CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Eugene Seah, Resource For Leaders Eugene Is A Valuable Resource For Leaders and Their Teams What’s your story? On 14 Nov 2013, I was retrenched from a high-paying banking job. It was very painful as I was the sole breadwinner in a family of 5. For the next 12 months, I looked for a job but did not find a […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Kelvin Teo – Co-Founder and Group CEO of Funding Societies Kelvin Is Funding Societies In Southeast Asia What’s your story?I feel fortunate to have grown up in the small town of Senai in Malaysia. I moved to Singapore at age 15 on the ASEAN scholarship and spent a year at UPenn on the NOC entrepreneurship program, then graduated as valedictorian at NUS, before serving as […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Rob Chong – CEO of RADX Rob Chong’s passion for technology led him to found a company focusing on AR and VR in anticipation of the changes coming to society. What’s your story? As the founder of a tech company, I am not a developer. I have been in multiple industries, from an aircraft engineer in the Singapore Airforce to leading sales […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK ENTREPRENEURSHIP The Rise Of Jio Google is in negotiations to invest $4 billion in Jio Platforms, an Indian digital conglomerate spun off from a huge multinational company, Reliance Industries, led by Mukesh Ambani, the richest man in Asia, with an estimated fortune of $71.4 billion. Google’s projected investment would be part of the more than $15.2 billion the company has raised in the last nine weeks, with participation […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Eric Tan, Founder & CEO of Sharent Eric Is A Key Player In The Sharing And Rental Ecosystem What’s your story?When I started Sharent, in Singapore, many told me the business model would not work. Traction was slow in the beginning. We started with the idea of C2C and B2C rental to reduce overconsumption and waste. But we pivoted to B2B and […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS STARTUPS Clement Fan, Chief Executive Officer at AllForU Clement Created a Novel Platform to Connect Businesses to Millennials What’s your story?I am the founder of AllForU and also an undergraduate majoring in Biological Sciences at NTU. My company, AllForU, is a platform that connects student clubs with corporate sponsors. Starting AllForU was an accidental journey that began in 2015 as a hobby. We […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS STRATEGY TECHNOLOGY Learning about Asia’s FinTech Boom After reading Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built with a friend, we decided to get together for a discussion with the old #StartupCoffeeKL group to go over some of our learnings. For me, the biggest takeaway was the impact Alibaba was having on the financial world. As Mary Meeker points out in the 2018 Internet Trends report, eCommerce is […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Jane Peh, Co-Founder of The Woof Agency Meet Asia’s First, Pets Only, Influencer Advertising Agency – Woof! What’s your story?My background was in advertising. Fast forward, I left after 3 years feeling burnt out, depressed and tired. I was at a point where I was feeling really lost and often turned to pet accounts on Instagram as my happy pills. I became […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Steven Heng, Managing Director of VOXSmart Steven Heng is doing what he set out to do, represent a business in the APAC region. He is the Managing Director of VoxSmart and is expanding its global presence with a regional office in Singapore. What’s your story? After leaving the Financial sector (10 over years with BGC partners and Royal Bank of Scotland), […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Janson Chan, CEO of Aggree Janson Chan believes in the importance of agriculture for self-sustenance which is why he left his job at a bank to pursue a life of an agropreneur in the agriculture industry. What’s your story?Food safety and security are growing issues globally, and according to the United Nations (UN), by 2050 with the world population is […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Tracy Lamourie – Founder of Managing Director Lamourie Media This article was originally published here: Tracy Lamourie – Founder of Managing Director Lamourie Media Campaigning for causes she believes in has given Tracy Lamourie skills she now shares with others to help them be heard. What’s your story? I am a high profile international award winning publicist, the Founder and Managing Director of Lamourie […] Written by Callum Laing June 16, 2021June 16, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Relationship Economy Terry Mollner — whose Calvert Impact Capital funds are the world’s largest, at $9 billion (or $12 billion, depending on what source you cite) — is one of the great pioneers of a new economy based on meaningful relationshipsand the common good — a conceptual framework that is increasingly called ‘Game B’ these days, as an alternative to the prevailing […] Written by Anthony Fieldman June 15, 2021June 15, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Theoretical Perspectives On Culture Music, fashion, technology, and values—all are products of culture. But what do they mean? How do sociologists perceive and interpret culture based on these material and nonmaterial items? Let’s finish our analysis of culture by reviewing them in the context of three theoretical perspectives: functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. Functionalists view society as a […] Written by Lumen Learning June 3, 2021June 3, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Identity Play Or Meme? A friend of mine made me aware of a Facebook group called: a group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony. According to the group’s ‘About’ section, the members are ants, “worship The Queen and do ant stuff. ” Founded in June 2019, the group began to receive mainstream publicity after a viral tweet and has now over 1.9 […] Written by We, Our, Iphones And Us June 3, 2021June 3, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The End Of Internet Explorer & The Future Of Microsoft As a user first of Mosaic and then of Netscape, I was not alone in seeing the arrival of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer back in 1995 as an attempt by a company that had completely underestimated the importance of the internet, that had seen the emergence of the Netscape phenomenon, to use the dirty trick of bundling it into the operating […] Written by Enrique Dans May 31, 2021May 31, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How China Is Transforming Its Economy Through Learning I highly recommend reading the McKinsey Global Institute’s new report, “Reskilling China: Transforming The World’s Largest Workforce Into Lifelong Learners”, which focuses on the country’s biggest employment challenge, re-training its workforce and the adoption of practices such as lifelong learning to address the growing digital transformation of its productive fabric. How to transform the country […] Written by Enrique Dans February 1, 2021February 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Why You’re Not Seeing Success With Influencer Marketing With the new year around the corner, now is a good time to re-evaluate your past marketing strategies and gear up for the year ahead. For some businesses, influencer marketing has simply not seemed to live up to its lofty promises of genuine engagement, credibility, and transparency. Some have claimed that it has been failing […] Written by Michael Tan January 14, 2021January 15, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A New Philosophy of Business I’m about to ask you to take a mental leap. For the next 8 minutes, suspend your notions of what a business is, and I’ll propose a new lens for you to look through. There are a lot of questions asked around what “community” means for business. “Where should community fit in my organization?” and […] Written by Empirics Asia September 5, 2018September 5, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
