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The Future

When we see an innovation, most of the time we are late to explore the technology.
However, recently I stumbled upon something on the web that define the next generation of technology.
Watch this video below:
The Sixth Sense
This video was made during one of TED convention for world renowned scientist, inventor and scholars.
This technology will make iPhone, [...]

XinGeng - Installing pride and dignity to the less fortunate in the society

XinGeng was iLEAD’s Shanghai first company visit. The visit to the workshop, the stories of XinGeng and the founder, would be remembered as one of the most enriching and meaningful visit for most of the iLEADers.
Story
The story of Xin Geng began when a Singaporean business man, Vincent Chu, was having lunch with [...]

Business with a Purpose

The long awaited visit to Shokay finally arrived today, 17 December 2009. I was among the 21 aspiring entrepreneurs from NUS iLEAD program to visit the retail outlet in Shanghai located at Tian Zi Fang, a alley rich in history and culture.

Once we stepped into the alley, I was overwhelmed by the cosmopolitan ambiance [...]

Learning the Investor Mantra!

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 [...]

Virtual worlds: A cross between ours and theirs

“A virtual world is a computer-based simulated environment intended for its users to inhabit and interact via avatars. These avatars are usually depicted as textual, two-dimensional, or three-dimensional graphical representations. Some, but not all, virtual worlds allow for multiple users.”
A quick search for virtual world on Google reveals Second Life as the top searched [...]

The Gang with Tom Wang!!!

It is the 16th of December, 2005 and a long adventurous day has just come to a conclusion, after we ventured out of Shanghai and visited a few very interesting companies, including the SunTech headquarters in the peaceful WuXi district, the company being one of the biggest players in the solar energy industry in the [...]

Yobo: A journey of self discovery

I was initially expecting Mr Allen Guo only for the session and was pretty excited about learning more about the music DNA that Yobo is based on since I love music and analyzing anything that has to do with DNA (somehow life science students feel something for this term in any content). I was already [...]

New Oriental: Language is power

If you happen to meet a Chinese student on an American campus, ask whether he or she was ever a New Oriental student. 70% of the time, you will get a “yes”. In fact, it is very hard to find anyone who studied English in China that have not at one point benefited from New [...]

Hudong, Sincere and Simple.

Among all the companies we have been visited, I think Hudong is a relatively low profile company at least from what it looks like. Unlike most of the other internet companies, it is not located in a high commercial building in the center CBD area. Besides, the inside decoration is also very simple and [...]

Do No Evil.. Aye Aye Google…

Although the severely cold wind greeted the shivering iLeaders, wrapped in multiple layers of clothing, early morning on December 8th Tuesday, there was a palpable excitement in the air. Google, the holy grail of entrepreneurship, had beckoned.
As the bus entered Tsinghua Science Park, we suddenly saw the logo, that every internet user bows down to, staring at [...]