An Innovation Academy in Asia
The clock ticked over to a new year … so WHAT are you and your business going to do differently in 2013?
‘War stories’ from successful entrepreneurs like Derek Sivers are powerful because they can also help us figure out WHY we’re doing what we’re doing. In the first of an occasional series, Hugh Mason dissects the insights Derek has published to look for questions that could prompt useful New Year resolutions.
Little-known fact: the current prime minister of Singapore has a diploma in Computer Science from Cambridge University. One of our two Deputy PMs has a Masters in Computer Science (Imperial College); the other is a trained economist. So if any country can build a hi-tech ecosystem from scratch, it will be this one, writes JFDI.Asia co-founder Meng Wong. Today he upgrades his widely-respected map of the money for start-ups in Singapore.
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You may not be able to sell data you’ve gathered about users, veteran IP guru Robert Bond of Speechly Bircham, London, tells JFDI.Asia CEO Hugh Mason.
At a JFDI.Asia open house event last night Robert shared his journey from the start of the computer games era, helping software start-ups to protect their intellectual property, to the online world where he pioneered new legal precedents with Second Life.
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