SICCI-DBS Singapore Indian Entrepreneur Awards 2011

Launched in 2004, SICCI-DBS Singapore Indian Entrepreneur Awards are presented annually by the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SICCI) to recognise outstanding Indian entrepreneurs and to serve as a motivation for budding Indian entrepreneurs. For this year 2011, SICCI hass announced a new award as part of the several changes.

Category 1: Large Enterprise
2010 Criterion: Core criterion was set at an annual turnover of $25 million.
2011 Criterion: Applicants whose business’/company’s annual turnover is more than S$25 million; or a net annual profit of more than S$2.5 million; or net asset value of more than S$10 million; or more than 50 employees.

Category 2: Medium Enterprise
2010 Criterion: Core criterion was set at an annual turnover of less than $25 million.
2011 Criterion: Applicants whose business’/company’s annual turnover is S$25 million or less; or a net annual profit of S$2.5 million or less; or net asset value of S$10 million or less; or 50 employees or less.

Category 3: Promising Entrepreneur
2010 Criterion: Been actively involved in the management of the business between two and five years.
2011 Criterion: Applicants must have been in the business/company in Singapore for less than 3 years.

Category 4 : Family Business
The business/company must have been in existence for at least one generation. The family members should be involved in the strategic direction, management and leadership roles in the business/company. Their intention should be to keep the business/company within the family in a profitable and sustainable manner.

The application of this award will close by 14th July 2011. For further information and application form, interested applicants can view here (pdf file).

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Kidlander.sg is First in Series of Southeast Asia Wiki Guides to Kids-Friendly Places and Events

Fresh from securing the LiveJournal Southeast Asia deal, digital publishing house Tickled Media has now launched a new site around kids. Kidlander.sg, a wiki-style guide to places and events for kids in Singapore, joins the company’s portfolio of portals including their flagship parenting site, TheAsianParent.com, as well as localized versions in Philippines, India and Malaysia.

In their words,

“Kidlander’s wiki-style features allow users to be the critic, the journalist, the explorer or the tour guide to their peers. With complete freedom to upload and modify reviews and information, users are guaranteed a current and complete perspective on all events and places posted on the site. Kids can also share their views and add their voices to the pool of reviewers. Furthermore, every review or comment earns you points in the system.”

Kidlander.sg is the first in a planned series of launches across Southeast Asia and India and is the result of a collaboration with a site from Norway, Barnesteder.no, that recently moved its headquarters to Singapore under the name of Nichilizer Pte Ltd.

Kenneth Solberg, CEO of Nichilizer had started Barnesteder.no as he realized that as a working parent, it was difficult for him to keep track of interesting activities for his kids to attend – typically discovering the best events only after they had already taken place. He then went on to start Barnesteder.no with co-founder Gunnar Nilsson shortly after to “list all activities for children in Norway”.

“The Southeast Asian market is booming in the consumer internet space. The next 5 years will see Southeast Asian users coming online and we will see an aggressive consolidation. Tickled Media will venture into an aggressive roll-out across the region to take advantage of this opportunity”, said William Klippgen, Executive Director of Tickled Media. Klippgen was the co-founder of European internet success Kelkoo.com sold to Yahoo! In 2004 for €475m.

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Quick Reminder: 2 Days: UnPluggd Demo Slot Nomination, 0:Tweety Tees [Deadline]

A quick reminder to all ye entrepreneurs:

a. June 26th: Only 2 days left to apply for UnPluggd demo slot [link to the application form]. Those who have applied will get to hear from us before June 30th.

b. Today (June 24th) : is the last day to be in the privileged list of UnPluggd attendees who get a custom tee at the event (printed twitter handle). Book your seat right away and while doing so, do enter your Twitter handle while purchasing the ticket.

Also, help us reach out to amazing entrepreneurs/startups by sharing UnPluggd details (http://www.pluggd.in/unpluggd) with your network.

Team UnPluggd

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Tablet Usage Stats: Consumers Want Bundled Content And Payment Options [Appnomy]

We are in the year of the tablet computer and almost every month you hear of a new tablet being launched. Tablets are big business and everybody seems to know it.
With cost of producing hardware going down, more and more players are offering tablets that truly engage a user. But who are these tablet users? and how do they use their tablets? What are the prices they are ready to pay for apps for their devices? These key questions may hold the answer to really making it big in the game of tablet apps.
A recent report by OPA with Magid Media Futures gives us insights into tablet usage statistics.

Who are today’s tablet users:

An estimated 12% of the U.S. Internet population, ages 8-64, owns or uses a tablet (estimated 28 million consumers).

Most tablet users currently are male and aged between 18-34.

About 18% of all people surveyed plan to buy a tablet in the next 12 months.

What are the things users like to do with their tablets:

We published a report recently that pointed out that users are now spending more time on apps than on their desktops. Here are some stats that show what tasks users prefer to do on their tablets.

From the above stats we can see that users think of tablets as multi purpose entertainment devices.

Tablet users view tablets as their preferred reading device over computers and printed media for many types of content and information.

Over 40% of tablet use occurs outside homes.

Long-form video is preferred over short clips on tablets.

Nearly all tablet users (93%) have downloaded apps. The average tablet user has downloaded 20 apps, many of which are for weather, entertainment and news.

Monetization of tablet apps:

Nearly half of consumers find tablet advertising relevant, unique and interesting. These adds cover a variety of products, the mist popular being clothing.

Paid apps account for 26% of all tablet apps downloaded. 79% of app downloaders have paid for apps. The average app downloader spent $53 on apps in the last year.

Games are the most popular category, a stat that is common to both smartphones and tablets.

Consumers want bundled content and payment options for paid content on their tablets, and they prefer a variety of retail channels to buy tablet apps.

As tablet sales grow the opportunities they will bring to app developers will be huge, but there will also be significant challenges as well. The choice of platform will be critical for app developers, looking at the current market share of various platforms for tablets, the clear winner is the Apple iOS platform. It provides an efficient app distribution system and already has a significant lead in the tablet market compared to any other platform in terms of users.

What happened in the smartphone market may happen in the tablet market too and in the next one year we may see Android tablets overtake Apple’s iPads, this will significantly change the market scenario for tablet apps. Looking at the Android tablet onslaught we are about to face, is it a good idea for developers to start developing Android tablet apps, or is the more lucrative iOS going to be be the king of tablets and drive developers to it?

What’s your take?

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Lean Startup Breakfast Singapore – 8 Jul

Exchange ideas, learn what works and what does not, brainstorm with peers, and find partners are the main ideas for Lean Startup Breakfast Singapore Group meetup. Their next meetup will be held next month, 8 July with topic Customer Acquisition. Focusing only on tech startup, the first meetup was held last month, May. This group is organized by Deric Loh of TheEZSuite.com, a joint venture between SingPost and Paypal. Beside him, this meetup also gathers Usman Sheikh from Identifii (on SGE), Herryanto, Royston, and Julian from Zopim (on SGE), Danny Tan from Foound (on SGE), Yan from Flickevents, Jereme Wong, Badi from MOSAIC MediaHouse, and Jeff from Battle Ventures.

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What Are The Outcomes Expectation

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YOU
You are committed to attend at least one session every month.
You are willing to share your experience and skills to help contribute to the group.
You have a clear vision and expectation from attending this group.

HOW

Meetups will be held at 10am till 11am on the First and Last friday of each month.
Each person will be allocated 10 minutes to run through their agenda for the day.

WHAT

This is not a chit chat session. You are committed to share what you are working on and the challenges and the suggested outcomes with the group after which.
Be very specific and define what you want out of your agenda for the day.

HOUSE RULES

Everyone will be given a chance to speak
Get to the point

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Event Details

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When: Friday, 8th July 2011
Time: 10am-11am
Where: Pacific Coffee @Red Dot Museum, 28 Maxwell Road, 069120 (Map)
RSVP by 1st July to deric@vault81.com
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Key Indonesia Startup News This Week – 23 Jun

Here you can find some interesting startup news around Indonesia, not only in its capital, Jakarta, but also other their tech startup hubs such as Yogyakarta, Medan, Surabaya, and many more. These listed news are taken from our partner, DailySocial, a leading blog on Indonesia’s tech startup.

(1) As part of IDBYTE‘s series of events, and supported by Qualcomm and HTC, organizer will held Android Mobile Application Development Competition for Android OS 2.2 (Froyo) based application and have not been published in Android Market.

(2) After the biggest e-commerce in Japan, Rakuten, launched Rakuten Belanja Online, other e-commerce companies join the competition and this time we are going to talk about DuniaVirtual.com.

(3) Indonesian startups looking for possible investment opportunities now have another option to which they can pitch their ideas. Bakrie Telecom yesterday launched Nusantara Incubation Fund to invest in new companies who operate web and mobile services and apps as well as next generation media.

(4) GEPI has been partnering with HIPMI (Indonesian Young Entrepreneur Association), Sampoerna Foundation’s Mekar.Biz program, and New Ventures Indonesia – an investment fund focusing on environment, and numerous government organizations in order to help Indonesian entrepreneurs get off their feet.

(5) Through an email, oDesk announced that it now provides a facility for Indonesian job seekers and providers to join and be active in oDesk’s Indonesian Forum.

(6) As a growing industry, and considering the size of mobile/internet market in Indonesia, we really shouldn’t think twice to invest in Indonesia’s mobile business. The market is huge, and there’s always empty slots for new products or internet based mobile service to fill.

(7) Telkom has allocated IDR 32 billion as the appreciation program for individuals or groups whom regarded have made creative digital work and provide value for society and encourage the growth of digital startup in the country.

(8) Nevertheless, there is no Indonesian developer who can achieve 1 million downloads or even more, while its stated that there’s more than 5 million downloads per day at Ovi Store, which from the total Ovi Store visitors, 80% can be converted into downloads.

(9) At Bubu Awards there’s a special category for startups called Marketing Plan Competition organized with Nusantara Ventures. In this competition startups can send their marketing plan to market their product and service, and they will face a panel of highly competent judges.

(10) Distimo‘s publication on iPhone apps market in Asia, including Indonesia, shows surprising result. Indonesian users are considered to be the largest numbers who buy apps on iPhone.

This has been brought to you by SGE and DailySocial. DailySocial is a blog that covers the Indonesian tech startup scene. They publish in both Indonesian and English.

Image credit: baligraph

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