Hot after the heels of the whole Google v. China, may I present to you, Goojje.com. China’s answer to Google, without the whole ‘anti-censorship’ crap.
Goojje is a play on the chinese enounciation of the word ‘Google’. Google sounds like Goo-哥, so Goojje is supposed to say Goo-姐.
Found this over at Hackernews, you guys have to check this out.
Here’s the 16 page slide-deck of how Mint.com pitched. Good reference for budding entrepreneurs who are new to pitching.
Update: It appears that the story has been killed on Hackernews. No reason has been given.
Hot after the heels of the previous post about Far East Organization’s ‘Rental Space for Equity’ program, we have Martell (yes, you heard me correctly the cognac company) launching a similar campaign called ‘Rise Above’.
Martell is asking you to submit your business idea on what to do with a 760 sq ft retail space in Clarke Quay and you stand to win executive training at INSEAD as well as the space itself.
More details can be found at SGEntrepreneurs who’ve done a great writeup on the program.
Just heard about this relatively new scheme (it was announced in July 2009) from Far East Organization. The scheme, known as ‘Rental Space for Equity Programme’, looks to encourage first-time entrepreneurs looking to start their retail business but do not have the necessary capital to pay for rental space.
They have 6 participating malls are
According to their press release, elgible tenants under this scheme will issue Redeemable, Convertible, Cumulative, Preference Shares (RCCPS) in lieu of their monthly base rent, with a cumulative dividend of 4% per annum.
After 1-2 years, they could opt for redemption, or redeem it at the end of the two/three year lease. Far East Organization also in this case, may convert their issued RCCPS to ordinary share.
Far East Organization are looking for vendors with exciting new brands as well as existing retailers who want to expand their stores and presence in Singapore.
If you think you have the mad chops, why not give it a try, it sounds like a pretty good deal when you’re just starting out.
Editor Note: When visiting their website, in order to view the brochure and press release, you will have to save it to your system first and rename it to add the .pdf extension. At the current press time, it would appear that the files downloaded from the site, does not come with the necessary file extension. We’ve wrote an e-mail to Far East Retail to inform them about this error.
Jan 1st 2010. A date which for better or worse signals the end of an era of television programming on our public transportation system. TVMobile, Mediacorp’s mobile television network, has ceased its broadcast at 12am this morning.
While no more television programming will be shown on the display units, there is still potential for other kinds of information like, arrival time, weather and other non-intrusive data. What do you think? What kind of information would you like to see on your daily bus commute?
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