Entrepreneurship and Starting Up in Singapore

STARTUP ASSISTANCE

Government Agencies

Spring Singapore - http://www.spring.gov.sg/Pages/homepage.aspx
Enterprise One by SPRING Singapore (Site) - http://www.enterpriseone.gov.sg/
ACRA Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority Singapore (Site)
BIZ File - https://www.psi.gov.sg/NASApp/tmf/TMFServlet?app=RCB-BIZFILE-LOGIN-1B
International (IE) Enterprise Singapore- http://www.iesingapore.gov.sg/
Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) - http://www.acra.gov.sg/
Intellectual Property Office of Singapore - http://www.ipos.gov.sg/

Institutions and NGOs

HR Capability Singapore by SPRING Singapore and Singapore National Employers Federation- http://www.hrcapability.sg/
Singapore Business Advisors and Consultants Council - http://www.sbacc.org.sg/
Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) - http://www.sgemployers.com/index.html
The Association of Banks in Singapore - http://www.abs.org.sg/
Singapore Management University SME Learning Portal - http://usaei.smu.edu.sg/sme

Business Organisations

SG Entrepreneurs (Site)
Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) Singapore - https://www.facebook.com/ACEstartups
Youth Entrepreneurs Society International http://www.yes.org.sg/
Foundation for Youth Social Entrepreneurship http://www.fyse.org/

Toolkits and Resources

ACE Starter Kit Singapore - http://pyrks.com/signup-ace.php
MaRS Discovery District - http://www.marsdd.com/ - Registered Charity based in Canada
Queensland Govt's Buisiness and Industry Portal - https://www.business.qld.gov.au/
Business Owners Toolkit - http://www.bizfilings.com/
SME Toolkit (for Singapore) - http://singapore.smetoolkit.org/singapore/en
- Book-keeping Cash Flow Management (Page)
EnterpriseOne Toolkit by SPRING Singapore - http://www.spring.gov.sg/Enterprise/Toolkit/Pages/hr-capability-toolkit.aspx
- Customer Service
- Financial Management
- HR Capability
- Marketing
- Productivity
ACRA's Pro Enterprise Initiatives (Site)
- Filing Financial Statements: How to guides - https://www.acra.gov.sg/components/wireframes/howToGuidesDownloads.aspx?pageid=812
Programs for Startups: http://www.spring.gov.sg/entrepreneurship/fs/pages/programmes-start-ups.aspx
Start Up Genome (Site) - Report Tool for benchmarking startups
Adult Educators Network: http://app2.wda.gov.sg/wsq/Contents/Contents.aspx?ContId=947

Guides and How Tos

Bookkeeping
- Bookkeeping for Start Up Companies in Singapore - http://www.slideshare.net/futureb00ks/diy-bookkeeping-for-start-up-companies-in-singapore
- Bookkeeping and Record Keeping Basics - http://singapore.smetoolkit.org/singapore/en/content/en/28/Bookkeeping-and-Record-Keeping-Basics

Grants, Funding and Support

ACE Grant
iSPRINT
WDA Internship Programme
Renovation and Refurbishment (R&R) Fund
WHP - Workplace Health Promotion Grant - http://www.hpb.gov.sg/HOPPortal/health-article/HPBSUEXTAPP1_4021939
UOB-SMU Alliance Programme - http://usaei.smu.edu.sg/
IPOS from IPM
PIC - Registration of IP
PACT by SPRING- http://www.spring.gov.sg/Developing-Industries/Industry-Initiatives/Pages/partnerships-for-capability-transformation.aspx
T-UP by A*

Training Sessions

HR Training by the Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) - http://www.hrcapability.sg/training/
Courses by the Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) - http://tms.sgemployers.com/webtms/internet/training.php

Relevant Startup Services

Telecommunications

Singtel Business - http://info.singtel.com/business/
M1 Business - https://www.m1.com.sg/business/
Starhub Business - http://www.starhub.com/business.html
My Republic Business - http://www.myrepublic.com.sg/business
iSPRINT Support by IDA - http://www.ida.gov.sg/Collaboration-and-Initiatives/Initiatives/Store/iSPRINT-Packaged-Solutions

Finance and Accounting

Mstar - http://www.mstar.com.sg/ - Accounting and Tax services

Certifications and Courses

Becoming a Certified Practising Management Consultant (PMC) - http://www.sbacc.org.sg/become-a-pmc/application-to-become-a-practising-management-consultant-pmc.html

OUTLINES

Spring Singapore Toolkits

Customer Service Toolkit
SME Financial Management Toolkit
- - http://smetoolkit.abs.org.sg/
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C3NrBYXPPdalIsSNN1ijrbFigZ1ZqFH1H8wASodStrk/edit#
  - Financial Modelling - Instantly Analyse your Business Growth and Understand your Funding
  - Business Profiling - Profile of your Business and Financial Health
  - Capabilities Profiling - Measure your Business Financial management Capabilities
  - Resource Library
    - Business Planning: Business Plan with Financial Forecasts, Managing Business Growth, Overseas Expansion
    - Performance Reporting and Measurements (Reporting Formats and KPIs): Templates for Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Forecast, KPIs Reporting, Chart of Accounts
    - Profits and Cashflow Improvements: Business Health Profiling, Profit Improvement, Concept of Break-even, Managing your Cashflow
    - Business Financing
    - Systems and Controls: SOPs for Sales and Receipts, Purchase and payments Procedure, Inventory Control, Petty Cash Control, Fixed Assets
    - Compliance: Taxation and Key filling dates
  - Learn More
Human Resource Capability Toolkit
- http://www.spring.gov.sg/Enterprise/Toolkit/Pages/hr-capability-toolkit.aspx
- http://www.hrcapability.sg/
  - Manpower Planning: Assessing current workforce capabilities, demographics and determining future workforce requirements
  - Recruitment and Selection: Soliciting applicants and assessing their suitability to fill recently-vacated or newly-created positions
  - Compensation and Benefits: Designing and managing market-competitive compensation and benefits strategies and programmes
  - Performance Management: Maintaining or improving employee job performance through objective-setting, appraisal, coaching and feedback
  - Learning and Development: Planning for and conducting activities that develop employee capabilities, knowledge and know-how to meet business, organisational and individual needs
  - Career Management: Establishing policies and processes which enable employees to set career objectives and determine appropriate educational and developmental programmes to further develop their skills to achieve short-term or long-term career objectives
  - Talent Management & Succession Planning: Talent Management involves identifying, managing and retaining talents to be groomed into future leadership for the company. Succession planning involves creating a strategy and plan for succession to take place. This includes identifying competencies required of the successors for the critical roles & the time period
  - Employee Relations: Developing, maintaining and improving employer-employee relations through building a strong and cohesive company culture and enhancing internal communications
Marketing Toolkit
- http://usaei.smu.edu.sg/sme
- Market Assessment
  - Pest Analysis
  - Key Players Analysis
  - SWOT Analysis
  - Quantitative Analysis
  - Market Assessment Template Guide
- Marketing Plan
  - Analyse Competitive Position
  - Identify Best Customers
  - Develop Marketing Plan: Vision Mission, Business Environment, Competitive Position, Potential Customers, Marketing Strategy, Implement and evaluate
- Branding
- Public Relations & Advertising
- Marketing Collaterals
- Digital Marketing
- Promotions, Leads and Sales
Productivity Toolkit

9 Types of Entrepreneurs

(Article)

Adviser: Some entrepreneurs are paid for giving advice, such as lawyers, accountants, and financial advisers.
Administrator/Organizer: Like organizing? You can plan weddings, oversee projects, or take care of accounts, databases, and order fulfilment.
Builders/Creators: Artists, bakers, carpenters, and designers are examples of entrepreneurs driven to create something tangible where it did not exist before.
Caretaker: People with a helping personality find opportunities taking care of people, plants or property.
Communicator/Trainer: If you can transmit information or communicate in different languages you might find demand in sales, marketing, writing, training or a variety of information services.
Entertainer/Host: If you thrive on being with people, you may find an entrepreneurial opening in the hospitality industry or service industries such as hairdressing. Or you may be an entertainer, actor, musician, or singer.
Investor/Owner: If you have money to invest you can put your capital to work for you investing in stocks, real estate or businesses.
Seller: This covers salespeople and brokers in our purchases, from real estate to insurance to art.
Technologist/Engineer: If you love figuring out computers, autos and engines, you may want to explore entrepreneurial opportunities in software development, engineering or technology.

Business Intelligence - Marketing Research

Business Ideas

Gamify (Site) - Turn your website into a game! (e.g. foursquare)
Project Management
- http://www.pmi.org/en/Professional-Development/e-learning/Alaskan-Recovery-Simulation-Project-Scope-Management.aspx
- http://www.villanovau.com/form/project-mgmt/100107_pmp-certification/?source=193511zv1&utm_source=PMI.org&WT.mc_id=11330&origref=http%3A//www.pmi.org/en/Professional-Development/e-learning/e-Learning-on-Demand.aspx%3FWT.mc_id%3D2011eLearnOnDemandDecAdRoll300x250

Related Businesses and Organisations

Local Enterprises

Sandven Group (Site) - Service Providers and Training Centers
- Photovivo.com
- Knowledge Bowl Training & Consultancy
- Sandven Image House
- Smiling Feet
- HANA BOdy Wellness
- PRA Thai (Thai Buddhist accessories)
Optimatic Pte Ltd (Site) Community-centric Media Network
- e27 (Site) Webinnovation in Asia, covers the companies, people and technologies that are changing Asia's web and mobile ecosystem.
  - Echelon (Event) Asia Startup Launchpad Event
- Garag3 (Site) - Events/ Startups/ Grants&Resources/ Career
- iLead - Silicon Valley Tours
Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group http://akltg.com/
- Personal Development
- Youth Courses
- Professional Development Series
Energy Corp Global (Site) - ISO28000 Environmental Consultancy
http://littlelives.com/
http://www.school-of-thought.com/
Simple and Smart (Site) - HR Management and Training Company

.COM Businesses

Mindtools: http://www.mindtools.com/
Ideaverse (Site): Online Marketing and Software Development Solutions for Enterprises
Adobe PDF Guild: http://www.adobepdfguild.com/quest/

Freelance, Advocates, Guerilla

http://kimcofino.com/ International School Educator,
Educational Technology Consultant, ADE
- Google for Educators: http://www.google.com/educators/index.html
Hackerspace http://hackerspace.sg/
Preetam Rai http://smarterbysharing.com/
Celestine Chua http://celestinechua.com/
Anslem Chu http://www.macckly.org/
http://workingwithgrace.wordpress.com/
Moses: Pausability
- http://pauseability.blogspot.com/
- http://www.pauseability.com.sg/

Social Entrepreneurship

Global
- Grassroots Org - Connecting Charities with Tools, People and Resources http://www.grassroots.org/
- Knights Bridge Foundation (.ORG) - Informed and Engaged Communities
Singapore
- http://www.cafediplo.org/
- Hemisphere Consulting (Site)
- (Global)
- SYNC (.ORG) - Singapore Youth Group providing tools, connections and resources (Spark Plug pdf/ Think&Drink FB/ Synconsult/ Syinconnect )
- The Social Enterprise Association http://www.seassociation.sg/
Articles
- Social Enterprise Survey 2010 (Paper)

Not For Profit Organisations

NGOs

http://www.janegoodall.org.sg/

Government and Related Institutions

OE/OD

http://www.challenge.gov.sg/ Approaching the public differently
www.ps21.gov.sg Change movement of singapore public service

Education

IAL Institute for Adult Learning Singapore (Site)

Events and Compentitions

The New Media Asia Conference (Event) - Conference on Social Media and the New Media
Echelon by e27 (Event) Asia Startup Launchpad Event
Global Youth Congress International (Event)
RYSEC Rotary Youth Social Entrepreneurship Challenge (Facebook) - Singapore's only Social Enterprise Competition
Synconnect (Site) - Organised by SYNC

Resources

Media

Inc. (Magazine) - Startup/ Running a Business/ Finance/ Leadership&Managing/ Sales&Marketing/ Technology/ Innovation/ Inc.500/5000
Good (Magazine) News&Features/ Infographics/ Slideshows&Videos/ Projects/ Contributors
Washington Post's Slate (Magazine) - Briefing/ News&Politics/ Arts/ Life/ Business&Tech/ Science/ Podcasts&Videos/ Blogs
Michael Cage's All Things Entrepreneurship (Blog)
Innovation (Magazine) - Singapore Magazine of Research, Technology and Education

Articles and Guides

How to Write a Business Plan (Guide) : By SG Entrepreneurs (2006)
Made in Singapore Entrepreneurs (Interview) - Interview with Guy Kawasaki by Innovation Magazine
How to Measure the ROI of a Content Marketing Strategy (Article)
For Social Enterprises
- Tips for Entrepreneurs who want to start Not-For-Profit Organisations (Article) : A Huffington Post Article (2011)
- Tips for Entrepreneurs who want to start not-for-profit Organisations (Article)
- The Benefit Corporation: Can the Future of Businesses Be more than just Making a Buck? (Article)
- Is Finding a Need and Fill it Bad Marketing Advice? (Article)
- For do-gooder NGOs in Cambodia, accommodation with the regime is very profitable. (Article)
- This Company Scours the Internet to Tell Employers Your Secrets (Article)
8 Ways to Recruit Startup Talent Using Social Media (Article)
4 Ways non-profits can Jump into Google+ http://mashable.com/2011/08/16/non-profits-google-plus/
The Lean Startup - Principles (Site)
http://edreach.us/2012/01/01/need-a-new-years-resolution-try-a-personalized-professional-development-plan/

CSR and Projects

Dutch Postcode Lottery and PICNIC's CSR - Green Challenge (Project) - Green Competitions
Swipe Good (Project/ Article) - Round off your purchases with your Credit card and donate change to charity
Swellr (Project/ Article) - E-commerce Marketplace that allows you to fund projects through local purchases.
GE's CSR - Ecomagination (Site/ Facebook) - Topics/ Projects/ Technologies/ Progress/ News
Disney’s Indices for Corporate Responsibility Entrepreneurship (Page)
Join My Village (Site) - One click and businesses give money for Women to have a chance.
Fueling Good (Site) - Giving Charities a gallon of fuel to complete a cycle of good. <nice presentation>
Jonathan's Card (Site/ Article) - Radical Sharing Works: This Guy lets the World Use his Starbucks Card for Free
Starbucks Profit-Sharing Initiative Gives Education Programs a Boost (Article)

Misc Articles

http://www.good.is/post/attack-of-the-killer-algae-the-risks-of-creating-biofuels
http://www.good.is/post/the-top-ten-masters-of-campus-social-media

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