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[SVC2M] Will Malaysia be the Silicon Valley of Southeast Asia? – Part 1

[SVC2M] Will Malaysia be the Silicon Valley of Southeast Asia? – Part 1

By on November 7, 2011 in Startups | 0 Comments More

The entrepreneurial energy and spirit of young Malaysian has never been greater and felt since Silicon Valley came down to Malaysia the last couple of weeks ago, and a simple thank-you isn’t enough for the two icons who, with collaborative effort, brought down great entrepreneurs from the valley straight to Kuala Lumpur, heart of Malaysia [...]

DBS Bank introduce Entrepreneur’s account for start-ups

DBS Bank introduce Entrepreneur’s account for start-ups

By on July 15, 2011 in Startups | 0 Comments More

Singapore’s DBS Bank introduced new “DBS Entrepreneur’s account” on Wednesday, offering to help new start-ups with options to save on costs. The new banking account is however only for newly minted businesses under six months old. It offers certain service privileges at no cost as well as discounts on DBS business insurance plan. The new [...]

Peter Thiel on Startups: Something fundamentally new, fundamentally different

Peter Thiel on Startups: Something fundamentally new, fundamentally different

By on July 8, 2011 in Startups | 0 Comments More

Why will employee number 20 join your company? Speaking at the ICE Ideas Conference in Auckland yesterday, Peter Thiel brought up the question every new entrepreneur might have never thought of – why will employee number 20 join the company. He told the audience, it’s the one question he asks entrepreneur looking to begin a startup. [...]

Square Is Now Worth $1.6 Billion from $240m in January

Square Is Now Worth $1.6 Billion from $240m in January

By on July 1, 2011 in Startups | 0 Comments More

Square, the mobile payments startup company that envisions revolutionizing the way of payment transaction (without cash and credit card) seems to grow rapidly each day. At the moment, Square promotes a free credit card reader to be attached to smartphones and iPhones, which turns them to a credit-card reader. Spearheaded by Jack Dorsey, one of [...]

Echelon 2011: Startup, Party, Breakfast in Singapore this week

Echelon 2011: Startup, Party, Breakfast in Singapore this week

By on June 14, 2011 in Startups | 0 Comments More

Heating up this week is the biggest startup event in Southeast Asia – Echelon 2011, which will be held at the National University of Singapore on 16 and 17 June, just two days away. Echelon formerly aims to facilitate discussion on the hot topics in the web startup scene and is now Asia’s leading startup event through it’s [...]