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: ??

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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.

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.

I was listed as one of 31 Malaysian Tech Blogs here. It’s music to my ears, really, to have found out that there are plenty of other Malaysians blogging about technology and the internet out there. Looking forward to meeting some of them once I am back home some day.

I think the web initiatives that are taking place in Singapore/Stockholm can be replicated in Malaysia by these folks. The current enthusiasm in Singapore about web2.0 should hit our shores anytime soon. There is hope!

Do I count?

Welcome to Malaysia lads.