Fintech is rushing into Singapore like a wave, bringing with it startups that are attempting to revolutionise the ways that businesses and individuals are managing and accessing money. Amongst that pool is Funding Societies, a startup that crowdfunds for entrepreneurs who are looking for a faster, better way of obtaining funding to expand and sustain their businesses.
Whether you prefer selling your idea through a prototype, minimum viable product or an actual product is a choice that you can make but you can’t deny the fact that at some point you have to make a sale. And you can determine how great your idea was based on how well your target customers react to your product.
Nixon Siow draws comics. His choice of subjects are mostly everyday things that most Malaysians relate to. And although Nixon says that his drawing skills can be improved, his simple and fun artwork is often able to arouse laughter and provide entertainment to readers who purchase his comic books, as well as his social media followers.
Being on a tiny island with not much land to speak of, it can be hard for Singaporeans to each have their own working spaces, much less comfortable, roomy ones. But some locals are working to change that, by creating co-working spaces where individuals and startups can work from. Since the debut of HackerspaceSG — Singapore’s first co-working space — in 2009, many others have followed, leading us to wonder which are the most attractive and conducive spaces in town.
If there are over 90% of the crowd saying “Yes” to approving a proposal, I will surely dispose the proposal into the bin. The reason is simple: if there are so many people who thinks that the proposal is good, surely there will be many people who would have been working on it, and the opportunity no longer belongs to us.
