Tweet Daniel Raffel, the senior product manager in Yahoo has an interesting background. In another point of his life, he worked as a four star chef in Thomas Keller’s NYC restaurant. Our TWIA crew, Cerventus and Chew Lin interviewed him and asked him how he has taken lessons as a professional cook and applied them [...]
This Week in Asia Episode 35: Saumil Nanavati from Chalkboard
Tweet What’s the story behind Chalkboard and what followed after the launch of the first beta in 21 days? Joining us in TWIA in conjunction with Echelon 2010, Saumil Nanavati, CEO and co-founder of Chalkboard came on our virtual studio and share with Chew Lin and Daniel Cerventus more on the local mobile ad network [...]
This Week in Asia Episode 34: Carl Coryell-Martin from Pivotal Labs
Tweet Last year, Ian McFarland, the VP Technology from Pivotal Labs came to Singapore to attend the Neoteny Conference. Since then, they have begun to set up their operations in Singapore. So, in this special episode in conjunction with Echelon 2010, we have Carl Coryell-Martin (@ccoryell) Singapore Practice Manager for Pivotal Labs to talk to [...]
This Week in Asia Episode 33: Ian McKee from Vocanic
Tweet Continuing our special interview series for Echelon 2010, we have Ian McKee from Vocanic on our studio to tell us about the story of Vocanic, and how it has deployed word of mouth marketing, social media and technology to help brands in spreading their word out to a market out there. We also tapped [...]
This Week in Asia Episode 32: Rendezvous with Rama
Tweet Joining the TWIA crew this week is Rama Mamuaya (@rampok), our first Indonesian guest from the Daily Social site who reports the latest tech and social news in Indonesia. He shares with us what the hottest social networks, mobile and e-commerce sites in Indonesia are and how the Indonesian tech scene is weighing up [...]
This Week in Asia Episode 31: Noah Kagan from Gambit
Tweet Continuing our special interview series in conjunction with Echelon 2010, we interview Noah Kagan, co-founder of Gambit, and interestingly, the founder of the E27 in Silicon Valley. We chatted with him about the roots of E27 and how it was brought to Singapore via Bjorn and Justin Lee. The most exciting parts of the [...]
This Week in Asia Episode 30: Jeffrey Paine from Founder Institute
Tweet The second of the special episodes that line up for Echelon 2010, we have Jeffrey Paine, from Founder Institute and also a managing partner at Battle Ventures. We speak to him regarding the opening of Founder Institute and how the course has been ongoing in Singapore for the past few weeks. As Jeff is [...]
This Week in Asia Episode 29: This Week in Japan
Tweet For this week, the TWIA crew is joined by Serkan Toto, a special guest from Japan, who is the only Asia correspondent for TechCrunch. We diced and sliced through the news happening in Japan: (a) DeNA’s reported profits and its competition with Gree, (b) Google is now booted out of mobile search by NTT-Docomo, [...]
This Week in Asia Episode 28: Echelon 2010 & Social Wok
Tweet The first of the special episodes, as TWIA is a supporting media partner for Echelon 2010, we bring together two special guests, Mohan Belani the lead organizer and his team from E27 Singapore who brings together the top web-tech startups within Asia to Singapore, and Guang Ming Yong, CEO of Social Wok to talk [...]
This Week in Asia Episode 27: What’s the deal with Softbank?
Tweet The TWIA crew returns without our moderator, John Lim. In his place, our co-producer Mike Foong has taken the helm and drive the discussion on the important news that rocked Asia this week. With our guest, Chew Lin Kay (@chewlink from @BlinkBl_nk) from BlinkBl-nk.com and Hackerspace SG, we surveyed the happenings from Barcamp KL, [...]




