Thursday, April 18, 2013

Analysis on sgcarmart deal

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Buyer : SPH Seller : 3 main founders, 2 smaller co-founders, 40% investor JDB. Terms : $60M cap. My guess?  1) 2 year earnout ala Hardw...
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Analysis on Asian Food Channel Sale

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I do not know Hian Goh or Maria. Usually i know the players in the internet space since many are my friends or i have met with them over the...
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Creeping Ambition

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I wrote this in indirect response to what i felt was unrealistic expectations on the part of MDA officials. I was actually trying to make th...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Online Classifieds Heating up back now. Now all acquired!

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Enough said. This is my industry so my comments back in 2007 almost all came through. I just feel short of mentioning that many acquisitions...

When will you call it a Business?

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Article first posted in May 2007. Totally stand by what i wrote and in fact am validated by the current batch of startups which are all reve...

Contract Work for Key Clients & Partners

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This is the age old issue of making "feed the company" money while trying to build up your core product. I think quite a fair bit ...

Commentary about Singapore's prospects

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Hey... i am quite prescient if i may say so. Predicted very accurately the following : 1) Widening income gap. So bad it has become an ele...

7 years on and still no YouTube in SG?

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Looks like i was quite right back then to say that the environment conspires to ensure that our startups do not scale into the You Tubes of ...

When to move office?

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To carry on the story below. We grew from the 21 staff to current to close to 100. And we stayed at the science park place for 5 years befor...

Making enough to retire at 35?

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Wow! This is like reading a letter from myself written 7 years ago. How things have changed : 1)I did that half marathon. In fact, i did a...