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2 weeks in China ^.^

The OSM was an eye-opening experience that I would not trade for anything, despite my gripes about the cold freezing weather, the overly oily food and the horribly smoky restaurants. Well, that made me appreciate Singapore so much more, at least! :0)
The company visits we made to the various start-ups and establishments were really enriching. [...]

Nick Yang

Life principles from a successful CEO

There is a Chinese saying, “When three people are travelling together, there must be a teacher for me”. This occurred when the iLEADers and I visited Nick Yang, CEO of 牾空 Monkey King Search on the 11 December 2009. Nick Yang recently started his third venture in mobile search engine, targeted towards the 155 [...]

A first look at the medical device industry with Jeff Gold

For the first two days of our SV programme, we covered cleantech-related companies and entrepreneurs as well as venture capitalists, but none of them piqued my interest as much as today’s session with Jeff Gold, a venture partner at Longitude Capital, which focuses on medical device companies. Being a bioengineer-in-training and having the ambition of [...]

Entrepreneurs are born to be? Trained to be? Or….

This is a very common question people usually ask, at least for me, I have been thinking about it in my little head for hundreds of times.Since I was a little girl, my first dream of my professional career is to be a teacher, because teachers never need to hand in homework. Then the second [...]

A fruitful day

While today’s IDEO trip and Mike’s talk are inspiring and exciting, I’d like to start with the more challenging technological and engineering company - NanoSolar, another Clean Tech company.

Whereas all of us feel that the sharing session is quite technical, the fact that clean tech industry is booming cannot be escaped, and we have to [...]