Joi gave a talk at TEDxDubai 2009 on Innovation in Open Networks. In his 30-minute presentation, he talks about venture capital, open networks, Creative Commons, Agile, virality and the startup ecosystem. An important point he made was that the success of any startup ecosystem would not be dependent on one brand name or one person, [...]
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Innovation in Open Networks
Thursday, December 31st, 2009How S’pore can become 3rd Silicon Valley of the world
Thursday, December 31st, 2009Earlier this month, Eyal Gura, founder and CEO of PicApp gave a talk titled “What do they put into the water, and how can Singapore become the world’s 3rd Silicon Valley” on 12 Dec 2009 at Neoteny Singapore Camp 1. Eyal provided us with some good insights into what has helped Silicon Valley and Israel [...]
Starting up Startups
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009Panel discussion at the Neoteny Singapore Camp 1, moderated by Joi Ito (CEO, Creative Commons), and with Rob Mee (CEO, Pivotal Labs), Andrew ‘bunnie’ Huang (Head Engineering, Chumby Industries), Sean Bonner (Founder, Bode Media) and Samir Patel (Cofounder, SearchForce). Much of the discussion between panelists and the audience revolved around the theme of “failure”, following [...]
Product, Process & Software Agility
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009Panel discussion on 12 Dec 2009 at the Neoteny Singapore Camp 1. The panel was moderated by Joichi Ito, and with Ian McFarland (CTO, Pivotal Labs), Elisabeth Hendrikson (Founder, QualityTree), Diego Rodriguez (Partner, IDEO) and Jay Dvivedi (CIO, Shinsei Bank).
Neoteny Labs selected for NRF TIS
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009SINGAPORE, 31 DEC 2009 – Neoteny Labs is pleased to announce that it has been selected as one of seven technology incubators to participate in the S$50 million National Research Foundation (NRF) Technology Incubation Scheme (TIS). The recent successes of global platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Apple iPhone and Google Android, coupled with the advent [...]
Hello, World!
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009In case you’re wondering, not everything on our site is completely in place. Do pardon us for our lack of hospitality and slow progress as we may be caught neck-deep in setting up Neoteny Labs and the fund, as we zip past X’mas and hurtle head-first towards the New Year. I’ll be posting some videos [...]