Ecosystem

Post date: May 10, 2013 6:22:48 PM

I have always wanted to create an ecosystem among the students that wanted to embrace entrepreneurship as their lifestyle. Yet, I'm mindful that once the course ended, everyone will be busy over their other priorities and might loss touch with the network built during the course. These network would have long implication far beyond the course. Previously, I used the TIPA's Google app account for MiE. The domain tipa.org.sg has its constrain as it is the domain owned by TIP Alumni Association but administered by me. In order to ensure I can build an ecosystem I need to give everyone under this ecosystem a permanent account that they can have it for life. It will be a bonus if this account comes with an email with a domain that people would like to identify themselves with. After many years of thinking and exploring, I finally have the chance to do it. What I have done is to registered NTUentrepreneur.org and managed to convince Google that this is an educational account (finally Google allowed education account outside the US). With this I'll be able to give as many email accounts as I like and each comes with the same privilege as paid business account (with 25G of Gmail storage). The domain also can make sure of all the advance tool that is only available for business account that tipa.org.sg does not enjoy.

Now, my biggest headache is the slowly migrate all the content done under tipa.org.sg to NTUentrepreneur.org. It will be very time consuming but I believe that it will be worth it.