BookInBookOut is a Singapore start-up founded by Tay Wei Kiat in late 2009. In October 2010, it merged with another online textbook marketplace called Buyback Asia which catered to NUS students.

"BookINBookOUT is an online textbook market place targeted at university students which integrates various social networking elements into the process of buying and selling second hand textbooks. BookINBookOUT is used by over 60% of students in SMU, as well as thousands of students from both NTU and NUS. On top of making textbooks affordable to students, BookINBookOUT also integrates strongly with Facebook, resulting in BookINBookOUT being a great socialising platform on top of being the most popular second hand textbook market place for university undergraduates.

BookINBookOUT was founded by me when I first joined SMU in August 2009. I realised that first hand textbooks are expensive, and in most cases, I only need to use them for a single semester before buying a new set of textbooks again. The then existing second hand textbook marketplace in SMU was in the form of a forum; it was very difficult to use, and posting contact information publicly on a forum means opening up the possibility of identity thief. Determined to improve the situation, BookINBookOUT was conceptualised and implemented within a single day. Over the next few weeks, BookINBookOUT slowly grew in popularity, eventually reaching the popularity it has today."

20,000 to 30,000 textbooks were sold from 2009 to the end of 2010.

Fragnetics is a leading Singapore game server provider that offers web hosting and web application development services.

Over the years we have grown an enthusiastic community by hosting PC games such as Counterstrike, Call of Duty, Battlefield, and PlaneShift. We are Battlefield 2 and 2142 ranked server providers appointed by Electronic Arts, operators of Singapore's first Steam Content Server, and platform providers for tournaments such as the World Cyber Games (WCG) Asian Championship.

We host and manage enthusiast websites such as the VR-Zone forums, customise and develop content management systems for top local schools, and also assist artists in cyberart exhibitions.

Today, our 4-member team operates about 20 servers running at the Equinix IBX data centre, serving thousands of gamers and web visitors alike.

FUYO is a street dance performance team which is regarded as one of the best local dance groups in the current hip-hop scene. FUYO has performed in and won many dance competitions and hip-hop events since 2001.

As a crew, they stormed the Suntec Dance Competition 2003, clinching the top prize, were champions at Zhenghua Hiphop Showcase Battle 2004 and were even chosen to represent Malaysia for the international competition Battle Of The Year 2005 (South East Asia) held in Thailand in August. 2006 saw them clinching 3rd placing for Funk It Out breakdance competition, appearing as special guest performers for the annual Funkamania event and reaching the semi-finals of Battle Of The Year 2006 (Singapore). Having actively performed for J-team productions such as “Comedy Night” (gaoxiao xingdong), “What’s Up Jack?” (liangxing faxiang) and the local movie One More Chance, FUYO dancers have established themselves as household names.

FUYO is a much sought-after performing team, and has been the featured act in the opening of clubs and discos such as Chinablack, Zouk (KL, Malaysia) and Coco Latte, at big events such as Street Festival 2003, 2004, 2005 and concerts such as Ho Yeow Sun Concert 2004 and Jolin Tsai Concert 2004.

Hiphop and Breakdance classes are also professionally conducted at various education institutions and studios such as Republic Polytechnic, Singapore Management University, Nanyang Junior College and many more. Fitness classes are provided to centres such as Amore as well.

GameMaki is a social discovery app to initiate and claim real world challenges for points and rewards. Available for the web and mobile platforms, individuals and brands suggest activities to challenge their friends or audiences, and discover new experiences by doing other challenges.

GameMaki focuses on facilitating sharing and discovering quality, crowdsourced suggestions. People can post challenges such as "go for a run before sunset", "say hello to a random person on the street" or "pose with the crew in our cafe and take a photo". Anyone can claim these challenges by sharing their experiences through comments and photos to earn points and badges, which can translate to real-world incentives such as discounts.

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HD Interactive Pte Ltd (Formerly Hot-Dock Interactive LLP) is a private owned mobile and interactive application development company based in Singapore and Malaysia. It has major customers and powers itself with a range of mobile applications and web work-flows.

"We pride ourselves on our unique ability to blend aesthetics and functionality to provide our customers with all-in-one solutions to fit branding/marketing requirements.

Our team uniquely blends experience from a wide range of industries such as Entertainment, Digital Media and Design, and Advertising / Marketing. Some of the major projects we have done include the Audi Fashion Festival Singapore iPhone App, Bare Your Sole Registration and Participant Management System (in-collaboration with Habitat for Humanity Singapore, and Barclays) as well as a whole host of other applications and innovations."

Merged together with HD Interactive is The Ranking Experts; the SEO arm of HD Interactive.

Jweeb Solutions (founded in 2007) is an independent web consulting and web infrastructure specialist that enables small-medium organisations and individuals to use the web simply and effectively. With its methodologies and experience, Jweeb Solutions aims to maximise business value for its clients to meet their objectives and needs.

Some of its services include Web Consulting, Web Hosting, Domain Name Services, Hosted Services, Web Management, Web Monitoring, Internet Services, Mobile Call Back Services and IDD Services. Each service offered by Jweeb Solutions goes through a strict process of testing and evaluation to make sure it is one that we ourselves would use and buy.

To tackle today's dynamic and fast-changing, knowledge-driven world, Jweeb Solutions adopts an approach of continuous learning and renewal to drive relevance and innovation. The company is never the same as it was yesterday.

Starting a new bakery? Need to document precious moments? Jack Tang is a Singapore food and product photographer, offering photography services all year round at attractive rates. Long term business partnerships also welcomed.

Jack started off as a web designer, but fell in love with photography, and eventually loving his food even more. Risking his life as an officer for a little red dot on the map he calls home, Jack earned enough dough upon leaving service to buy some of his expensive toys most wives would nag about to start his hobby.

Mauve is an artiste management and entertainment agency based in Asia; we provide international artistes: DJs, singers, rappers and MCs and other similar internationally recognised artistes to the greater Asia and Oceania regions for corporate, casino, concert and club events. MAUVE is the preferred contact point for artiste promotion across Asia and Oceania. Founded and based in Singapore, it offers a convenient contact point for artistes and venues.

We offer the corporate transparency and legal stability of Singapore, along with the explosive potential for growth; Asia is touted as one of the last untapped markets, with latent potential for huge growth. We hope to provide both known and growing artiste with the chance to expand their market as well as supply much needed talents across Asia & Oceania.

Our goal is to establish above board relations with both artistes, venues and promoters, creating a win-win situation; building a mutual trusting relationships with all and anchoring ourselves in the scene for the long haul.

Not A Basement Studio makes applications for mobile devices such as the iPhone and iPad.

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"Not A Basement Studio was started in January 2010 by three SMU undegrad students. The idea was simple: make the best manga reader for the iPhone. They named their first application Manga Rock, and it was well-received by both critics and users alike, receiving over half a million downloads in its first year.

Within one year, the team created three others manga reading applications catered for different groups of users. 

In January 2011, the company was incorporated officially in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam dedicated to developing applications for mobile devices. Currently, the company employs fifteen people, developing multiple applications across many categories: entertainment, productivity, games etc."

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Quantine provides businesses with Candidate Screening and Employee Assessment solutions.

Our Mission
To be the trusted name for candidate screening and employee assessment solutions by ensuring that our assessment tools and processes are up-to-date and are of the highest quality, reliability and standards.

VISION
To be the leader for candidate and employee assessment solutions in South East Asia.

Objective
To grow by continually providing the market with assessment services that are relevant — and to expand into regional markets that require our competencies and services.

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“The fast paced environment at SIS challenged us to exceed our mental and physical limits which prepared us for the workplace – even if it meant creating our own. The advantages we have being from SIS are not only by our soft or hard skills, but also the wealth of industry relationships through SIS and IIE that we can network to and quickly accelerate our startup.”

Quantine has been featured in the Business Times.

Sageby creates a new form of payment – our users pay not using money, but instead, they pay using waiting time. To our clients who need raw data, we provide a platform to data collect over the physical and social space through mobile surveys, both targeted and location-based.

We also support businesses in launching advertising campaigns using our social media platform.

• Published in The Business Times, 12 March 2012
  Sageby finds way to monetise waiting time: SMU SIS final year undergraduates George Chen and Bryanmaguire Chia, and Lee Pei Zhi, are the trio behind tech start-up Sageby that focuses on developing a system that allows consumers to trim their shopping or dining bills by redeeming credits earned for filling in market surveys on their phones as they queue to pay.
• Published in Bangkok Post, 7 March 2012
  Art of the pitch: Six minutes to change your life: 178 start-ups auditioned with 90-second to six-minute pitches with the hope of winning US$20,000 at DEMO Asia 2012. One such startup was Sage.by, a DAMO alumni startup formed last August by four SMU students, including SIS students George Chen and Bryanmaguire Chia.

SDS Solar Pvt. Ltd. is a flagship company of the SD group, an industrial house active in fields of Plastics, Consultancy, Real Estate and distribution in industrial goods. Our first project is a 1 MW Solar PV Power project in the state of Haryana (India). Our solar power plant falls under the country’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission. The Mission anticipates achieving grid parity by 2022 and parity with coal based thermal power by 2030.

Renewable Energy Sources will turn out to be one of the most important and crucial elements of India’s power policy aimed at meeting the power needs of remote areas in an environmentally friendly way. Solar Energy is the most promising space as it is the least exploited as of now. Given the high solar incidence in India and the need to electrify vast, remote, off-grid areas, India is set to become a huge market for solar energy.

In addition to venturing into other solar power-based streams, our goal is to specialise as a Consultant for solar energy initiatives.

sgTextbooks.com is a Singapore website where you can buy & sell textbooks for free, and without the hassle of having to register for accounts. The site was launched in 2009.

Shashank Nigam is the CEO of SimpliFlying, the leading airline brand consultancy headquartered out of Singapore, with representation in New York City and Toronto. Nigam is globally recognized for his views and insights on the convergence of airline branding with PR, Traditional Media and Social Media.

Considered one of the original thought leaders who paved the way for Airlines 2.0, Nigam is the youngest winner of the Global Brand Leadership Award, having led interactive programs for leading airlines, airports and even hotels, globally. Essentially, by driving engaging and profitable conversations between brands and customers.

Nigam actively contributes his thoughts and experiences through keynotes, industry appearances, books, articles and essays as a way of helping the airline industry understand and embrace the new dynamics fueling an evolutionary genre of marketing, service, and influence. Aviation industry veteran Ludo Van Vooren refers to Nigam "as a prophet converting one aerospace business at the time to the brave new ways of Social Media."

Nigam has received a lot of attention for his ideas concerning airline branding and social media, having been interviewed on CNN Travel, CNBC, MSNBC, Bloomberg UTV, NDTV Profit, Channel NewsAsia and in leading press like Washington Times, LA Times, Mashable.com, Airline Business, ATW, The Straits Times, Aviation Week, DARE and The Indian Express over the past year.

Visit SimpliFlying.com to read more of Shashank's work and learn more about him.

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SimpliFlying is now counted among the:

• Top 3 blogs on aviation
• Top 5 most influential on Twitter, on airlines
• Most active on 48 LinkedIn groups on aviation
• Most viewed on YouTube — over 250,000 views

Soccernetindia XtraTime is a monthly news magazine registered under Indian Newspaper/Magazine Act, published out of Kolkata, India.

The monthly magazine is a Bilingual magazine dedicated to the world of football and reaches out to the football fans based in India. At the same time, SoccernetIndia has been involved in consulting for the brand and media management of entities involved in Indian football, including the Indian Football Association and various partner football clubs.

Founded in 1997, Systhem Technologies started as a web designing company (then eShock Web Solutions). Today, Systhem Technologies offers the following services: web design; web applications/programming; web marketing; web hosting; artificial intelligence research; application development; Microsoft Access/Excel/Outlook applications/plug-ins; Chinese translation.

We aim to provide a one-stop-solution for any company seeking an online presence, but recognise and understand that companies today do not only require web applications, they need a wide array of applications such as offline desktop solutions across multiple platforms and performances.

By 2004, with the increase in subscribers in its subsidiaries, ehostnic was formed with an implementation of an artificially intelligent helpdesk in order to provide better support for our customers. This helpdesk software is self-learning and has reached accuracy levels of over 70%, and is still being perfected by the R&D team.

Looking forward, we will be introducing more services with the launch of Foundleads, a new web marketing arm which will also be providing new services such as translation and Microsoft application development.

ThoughtBuzz is a web based social media intelligence solution to track and monitor public content across social media platforms. With the growing popularity of social media, it is essential to find out how our solution can help companies monitor public perceptions of their services, brand, products and communications initiatives, at just a click of a button.

In a nutshell, ThoughtBuzz keeps you:

• Informed: Capture multiple language and forum discussions as well as blogs, twitter and Facebook
• Empowered: Make timely, informed strategic decisions
• Engaged: Actively dialogue with your customers. We work with a variety of clients from the PR and Marketing industry as well as MNCs and local companies

Anshul founded ThoughtBuzz with a friend, Ashok Patro, in April 2009. The company was formally launched in August 2009. They raised 6 figure venture capital funding from Mercatus Capital Pte. Ltd and won the SPRING YES! startups award in June 2009.

Tocco Studios Pte Ltd is supported by the Media Development Authority (MDA) under the Microfunding iJAM scheme as well as Singapore Management University (SMU) Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE). Tocco Studios aspires to be the leading multitouch solution provider in Singapore .

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"Tocco Studios Private Limited was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Singapore. We are the leader in design and development of surface computing-based applications. Our focus is to help you to realise the potential of using multitouch technology to add value to your business by providing a more natural, intuitive, immersive and memorable interactive experience.

We deliver an unmatched user experience for you on budget and on schedule. Innovation, creativity, excellence, professionalism, hard work, commitment, team playing, passion, diversity are values we share and what makes Tocco Studios a unique company."

• Published in The Business Times, 23 January 2012
  Great leap forward reaps dividends: Tocco Studios provides multi-touch screen technology to various clients, including banks in the Middle East and educational institutions in Singapore.
• Published in The Straits Times, 17 February 2012
  Learning music's just a game of touch: At SMU's Li Ka Shing Library, a crowd gathered as two students touched a 1.4m vertical screen to zoom, pan and skew a virtual campus map. The technology was installed by Tocco Studios. The company now provides large touchscreen displays to businesses and educational institutions across Asia.

Tinkerbox Studios Pte Ltd is a web technology development and consultancy and we are looking to transition from a consultancy based business to a product driven business.

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"We're a group of five student entrepreneurs, based in sunny Singapore. We specialise in web technology and since 2007, we've been churning out high quality projects for clients . We believe that what makes us different is our attention to detail and commitment to excellence.

Sticking to the tried and tested may work for some, but not for us. With every project, we consider how best we can make use of technology without comprising on quality. Many might adopt a wait-and-see approach to technology, but we jump right in for that first mover advantage.

What we want to do most of all is provide working solutions, right out of the box. And that's not just our motto, it embodies our entire working philosophy. That's why we provide a full suite of services from design to delivery."

TYLER Projects is the creator of Battle Stations, Singapore's first (and most popular) social network multiplayer game.

With over 1 million registered users, it is probably the largest Singapore made MMO game.

Based in Singapore and New York, the company has more than doubled in number over the last year to its current staff strength of 15 with a small office in New York handling marketing for the US and Canada.

Recognised by Infocomm Development Authority Of Singapore, TYLER won the merit award for most innovative product award at the National Infocomm Awards 2008.

The company aims to be a World leader in social gaming.

• SMU SIS student and accidental entrepreneur Leonard LIN feels more like a full-time businessman and part-time student. See his video interview.
• Tyler Projects is the first business venture supported by the SMU Business Innovations Generator to receive funding under SPRING's Entrepreneurial Talent Development Fund programme.
• Published in TODAY, 14 May 2005
  SIS student Leonard LIN provides technology solution for the SMU team that wins the Asurion Young Entprepreneurs Challenge 2005.
• SIS student Leonard LIN (pioneer cohort, batch 2003) and his company Tyler Products is nominated for the Spirit of Enterprise Award, 07 Sep 2006.