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Making Social Media Work for You (Slides)
by fanxing on Apr.14, 2010, under Uncategorized
Making Social Media Work For You
by CheongYew on Apr.02, 2010, under Uncategorized
Incub3 proudly presents:
Abstract:
The workshop will focus on the following:
1. How to use Social Media as a business tool in building brands and
generating awareness.
2. How to use Social Media as a personal branding tool to improve your
online presence to boost your career prospects
About the Speaker:
Robin Low is an experienced social media and business consultant and has partnered with Harvard University to conduct research into social media since 2006. He has also conducted training for companies to leverage on social media in building brands and generating awareness. This includes running Digital Media Academy which trains companies in social media in Asia Pacific region and starting a social media academy in Colombo.
Getting there:
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Silicon Valley 2010: Changes in the Circles of Influence
by Wei Leen on Mar.19, 2010, under Uncategorized
click on image to register for event
Incub3 proudly presents:
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More on the speaker:
Prof Tom Kosnik is a Fenwick and West Consulting Professor, Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), at Stanford School of Engineering. He is also the International Advisor for NUS Entrepreneurship Centre.
Prof Tom has an extensive experience in the field of system integration, marketing and business development roles. Currently, he is helping business and government leaders to create real time learning programs for stakeholders across their value chains, positioning products, services and brands, execute global sales and marketing campaigns, attract and develop talent, as well as to raise money.
Some of his past clients include: American Management Systems, Apple Computer; Applied Materials; BMC; Cummins Engine; Electronic Arts; Ernst & Young; Harris Bank; Hewlett Packard; Information Week; Microsoft; Nokia, Siemens, and numerous start-up technology companies.
With his experience and involvement with various start-ups over the past few years, the talk definitely is a must-go for any entrepreneurial minded students.
Do note that seats are limited, and we encourage you to register early to avoid disappointment! Click on the banner above to REGISTER NOW!
Flying with Yean
by fanxing on Mar.04, 2010, under Uncategorized
Incub3 presents to you a live video conference event with a panel of 4 entrepreneurs in Beijing
Please sign up here
More on the speakers
Lu Bo- Has served in many charitable organizations in countries i.e. China, Dubai, Hong Kong
Tony Tang Tong Ngee – Expert in mass communication to the unique Chinese market with 16 years in advertising industry experience in China
Lee Kheng Joo – Started several companies including gas exploration company, mobile operations company, venture fund etc
Jing Yun Chuan – Started a famous legal firm in China called King & Partners
If you have any questions, please email incub3ppl@gmail.com or call 9722 4282.
“Emerging Tech and Venture Investment Trends in Asia”
by fanxing on Feb.27, 2010, under Uncategorized
NUS Entrepreneurship Centre
(a division of NUS Enterprise)
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Abstract
Mobile, Internet, e-commerce, gaming, biotech, cleantech – they’re all booming in the emerging markets of Asia. Some startups with venture funding in these spaces have already scored successes with public listings at high valuations and acquisitions. Others are poised to return profits to their investors as the IPO window begins to open. Startups in Asia scale and get to profitability quickly. The region’s rapid economic growth and switched-on digital communications markets provide the spark for successful entrepreneurship and innovation. Rebecca Fannin, author of Silicon Dragon and a columnist with Forbes, discusses the emerging trends she sees from dozens of recent interviews with entrepreneurs and investors in China, India, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Singapore.
About The Speaker
Rebecca A. Fannin is a journalist and author of Silicon Dragon (McGraw-Hill, 2008), which was favorably reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times and translated into several languages. She is an authority on entrepreneurship, innovation and venture capital in emerging markets.
Rebecca is a contributor to Forbes. During the height of the dotcom boom, Rebecca was international news editor at Red Herring and, in 2003, she joined the Asian Venture Capital Journal as international editor. She publishes e-newsletters on China and India and organizes events in Silicon Valley and Asia’s innovation hubs.
Ms. Fannin’s work has appeared in Inc., Worth, Fast Company, Chief Executive, Wired, The Deal and Huffington Post, as well as Merrill Lynch and NASDAQ publications. Earlier in her career, Ms Fannin was deputy editor at Ad Age International and editor of the Pulitzer-owned International Business.
A public speaker and guest commentator, Rebecca also has written a white paper on outsourcing trends for KPMG’s Thought Leadership Series. She is a member of the Overseas Press Club, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club and the World Affairs Council.
Rebecca is a graduate of the Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University and a recipient of an Asian studies fellowship from the Freedom Forum. She resides in New York City and San Francisco, and travels frequently to Asia.
More info can be found at www.rebeccafannin.com
About the panelists:
Michel Birnbaum brings to iGlobe over 25 years of operational and advisory experience to technology companies, with his background in Investment Banking, Venture Capital/Private Equity and industry. He has managed close to 30 IPOs, follow-on debt/equity financings as well as M&A and Private Placement transactions. His wealth of experience in the technology sector serves him in good stead as an invaluable advisor to iGlobe’s investments. Until recently, as Managing Director of Investment Banking at Landsbanki Kepler (Paris), Michel was responsible for TMT & Renewable Energy Group. He led the first European buyout of a solar energy company, Azur Space Solar Power.
Between late 2003 to early 2006, he was associated with Keystone Financial Partners / Bryan Garnier (London / Paris) as their Senior Advisor of Investment Banking. Prior to that, he was founder/managing partner of Dakota Partners, a VC/advisory firm focused on applications of next generation materials. In July 2000, he was named CEO/Board Director of e-capital investments plc, an investment company listed on the London Stock Exchange and responsible for direct investments in semiconductor, advanced materials and processes. He led the strategic restructuring of the group and its subsequent merger with Avanti Capital in November 2001.
Michel was Executive SVP of the European Capital Markets at Hambrecht & Quist from 1996-1997 and became the Managing Director of Technology Investment Banking and Exchange Relations. He managed 23 technology IPOs as lead or Co-Manager on both the European markets and NASDAQ. Between 1987 to 1996, Michel worked for Fleet/Nash Weiss in the United States initially as a Senior Technology Trader and later as Manager. He began his career in 1979 as a Project Engineer at Massachusetts-based GE Military Engine Group where he was responsible for the Apache/Blackhawk helicopters engine evaluation and qualification programs.
Michel holds a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic University of New York and an MBA from London Business School (Merit Honours). He also attended General Electric’s Advanced Engineering program.
Neo Kok Beng has experiences in building up entrepreneurial ventures from concept to commercialization. He specialised in new products and new business; and has setup companies in the areas of information security, telematics, portable digital/computing devices and biomedical systems & services. Kok Beng worked for Singapore Technologies in the corporate HQ (investment & entrepreneurship programme), aerospace, information technology and electronics sectors. He graduated with MBA(NTU) and B.Eng (Hons)(NUS); and was awarded an IES Fellowship at JFK School of Government, Harvard University. He is currently an adjunct associate professor at the National University of Singapore and has also a Fellow/Council Member & Hon Treasurer of the Institution of Engineers, Singapore.
Dr. Jeffrey Chi is a Managing Director of the General Partner and a member of the investment Committee. Based in Shanghai, he oversees investments in China, sits on the boards of Cambridge Real Estate (REIT IPO, July 2006), Mobinex and California University of Technology. He is also responsible for the supervision of Saybot, iPartment and United Eagle Airlines. The performance of Vickers Meta Fund, which includes some of the above investments, is looking promising after the estimated 14x return on the investment in Cambridge Real Estate.
Dr. Chi’s experience covers a variety of industries including information technology, healthcare and media. Formerly a corporate finance specialist with and Executive Director at Pegasus Capital, Dr. Chi has managed engagements for large and small clients in both the public and private sectors. Prior to Pegasus Capital, Dr. Chi was a senior consultant with the Monitor Group, a top tier strategy consulting firm co-founded by business guru Michael Porter. While with Monitor, Dr. Chi delivered strategic solutions to a diverse client base, including government agencies and large multi-national companies. As an experienced practitioner in system dynamics modeling, Dr. Chi was also responsible for pioneering Monitor’s system dynamics practice in Asia.
Dr. Chi’s operational background includes seven years on the management team of an engineering and construction group. As its Managing Director, he led the group into the Enterprise 50 in 1997, a ranking of the top 50 privately held enterprises in Singapore. Dr. Chi oversaw operations in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and Indonesia, established the group’s construction business and successfully combined it with the original engineering business enabling the firm to become a provider of integrated solutions to its clients. From 1994-1995, he managed the firm’s joint venture with a major Chinese construction group. After being appointed Group Managing Director in 1996, he successfully tripled the firm’s revenues within a short time span of three years.
Dr. Chi is also active in promoting entrepreneurship. He frequently speaks at public events including ones hosted by INSEAD, Fudan University and Zhejiang University. He is a co-founder of the MIT Enterprise Forum, Shanghai Chapter, a not-for-profit alumni organization promoting technology entrepreneurship.
Dr. Chi is a CFA Charter holder and graduated from Cambridge University with 1st class Honours in Engineering. He earned his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in organizational knowledge and information technology.
Prof. Wong Poh Kam is currently a Professor at National University of Singapore (NUS)’s Business School and concurrently serves as Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre at NUS. He also holds joint professorship appointment (by courtesy) at the LKY School of Public Policy and the Engineering School’s Division of Engineering & Technology Management (DETM). He obtained two BSc.’s., an MSc. and a Ph.D. from MIT. Prior to joining NUS in 1988, he co-founded two IT companies and a consulting firm in Malaysia. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, a visiting scholar at Stanford University and the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm (KTH), and a visiting professor at Korea University Business School.
As Director of NUS Entrepreneurship Centre, he spearheads the university’s entrepreneurship education and outreach programs and various university technology spin-off support programs including incubator facilities, seed funding and mentoring. He also directs the centre’s research program on technology entrepreneurship and innovation strategy.
An active business angel investor, his current portfolio of investee companies include iWow Technology (a past Singapore Enterprise 50 winner), GlobalRoam (first company quoted on Singapore OTC market), Mozat and TenCube (past Red Herring Asia 100 finalists) in Singapore, Teralene in China, Invantest in Silicon Valley, USA, and iXigo in India. He is the founding chairman of Business Angel Network (Southeast Asia) and BAF Spectrum Pte Ltd, an angel investment fund co-invested in by the Singapore government. He is a board member of NUS Technology Holdings and a member of the evaluation panel of The Enterprise Challenge (TEC) fund under the Prime Minister’s Department and the Technology Enterprise Commercialization Scheme (TECS) of SPRING Singapore.
Hungry? Gothere!
by Wei Leen on Oct.26, 2009, under Uncategorized
Hi everyone here is the talk video. Some of you may be wondering why I chose Veoh rather than Youtube. Thats an interesting and necessary question, especially since Veoh is asking you to install their player. There are 2 reasons. First is that Youtube limits the length of each video to 10 minutes, unless you have a ‘director’ account. Veoh has no such limitation. Second, my research tells me that the Veoh player is small and harmless (ie. no spyware). The different video services are worthy of a blog post on their own, but that is a story for another day. Enjoy the talk!
Watch Hungry? Gothere! part 1 of 4 in Educational & How-To | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com
Watch Hungry? Gothere! part 2 of 4 in Educational & How-To | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com
Watch Hungry? Gothere! Part 3 of 4 in Educational & How-To | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com
Watch Hungry? Gothere! part 4 of 4 in Educational & How-To | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com
Contest – Win Richard Branson’s book “Screw It, Let’s Do It” at Hungry?GoThere! event
by hoeylit on Oct.06, 2009, under Uncategorized
Hi!
We are giving away Richard Branson’s Screw It, Let’s Do It book tomorrow, October 7th at Incub3 event – Hungry? Gothere! where the founders of HungryGoWhere.com and Gothere.sg will be sharing about their individual entrepreneurial journeys.
Our event is held at 6.30pm-8pm at Level 2 Auditorium, University Hall, Lee Kong Chian Wing, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119077.
The prize:
To participate in this contest, all you have to do is post your question(s) for Dennis Goh or Toh Kian Khai from today until tomorrow, 5pm. You can post them at your Gtalk status message, MSN messenger status message, Incub3 Facebook group wall or even Twitter. The best question wins this fun book.
These are the steps:
Gtalk
1) Log into Gtalk
2) Add contact – incub3ppl@gmail.com
3) Click on your status & click on Custom message
4) Post your question on the status message from today until tomorrow, 5pm
MSN Messenger
1) Log into MSN Messenger
2) Add contact – Incub3@live.com
3) Post your question on your status message from today until tomorrow, 5pm
Incub3 Facebook group
1) Log into Facebook
2) Go to Incub3 group
3) Join the group.
4) Post your question on Incub3 group wall from today until tomorrow, 5pm
Twitter
1) Go to http://twitter.com/incub3
2) Follow
3) Tweet “#Incub3 <post your question>”
See you tomorrow at Hungry?Gothere! event.
Hungry? GoThere! – HungryGoWhere.com & Gothere.sg founders are coming to town
by Wei Leen on Sep.28, 2009, under Business model, Uncategorized, Web2.0, funding, industry, media
In one night, the founders of two premier websites in Singapore will be sharing their entrepreneurial journey in building their own companies. They will also be discussing about the important aspects in creating a good website business and advice for aspiring entrepreneurs and web developers.
About :
HungryGoWhere.com is Singapore’s most popular and fastest growing food website, with more than 260,000 unique visitors reading HungryGoWhere.com every month and generating more than 2.4 million monthly page views and more than 16,000 reviews from then public, containing a comprehensive search of more than 5,000 F&B outlets. Launched in March 2007, HungryGoWhere.com is now the No.1 food website in Singapore, rated by HitWise for being the top website in the “Food and Beverage – Restaurants and Catering” category. It has expanded overseas to Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Sydney and Melbourne.
Gothere.sg utilizes a map-based interface for obtaining public transport directions and other information based on our own GIS data and proprietary routing algorithms. Through the site, a user can obtain directions, estimated time and cost to go from one location to another in Singapore based on the most efficient mode of public transport – bus, MRT or taxi. It also allows users to search for nearby amenities within a location including restaurants, banks etc.. The site currently serves several thousand unique visitors each day and is growing rapidly since it’s inception in May 2008.
Getting there (click on map to get Gothere.sg’s recommendation for your route)
Address: Level 2 Auditorium, University Hall, Lee Kong Chian Wing, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119077
Please contact incub3ppl@gmail.com for any clarification.
TimeSvr @ Incub3
by Wei Leen on Sep.07, 2009, under Uncategorized
Our latest talk has been a real mixed bag. I mean this in 2 ways. Not only did we have a welcome mix of eager attendees from backgrounds as varied as Life Science majors and Programmers, and nationalities across the Asian continent, we were also lucky to have insights across a broad spectrum of the entrepreneurial experience. Zaki, our speaker, showcased enthusiasm that obscured the ardous journey of a dot-com entrepreneur through good times and the recession.
The points were few, but succinct. While emphasizing the importance of hiring the very best talent that one can afford, he also made clear that advice can come in all forms, and regardless of whether its praise or criticism, a budding entrepreneur shouldn’t take either of them to heart too closely.
The gaming industry is one which has potential beyond what one can imagine. Console games, PC games, casual browser games and now mobile games. The platform for games may evolve constantly, but gaming startups can look upon these with optimism, for they represent a future that is bright and exciting.
Thanks for the support everyone. Till next time, keep the passion burning.
TimeSvr at Incub3
by Wei Leen on Aug.21, 2009, under Uncategorized
We’re back for the new semester. First talk in our new series is TimeSvr. TimeSvr is one of several companies offering virtual assistants to help the busy cope with the load of tedious monotone work that we have to deal with daily. Barely into its second year, it is well received as an extremely responsive, efficient service. Based in Singapore, TimeSvr serves American and European clients. Join us as we pick the brains of TimeSvr’s founder Ali Zaki.
(click on flyer below to register)
