This was indeed another enriching and interesting experience when the iLeaders met the members of the NUSEA. The discussion was plentiful of interesting experiences and thoughts. There were much “debate” over the differences in the topic Singapore vs SV as It was rather “inappropriate” or untrue to generalizing each place using attributes such as culture, [...]

iLeaders visited the PlugandPlayTechCenter and had meet-ups with several companies that resides/operates at the incubator. However, due to some last minute changes, we did not have the opportunity to have discussions with Flaii.
Researches were done for the company Flaii but our team met some problems. As Flaii is a relatively new company, there is insufficient [...]

The dinner discussions with the 14th batch of NOC interns and 2nd batch of iLEADers started and ended off with a high note yesterday, even after the session you can still see many of us lingering outside the walkways and chatting with each other, meeting new friends and drawing new links. The feeling was like [...]

The former stands true. It was more of a comparison of similarities between companies in Singapore and in Silicon Valley, rather than one of a contrast. Initially, I have always thought that the discussion today would end up with us all endorsing Silicon Valley’s working culture instead of that of our local one.
However, as put [...]

During the short course of this trip, we’ve had too much to possibly to chew on mentally. However, after hearing so much, somethings stand out pertinently pertaining to starting a business. These values resound as lessons in life as well. Some entail a change in mindset or behavior while others entail changing your entire outlook of life. For myself [...]

Our visit to US MAC brought us many interesting insights into the lives of various entrepreneurs, the fourth and last one being Ms Karla Callahan, President and CEO of Vizyontech Ventures. Intuitively, after sitting through 3 other company talks, you would have thought of us (ileaders) to be on our way to dreamland. However, Karla engaged all [...]

We had a fun time meeting up with our peers from NOC, exchanging ideas and thoughts about our internship. Some of the challenges/ideas are:
The working culture in SV vs Singapore. We were very delighted to see the little freedom enjoyed by the employees in SV. This includes the snacks provided in workplace and also chill [...]

We were privileged to have Prof Tom Kosnik to share with us entrepreneurial lessons from Silicon Valley. I am sure Prof is more “happening” than us, with the many interesting analogies that he gave using the music videos (e.g. Carrie Underwood, Dixie Chicks- Not ready to make peace).
Here were some learning points:
1)    Entrepreneurial partnerships are [...]

Introduction
Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a private companyon 4 September 1998. The IPO took place on 19 August 2004, raising USD1.67 billion, making it worth US$23 billion. Google has continued its growth through a series of new [...]

 
 
It was a cold morning at Redwood City when our faithful coach driver, Steve pulled up at the Qik office. We were ushered in to a pretty pretty warm room by Bhaskar Roy, Co-Founder and VP of Qik. 
Qik is currently based in Redwood City while their other operation operate in Russia. Qik enables live video [...]