Comments on: More on Singapore’s Silicon Valley http://www.bjornlee.com/2006/03/22/more-on-singapores-silicon-valley/ An online community engineer coping with the social media explosion Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:53:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Singapore Entrepreneurs » BestBlogForward Meme: Why I wrote the “Finding the Golden Path: Can Singapore be a Silicon Valley?” http://www.bjornlee.com/2006/03/22/more-on-singapores-silicon-valley/#comment-56 Singapore Entrepreneurs » BestBlogForward Meme: Why I wrote the “Finding the Golden Path: Can Singapore be a Silicon Valley?” Mon, 29 May 2006 18:00:56 +0000 http://www.bjornlee.com/2006/03/22/more-on-singapores-silicon-valley/#comment-56 [...] The article “Finding the Golden Path: Can Singapore be a Silicon Valley?” has been an interesting article in all fronts for Singapore Entrerpreneurs blog. This article is originally inspired by the comments from the blog by Bjorn Lee and another article by Kamran Elahian together with an old article from Business Weekly. Earlier before reading his article, I was having a chat with a venture capitalist who gave a good argument of how Singapore is like Microsoft in the present, being very entrepreneurial during the 1960-1990s and started to slow down in the 1990s. It was also a confluence of events. The last piece of the puzzle is that I was wondering whether there is really an change in the mindset in the younger generation. Through my work with Start-Up@Singapore, the quality of the business plans and the way how student entrepreneurs present themselves have improved significantly seven years ago before I went overseas. You have to understand that I have just returned from Cambridge, where I did a biotech startup and had some reservation whether I will be enjoying entrepreneurship like the way I did back there. So, finally, something spurred me to write this article. Besides, at that point of time, I don’t see a lot of venture capital activity in seed stage and series A companies in Singapore. Hence it set me into thinking what we should start doing. [...] […] The article “Finding the Golden Path: Can Singapore be a Silicon Valley?” has been an interesting article in all fronts for Singapore Entrerpreneurs blog. This article is originally inspired by the comments from the blog by Bjorn Lee and another article by Kamran Elahian together with an old article from Business Weekly. Earlier before reading his article, I was having a chat with a venture capitalist who gave a good argument of how Singapore is like Microsoft in the present, being very entrepreneurial during the 1960-1990s and started to slow down in the 1990s. It was also a confluence of events. The last piece of the puzzle is that I was wondering whether there is really an change in the mindset in the younger generation. Through my work with Start-Up@Singapore, the quality of the business plans and the way how student entrepreneurs present themselves have improved significantly seven years ago before I went overseas. You have to understand that I have just returned from Cambridge, where I did a biotech startup and had some reservation whether I will be enjoying entrepreneurship like the way I did back there. So, finally, something spurred me to write this article. Besides, at that point of time, I don’t see a lot of venture capital activity in seed stage and series A companies in Singapore. Hence it set me into thinking what we should start doing. […]

]]> By: Singapore Entrepreneurs » Why I wrote the “Finding the Golden Path: Can Singapore be a Silicon Valley?” http://www.bjornlee.com/2006/03/22/more-on-singapores-silicon-valley/#comment-55 Singapore Entrepreneurs » Why I wrote the “Finding the Golden Path: Can Singapore be a Silicon Valley?” Sun, 28 May 2006 16:11:41 +0000 http://www.bjornlee.com/2006/03/22/more-on-singapores-silicon-valley/#comment-55 [...] The article has been an interesting article in all fronts for Singapore Entrerpreneurs blog. This article is originally inspired by the comments from the blog by Bjorn Lee and another article by Kamran Elahian together with an old article from Business Weekly. Earlier before reading his article, I was having a chat with a venture capitalist who gave a good argument of how Singapore is like Microsoft in the present, being very entrepreneurial during the 1960-1990s and started to slow down in the 1990s. It was also a confluence of events. The last piece of the puzzle is that I was wondering whether there is really an change in the mindset in the younger generation. Through my work with Start-Up@Singapore, the quality of the business plans and the way how student entrepreneurs present themselves have improved significantly seven years ago before I went overseas. You have to understand that I have just returned from Cambridge, where I did a biotech startup and had some reservation whether I will be enjoying entrepreneurship like the way I did back there. So, finally, something spurred me to write this article. Besides, at that point of time, I don’t see a lot of venture capital activity in seed stage and series A companies in Singapore. Hence it set me into thinking what we should start doing. [...] […] The article has been an interesting article in all fronts for Singapore Entrerpreneurs blog. This article is originally inspired by the comments from the blog by Bjorn Lee and another article by Kamran Elahian together with an old article from Business Weekly. Earlier before reading his article, I was having a chat with a venture capitalist who gave a good argument of how Singapore is like Microsoft in the present, being very entrepreneurial during the 1960-1990s and started to slow down in the 1990s. It was also a confluence of events. The last piece of the puzzle is that I was wondering whether there is really an change in the mindset in the younger generation. Through my work with Start-Up@Singapore, the quality of the business plans and the way how student entrepreneurs present themselves have improved significantly seven years ago before I went overseas. You have to understand that I have just returned from Cambridge, where I did a biotech startup and had some reservation whether I will be enjoying entrepreneurship like the way I did back there. So, finally, something spurred me to write this article. Besides, at that point of time, I don’t see a lot of venture capital activity in seed stage and series A companies in Singapore. Hence it set me into thinking what we should start doing. […]

]]> By: Singapore Entrepreneurs » Featuring Blogs of Other Singaporean Entrepreneurs III http://www.bjornlee.com/2006/03/22/more-on-singapores-silicon-valley/#comment-54 Singapore Entrepreneurs » Featuring Blogs of Other Singaporean Entrepreneurs III Thu, 25 May 2006 23:25:30 +0000 http://www.bjornlee.com/2006/03/22/more-on-singapores-silicon-valley/#comment-54 [...] Bjorn Lee Inc, Internet Media Evangelist. Space Monkey. Political Animal. From reading his blog entries, here are two recommended entries which captures my attention: What Drives You? and More on Singapore’s Silicon Valley. As a matter of fact, the second article has inspired an upcoming article which I will be posting in a few days time. Of course, from reading his blogs, I believe that he is one who does not let school interfere with his education. [...] […] Bjorn Lee Inc, Internet Media Evangelist. Space Monkey. Political Animal. From reading his blog entries, here are two recommended entries which captures my attention: What Drives You? and More on Singapore’s Silicon Valley. As a matter of fact, the second article has inspired an upcoming article which I will be posting in a few days time. Of course, from reading his blogs, I believe that he is one who does not let school interfere with his education. […]

]]> By: Singapore Entrepreneurs » Finding the Golden Path: Can Singapore be a Silicon Valley? http://www.bjornlee.com/2006/03/22/more-on-singapores-silicon-valley/#comment-53 Singapore Entrepreneurs » Finding the Golden Path: Can Singapore be a Silicon Valley? Thu, 18 May 2006 17:04:49 +0000 http://www.bjornlee.com/2006/03/22/more-on-singapores-silicon-valley/#comment-53 [...] Author’s note: This article is inspired by the comments from the blog by Bjorn Lee and another article by Kamran Elahian together with an old article from Business Weekly. The article is also currently featured in tomorrow.sg. [...] […] Author’s note: This article is inspired by the comments from the blog by Bjorn Lee and another article by Kamran Elahian together with an old article from Business Weekly. The article is also currently featured in tomorrow.sg. […]

]]> By: BL http://www.bjornlee.com/2006/03/22/more-on-singapores-silicon-valley/#comment-52 BL Wed, 29 Mar 2006 06:09:06 +0000 http://www.bjornlee.com/2006/03/22/more-on-singapores-silicon-valley/#comment-52 Hi Bjorn, Thanks for the inspiration in your article. I have written a piece which I thought might be of interest to you. <a href="http://www.sgentrepreneurs.com/2006/03/finding-golden-path-can-singapore-be.html" rel="nofollow">Finding the Golden Path: Can Singapore be a Silicon Valley?</a> Hi Bjorn,

Thanks for the inspiration in your article.
I have written a piece which I thought might be of interest to you.

Finding the Golden Path: Can Singapore be a Silicon Valley?

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