Being creative and innovative may be easier said than done. While it would appear that entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and the creators of Google are blessed with an analytical, innovative and creative mind, it probably took years of research, training and exposure to develop their creativity and innovation that later led them to create successful companies. I feel ... Read More »
A viral video caught our eye yesterday. Nike launched the FuelBand a while back; it is a band that you wear on your wrist that studies your activity level throughout the day. Monitoring the steps you take and the calories you burn, helping you to keep to your goals. The video is about this filmaker who blows Nike’s advertising budget ... Read More »
Photography is a hobby of mine for the past couple of years and I have been focusing on glamour and fashion portraiture for over a year. There is a lot of coordination needed when you need to do a shoot. You need to coordinate with everyone to : Book a studio Get the models Arrange for a Make Up Artist ... Read More »
Last week we spoke about MakerBots 3D printers and how it can be brought to your homes so that people can experiment and play with it, coming up with new ideas and innovations along the way. There was a vision I had with this. I envisioned of having an open lab, where people could come in and use the facilities ... Read More »
I read about MakerBot in 2010 and I was very fascinated, because 3D printers were really expensive. Why the interest in 3D printing? Well, I have many ideas in my head and a lot of them require some kind of fabrication for some new parts. So either you get access to a 3D printing machine (which are expensive, around $100,000++) ... Read More »
I came across this advertisement on Wednesday night. It was for Dollarshaveclub.com, and it was hilarious. After watching it and looking up the company, I started to realize that the company has some potential. You can watch their advert on their website (http://www.dollarshaveclub.com/), It cost around $4,500 to make and with over 1.6 million views it has gone viral in 3 ... Read More »
Starting a business and running it is very hard work. There is a lot to understand, a lot to research and things to prepare for. If you think the business will run by itself and do well, then you are very wrong. Contrary to what it may seem, big and successful entrepreneurs are very involved in their businesses, even when ... Read More »
I returned to Temasek Polytechnic yesterday to look at the final year projects of the students from the Business Information Technology Course. 9 years ago, I was one of those students. It was great to see young and fresh faces, eager to show their projects and it was nice to see that they had a vision of where they could ... Read More »
We did a project last year on ‘Management and Mitigation of risk’ and as we studied different areas, my group decided to focus on Entrepreneurship, where taking risks has to be second nature. We started by looking at a few entrepreneurs who failed and analyzing their failure. As we dug deeper, we realized that many entrepreneurs fail because they do ... Read More »
Looking back at this week, we started going deeper into building ourselves as entrepreneurs. On Tuesday, we looked into the 10 Traits of an Entrepreneur. Studying the characters and the inner workings of entrepreneurs. We got insights into how entrepreneurs work and also started to discuss how to build these traits further in the EntreCity Classroom. On Wednesday, we began ... Read More »
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