‘Entrepreneurs’ Archives
10 Things They Don’t Tell You In Business School
Listen up, budding Masters Of The Universe, and all those who dream of walking their path to wealth, power and spacious summer homes. At many business schools, boot-camp week–where the unwashed get a taste of debits, credits and such–starts [...]
10 Top Reasons Why First-Time Entrepreneurs Fail
"For entrepreneurs -- especially those just starting out -- businesses succeed as much as they fail. I’ve seen this time and again as a mentor and entrepreneur. But statistics also suggest that the failure rate for new startups within [...]
From eBay to $2.6 million in three meteoric years
From eBay to $2.6m in three meteoric years January 12, 2012 The Sydney Morning Herald In the first instalment of our new weekly series, Entrepreneur Secrets, Marcella Bidinost speaks to Wai Hong Fong, an astonishingly successful entrepreneur [...]
6 Reasons Why People Are Afraid to Start a Business
Posted: 19 Jun 2010 07:50 PM PDT Written by Gary Gon Starting a new business can be a turbulent undertaking. For one thing, there are no guarantees of success. Businesses fail every single day, and plenty of entrepreneurs come away with [...]
7 Deadly Sins of Creativity
November 27th, 2011 @ 1:48 pm by: Marc Creativity is not just for artists and poets. Everybody has the potential to exercise their creative mind – to innovate new ways of accomplishing things that will ultimately make life easier and more [...]
Polytechnic graduate surviving on S$300/month to fulfill entrepreneurial dream
HI Gilbert, Its nice to read your site. Been here a couple of times. Let me share my entrepreneurial story here with your readers. I am just a polytechnic diploma holder with a starting salary of SGD $900. After 6 years (2008) I landed [...]
Doing Business in Singapore vs Malaysia
Doing Business in Singapore vs Malaysia Today, there are numerous opportunities for entrepreneurs to setup a business in different countries. In an ever evolving business landscape, going global seems to have become the order of the day. [...]
Report on Third Entrepreneurial Event At Chatters Cafe
The third entpreneurial event took off slightly late at 3.15pm yesterday as a small crowd of 20 participants braved the afternoon heat to be at Chatters cafe. Chatters cafe - a avart-gande social enterprise - runs by the affable Helen Lim, has [...]
Tim Ferriss – 7 Myths of Entrepreneurship and Programming
For the last two years, one name has come up again and again when talking with A-class start-up investors: Pivotal Labs. See, Pivotal Labs quietly helps dozens of the fastest-growing tech companies in the world, including freight trains like [...]
2nd Networking Session on Entrepreneurship on 15 April (Fri)
PS: My gilbert@transitioning.org is down currently, plese email me at goh_gilbert@yahoo.com. Sorry for the inconveniences - Gilbert Dear Friends in Transition, We will be conducting our 2nd networking session on entrepreneurship this coming [...]
Generation Z will revolutionize education
My kids are Generation Z, born between 1995 and 2010. And I wonder: what can we see in those kids now that can tell us what they'll be like later, at work? As a history student in college (history of political thought, for all you fans of the [...]
10 Entrepreneurship Rules for Building Massive Companies
Posted: 22 Mar 2011 11:59 PM PDT Written by Reid Hoffman Last week I gave a talk at South by Southwest, and in it I shared my top ten rules for entrepreneurship. They are borne from my experiences starting companies and partnering with great [...]
Now Showing: An Entrepreneur’s Journey Into The Real Time Web
March 6, 2011 by Joyce HUANG Meet Tan Siok Siok – Singaporean filmmaker and entrepreneur who has a deep passion for great storytelling in the age of real time web. Siok’s journey with the rise of social media is one peppered with adventure, [...]
Made-in-Singapore Entrepreneurs
uy Kawasaki, entrepreneur extraordinaire, famous for his role in making the Macintosh computer a cult-like worldwide phenomenon, visited Singapore recently as a speaker and a judge at the Stanford Global Entrepreneurs Challenge held in Singapore. [...]
A Singaporean’s Perspective on Entrepreneurship
This comment appears under the article Made-In-Singapore Entrepreneurs Marvin says: January 14, 2011 at 5:46 pm A very good article. The true entrepreneurs are those who are successful, straight to the point and yet humble in their [...]
