Whether you are going to join a company as an employee or build a company, you are a startup in your own way. Everyone typically asks me, "Why are you an entrepreneur?", "Why do you move from research to business?", "How do you manage failure if things do not work out?" and "What have you learned from your startups and investments?". To make this talk simple, I share a few lessons particular managing failure in my own journey till now, and some lessons in working with people within the Southeast Asia entrepreneurial ecosystem. The talk is delivered on 19 Nov 2013 for RIE event @ Nanyang Polytechnic.
5. Keep it Simple & Sweet
Why are you an entrepreneur?
Why have you moved from here to there?
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6. Keep it Simple & Sweet
Why are you an entrepreneur?
Why have you moved from here to there?
How do you manage failure if things do not
work out?
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7. Keep it Simple & Sweet
Why are you an entrepreneur?
Why have you moved from here to there?
How do you manage failure if things do not
work out?
What have you learned from your startups &
investments?
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10. “All humans beings are entrepreneurs. When
we were in the caves, we were all self employed ...
finding our food, feeding ourselves.”
- Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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14. I want my job to be something I love and want
to do everyday but it means that you have
to decide your own fate & not what your family
wants you to do.
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