App Store Economics — The do’s and dont’s Due to popular demand, Mugunth Kumar have decided to do this class again – this time the session will be longer with more content added. A lot of founders still do iPhone or iPad app submissions the wrong way and this costs them both time and money. Read the full article…

A competition for students to build and compete with innovate tools, the Microsoft Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals 2013 would be held in St. Petersburg, Russia. Out of the 305 students selected for the Finals, seven young innovators from Singapore comprising of two teams have been selected to pitch their innovation and creativity in pursuit of Read the full article…

AWS Summit 2013 – Singapore Join us for the first event of the AWS Cloud Computing community in Southeast Asia that will take place in Singapore! Hundreds of thousands of customers around the world use Amazon Web Services’ global infrastructure to run practically everything in the cloud: from enterprise applications, e-government national projects and big Read the full article…

Big Data has made Big Promises – everything from changing how you innovate to how you engage with customers. It is a big term and can be hard to grasp. Therefore, the panelists of this session began by defining what big data meant to them. The panelists included Simon Dale, Senior Software Executive, Asia Pacific Read the full article…

In the third session of Echelon Day 2, President and CEO of Bubble Motion shares with audiences several statistics and insights about the future of social media and mobile communications in Asia. With 52 different primary languages, more than 1000 regional dialects, 27 different currencies, and varying political and legal systems, the very diverse Asia Read the full article…

New media, social media, smart phones, and new digital experiences. These phenomena have grown exponentially in Asia that consumers now have short attention spans, and limited time. Consumers are also increasingly powerful in influencing and shaping trends, taking away autonomy from corporations. “Now it is all about consumers experience driving expectations and the enterprise space. Read the full article…

Regulations, cultures and laws vary. But your digital business has only one platform. So how can you scale it globally? In this panel, Bernard Leong, the Technology Manager of Vistaprint talks to other panelists on how they’ve managed to successfully scale their businesses globally. The panelists, who are also entrepreneurs running successful digital platforms were Read the full article…

After an intense hour of pitching, our esteemed set of judges has selected Waygo as the Most Promising Startup for Echelon 2013. Echelon 2013 is all about validating the promise of the startup ecosystem in the Asia Pacific region. This year, 10 of the region’s top startups have pitched their tech startups to a set Read the full article…

Ending the morning session of Echelon Day 1 was a panel discussing trends in the global investment markets and the challenges that startups face in establishing their business as a compelling investment case. With so many seed funding schemes available now, is it almost as if getting funded in early stages is becoming a fad. Read the full article…

Our first panel session for Echelon 2013 saw five experienced founders share on how startups should build and grow their companies. Vincent Lauria, managing partner at Golden Gate Ventures started the panel discussion with a question posed to the five founders, namely Jon Yongfook Cockle (director at Twenty Four Twelve Systems), Lim Cheng Soon (founder Read the full article…