Update 1: Oops sorry forgot to add. The Industrial Design 101 series are about my adventures of designing, creating, hacking and remodding my own brand of Cool Mp3 players. I'm not a marketing expert here but when ever I consider a new design I...
Update: If you have not read, do take a look at Part 1: Industrial Design 101 to get a bearing on what I'm trying to do here. Update2: Posted the images of the new iPod nano and shuffle. The benchmark to beat: Damn, I had thoughts along...
Sure! Aim high as they say. Its nice to have a dreams don't you think? Well I am sure the Apple fan boys are preparing their ammo, but I must say I wont guarantee our final design will be an iPod killer, but what...
Really this should have been the Art of the Small Start Part 3, but I figured this title was punchier. In the last discussion, Part 1 and Part 2, we talked about the critical aspects of People, Product, Pricing, Promotion and Place (Distribution) as part of...
Recently I have been exploring the highs and lows of Paypal.com while managing payments for my iPoor T-shirts. It's not the world's most perfect banking system, but in my opinion its a great online banking system that allows transactions to anyone or anywhere with...
Just an update that we will be shipping the iPoor T-shirts to all customers by the middle of next week! So your wait is almost over! Sorry for the lack of posts, I'm currently in Hong Kong for a quick holiday. Furthermore in the last couple...
Yep we are back in stock! But thanks to my wonderful supporters we are actually 60% SOLD. Also the hot favourite Black XL is already sold out! Click on the image for ordering information. Please do allow for 4-6 weeks for shipping and...
Wow, my iPoor T-Shirt is on Engadget! Well unfortunatly its only the chinese version but hey its still Engadget! As my Chinese is pretty bad, fellow BL blogger did a quick translation for me: They say that it's looks cool and fashionable, for those who don't want to...
So from Part 1 we really get a gist of the direction of where digital businesses are moving. If we use Crowdsourcing, which is a way to generate ideas and source for labor, and The Long Tail Effect which tells us that people buy niche products...
Updated: New links added and my usual poor grammar corrected. A Web 2.0 marketing plan focusing on real tangible products, really only made possible for our discussion today because of the pipeline pathway open by the Internet. The Internet is amazing in a sense that...
This supports what I have been saying for ages. Singapore is one of the easiest places in the world to do business! This list, was from the World Bank's published report called Doing Business in 2006: Creating Jobs. These are the top thirty economies based on...
I'm running around like a little girl with excitement! I have for you fresh off the printing press iPoor T-Shirts modeled by yours truly and my lovely wife. You now can get a chance to have a look at the T-Shirt sizes on...
UPDATE: Shipping to Singapore is now a low USD$1.50 per T-Shirt. Thats right people we now taking pre-orders! Design Sojourn will be doing a limited run of 50 White and 50 Black iPoor T-shirts. Furthermore due to some manufacturing cost savings the tasty iPoor...
Just a quick update and to let all of you know that I'm back to blogging! I've got about 60% of my little iPoor project done. I've got the design worked out and the website up. I'm now finalising my order with the vendor...
Finally, I'm back to this last installment of this series. Phew! Took awhile, more than 6 months, but I finally got all my thoughts organized. Just in case do check out Part 1 and Part 2 first. In summary, the last two installments talked...
Now for a nice change of pace, occasionally I get a flash of something that inspires me to take of an everyday product and re-design it with a twist. I had intended for it to become one of my first few simple easy to...
About 2 weeks ago I wrote about how I managed to "cross the threshold" and become a social entrepreneur. With the urgings of my fellow comrades at SG Entrepreneurs, I've decided to blog my experiences during my 3rd go at entrepreneurship. Strangely this...
Business plan competitions have been pretty big recently. I like to congratulate the winners and this post is in no way demeaning their hard work and excellent ideas. That being said I am pretty skeptical about such business plan competitions, entrepreneurship grants, and...
I have been thinking about this for a bit. For a long time actually. So finally I've decided to "Come out" on the internet. Ah No. I'm not gay. Heh-Heh! But it's more coming out of the closet of anonymity, actually posting a real picture...