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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

ReadWriteStart

and Singapore at significantly higher prices and presumably would be open to sourcing lower-cost parts. Meanwhile, financing the company will be quite challenging, and I advised Satya to manufacture parts based only on signed contracts and advances against orders, to avoid getting into an inventory-rich, working capital-poor situation.

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A Crash Course In Startup Labs: What Every Tech Entrepreneur Needs To Know

YoungUpstarts

Moreover, startups don’t necessarily face the same issues other business models do – although finances may plague more than less – with trouble-shooting having now entered unchartered territory. With services ranging from branding to technology to marketing, labs also guide the company to a successful investment and ultimately a strong exit.

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[Singapore] National Research Foundation Selects Six VC Firms To Administer S$120M Startup War Kitty

YoungUpstarts

”With a growing pipeline of exciting new tech start-ups in Singapore, founders will require funding, experienced mentorship and strong networks to build companies that can compete in worldwide markets. ” In the News investment National Research Foundation Singapore startup'

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[Singapore] Tribehired.com Lands Investment; Plans Team Expansion

YoungUpstarts

The startup last week announced that it landed a S$696K (US$560K) seed funding round led by TNF Ventures through the Technology Incubation Scheme under the Singapore’s National Research Foundation (NRF) and supported by Singapore angel investors Ben Ball and Ben Chew, validating TribeHired ‘s concept.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

Everyone wanted to work in finance. So universities have realized that for many students, promising a career in technology and entrepreneurship is key to recruiting high potential students. These could be translated into research programs focused on topical regulatory issues related to emerging technologies. Incubate non-Yalies.

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[Singapore][Event] Presidential Candidate Dr Tony Tan On Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

The open fireside chat session at The Pigeonhole Cafe , and coincidentally enough powered by questions from real-time question-and-answer conference tool Pigeonhole Live (and a Singapore-based startup, to boot), is possibly the first time a presidential hopeful faced off with members of the local startup scene. Scaling Business in Singapore.

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund.