The 3 Winners of SGE Invent Singapore Competition

So we ran a competition to see which 3 people would win exclusive $150 tickets to Invent Singapore 2009 this Saturday…

Bernard and I had a hard time trying to finalise the 3 winners as we thought all of the suggestions were good and a few even echoed what we’ve been thinking about ourselves too. But alas, we had to choose…so here we go. Congrats to these 3 lucky winners!

Daniel Vaughan

“I think it would be interesting to have more interviews with innovative people from non-tech domains. When people are thinking of the next great thing that will make them a successful tech entrepreneur a really useful thing to do is to broaden their point of view by learning something from someone domain completely novel to them.

An interview with an innovative vet, airline pilot, archaeologist, hair dresser or anyone who either solved a problem or did something innovative in their industry would be interesting. It also might be the thing that causes the slight shift in thinking that sparks a great idea. It also shows people in the tech world, day in day out that there is a whole world of problems a tech person would never usually come across just waiting to be solved.”

~> This is an excellent point, for I do agree that creativity cuts across boundaries. And multidisciplinary thinking lends itself to innovative solutions in any industry and would be of immense usefulness to an entrepreneur.

faithwish

“For this, I suggest that sgEntrepreneur can build up a network of entrepreneur that it has interview and add it to its data. It can create platform where the entrepreneur can regularly post their updates of entrepreneur experience and things they wish to share. It will become a mini-blogging for the entrepreneur. And if there is any aspiring entreprenur who wish to post to question to a specific entrepreneur, the platform will let the entrepreneur know about and the entrepreneur can reply the query to person who post the question.”

~> This is a great suggestion as more people would be able to learn from the experiences from these entrepreneurs. Though we do try to capture their thoughts and experiences in our interviews, they are but one-time snapshots. As time passes, we are sure they learn more as well and it would be interesting if our readers can learn alongside them.

Rohit Jha

“Regarding the question, I think there should be a section on this website where start-ups or individuals post their ideas/biz plans/elevator’s pitch either by means of text entry or a short 1 min video of themselves presenting the idea….it would be really cool and a great oppurtunity for entrepreneurs to get visually acclaimed.”

~> This is actually something we’ve been thinking about as well and your suggestion will definitely give many budding entrepreneurs the chance to showcase their new product or startup. It will also enable entrepreneurs to learn from others, both good and bad pitches. This will in turn hopefully increase the standard of the elevator pitch.