Singapore Entrepreneurs

Ever spent weeks investing time into building a relationship that is bordering on the lines of friendship with a potential business partner/client in hopes of securing a deal? Only to have it fall through somehow leaving you feeling drained? Resident contributor, Brain Ling aka Design Translator, here talks about identifying decision makers and how to get to them. [ Read More ]

Someone made this comment that out of every ten businesses, there will be one overwhelming success, three surviving but on the edge and the other six will fail. It is important to know why businesses fail. The factors which made it fail are not often external circumstances but internal implosion, for example, bad business practices, corruption and lack of vision. Our resident contributor, Brian Ling aka Design Translator will explain to you why there are more factors to create an enterprise with value than just having a product that may seem good but did not turn out to be a hitter. [ Read More ]

As our resident contributor, DT, learns…never forget even the most mundane! Here, he shares with us the not-so-cheery side of his iPoor t-shirt business - the part that most entrepreneurs dread: the actual logistics! [ Read More ]

Creating a wonderful product based on a novel idea and which now sells like hotcakes has to have some sort of management system with which the products are sold. Following the success of his iPoor t-shirts, DT here addresses a small but important issue for ecommerce - how he makes the best of PayPal, and what you can learn from it. [ Read More ]

You have heard of a quick and dirty way of branding yourself from our resident contributor, Brian Ling aka Design Translator. In the first article, he first discussed the necessity and the know-hows to brand yourself in our competitive world. In this sequel, he proposes a quickier and dirtier strategy to brand yourself with a web 2.0 feel on your company logos. [ Read More ]

When the word “brand” is mentioned, companies or objects usually feature as key examples. Easy ones like Apple, Coca-Cola, Audi spring easily to mind. But how about personalities? Yes, an individual is a brand too. Our resident contributor, Brian Ling aka Design Translator here brings us through his process of creating his very own logo and how we might be able to do the same. [ Read More ]

Continuing from our resident contributor, Design Translator’s earlier post on “The Art of the Very Small Start”, he will finally unveil his cards and tell us about the new venture that sprang off from a blog entry. Of course, if you have guessed it right by now, DT is sharing with us his journey in how to make the IPoor t-shirt product, from dream to reality. [ Read More ]

What is a mini-preneur? Our resident contributor, Design Translator has recently embarked on a small entrepreneurial project. To recount his story and make the dots connect, he will start with a small lesson with a web 2.0 marketing plan. Also check out the sidebar to see what his new mini-startup is about. [ Read More ]

Yes, Singapore is the 2nd easiest place in the world to do business based on a World Bank Report. Our design-savvy Design Translator will give you a primer in how to start a business in Singapore in less than a few paragraphs. [ Read More ]

What do you do when the best talents in your team are leaving your company? Our resident contributor, Brian Ling aka Design Translator, gives us his perspective in keeping talents for his industry and recommends that we should adopt the free market approach and let them go. [ Read More ]