JA It s My Business Lesson 6 Celebrate Entrepreneurs

JA It’s My Business! Lesson 6 Celebrate Entrepreneurs Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs Objectives • Identify characteristics you share with entrepreneurs. • Create. a Personal Entrepreneur Profile card Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs • Famous Entrepreneurs: - Education - Profile - Power - Vision - Success • Who are they? Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs • Home: Singapore • Education: NUS Honours Degree in chemistry • Profile: She was adopted at birth by an older woman who was a gambler. Her ‘grandma’ lost the house they were staying when she was three. But she didn’t give up her studies. • Today, her company sells water filters and treatment chemicals system. • Vision: With only $20, 000 capital, she started the company and it became the first water treatment company to be listed on Singapore Exchange. • Success: In 2012, the company made revenues of S$680 million Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs Olivia Lum http: //www. hyflux. com Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs • Home: Singapore • Education: Economics Degree • Profile: He was detained and confined under the Internal Security Act for writing pro-communist articles in Far Eastern Economic Review. • He is Executive Chairman of Banyan Tree which develops resorts and spas. He is sits on many boards including the board of trustees for SMU (Singapore Management University) • Success: He created a successful holiday resort from an abandoned tin mine. Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs http: //www. banyantree. com Ho Kwon Ping Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs • Home: Singapore • Education: Studied at Fairfield Methodist School before moving to London to learn hairdressing. • Profile: She was a young punk and a rebellious teenager who consistently failed in school. She identified a gap in the market for affordable and trendy street-wear, she opened her first retail outlet in Far East Plaza in 1988. • She is a leader in social entrepreneurship focusing on youth. • Success: In 2004, her company opened a cutting-edge underground shopping complex at Xidan Cultural Square, Beijing, China. Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs 1988, a small retail outlet in Far East Plaza Elim Chew http: //www. 77 thstreet. com 2004, 77 th Street Plaza in Beijing Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs • Home: Singapore • Profile: Popularly known as “Kenny the Fish”, he grew his business from a small family-owned fish farm into a successful mainboard-listed company exporting ornamental fish to more than 60 countries. • He pioneered new ways of breeding, farming and exporting ornamental fish. • Vision: Establish Singapore as the largest exporter of ornamental fish in the world. • Success: His company had sales of SGD 91 million in 2010 Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs Kenny Yap http: //www. qianhu. com/ Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs • Home: Washington, USA • Education: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from Princeton University • Profile: Founder and CEO of Amazon. com (what began as an online bookstore expanded to become a consistently top-ranked Internet retail site). • Power: Jokingly attributed Amazon. com’s success “half to good timing, half to luck, and the rest to brains”. A resourceful problem-solver, he focused on customer service and built his own success, one book at a time. • Vision: Recognized a market need for an easy-to-use, online retail site and, in 1994, launched Amazon. com. • Success: Amazon. com sells more than 20 million products, with a profit of $6 billion. Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs Jeff Bezos Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs • Home: Singapore • Profile: Property tycoon. His company Far East Organization which also own one of the country’s most popular beverage brand Yeo Hiap Seng. • Power: He had a failed business, a provision shop but he went on to develop many properties along and near Orchard Road. • Vision: He developed properties in Orchard Road where people don’t want to live in at that time. • Success: He was the richest man in Singapore when he died in 2010. Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs Ng Teng Fong http: //www. fareast. com. sg/ Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs • Home: Singapore • Education: Diploma • Profile: He started a computer repair shop and his company created the game changing Soundblaster line of PC audio cards • Vision: Expand its leadership role in the lifestyle Personal Digital Entertainment market. • Success: his company is now the worldwide leader in digital entertainment products for the personal computer (PC) and the Internet. Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs Sim Wong Hoo http: //asia. creative. com/ Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs • Home: Hawaii, USA • Education: Vocational High School graduate • Profile: Founder of Famous Amos Cookies • Power: A steadfast focus on learning all he could about cooking. • Vision: Identified a great product when he tasted his aunt’s recipe and, consequently, built a cookie empire. • Success: Distributed his product through grocery stores and the Internet. A motivational speaker, he has appeared on hundreds of TV and radio shows. Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs Wally Amos Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs • Home: Singapore • Education: Business Administration (Finance) Degree • Profile: Started a Apex-Pal with SGD 100, 000 to manufacture clothing in India for Japanese market. Wanting to diversify, he conducted a survey and found that Singaporeans viewed Japanese food as healthy but expensive. • Vision: Offer Japanese food at affordable prices • Success: Now has 10 brands - Sakae Sushi, Sakae Teppanyaki, Sakae Izakaya, Sakae Delivery, Hei Sushi, Hibiki, Senjyu, The Pasta Shop, Crepes & Cream and Nouvelle Events. Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs Douglas Foo http: //sakaeholdings. com/ Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs You will now complete your Personal Entrepreneur Profile Cards and know what type of Entrepreneur you are. Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs Activity: Personal Entrepreneur Profile Card • Now you will create a Personal Entrepreneur Profile Card for two stages of your life: Ø the present Ø the future. Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs Personal Profile Card (Sample) My Life Now Home: Singapore Education: Student Profile: Likes science and digging in the dirt. Has a great bug collection and loves to garden. Power: Ability to work hard for long hours without complaint. A love for bugs, a desire to help people, and a dream to travel. Vision: Should study bugs and gardening, and volunteer at a science or horticulture center: Needs a passport to travel. Success: Fastest eater in Secondary 1. Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs Personal Profile Card (Sample) My Future Life Home: Sydney, Australia Education: Ph. D. in Entomology Profile: Owns a bug farm and sells bugs to farmers that help their crops. Power: Discovered a bug that eats other bugs and disease spots that harm crops. Found out everything about them before anyone else. Vision: Beat out all competitors by being the first to find and sell the good bugs. This business makes a difference in people's lives. Success: More than 20 -billion bugs sold. Crop yield for farmers has increased by 50 percent. Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs Recap: GOLDEN RULES 1. Fill A Need 2. Know Your Customer and Product 3. Be Creative and Innovative 4. Believe in Yourself Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs What do you know – Post? 5 minutes Lesson 6

JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs Lesson 6