Beautiful Minds in Ultimate Space

1. And the Top Scorer is…

Singapore. Again. Top of the charts for ease of doing business.

2. Big Brother, Singa the Lion & Teamy the Bee

Over a decade ago, her government started singing praises, in the name of the entrepreneurial spirit, about competition, creativity and… Teamy the productivity bee.

The result is sound infrastructure  that was to play the harvesting field for enterprising residents. Despite such relentless efforts by Big Brother however, Singapore is still one of the least entrepreneurial societies in the developed world.

Why?

 

3. What’s the Big Idea?

If infrastructure is a state-led springboard to successful entrepreneurship, the key to its sustainability lies in the world of IDEAS.

And that, in my opinion, is our responsibility.

You can blame your parents, the dog, your omnipresent “big bro” or the allegedly stoic education system for stuffing a cork in your otherwise creative bottom.

But the irony of innovation is that it is borne out of a need for renewal.

And the need for renewal is predicated on limits, constraints, rules and restrictions; gripes that eventually bore us to death, and prompt us to think, to ask: Is there a way out? A way around?  How do we do it? Who can we ask?

4. Rise Above with Martell

Let me now cast the spotlight on Martell’s Ultimate Startup Spaces (USS), as an example of a campaign that taps into the microcosm of ideas that lies untapped in every individual.

Jointly organized by prestigious French business school INSEAD, Standard Chartered Bank and Martell, the premise of this competition is simple:

“  If you had a 760 sq ft shop space at Clarke Quay, what would you do with it?  “ 

Check out the details in this video:

I wonder… if I had the resources, what would I do? 

With my repressed desire for wanting to promote a genuinely vibrant local art scene, an innovative and contemporary art space that goes beyond your traditional art gallery would definitely be the direction I will steer toward.

Who wants to beat me to it?

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The Ultimate Start-Up Space has also partnered with Startup@Singapore, Singapore’s most established nationwide business plan competition, for their inaugural 24 Hour Biz Plan Challenge on 23rd and 24th Jan 2010. The event will see close to 100 participants developing their business idea in one of three emerging industries, while adapting it to suit the 760sq ft. of space offered by The Ultimate Start-Up Space.

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 thangdynasty is a work-in-progress maintained by an accidental equity trader whose brief foray into the world of investments turned out… not so brief. Although unmotivated by the senseless pursuit of money in and for itself, she remains sadistically intrigued by the complex anatomy stealthily at work behind the whole spectrum of Markets – Fine Art, Financial, Fish and Fools. A budding art collector and supporter of emerging artists, she slogs to prevent collateral damage to her bank account resulting from occasional manic art buying sprees.

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