a short interview to talk about how business leadership in the new digital era. In this interview, Viljakainen also shares some thoughts about entrepreneurship and globalization.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 8, 2011

By Brian Tracy, Author of “ Full Engagement!: Inspire, Motivate, And Bring Out the Best In Your People “ It is important that you never trust to luck when you plan a project. Hope is not a strategy. Remember the words of Napoleon, when he was asked if he believed in luck. He said, “Yes, I believe in luck. I believe in bad luck. And I believe that I will always have it, so I plan accordingly.&#.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2011

“Never was so much owed by so many to so few” – these famous words were uttered in a wartime speech by Sir Winston Churchill, referring to pilots of the Royal Air Force in defense of Britain during World War II. But those same words could easily be applied to the Singapore-based technology entrepreneurs present at Techventure 2011.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2011

Social Media World Forum (SMWF) Asia is happening right now and the event space in Suntec City is buzzing with the chatter of the gathered social media glitterati, brand managers and communications professionals from Singapore and the region. But what is really interesting this year is the accompanying Apps World Asia 2011 , where there are specific tracks applicable to developers and programmers working in the web and mobile application spaces.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 10, 2011

Have a thriving Facebook page but struggling to leverage and convert users into actual sales? Social commerce application development service TabJuice ( www.TabJuice.com ) lets you create customized and branded storefronts directly on Facebook, so users can not only buy stuff from you, but they can also brag about their purchases on their social feeds.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2011

Organized by the Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) , the SiTF Awards 2011 – which seeks to recognize innovative infocomm technology applications or solutions developed in Singapore – has announced its finalists for the awards competition. 52 finalists from multinationals to start-ups, and academic institutions, even primary schools, will be pitching their innovations to a panel of judges including luminaries of ICT industry, venture capitalists, investors and academia.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2011

One of the companies that will feature at the upcoming web and mobile technology startup conference Echelon 2011 is Fetch Plus , a social media and mobile application development company. As we know, this space is a very competitive one; Fetch Plus differentiates itself from the rest by targeting companies with holdings, focusing on developing tools necessary for these companies’ holdings to efficiently and effectively build and scale their social media footprint through different networks

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2011

The digital native, a term first coined by Marc Prensky in his seminal article Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants in 2001 (and later a book called – Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning “), is today known by many names. But that generation – arguably those technology-savvy, freewheeling spirits who are born after 1985 and are about to enter or have just entered the workforce – cannot be treated the same way by companies and organizations the way they ha

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2011

As someone who is always interested at how social technologies can be harnessed for business and enterprise use, I can’t recommend Scott Klososky’s new book “ Enterprise Social Technology: Helping Organizations Harness the Power of Social Media, Social Networking, Social Relevance &# quite enough. Unlike many of books out there, this book doesn’t attempt to preach and tout the wonderful goodness of social technologies and how they can help companies revolutionize they app

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Asia – especially in countries such as India, China, Vietnam – is fast becoming the place where many entrepreneurs, whether locally born or lured back from Silicon Valley, are setting up shop. It’s not surprising then that the region has also been on the lips on venture capitalists and angel investors who are intent on riding the technology innovation boom in this part of the world.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 12, 2011

As any entrepreneur would put it, the road to a successful, sustainable entrepreneurship is inevitably challenging. That said, with a mix of perseverance, dedication and hardwork, it is certainly viable. To that end, any budding entrepreneur must rise above these challenges with passion and determination. Marveled by and impressed with the strides these young entrepreneurs have shown, we have collated tips from these young achievers.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Since its 2010 release, attitudes about the iPad have undergone a radical change. Once mocked by techies for being both frivolous and having a silly name, the device has since become nearly ubiquitous in coffee shops, schools, airports and businesses across the nation. Why? Because in many ways, the iPad actually did live up to the hype. It’s easy to use (even for little kids), intuitive, lightweight and generally a highly versatile tool adaptable everywhere, from the board room to home ro

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Techventure 2011 – one of Asia’s topmost events for the venture capital community to engage with the latest technology entrepreneurs organized by Asiasons WFG and presented by National Research Foundation (NRF) and Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA) – will celebrate its 15th year on October 13 and 14. The event will also see the introduction of the inaugural Techventure Asiasons Innovation Awards this year.

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