Mea maxima culpa! I recently made a comment on an article I read on SGEntrepreneurs (Singapore Entrepreneurs), ‘Young Singaporean Entrepreneurs are not Pop Idols’. It was a tongue in cheek critic about Business Week’s list of Asia’s Best Young Entr…

loved your comment. got a blog anywhere else or something?

Moreover, with so many business graduates nowsaday, investment bank has no lack of candidates, and only a few top one will be selected, the rest of the majority can be considered commodity and get a low-pay job instead. Moveover, one still have increasingly number of FT to compete with in the job market.

That said, I don’t believe your role in life is bound by the discipline you studied. Its the appreciation, respect and finally passion for technology that matters. Sadly, most of the college-trained engineers in our nation lack perhaps most, if not all, of these traits. And this process of learning to appreciate, respect and eventually grow to love technology has to stem from youth so that the future generations do not get affected by a media that seeks to glorify short-term trends to attract short-lived attention spans.

For those that read this comment, I hope we all contribute, or at least not hinder, the building of a culture that celebrates technologists aka geeks. Our lack of such a culture is the reason why so many jump on the IB bandwagon to earn quick and easy bucks. And if you work in the media, try to persuade, coerce, manipulate the sub-editors and editors to open their eyes and give more baanced views of promising careers beyond IB.

With ppl getting more materialistic and going for short-cut to make money, it is much easier to do so by finding business opportunity than do technology work. I used to attend various IT/web seminars in Singapore. All the networking I have is about getting business to promote and market on one’s product, nowhere is there talk about creating the next big thing by themselves.

Therefore, the smartest technologist will be someone who create the product and seek business himself especially doing software innovation rather than pass back to third-party business-man which tend to reap the benefits more than technologist. Technologist need to be astute to know that he has upperhand here in Singapore when he create a product, not business-man since there are tons of business-man here, but little technologist.

I have to agree that the local technologists have declined greatly here, and this is definitely not a good sign of a prosperous and advanced country. Could this be lack of passion ? Probably, and most important the lack of sacrifice , persistence and delay gratification.

Business-man can forget about outsourcing technology to third-party to create next big thing. Outsourcing only work if one have existing product to improve. But if one really want to do innovation thing, one should be technologist doing and engaging the work.

Google is successful is because technology remain the most important rather than business.

great article. i think the overall factor here is how u define an entrepreneur. i often ignore such polls as they often dont display their rating formula therefore the results could be skewed towards as what u say the lime light.

also in many situations and many professions the hits are a lot less than the misses. Thus to build a sucessful group of entrepreneurd one needs to build a critical mass of people wiling to try.