It was Day 3 of Company visits in Beijing and our very first with an Investor on this Overseas Study Mission trip; and what better place to have that than in Tsinghua University – commonly known as one of the top Universities in China. I was extremely gladdened by the fact that we were finally [...]

We have been exposed to a lot of successful entrepreneurs these days, I don’t know how these intelligent people do their reflection, but some of the points they made are really worth thinking. Basically, I feel that I learnt more from speakers’ sharing sessions than visits to established companies. We visited Cisco today, and experienced [...]

Wahh, what a day filled with sharings of wisdom by so many intelligent, experienced and successful entrepreneurs and VCs! And I think the most important thing for us is to remember as many as golden rules as possible, and apply them in our future entrepreneurship career path. But the major lesson for me is the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I was not very impress with ****** air flights…there was an air steward that was very rude. i asked him for extra immigration forms on board the plane and he replied: “can you please wait” in a very irritated tone..argh…what happened to their services? I asked for water and they forget too…argh…

It was really off [...]

We iLeaders visited Stanford on the first day. We toured the campus, shopped for Stanford merchandises and had the same food as Stanford students. Following that we had a lecture on the ecosystem at Silicon Valley and had the opportunity to learn from 3 entrepreneurs. I especially enjoyed the presentation by Laina Greene and Annamaria [...]