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ryanlou — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:19:29 +0000

T.G.I.F. – The Garag3 Innovation Fridays

Vineeta — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:43:01 +0000

Mark Organ goes by many adjectives. Serial entrepreneur, Investor, Marketing specialist and many more. He was a founder at Eloqua – a venture-backed company providing automated demand generation software and services for marketers. It was winner of numerous awards, including Infoworld Top 100 Innovator, #3 on PROFIT Hot 50, and Red Herring’s “Better Than You”.

At The Garage Innovation Friday (TGIF!) organized by Garag3 and NUS Enterprise, he shared his insights on topics ranging from how to increase user adoption to the early mistakes he made as an entrepreneur.

Mark is excited about the growing Asian startup space as well and he is an investor in Singapore-based company – Game Ventures. He was encouraging startups to base their company in Singapore, but look for markets beyond it.

Startups and hackers in garag3 had a good session with Mark and gained valuable information from his experience as an entrepreneur and investor. Do watch out for our next TGIF happening in June.

UnConference 2009 Lucky Draw Results Announced

hongting.wong — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:55:54 +0000

As some of you might know, we ran a lucky draw for a free ticket to UnConference 2009 on the SG Malls application over the past 2 weeks. The draw was conducted by generating a random number and matched to the relevant entrant.

And the winner is….
Name: Ms Loo
Mobile (last 4 digits): 4282

For all other contestants, do still come for UnConference 2009. Click here to get a 20% discount off of the UnConference2009 ticket. Hope to see you there!

2359 Media to Pitch at UnConference 2009

hongting.wong — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:46:27 +0000

2359 Media is chosen as one of the start-ups to have the opportunity to pitch on stage during UnConference 2009. The pitching session will start at 2:40pm, and we will be the 2nd to pitch. Do come to UnConference 2009 to see us and the other exciting start-ups.

UnConference 2009
The unConference is Southeast Asia’s #1 participant-driven, startup-focused event for the web industry. Modeled after Silicon Valley culture, the event attracts industry thought leaders, entrepreneurs, developers and professionals from around Asia. The highlight of unConference is the product-demo segment: where startup founders seek to impress investors and the audience with their latest innovations. A number of our past unConference product-demo alumni have gone on to be nominated in BusinessWeek’s annual Top 25 Asia Entrepreneurs for both 2007 and 2008.

Media Coverage: Targeted advertising opportunity for those in travel & hospitality

2359media — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:41:49 +0000

At the Meet-the-Techgoondus event, the team was pleased to have met up with Illka Gobius who writes for the WebInTravel.com blog. With her experience in the travel and hospitality industry, we discussed in some depth about the possible applications of SGMalls in enhancing a tourist’s experience while traveling in Singapore.

Post event, Illka wrote the following about 2359 Media in her news release on the event:

“2359Media.com truly makes use of open platform technology on smartphones and provides a tremendous targeted advertising opportunity for those in travel and hospitality. … The commercial advantage of this highly targeted advertising opportunity that is geo-proximity based. It provides a rich media experience for making shopping decisions. The electronic coupon offers are collected by the advertiser which, when collated give valuable return on investment information. It also allows smaller retailers to compete effectively with larger, known brands.”