Community Newsletter
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Hubber's Exclusive Only
17th April
6:00 - 8:00pm
Do you have questions & feedback on the hub in 2015? Join us for the Hub’s annual town hall. We believe that greatest collaboration and impact is realised when people come together to act with purpose and intention.
As we look toward moving location to 128 Prinsep Street in June 2015, the Town Hall will be an excellent platform to renew our priorities as a community. We invite you to bring your insights, questions, and creative juices as we recreate our collective new home. In exchange, we'll take care of the great snacks and drinks!
Register here to be part of this year's Town Hall.
General Assembly is coming to the Hub!
General Assembly is the leading global educational institution fostering a new technology community through learning-by-doing classes, workshops, full-time immersive programs, and online courses in web development, user experience design, digital marketing, and data science. Well-known for programmes where students emerge prepared for roles as developers, user experience designers, and tech product managers, GA delivers actionable, practical and tactical skills for the 21st century workplace.
The Hub, as part of our mission to support innovation and entrepreneurship in Singapore, is excited to announce our collaboration with GA as their community and space partner. Come meet the team and hear about their plans when they host Hub happy hour on April 24th at 5pm!
As part of the collaboration, GA is offering all Hubbers:
- 50% discount on all classes and workshops
- $300 off the part time or full time courses
Click here for details on early stage classes and courses.
Hubbers, please connect with zahariah@thehub.sg for the promo code.
Community highlights
Jocelyn Ke
Connect Member
"My first venture in an Internet domain-marketing firm failed to take off but succeeded in being an immensely enriching endeavor. I saw firsthand the fragility of startups – there’s so many ways things can go wrong ... (Read more here)
Jeremiah Alexander
Cowork Member
"I'm a true geek, video game playing, slogan t-shirt wearing, excessive coffee drinking computer programmer but I'm also an ideas person, always armed with pen and napkin to note, sketch, or mindmap some crazy concept or design. ... (Read more here)
Fawn Soon
Cowork Member
"Fawn is a Senior Executive at Nusantara Development Initiatives and Co-Founder of something exciting in the works. She thinks the future lies in creating sustainable solutions. The social sector has evolved beyond just doing charity work; .... (Read more here)
A warm welcome to our new Hubbers in March 2015
Axel de Robillard (Second Life Networks Pte Ltd), Janice Budihartono, Harald Battran (Connecting), Satwant Kaur, Riichard Clarke, Mancego Marlon, Jeremiah Alexander, Garrett Weiner, Bonnie Lam
Hubbers' Success Stories
Krystal Choo, has raised US$500,000 in seed funding and saw 25, 000 matches in the first month with her Singles travel app Wander!
Read more about her story and achievements here.
PACT Incubator
For more details, go to www.pactincubator.com or register for one of our information sessions on 22 April and 5 May here.
Be a part of the launch of mobile calling app BuzzYou
Kerry Weir and her team is about to launch a new mobile calling app BuzzYou in Singapore and would like fellow Hubbers to be the first to try it!
The app was developed to solve the issue of high roaming charges and international call costs for SMEs & Corporates. Calls can be made over WiFi or 3G/4G, and you can even use a local access number when you don't have a data connection. So, you can make really low cost calls wherever, whenever and calls to other BuzzYou users are FREE! Multiple accounts can be invoiced under one company account. Click here to find out more.
BuzzYou is giving away $25 of call credit to any Hubber who would like to try BuzzYou. In return, they want to hear your opinions and feedback before going global! Just email info@buzzyou.com with your name and they'll send you an email with a unique voucher code to use at sign up.
Global Impact Hub Survey and the WINNER is ....
Thank you Hubbers for taking the time to answer the Global Member Survey. It will help us shape the future Impact Hub developments. The results of the survey will be published in our annual Impact Report that we will share with you at the end of the second quarter.
We are also happy to announce that the winner of the Global Member Survey lucky draw is Loring Harkness! Since he just got married, these two flights tickets will help him enjoy his Honey Moon a while longer. Congratulations Loring! We will be in touch with you on how to redeem your prize.
In the Hot Seat with Tejas Ewing and Evan Dumas
Tejas Ewing, 20th April, 4 - 6pm
Specialist in: Persuasive Presentations, Pitching for Funds, Media Skills for Positive Mindshare
Evan Dumas, 27th April, 6 - 8pm
Specialist in: Solution Selling, Positioning, Practice Building, Scaling
Click here to find out more about the experts!
Legal Talk with Sameul Yuen
24th April
3 - 4pm
Need some legal advice?
This month, The Hub and the Pro Bono Services Office (The Law Society of Singapore) welcomes Sameul Yuen from Yuen Law LLC for an informal session where everyone is encouraged to ask questions at any time. Get answers that are specific to your business and concerns and learn from queries and responses given to others based on real life ongoing business challenges.
Seats are limited, sign up here.
Planning for failure in your startup is not planning to fail
3:30 - 5pm
The sad reality is that many startups will fail and evidence shows that you are 6 times more likely to fail than you are to succeed. It's also said that you can fail many times, you only need to succeed once. This is why it is so important to plan for failure.
Join Stu Garrow, in this session which he will share many of the first had tips that every founder should know, from someone that has seen the best and the worst of different outcomes.
Seats are limited, sign up here.
#SEEK
Are you a Parentrepreneur?
We know there are many hubbers who every day balance the demands of being an active parent and an engaged entrepreneur. There are also many who are grappling with how they can serve the learning, spiritual and development needs of parents and children. If this sounds like you, then get in touch! We would like to know who you are and see how The Hub can support parentrepreneurs and those with ventures targeting parents, children and families. If you are interested in being involved, please email melanie@averygoodcompany.com.
#SEEK
Interested in working within a dynamic nonprofit and helping to shape Singapore’s social sector?
Conjunct Consulting is seeking a strategic and growth-oriented leader to serve as Deputy Vice-President (Corporates & Institutions) and HR Executive to serve as Vice-President (People).
The role is Full-Time, Flex-Time, Flex-Place. Singapore Citizens, PRs, and Local Pass holders welcome to apply. They will not be accepting international candidates. The early round application deadline is 27 April, while the normal round application deadline is 15 May. The position is designed to begin in June 2015.
To apply and find out more about this position, please email them your resume and contact details at info@conjunctconsulting.org
#MATCHED
Eugene (Darkhorse Analytics) created a mapping visualization tool during Braintree/Paypal's BattleHack Singapore 2015 hackathon and singlehandedly won 3rd place.
He's never been to a hackathon that made individually crafted crepes for its participants, provided back and body massages, and had such a responsive and helpful crew of partners to make the integration of their technologies (like getting payments online via Braintree) completely trivial. Drop him an email if you want to see the tool.
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