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Want to know who’s pitching at unConference 2009?
posted by Mohan Belani on Monday, May 11, 2009 at 8:08pm Categories: BlogMay11
We are 5 days aware away from one of the biggest web technology and startup focused events this year. Yes the unConference Singapore 2009 is finally coming and it’s happening this Saturday, 16th May 2009, at Matrix@Biopolis. If you have not grabbed your ticket, you can do so here!
One of the highlight of the event is the TechCrunch50-styled pitching sessions, where startups are given 6 mins to pitch their product to an audience of venture capitalists, media journalists and bloggers, entrepreneurs, web technology enthusiasts and many more. We made things a little more exciting this time round by assembling a panel of esteemed members from the startup and web technology scene to be on a panel that provides feedback to the pitching startups. This panel is made up of Reza Behnam from IDG Ventures (former MD of Yahoo! SEA), Tahn Joo Chin from Hina Capital (she was involved in the Series A funding for Alibaba.com), Dan Neary from Skype and Scott Rafer from Lookery.com (he’s also the keynote for the event!).
What’s even more exciting is that I am finally going to reveal the line up of startups that will be pitching at the event.This list has been shrouded with mystery all this while because we have been painstakingly reviewing the startups and going through all their pitches. We would like to thank Meng Weng Wong for assisting us in this process. After 2 weeks of pitchings and selections, we are proud to announce the selected 8 startups that will be pitching at the event:
1. Countspin (USA)2. 2359media (Singapore)3. Orsiso (Singapore)4. iTwinn (Singapore)5. Frenzoo (Hong Kong)6. Human Network Labs (Singapore)7. Genkii (Japan)8. Socialwok (Singapore)Check out more of the startups that will be present at the event here. :)
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10 Responses to “Want to know who’s pitching at unConference 2009?”
kramfs said :
I think you have a typo in your post “We are 5 days aware” should be “away”…….
Mohan Belani said :
Too much AWARE saga ;)
Thanks for picking it up!
2359 Media to Pitch at UnConference 2009 | 2359 Media Blog said :
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Arul Prasad said :
Nice chat, that one.
Btw – “fusion Garage is a true example, but they had their roots way back in 2002. ”
I beg to disagree. Fusiongarage was born in Feb 2008 – After about a month or so of discussions at McDonalds and BurgerKings. The founder might have worked on another startup back in 2002, but we also had an architect, who had been in the industry for 25 or so years. Does that mean we had our roots in the 80’s ?
Most probably am gonna be there as well. Will c ya there!
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Neng Giin said :
One-up for the Team!
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Jon said :
Thanks for dropping by, Arul! It’s been a while since RIAction.
See you at unConference!
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Mohan said :
Nice one there!
@Arul: I had a nice chat with Chandra some time back on Fusion Garage etc. When I said “they had their roots way back in 2002″, I was referring to Chandra’s passion in OS and mobile. He had been tinkering with the idea of a “browser without an OS” way before Fusion Garage, in the early days of Radixs. It’s through iterations of ideas, testing and failing etc. that finally brought him to Fusion Garage (which kinda happened by accident too.. hehe) and how all this started way back in the Radixs days..
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Abi said :
Nice interview.
Honestly, why does it matter if gothere.sg (which is definitely the best startup in Singapore, IMO, for many different definitions of best) cannot scale to other countries? It doesn’t matter. As DHH from 37 Signals points out in this wonderful talk[1], you don’t have to sell for a billion dollars to be successful or more importantly, happy. You can be just as happy with a million dollars a year and no VCs forcing you to have an exit strategy. Singapore alone is big enough to sustain one really good player in the “mapping market”. And I think gothere.sg can definitely scale to other countries (albeit with a lot of data collection and other work) but obviously, they don’t see the need to yet. Mapping is an exciting field and even big companies like Google or Microsoft haven’t figured out a half-decent interface yet.
[1] http://www.omnisio.com/startupschool08/david-heinemeier-hansson-at-startup-school-08
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Jon said :
@Abi, I think then the central question really is, “Can Singapore alone really be big enough to sustain one really good player in the mapping/online directory market?”
While you may think so, I think many like myself and Mohan will feel otherwise. (Of course, none of us are actually in the mapping industry, so we are all talking out of our ass )
But seriously, remember the days before gothere.sg ? Streetdirectory.com was the de facto online directory for Singapore with practically zero competion. And while their product may not be as elegant as what we see gothere.sg is today, it was pretty decent and very usable.
Even then, they saw an immediate need to diversify into a bunch of other stuff like real estate listings, classified listings, and expanded overseas into Malaysia and Indonesia.
The point is, we may be overestimating how much money is there to be made in online mapping – I mean, this is an area where not even Google nor Microsoft is able to fully monetize yet. And these are international players with a presence in every country.
Much less if you restrict yourself to a market of 4.6 million people covering only a land area of 700 square kilometers.
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