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Opinioneated.com On The Singapore Food Blogosphere

YoungUpstarts

Yongfook, as he is better known in Singapore’s tech entrepreneurship circle (we first wrote about him in 2009 ), is an avid cook and the former director for Japan-based online recipe network Cookpad in charge of its international business. “The man is an eating machine!” ” Going Local.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

They are using Singapore as their model of economic development. A local example was the Greenhouse pop up restaurant in Melbourne by Joost Baker – Which included vertical gardens and large amounts of material re-purposing. It was anti-social in nature. Cities are now becoming vertical again.

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Building a mobile app startup is about solving problems, not chasing ideas

The Next Web

And Singapore has its very own Pinterest clone called Singterest. Think Linkedin – social networking concept adapted to the business industry. Every business vertical has issues that will range from areas in marketing, customer acquisition, customer service, sales, operations and others.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. I want to put a pin in Singapore and come back to it. So there are multiple parts to the Singapore system as you and I have discussed before. Bill Gurley : Great.