http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/posts en-US 60 <div>You are cordially invited to...</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;<br /> <strong>The ASEANpreneurs Youth Leaders' Network<br /> OFFICIAL LAUNCH</strong></div> <div><br /> ASEANpreneurs is a new initiative by the NUS Entrepreneurship Society (NES). The network aims to promote entrepreneurship in ASEAN by creating a platform for budding youth entrepreneurs to share their knowledge, spark off new ideas and collaborate on various initiatives.&nbsp;<br /> &nbsp;<br /> Join us to find out how YOU can be a part of this dynamic movement!<br /> &nbsp;</div> <div>Highlights of the launch include a first peek at the ASEANpreneurs online portal which is a virtual platform linking youths from all over ASEAN. Our exciting forum will also feature a panel of veteran entrepreneurs who will share their experiences of doing business in the region. 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Some biz needs huge capital but no guaranties. But on the other hand if you are successful in biz you can be rich. To be in a biz prepared to have a 24/7 mentality.</p> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:35:41 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:295233:7902197 happysufer http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/295233 <p>If you are doing a business, look for one with a comparative advantage. If I am selling clothes and you are doing likewise, what makes us stand out? There are thousands of others also selling clothes, are you fighting to survive or to grow your business? Are you the next bubble tea or the next coca cola? <img src= "/images/emoticons/classic/icon_biggrin.gif" alt= "icon_biggrin.gif" /></p> <p>Think of it if someone has 1 million dollars of capital to compete with your business, would he be able to bring you down? If the answer is yes, your business suck. If no, you have some competitive advantage.</p> <p>Competitive advantage can be many types: Monopoly, oligopoly, lower cost, wider distribution, branding, superior product, location, patents, specialise skills and many more....</p> Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:54:58 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:295233:7898660 Evangel http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/295233 <p>continue in existing Sunshine Empire thread.</p> Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:47:07 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:309359:7898648 FireIce http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/309359 <p>SCAM! With no financial statements to support! TOTAL SCAM!</p> Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:44:45 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:309359:7898644 Evangel http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/309359 <p>Lately I heard my good friend told me that Sunshine is setting up a casino in Macau, and they are selling plans to raise funds in China and northern Asia.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>I just cannot imagine that they are so persistence, after the whole CAD saga in Singapore.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Heard any other news?</p> Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:48:35 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:309359:7895746 SavvyInvestor http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/309359 <p>Anybody interested in this event at national library?</p> <p><a href="http://www.startup.org.sg/ss_nlb_gi.asp" rel= "nofollow">http://www.startup.org.sg/ss_nlb_gi.asp</a></p> <h3><br /></h3> <h3><strong><strong><strong><strong>NLB Series: Grow-It: Building A Sustainable Advantage</strong></strong></strong></strong></h3> <p>Start-Up@Singapore (S@S) and the National Library Board (NLB) are proud to present the NLB Series! Comprising 3 events for aspiring entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs-at-heart and supporters of entrepreneurship, this series aims to educate the general public through interactive and insightful events and seminars conducted by past winners and top performers in our yearly S@S business plan competitions.</p> <p><strong>Grow-It: Building A Sustainable Advantage</strong>is the 2nd event of our three-part NLB Series. With thousands of new businesses emerging in Singapore every year, the key issue entrepreneurs have to consider is the consistent and stable growth of their businesses. In the second event of the NLB Series, we bring to the public possible growth strategies to consider. Our speakers will share about how they've thrived to sustain a competitive advantage in their respective industries and to maintain a substantial market share. What determines a company's continuous growth and sustainability? How does a company maintain an advantage amidst strong competition? Discover the answers to these questions by joining us in this exciting event brought to you by Start-Up@Singapore and the National Library Board.</p> <p><strong>Date:</strong> 1st March 2008 (Saturday)<br /> <strong>Time:</strong> 10.00am to 12.00noon<br /> Registration starts at 9.30am <strong>Venue:</strong> Possibility Room, Bugis National Library<br /> 100 Victoria Street<br /> <strong>RSVP:</strong> Email <a href="mailto:growit@startup.org.sg" rel="nofollow">growit@startup.org.sg</a> with your Name, Organization, and Contact Number <strong>Attire:</strong> Smart Casual</p> <p><strong>Speaker Panel:<br /> <br /></strong> <strong>Dr Martin Henz</strong> is an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore's School of Computing since 1997. Besides teaching, he is also a co-founder, managing director and chief technology officer of FriarTuck, a company that develops, implements and support software solutions that for enterprises. Together with his student, Mr. Sevugan Alagappan, they took part in Start-Up@Singapore in 2002 and emerged as the winner. Since then, the duo has set up FriarTuck and the company has been growing ever since. In fact, their software, FTStaffRosterer, a manpower-rostering program that creates automated schedules, was used by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a team of 200 scientists on their high-profile mission to Mars. Friartuck has also branched out to other industries like education and healthcare. Their goal is to be the global leader in scheduling complex events.<strong><br /> <br /></strong> <strong>Mr. Prakash</strong>, the CEO of Yolk, wanted to be a fireman when he was young. Today, he lives both dreams somehow. From the daily fire fighting duties of running a dynamic Interactive Design Agency, serving various clients ranging from Blue Chip to young start ups, to adopting two cats in the office and a Cocker Spaniel at home. Yolk was established on September 11 2001 and despite it being a tough period to start a new business, they continued to pursue towards their dreams by keeping operating costs manageable and finding different means and ways to stay in business. Yolk's entrepreneurial efforts were recognised, and Yolk was titled one of 2005's Spirit of Enterprise Awardees. Prakash was also one of the four finalists in the 2006 Young Indian Entrepreneur of the Year awards.&nbsp; He has also been proudly dedicating himself to the ACE Speaker Circuit for the last three years, giving talks and speeches to mostly schools. Prakash believes in the power of dreaming and that everyone should live life to the fullest using the talents and gifts they have.</p> <p><strong>Sharon Teo</strong> is the co-founder of Inspire-Tech, which provides consultancy and development of mobile applications on pocket PC wireless development, providing customised smart applications for mobile workers to retrieve and transmit data real-time on the move. Headquartered in Singapore and founded in 2000, Inspire-Tech gained the trust of global financial institutional clients in delivering comprehensive messaging solutions. As a Gold Certified partner, Inspire-Tech has demonstrated strong expertise with Microsoft technologies and proven the ability to leverage on the latest technology effectively to their clients' benefits. Inspire-Tech's flagship product, EasiSMS Enterprise Messaging Server and the business modules have been tested with SQL Server and Windows 2003 for compatibility.</p> Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:58:41 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:309025:7888398 Jason http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/309025 <blockquote> <div class="quote_from">Originally posted by theinternetenterprise:</div> <div class="quote_body"> <p>Hi guys, I was browsing around and saw this interesting topic. Personally it is true that most offline businesses need a sum of capitol but for online businesses it is different. Do you believe that you can make money online even if you do not have your own product to sell? How? Just sell other people’s product la. Have paypal account, find a product you like on clickbank.com and off you gooooooo. Anything that you sell from clickbank gives you a commission. Cheers.</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>online business also need capital for products.</p> <p>But there's no rent. Thus, rent savings can be translated to consumers, who can enjoy lower costs. Again, if you see those push carts, you also see the sales person sitting there for a long time before finally someone come along to make a purchase. An online business has no such time wasting problem.</p> <p>The only disadvantage is that the buyer has no instant gratification of testing and buying immediately. Of course, there are some ways in which you can reduce this disadvantage, one of which is I have mentioned, lower price.</p> Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:46:50 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:295233:7885539 eagle http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/295233 <p>hmm advertisements..quite a huge industry<img src= "/images/emoticons/kde-3.5.8/BoxedEmoticonSet/wink.png" alt= "wink.png" />. <strong>Transitions</strong> lenses also stood out due to that<img src="/images/emoticons/classic/icon_smile.gif" alt= "icon_smile.gif" /></p> Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:41:38 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:300185:7879979 Lost_Drift http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/300185 <p>The Capitol Optical start with a huge amount of capital to increase the amount of chain-stores, to it is today izzit <img src= "/images/emoticons/kde-3.5.8/redones/confused.png" alt= "confused.png" /></p> Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:37:05 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:295233:7879970 Lost_Drift http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/295233 <p>Hi guys, Looking for designers that are good with japanese themes, anyone knows how to contact such folks for freelance projects?</p> Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:02:39 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:308570:7878142 Catknight http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/308570 <p>Blogger is one of the many options available to bloggers who are looking for free blog software. This website located at the following web address: http://www.blogger.com offers registered users the opportunity to publish their own blog free of charge. The website also has templates the blogger can use to create his blog and even enables bloggers to easily place Google advertisements on their blog and coordinates an AdSense account for the users so they can potentially earn a profit from their blog. This article will discuss the history of Blogger as well as the terms of service.<br /> <br /> The History of Blogger<br /> <br /> Blogger began in 1999 with a small group of friends in the San Francisco area who ran a company called Pyra Labs. These friends did not set out to create a network of bloggers but nevertheless Blogger emerged from their efforts. The three friends who developed bloggers were programmers who toiled away for others in an effort to fund their own endeavors. As previously mentioned a blog network was not their original goal but the friends were intrigued by the idea as it emerged and found others were interested too as their concept quickly took off and new members were joining everyday. Like most Internet Entrepreneurs of this time period, they experienced setbacks but continued to persevere.<br /> <br /> In 2002 Blogger was doing well but got an unexpected surprise when Google expressed interest in purchasing Pyra Labs. Google was interested in the upswing in the blogging community and the members of Pyra Lab sold their company enabling Google to take over the operation. Since taking over Google introduced the concept of AdSense advertising campaigns on blogs which has been generating profits for Google and bloggers alike. Blogger not only offers members templates to create a blog and voice their opinions on the Internet but also simplifies the process of placing AdSense advertisements on the blog. {...}<br /> <br /> <a href="http://dzesire.net/2007/12/29/blogging-with-blogger/" rel= "nofollow">More...</a></p> Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:02:20 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:300185:7681129 summertea33 http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/300185 <p>Hi guys, I was browsing around and saw this interesting topic. Personally it is true that most offline businesses need a sum of capitol but for online businesses it is different. Do you believe that you can make money online even if you do not have your own product to sell? How? Just sell other people’s product la. Have paypal account, find a product you like on clickbank.com and off you gooooooo. Anything that you sell from clickbank gives you a commission. Cheers.</p> Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:15:19 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:295233:7583564 theinternetenterprise http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/295233 <blockquote> <div class="quote_from">Originally posted by Parka:</div> <div class="quote_body"><img title="Arrow" src= "/images/emoticons/classic/icon_arrow.gif" alt="Arrow" /> Glad to see that there are people interested in doing business.<br /> <br /> In regards to the investment needs, it really depends on what kind of business you're going into.<br /> <br /> If you're going into a chicken rice business, you'll have to pay the rent for the place, workers' salary if any, cost of the food products, sanitation fees and other stuff which I cannot recall.<br /> <br /> If you're going into a service industry, then your cost is basically your hours.<br /> <br /> If you're going online, little capital is required.<br /> <br /> Huge capital investment is required when you want to expand or scale your business. Because you'll definitely require people and human cost is expensive. You'll really need a service that people are really willing to pay money for.<br /> <br /> Just recently, I've created a business forum for Singaporeans. I sincerely invite all interested in business to check it out. It's quite new so there's not much content. I invite all to ask questions there.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://sgbusinessforum.com" rel= "nofollow">http://sgbusinessforum.com</a><br /> <br /> Cheers.</div> </blockquote> <p>ok thanks for your reply,i appreciated <img title="Very Happy" src="/images/emoticons/classic/icon_biggrin.gif" alt= "Very Happy" /> But i am thinking starting a business required of money somehow.If i start anything do anything i did have to have the passion to do certain thing etc business.I must love the thing i do,love myself etc.Etc,I open a small food business because food is a need.Everyone will buy food somehow but i must make my food interesting,nice,famous and i be courestry to customer rand they will consider to buy my food <img title="Very Happy" src= "/images/emoticons/classic/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="Very Happy" /> i am still thinking as i lack of many thing i lack of foremost money to open,cashflow,baba.second the skill, lastly passion.<br /> <br /> Working isn't that bad afterall.Just won't make anyone rich.But being someone simple is also perfect <img title="Very Happy" src= "/images/emoticons/classic/icon_biggrin.gif" alt= "Very Happy" /></p> Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:32:33 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:295233:7560978 relax_crown http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/295233 <blockquote> <div class="quote_from">Originally posted by Lenne:</div> <div class="quote_body">business = investment? i tot business n investment is 2 different thing.. haha.. very blur.</div> </blockquote> <p><img title="Arrow" src= "/images/emoticons/classic/icon_arrow.gif" alt="Arrow" /> Business requires your individual attention. The business will not survive without you.<br /> <br /> Investment doesn't require as much attention, you can invest money and let the commercial entity grow itself.</p> Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:29:11 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:295233:7559419 Parka http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/295233 <p><img title="Arrow" src= "/images/emoticons/classic/icon_arrow.gif" alt="Arrow" /> Glad to see that there are people interested in doing business.<br /> <br /> In regards to the investment needs, it really depends on what kind of business you're going into.<br /> <br /> If you're going into a chicken rice business, you'll have to pay the rent for the place, workers' salary if any, cost of the food products, sanitation fees and other stuff which I cannot recall.<br /> <br /> If you're going into a service industry, then your cost is basically your hours.<br /> <br /> If you're going online, little capital is required.<br /> <br /> Huge capital investment is required when you want to expand or scale your business. Because you'll definitely require people and human cost is expensive. You'll really need a service that people are really willing to pay money for.<br /> <br /> Just recently, I've created a business forum for Singaporeans. I sincerely invite all interested in business to check it out. It's quite new so there's not much content. I invite all to ask questions there.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://sgbusinessforum.com" rel= "nofollow">http://sgbusinessforum.com</a><br /> <br /> Cheers.</p> Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:26:38 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:295233:7559406 Parka http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/295233 <p>Unless u are a socialite...why not? <img title="Laughing" src= "/images/emoticons/classic/icon_lol.gif" alt="Laughing" /> <img title="Laughing" src="/images/emoticons/classic/icon_lol.gif" alt="Laughing" /></p> Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:17:16 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:295233:7544613 deathscythe99 http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/295233 <p><br /> <br /> business needs $$$, $$$ = investment. Investment is actually taking a gamble. fail or succeed, it depends on what type of business which you hope to be in.<br /> <br /> No matter what, business or investment, it depends on your luck.<br /> <br /> Cheers.</p> Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:51:16 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:295233:7544523 turbo_drift http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/295233 <p>depends on the business. there are some don’t really need capital outlay</p> Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:49:32 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:295233:7544517 hisoka http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/295233 <blockquote> <div class="quote_from">Originally posted by Lenne:</div> <div class="quote_body">business = investment? i tot business n investment is 2 different thing.. haha.. very blur.</div> </blockquote> <p>investment may not be business but business need investment ....</p> Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:47:23 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:295233:7544506 ORIGAMIST http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/295233 <p>business = investment? i tot business n investment is 2 different thing.. haha.. very blur.</p> Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:45:48 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:295233:7544497 Lenne http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/295233 <p>depend what type of business u r looking at... it all requires minimum sum of investment.<br /> <br /> Time is also an investment. time = $$$</p> Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:34:42 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:295233:7544446 sLeEpWaLkErInG http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/295233 <blockquote> <div class="quote_from">Originally posted by Agenda:</div> <div class="quote_body">Of course lah, equipment use what buy? Unless you pay by credit</div> </blockquote> <p>ok thanks <img title="Very Happy" src= "/images/emoticons/classic/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="Very Happy" /> ,if i not remember wrongly Adam khoo say you need little or no money to startup a business.</p> Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:33:14 +0800 politics.sgforums.com:994:295233:7544440 relax_crown http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/994/topics/295233