On 15th December 2009, the 4th batch ileaders met up with the founder and CEO of ilemon, Jouni Keranen and Calvin Ng. I was the one in charge of presenting to the iLemon’s presenter. I made a mistake by presenting to Calvin, who was helping Jouni to set up his laptop, and missed Jouni, who [...]

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 [...]

Shanghai provided a welcome change to the tide of IT that swept us away in Beijing. An exciting array of companies was on the itinerary, but the most intriguing companies on offer were the ones revolving around the rapidly growing society of social entrepreneurs (pun intended).
The 15th of December had a surprise in [...]

I was sleeping like a log on the bus ride to Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) as it was a 1-hour ride from the previous company, Suntech Power Holdings, which is in Wuxi. When I opened my eyes, high-rise buildings in neat clusters and clean streets greeted my eyes, and for a moment, I thought I [...]

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 [...]

It is no wonder that with such a huge potential market, the taste and needs of the Chinese consumer has encouraged many of the large international companies to look at the area of design to make their products more attractive. Design companies such as IDEO and Continuum had set up design centre in Shanghai [...]

ILead batch 4 finally had our first VC company visit – Vickers Venture. This company visit was going to be different from the previous companies that batch 4 had visited. The past visits presented views from the eyes of the entrepreneur. This time, it would be from the eyes of an investor. [...]

On 18 Dec Friday, it was the last day of company visits in China for iLEAD. We had a discussion session at 7pm with pizza dinner, and sharing about our experiences and lessons learnt from the two-week OSM, and how it impacted our entrepreneurial aspirations. =) Listening to all my friends in i4 as well as the [...]