This is a save the date notice for all aspiring entrepreneurs and investors out there. Finally, the 8th Start-Up@Singapore will begin on 26th October 2006, 11 am to 1 pm in Hon Sui Sen Auditorium, NUS Business School. The Guest of Honour is Mr Lee Yi Shyan, Minister of State for Trade and Industry and Chairman of ACE. Details on registering for the event (it’s free) can be found in this post. Read more
From 30 Oct 2006 to 2 Nov 2006, the Global Entrepolis@Singapore (GES) 2006 will be held in Suntec Singapore International Exhibition and Convention Centre. For those who need to seek out business angels investors, here is a business angel investment forum which might be of interest to most entrepreneurs. Read more
Whether you like it or not, if you are an entrepreneur, you are definitely promised with the situation of working in very difficult and painful situations. Even the best of teams may not survive a crisis. Our resident contributor, Wannapreneur, gives us his perspective of working in tough times. Read more
So SG Entrepreneurs had our 3rd pub gathering and a total of 14 people turned up.
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The 8th Start-Up@Singapore is about to be launched. The theme for this year is “For Entrepreneurs, By Entrepreneurs”. The entrepreneurial student organizers from NUS Entrepreneurship Society are now in the midst of their Grand Launch preparation. We managed to squeeze out time with the three student lead organizers, Lee Jiaxing, Chin Kaiying (also president of NUS Entrepreneurship Society) and Felix Matthew for an interview to talk about their experience in organizing the competition with a total team of 50 students, the outreach of the competition that extend to the other institutes of higher learning (NTU, SMU and the polytechnics), their global aspirations and some information about the upcoming Grand Launch in October. Read more
The Beijing Olympics 2008 is coming and it presents a lot of marketing opportunities for the Chinese entrepreneurs. Kenneth Wong, our resident contributor in Shanghai, shares on the general traits of the marketing strategies for Chinese companies on this upcoming event. He will relate how Singaporeans should attempt to create business opportunities such as the coming of the Integrated Resorts in Singapore. Read more
We refer to “Battling misconceptions” by Mira Kashinath in Today Online, Sep 27 2006 (Wednesday). The article discusses about the problems of image for multi-layer marketing and how the industry is not picking up in Singapore. We also provide a short commentary for this article. Read more
What is the price for pursuing a dream? In any entrepreneurial pursuit, an entrepreneur needs both passion and the tenacity to execute that dream. Saying is often one thing and doing is another. Most people gave up without putting up a good fight. The editors of SG Entrepreneurs highly recommend this article by our resident contributor, Cobalt Paladin that no one owes you a dream and living and it is up to the individual to pursue it. A foreword is also added to this published article from his blog. Read more
The 8th Start-Up@Singapore, our national fully student-run business plan competition will be kicking off officially in a few weeks time. SG Entrepreneurs is proud to announce that we are the official blog for the competition. If you are a young and budding entrepreneur, with the dream to create a sustainable & business enterprise, this is where you should begin your journey, as the theme for 8th Start-Up@Singapore this year is For Entrepreneurs, By Entrepreneurs. We have a glimpse here on the competition and also share with you some highlights (including video) last year. Read more
You have read my earlier quick tips on networking part I and II, you will realize that there are common principles that you can draw on. I have reduced them down to three simple principles which you can identify with if you need a framework to improve your networking. Read more
