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Introducing the Kampong Sour! 11 Oct 2012 | 06:45 pm
I’ve teamed up with the very talented Mr Ethan Leslie Leong, bar director of one of my favourite cocktail bars Maison Ikkoku, to come up with a new cocktail for Singapore. We both feel that the Singap...
Your Facebook Friend Just Joined! 27 Aug 2012 | 10:46 am
It seems that at some point most startups end up using a users’ social graph for primitive CRM purposes. Currently, most implementations I have seen of this are utterly useless. This has to either sto...
Pre-commerce 23 Jul 2012 | 12:42 pm
I predict the next big buzzword will be pre-commerce. In simple terms, pre-commerce is “buying stuff that doesn’t exist yet”. In more grown-up words, it’s a framework for companies to cheaply establ...
How to Run a Successful Tech Blog 7 Jun 2012 | 05:30 pm
1) Set up Wordpress 2) Every 6 months, post “Could this be the new iPhone/Facebook Phone?” with a blurry pic. 3) ? 4) Profit!!
Introducing: Opinioneated 28 May 2012 | 01:44 pm
You know me, I love my food. Opinioneated is an interactive map of where to eat in Singapore, based on the reviews of popular food bloggers. Here’s the link: http://opinioneated.com After you’ve ha...
I received a lot of nice comments about my scrambled eggs... 9 May 2012 | 09:22 pm
I received a lot of nice comments about my scrambled eggs recently when I posted this pic to instagram so I thought I’d show you how I make them :) Good scrambled eggs are nothing to do with a secret ...
Growth Hacking 101 3 May 2012 | 01:38 am
In a previous startup we went from 0 to around 500,000 users. In this world of 800 million user social networks that might not sound like much - but our business was e-commerce, where there is a sign...
How Are You Going To Get Customers? 30 Mar 2012 | 07:01 pm
This is a question that needs to be asked way more often. There’s a lot of talk in the startup world about “ideas people” vs. “tech people”. Here’s an example post and at the end the author rightly n...
Yongfook's Tokyo Eating Tips 25 Mar 2012 | 06:40 pm
I don’t usually write posts like this on my blog but I’ll break character for this one. I lived in Tokyo for about 10 years so I often get asked “where should I eat?” by friends going there on vacatio...
Regional Incubators: Specialize or Die! 13 Mar 2012 | 01:15 am
There are now around 20 tech incubators in Singapore. For those who don’t know, an incubator typically adds value to an early stage startup in the areas of product fine-tuning, seed-funding and ongoi...
