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Based on my observations and experience. I am sure most of you have other opinions. I would love to hear it.

Smart students

• Stockholm -> Entrepreneurship, Banking, Consulting, Engineering, Research. .
• Singapore -> Banking, Consulting, Research. .

Environment

• Stockholm - Plenty of startups, so little entrepreneurship events
• Singapore - Plenty of entrepreneurship events, so little startups

Peers or mentors

• Stockholm: Kazaa, Skype, Pirate Bay, Spotify . . . .
• Singapore: Singapore Airlines, Creative Technology . . .

Neighbours

• Europe: Jaycut, Polar Rose, StudiVZ, Joost, Xing, Plazes . . .
• SEA/Asia: ?

Access to €€€€€€

• Europe: Index Ventures, Nordic Venture Partners, Advent Venture Partners, Investor AB . . .
• Singapore: ??

[Update]

Early stage (seed) funding

• Stockholm - STING, iQube, SSE Business Labs . . .
• Singapore - NUS Venture Support, SEEDS?

I want to believe things are slowly changing. I think Malaysian, Singaporean, Indonesian entrepreneurial organisations should work hand in hand to create more awareness at a regional level. Individually, they’re too small to have a significant impact but together, they can form a closely knit entrepreneurship community to propel further innovation and growth.

For example, local Singaporean entrepreneuship organisations can rope in students to help organise a web 2.0 conference in either Jakarta or Kuala Lumpur. It’s a win win situation I think. For one, Jakarta/KL gets introduced to a growing phenomena and the Singaporean organisations expand their networks.

Ahh the good times all come rushing back to me. There is another killer conference going on here in Scandinavia called Reboot. Co-organised by two people, one of them Polar Rose CEO and Hej! 2007 speaker Nikolaj Nyholm, Reboot has the killer web 2.0 community and applications integrated in one setting. The focus this year is “Human”.

Neways, good buddies Eric, Alex and Bjorn are speaking there. Another bud, Ruiwen, is tracking, the conference via second degree blogging from Stockholm.

If it wasn’t for my pesky presentation tomorrow, I would have joined in on the fun in Copenhagen. Bleah.

[Updates]

More fun stuff, Plazes CEO Felix Petersen apparently got ‘caught‘.

If you have missed or haven’t heard of the D: All Things Digital 2007 conference, SHAME ON YOU! In essence, I have compiled some of the few interesting moments from the event:

1. With all those power brokers within close proximity, there has to be some awkward moments
2. Kara Swisher vs Michael Arrington. Feud?
3. Demo of Maholo, an initiative by Jason Calacanis (formerly with AOL). Read Techcruch’s coverage here.
4. Microsoft Announces Surface Computer. Duh.
5. Live blogging - Jeff Hawkins
6. Live blogging - Steve Jobs
7. Live blogging - Steve Ballmer
8. AppleTV to show youtube videos. You call this content?
9. Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates. Gizmodo’s coverage here. Engadget here

If you guys know more silly, big, interesting moments from D 2007, pop me a note.

Heh, a site that provides a different (honest? ignorant? angry? you decide) take on the entrepreneurship situation in Singapore . . . and to a certain extent might be applicable to Malaysia. Thanks to Ramkumar.

Not Viacom, yes, it’s CBS. Read more here.

[Updates] News from various outlets

Techcrunch
ZDNet
Tech Digest

Jaycut, the online social video editing service, just released their private beta. I will be testin’ and bloggin’ about it soon.