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May 18th, 2006 by admin

Founders

Bernard Leong, Manager and Editor

BL

BL is now working full time as the Chief Operating Officer of Senatus Pte Ltd. Otherwise, he is spending the rest of his leisure time to search and mentor new start-ups in the interactive digital media space via Thymos Capital. He looks forward to work and find opportunities with the community of entrepreneurs, investors and industry players in Singapore.

Gwendolyn Tan, Editor

Currently at Thymos Capital, Gwen helps incubate and fund digital media startups. Conversant in Mandarin, French and Spanish, she enjoys dance and extreme sports.

Javier Lai Weichang, Business Development Director

weichang

Armed with the experience of tossing snowballs in Europe during his Polytechnic exchange programme at ESIEE (Paris), Lai founded his first company (PINKCUBE) at the turn of the millennium in his mind when he was in his late teens. However, he only formalized it 2 months after he was diagnosed with cancer in 2004. The illness was so serious then that no one even dared to ask for a prognosis. Knowing that he had nothing to lose, Lai tried and failed many times in his entrepreneurship endeavors during his chemotherapy and radiotherapy sessions. But he never gave up, and with the help of his partners, he founded one of the biggest tuition agencies in Singapore - ManyTutors.com. His interest for business does not stop here though, and Lai is currently managing numerous businesses including retail outlets, Umbrella Box Umbrella Vending Machines and Internet projects to build the next Google.

Brian Ling aka Design Translator (DT), brand & design strategist

The Design Translator (D.T.) currently lurks in Singapore and Sydney. During the day D.T. is a design manager in a consumer electronics company. At night, he blogs, changes his son’s diaper, dabbles in design-entrepreneurship, practices investing, and swings from building to building righting wrongs. Actually smarter than he looks and unknowns to many, DT’s design work has been recognised by his peers with 2 Red-Dot awards, 2 CES innovations honorees, a PIKOM Product of the year, and a Merit Young Professional Designer Award. Also he has more than 30 design patents, as well as had many of his designs featured in Gizmondo, Engadget US, Engadget China, The Peak Magazine and soon to be in Wired Magazine. He runs the popular Design and Entrepreneurship blog called Design Sojourn (Technorati rank of under 8,000) and is an occasional expert in Strategic Industrial Design Strategy.

Contributors

SG Entrepreneurs is proud to have a strong and talented team of contributors to help us to deliver their experiences and insights in entrepreneurship, innovation, technology and venture capital to our readers.

Guest Contributors

We are proud to have them to join us on our team of contributors. If anyone of you are interested in joining this team of dynamic and entrepreneurial bloggers, please let us know or contact us at editor(AT)sgentrepreneurs.com. The founders reserve the right to invite new contributors onto our editorial board.

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5 Responses to “Team”

  1. on 01 Nov 2006 at 1:00 am   Harold

    hmmm…
    Dunno why… dunno how, i happened to bump into yr site, I guess… somehow or other there was this link in one of my tabs for SGBlog directory, so curious as a squirrel, i clicked and here i am. Quite impressive, I must say, the achievements and experience of yr Team members! And challenging too!

    For me, i’m jus an entrepreneur wannabe / newbe / and all-the-bees in this realm of so-called “new-media”!
    Altho’ you can say that i’ve been a user for … let’s jus say a couple of few years now.

    I would like to be kept updated of yr actvs tho’, cuz it seems i have lotz to learn from each one of you… errr rubbing shoulders if you like. Hoping some inspirational dust will settle down and perhaps puff d’ dragon will appear to take me away to where some of you have gone. Here i go again,,, blabbering… so, how?

    I’m one of many and varied “virtual” interests, so life can get a little “challenging”.

    Blue skies, always!

  2. on 03 Jan 2007 at 10:05 pm   Alvin Tan

    Hi all,

    I have been following sgentrepreneurs.com for some time and am very glad there is an active blog to dispense knowledge and experience and enlighten all already and budding entrepreneurs.

    A little about my background, currently my brother and I have created a niche concept personal care product which after market survey and in use test survey have shown it has plenty of market potential, we have been using our family’s combined resources(i.e. savings…) to do most of the R&D, patent filing, design and company set up. Currently all R&D and design work are done for the product and we are in talks with a local distributor.

    Again we are very green at starting our own business and I would like to seek the team’s advice on new product launch strategies, A&P and more importantly distributorship selection and what are the things to look out for when dealing with a distributor.(i.e., margins, contract agreements, promotions, controls…etc)

    What networking events and sessions do you all go to? Can we join you to do some networking?

    Many thanks to you guys who relentlessly provide support and guidance to budding entrepreneurs.

    Looking forward to your reply.

    Rgds,
    Alvin Tan
    +6598768998
    alvintanhk@hotmail.com
    Essential Wellness Pte Ltd

  3. on 10 Jan 2007 at 10:49 pm   YJ

    Been very curious all these while on how do people earn by simply coming up with a blog or website. As we know, many sell items online and some earn revenue through online ads. So what’s you business model like for SG Entrepreneurs?

  4. on 11 Jan 2007 at 11:21 am   WeiChang

    We are a business incubator, providing seed funding and mentorship to IDM startups in exchange for a very small equity.

  5. on 11 Jan 2007 at 4:42 pm   Steve Seah

    There is a television show called ‘So You Think You Can Dance”. So the titled of my comment could be ‘So You Think You Can Be An Entrepreneur”. I’m being reading this blog lately and come back here very often. We heard intrapreneur and young-entrepreneur. Have you heard about ‘grey-hair-entrepreneur, mini-preneur, parttime-preneur, netpreneur, and perhaps blog-preneur?
    Come and see my blog
    http://entrepreneur-2b.blogspot.com/2007/01/why-do-you-want-to-be-entrepreneur.html

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