[NUS Hackers] Friday Hacks Talk 3 Feb - "The StartupRootsSG Experience - technical challenges in the top startups in Singapore" by James Chan (Neoteny Labs), Laurence Putra Franslay & Divyanshu Arora

[Chen Liang]

Talk for this Friday Hacks (3rd Feb)

This week, we have a talk titled "The StartupRootsSG Experience - technical challenges in the top startups in Singapore" by James Chan (Neoteny Labs Investment Manager), Laurence Putra Franslay (Part time student, Full time hacker) and Divyanshu Arora (NUS Student), all of whom are active in both the local Startup and Geek scene. As always, free pizza will be served and then general hacking will commence after the talk.

If you see this announcement displayed incorrectly with many asterisks, visit this page instead to see it displayed with the correct formatting: https://groups.google.com/forum/?#!forum/nushackers

Do let us know if you are coming so that we can prepare enough food and space for everyone: http://bit.ly/wEaPZn

Location: Seminar Room 2, UTown Education Resource Centre (ERC) Level 2
6pm - Pizza and mingling
7pm - Talks start / Hacking
7.30 - General Hackathon - you're free to work on homework or personal projects, or ask for assistance from fellow programmers in attendance.
For the map, more details, as well as guidelines and information on how to give your own talk: see http://nushackers.org/fridayhacks/

After the talk(s), you are free to leave, or you may stay on for the Hacking, which is held at the same place.

Talk details:
If you are a co-founder in a tech-based startup, you will need to be prepared for the technical challenges up ahead. The talk will touch on the technical challenges that founders face in the early and mid stages of a startup, especially on the issue of scaling in size when technology is used.

Speaker Profile:

James Chan is Principal at Neoteny Labs, and works closely with General Partner Joichi Ito on the fund and its portfolio companies.

Prior to Neoteny Labs, James served as Investment Manager at Walden International Singapore, where he worked on a fund organized under the National Research Foundation’s Early Stage Venture Capital Fund Scheme. In 2007, James served as Investment Manager at Infocomm Investments, a wholly owned subsidiary of Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore.

James completed his Double Major: B.Sc in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon, and earned his M. Sc in Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) at Stanford University.

Laurence Putra Franslay is a Computer Science major from NUS, and the founder of a social enterprise selling desktops at low prices to poor people in Indonesia. In addition, Laurence is quite active in the geek scene in Singapore, having most recently been one of the organisers of Geekcamp. More about him at geeksphere.net.

Divyanshu Arora is a Computer Science major from NUS. His time is mostly split among web development, linux sys administration, and random hacks. And also in reading interesting books. Find him at darora.com.

Please register so that we can guarantee enough food and space for everyone: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dF9MenBRdE8wZ2pJN2M3TnpkNGFZenc6MA

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Upcoming Talk Schedule for Friday Hacks

So far, we have:

Feb 3 - James Chan (Neoteny Labs Investment Manager), Laurence Putra (NUS Student) & Divyanshu Arora (NUS Student)

Topic: The StartupRootsSG Experience - technical challenges in the top startups in Singapore

Feb 10 - Kailash Sethuraman (Google)
Topic: The Go Programming Language
(We expect oversubscription. If space is limited, special preference will be given to people who hack regularly at Friday Hacks. So be a regular: we have free pizza at Friday Hacks too.)
Registration Link: http://ow.ly/8FY3K

Also Feb 10 - Andy Croll (CTO Impulseflyer, Organizer RedDotRubyConf)
Topic: Test first development

Feb 17 - Shanmugam Mpl & Rahul Gokul (NUS Students)
Topic: Making floppies sing

Also Feb 17 - Vikram Verma (Independent Umbrella Salesman)
Topic: Architecting web services for horizontal segmentation

Feb 24 - Divyanshu Arora (NUS Student)
Topic: Building responsive frontends with Backbone.js

Apr 13 - Owen Jones (Google)
Topic: The Python Programming Language
(We expect oversubscription. If space is limited, special preference will be given to people who hack regularly at Friday Hacks. So be a regular: we have free pizza at Friday Hacks too.)

[Chen Liang]

I have created a new registration form for all the regulars who come
to Friday Hacks often.

Regulars, there are only 2 required fields so it'll only take about 15
seconds of your time.
So please remember to register so that we know the exact number of
people coming and can prepare enough food and space.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEkxdFI5YzZSSnBmaC1VZnVjYWV0Vmc6MA
(The exact same link can be used every week. So you can bookmark it.)

[Eli]

+1, thanks, Chen Liang. :)