The best advice I can give is really to just take it easy in our first few jobs. Most of us don’t end end up being the lucky few who hit the career jackpot and retire in the same company as the one they first joined. Also, you’ll be in for a rude shock when you realise amost nothing you learnt in university is applicable or that useful at work, and also that your “dream” job feels quite like one of the nightmares you only read/hear about. Continue reading
I know everyone has different philosophies when it comes to running a business, or what kind of employee they want to be. I can go on for at least 100,000 words on the things I don’t agree with, but in the essence of time, here are just three that I really don’t get when it comes to the work place, with a focus on startups. Continue reading
Note: This article is originally published on the Carousell blog. Thanks to Carousell for the amazing opportunity! So now you have curated a marketplace you can be proud of. After some time of browsing what other Carousellers have to offer, and checking back on your own page only to see “0 Listings”, you are now thinking … Continue reading
Echelon is Asia’s largest tech conference organized by tech media and events platform e27. If you didn’t join us last year, Echelon 2013 was one of the region’s largest tech and business events held over two days in Singapore to celebrate Southeast Asia’s emerging technology industry. It features 50 of the region’s most promising startups, … Continue reading
“What Sept. 11 had done is wreak havoc on many different industries in the country, and I always think that in chaos there’s innovation. So I wanted to find the most chaotic industry out there, because I felt I would learn a huge amount. There would be a lot of change and transformation.” – Jennifer … Continue reading
Everyone’s an entrepreneur nowadays. With the rise of e-commerce businesses spreading like wildfire since the hay days of Amazon and eBay made their rounds, it’s easier than ever to own a business of your own. In fact, what used to be an occupation reserved for the elite in our society now seems to be a … Continue reading
Note: Article originally published on Poached Mag. In the good old days – our parents’ generation, people had careers that lasted them a lifetime, or 30 years at the very least. You could be a doctor from the day you were done with med school, and you die being one. Your dad might have told … Continue reading
Note: Article originally published on Poached Mag. In recent years, the term “entrepreneur” has made its appearance more and more often. Most of the time, it pops up in a glamorous context, in success stories where you hear of guys in their early 20s making their first million, or raising $XX amount of investment capital. … Continue reading
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