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Entrepreneurship Process Skills


During their stay in Temasek Polytechnic School of Business, the various diplomas will train students in one or more of the following entrepreneurship process skills:
 

  • Business plan preparation
  • Marketing
  • Preparation of financial statements e.g., balance sheet, profit & loss statements, cash flow statements
  • Communication e.g., written and oral presentation
  • Human Resource Management
  • Managing in an organization
  • Media & Market research
  • Dealing with licensing requirements, and government organizations
  • Innovation in food & beverage systems & operations
  • Logistics planning, control and management
  • Tour packaging
     

Through the rigorous curricula and activities, Temasek Polytechnic School of Business aims to develop in our students some essential entrepreneurship values such as being:
 

  • A self-starter
  • Independent in learning
  • Persistent in solving problems
  • A team builder
  • Market driven
  • Empathetic to others
  • Adaptive
  • Global in outlook
     

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Events

More than 200 students and staff attended the 2019 Entrepreneurship Talk which was held on 17 Jul 2019.  This talk provided a holistic picture on the startup ecosystem in Singapore and comprised three sharing from different actors in the startup ecosystem representing a government agency, an entrepreneurship action group and entrepreneurs. Attendees had the opportunity to learn from: 
 

  • Mr Muneer Mohd, Senior Manager, ACRA Academy, Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) on how to start a business in Singapore.
  • Ms Priscilla Koh Su Hua, Senior Manager, Community and Member Relations Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) Ltd on the Singapore Startup Ecosystem.
  • Mr Lee Kai Hung, Director of KJ Optometrists, Spirit of Enterprise Entrepreneur who shared about his entrepreneurial journey.
     
students at Entrepreneurship Talk
students at Entrepreneurship Talk
Entrepreneurship Talk guests
Entrepreneurship Talk guests

More on the three speakers:

Mr Muneer Mohd, Senior Manager at ACRA Academy

Mr Muneer Mohd
Senior Manager, ACRA Academy
Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA)
 

Muneer drives strategies and develops initiatives in ACRA to train company directors, corporate service providers, international partners, aspiring business owners and ACRA staff.  He is collaborating with professional bodies to bring relevant business training to ACRA’s stakeholders through digital platforms.  He also organises outreach sessions at Institutes of Higher Learning to help students understand how to start a business.

Ms Priscilla Koh, Senior Manager at Action Community for Entrepreneurship Ltd

Ms Priscilla Koh Su Hua
Senior Manager, Community and Member Relations
Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) Ltd
 

As the driver of community building efforts at ACE, Priscilla manages various communities of youths, mentors, startups and Institutes of Higher Learning. Priscilla actively engages the mentorship community and has helped more than 100 startups across various stages, connecting them with SME leaders, domain experts and investors to seek mentorship guidance.

Mr Lee Kai Hung, Director of KJ Optometrists

Mr Lee Kai Hung
Director of KJ Optometrists
Spirit of Enterprise Entrepreneur

Kai Hung has been practicing optometry and has advised countless individuals through eye examinations for the past 30 years. He was the past President of the Singapore Optometric Association from 2003 to 2007 and currently still actively serves as an advisor of the council. He contributes to numerous non-profit organisations, notably the Chinese Development Assistance Council ‘Ready for School’ program and Red Cross Singapore for their blood donation drive.

500 students had the chance to hear two successful entrepreneurs share their entrepreneurship journeys at 2018 Entrepreneurs’ Forum held on 14 July 2018. These two entrepreneurs were:
 

  • Mr Desmond Bernavey Lee, Founder, Business Development Director, Fresh Direct Pte Ltd
  • Mr Benjamin Yang, Founder and Managing Director, Novitee Pte Ltd
     

The objective of the Entrepreneurs’ Forum is to instill an entrepreneurial mindset in students by giving them a chance to interact with, and learn from successful entrepreneurs.

 

Mr Desmond Bernavey Lee sharing his story at Entrepreneurs' Forum Mr Desmond Bernavey Lee sharing his start up journey with the students
Mr Benjamin Yang sharing at the Entrepreneurs' Forum Mr Benjamin Yang extolling students to adopt an entrepreneurship mindset
Discussion at the Entrepreneurs' Forum Mr Desmond Bernavey Lee (extreme right) and Mr Benjamin Yang (second from right) with moderator Ms Hoa Peng Sum, Section Head, Diploma in Business and Mr Samuel Ang, Director, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Temasek Polytechnic

    

The 2017 Entrepreneurs’ Forum was held on the morning of 8 July 2017 at Temasek Convention Centre.  Mrs Lai-Low Sock Cheng, Director of School of Business, delivered the welcome address. About 1150 students, staff and guests attended the forum.  Two prominent entrepreneurs shared their entrepreneurial experiences and Director, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Department, shared on the topic of “TP Support on Innovation & Entrepreneurship Journey”.
 

students at the Entrepreneurs' Forum
Discussion at the Entrepreneurs' Forum
Speakers with Mrs Lai-Low Sock Cheng at Entrepreneurs' Forum

The three speakers were:
 

    

Mr Richardo Chua Group Managing Director of Adrenalin Group Pte Ltd

Mr Richardo Chua
Group Managing Director
Adrenalin Group Pte Ltd
 

Mr Richardo Chua is the Group Managing Director of the social enterprise events agency - Adrenalin Group Pte Ltd.

Prior to starting Adrenalin, Richardo worked in the public sector with the Economic Development Board (EDB) for close to 2 years, where he helped to encourage overseas companies to invest in Singapore. It was also at EDB that he was inspired to combine his love for events and a heart to contribute to the community to start Adrenalin. Today, Adrenalin has four subsidiaries, Adrenaline Events, Adrenaline Creatives, Adrenaline Studios and AveLaunch Productions.  

30% of Team Adrenalin is made up of people who are deaf, on wheelchair or disadvantaged youths.  Adrenalin has managed over 600 events with many of them at national and international levels such as the launch of the President’s Challenge and International Volunteer Day.  Its clients include Shell, DBS Bank, City Developments and the People's Association.  .Adrenalin is the recipient of the President’s Challenge Social Enterprise of the Year Award (Youth Category).

Richardo graduated with Bachelor of Communication with Honours from Nanyang Technological University and Minor in Education from National Institute of Education. He also possesses a Bachelor of Science in Management from University of London.

Richardo is active in the social enterprise industry and speaks regularly at forums about the subject.

 

    

Mr Adler Poh, Managing Director and Founder, Adler Hostel

Mr Adler Poh
Managing Director and Founder
Adler Hostel
 

Mr Adler Poh graduated with a Hospitality and Tourism Management diploma from Temasek Polytechnic in 2009.    Having grown up in a family of entrepreneurs, Adler was always inspired by his grandfather and father. As such, he always had a natural gravitation towards entrepreneurship as a future career for him.

We have all heard of luxury hotels and luxury service apartments.  How about luxury hostel? It is a rather new and interesting concept or term in the hospitality industry especially for Singapore.  Merging the comforts that one experiences staying in a hotel with the social and economic benefits of a hostel, the luxury hostel is born.  Adler Hostel is Singapore’s first ever luxury hostel established in December 2012 and located in the historical district of Chinatown.
 

In Temasek Polytechnic, Adler shaped his crafts under the tutelage of the experienced veterans in the hospitality industry. He snatched at the chance to intern at Cathay Pacific Airways, one of the Top 5 airlines in the world, where he was exposed to crisis management, following the Bangkok Riots.

Armed with unwavering positive attitude and his never-ending passion, Adler Hostel won respect and high compliments from its guests.  Local and international media also took notice of Adler Hostel and put Adler Hostel firmly on the world map.

Refusing to rest on his laurels and encouraged by the success of Adler Hostel, Adler introduced Istana Signature Cabins, the largest of its class in Singapore for the couple and family segment and Ivory Signature Cabins, first of its kind in Singapore, exclusively for ladies.

    

Mr Samuel Ang, Director of Innovation & Entrepreneurship Department

Mr Samuel Ang
Director
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Temasek Polytechnic
 

Mr. Samuel Ang was initially a corporate employee with HP Singapore and Union Bank of Switzerland when he first graduated from Electrical & Electronic Engineering.   He founded his first start-up in IT technical training and certification of Microsoft & CISCO technology, from there he went on to setup training centers across five countries in SEA.

The second startup he founded was in aircraft maintenance and repair (MRO) which outsources aircraft engineers and technicians to major aerospace companies such as SIA Engineering and ST Aerospace.

With great drive and determination, he worked towards the listing of two Singapore SMEs, one on the Mainboard and the other on Catalyst SGX, for which he became an executive member of their Board of Directors.

Samuel is a successful serial entrepreneur and has since successfully exited multiple times.  He is currently the Director of TP’s I&E Department, working with students, alumni and staff to groom ideas into successful startups.

The 2016 Entrepreneurs’ Forum was held on the morning of 10 December 2016 at Temasek Convention Centre. Mr Daniel Yeow, Director of School of Business, gave the welcome address. About 360 students, staff and guests attended the forum.  Three prominent entrepreneurs were invited to share their entrepreneurial experiences.
 

speakers at Entrepreneurs' Forum
speakers with Mr Daniel Yeow at Entrepreneurs' Forum
students at the Entrepreneurs' Forum

The three speakers were:
 

    

Mr Errol Lim, Co-Founder and COO of Jublia Pte Ltd

Mr Errol Lim
Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer
Jublia Pte Ltd


Jublia Pte Ltd is a global leader in business matching and event networking data analytics.  Since its inception in 2013, Jublia has partnered over 400 B2B conference, trade show, corporate & association event organisers in designing and executing the best business matching structure using Jublia's technology.  It allows organisers to achieve high resultant ROIs as well as in-depth customer insights.
 

Jublia differentiates itself as event networking specialist who works closely with the clients, based on specific meeting needs and objectives of their events.  With a track record of having the highest measurable networking performance in the industry, it provides the most meaningful business matching solution for exhibitions and conferences.

Some notable events that Jublia has worked on included World Vaccine Congress Europe, Internet Retailer Conference Exhibition, Singapore Airshow, Downtown Design Dubai and TechCrunch Tokyo.

Mr Errol Lim is Co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of Jublia. His story with Jublia started back at the National University of Singapore (NUS) where he was selected for a prestigious overseas work attachment cum study scholarship.  It was through this programme where he met his two other co-founders. Together, the trio has made Jublia a global brand name in the events industry.

Errol graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, majoring in Communications and New Media, with a minor in Business (Technopreneurship) from NUS. 

    

Mr Dennis Ng, Founder of Kent Ridge Education

Mr Dennis Ng
Founder
Kent Ridge Education (KRTC)
 

Mr Dennis Ng started Kent Ridge Education (KRTC) back in 1988 when he was still undergoing his Engineering degree at National University of Singapore (NUS), balancing both business and studies at the same time.  From its humble beginning as a small tuition centre, KRTC is now a leading education chain in Singapore having served more than 100,000 students.
 

Today, KRTC provides a wide range of playgroup, pre-school, academic and enrichment programmes for age groups between 1.5 - 18 years old.  KRTC has about 30 centres island-wide in Singapore. 

Building on its strong foundation within the educator sector, KRTC has successfully ventured overseas, in Cambodia and China, and is constantly looking to innovate and expand its education business.

KRTC aims to improve the literacy standards and education of children in Cambodia and foster international relationship between Singapore and Cambodia citizens.  The holistic education programmes offered mirrors the Singapore education system and teaching approaches.

    

Mr Kris Soh, Managing Director of In Vitro Pte Ltd

Mr Kris Soh
Managing Director
In Vitro Pte Ltd
 

Mr Kris Soh is the Managing Director of In Vitro Pte Ltd, a local research and manufacturing company dedicated to the use of natural technology for enhancing the human experience.  Kris has invented the World’s First Biological Air Detoxifier called BotanicaireTM – www.botanicaire.com.

Kris graduated with a 2nd upper honors degree from School of Biological Sciences at Nanyang Technological University (NTU).  Unlike many of his peers, he took on the path of Entrepreneurship. In fact, he started his business way before he graduated, juggling with business and studies.

He first got his idea verified during a business competition and was given $65,000 to kick-start his product idea. Started in 2010, In Vitro focuses on the entire business value chain, from ideology to after-sales service.

The company has received valuable feedback from its local customers to validate and improve its products. Till date, the product line Botanicaire is in its 3rd generation and is ready to go worldwide.

In Vitro is now at the exponential growth phase, looking at the world stage as its market, and is actively looking for like-minded and capable individuals to help put the Company’s name on the world map — a journey that will definitely be memorable and achievable.

The 2015 Entrepreneurs’ Forum was held on the morning of 5 December 2015 at Auditorium 1. Mr Daniel Yeow, Director of School of Business, gave the welcome address. A total of 460 students, staff and guests attended the forum.  A panel of successful entrepreneurs was invited to share with students their entrepreneurship journey.
 

speakers with Mr Daniel Yeow at Entrepreneurs' Forum
speakers at Entrepreneurs' Forum
students at the Entrepreneurs' Forum

The three speakers were:
 

    

Dr Patrick Khor, Group CEO of iBosses Corporation Limited

Dr Patrick Khor
Group CEO
iBosses Corporation Limited


Dr Patrick Khor has been a serial entrepreneur for 15 years, during which he built his company from scratch and developed it into an international fast growing technology training and education network. With more than 200 staff and 15 centers located in 7 countries in the Asia Pacific region, his company was merged with a public listed company in the Singapore Stock Exchange main board in 2006.
 


Dr Khor is the founder and Group CEO of iBosses Corporation Limited which was successfully listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) on 30 September 2015.  The iBosses Group is dedicated to inspiring and leading potential entrepreneurs in their pursuit of success through its individually-tailored training programmes.

During 2009-2014, being the manager and Senior Lecturer (Entrepreneurship Development) in Temasek Polytechnic, Dr Khor shared his entrepreneurial experience with his students, trained up more than 3,200 participants in entrepreneurship and successfully mentored more than 20 companies and start-ups, amongst which two start-ups, EK Media and Edifice,  were successfully acquired by established organisations.

Dr Khor is the author of the book entitled ‘iBosses: The Rise of Gen Y Entrepreneurs - The Momentum Behind the New Age of Entrepreneurs’. He obtained his PhD - Business & Management in the area of Entrepreneurship from University of South Australia.

    

Mr Joseph Ong, Managing Director, One Rochester Group

Mr Joseph Ong
Managing Director
One Rochester Group


Mr Joseph Ong began his career in finance 20 years ago in Ernst and Young, KPMG and Arthur Andersen, culminating in his tenure at Symantec from 2004 and becoming the youngest Vice President (Asia-Pacific and Japan) in 2013.

It was while he was still in Symantec that he completed his MBA, envisioned and put into action his MBA project – One Rochester Group – an F&B enterprise based on the genesis of his ground breaking concept “remote-Entrepreneurship.”
 

Today, the award-winning One Rochester Group is one of Singapore’s largest lifestyle F&B groups.  Since its inception, the group has won many international awards and accolades for its concept, food, service and ambience. It has garnered over hundreds of publicities and coverage internationally.

Joseph is also the co-founder of the strategy-management consultancy firm - Ong and Cornelius, and author of the book ‘remote-Entrepreneurship™’ which was launched in August 2015. Evidence based and market tested over a period of 10 years, the concept, model and strategy of r-entrepreneurshipTM is set to help scores of professionals, students and aspiring entrepreneurs overcome their fear and dilemma of leaping from a stable corporate/academic life to starting a business and being successful in it.

Joseph graduated from Nanyang Technological University (B. Acc.) and University of Manchester (MBA, First Class Distinction).

    

Mr Kevin Chan, CEO & Co-founder of Coursepad Pte Ltd

Mr Kevin Chan
CEO & Co-founder
Coursepad Pte Ltd


Mr Kevin Chan is the CEO and Co-founder of Coursepad Pte Ltd, a proprietary mobile learning platform for organisations to rapidly deploy social learning apps. His vision is to improve the effectiveness of corporate e-learning by making courses more social and engaging.  With Coursepad, organisations can now deliver bite-sized training materials and learning challenges to teams.
 

Coursepad's platform is currently adopted by best-selling author Robin Sharma (The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari series). Coursepad has developed mobile learning applications for MNCs including Standard Chartered, SAP and Wipro, integrating best practices for effective training into the platform.

As the chief architect for the mobile learning projects at Coursepad, Kevin always brings a unique, gen-Y perspective to mobile learning rarely found in the industry.

Prior to founding Coursepad, Kevin completed his Bachelor of Business with first-class honours in a double specialisation of Marketing and Business Law as an ASEAN scholar in Nanyang Technological University. Kevin is passionate about public speaking, start-ups and actively writes on mobile learning and his entrepreneurial journey.

Even before graduating, Kevin put his training at the Nanyang Business School to use in a fiercely competitive industry. In two years, Kevin, along with his friends he met at NTU, turned Coursepad into a profitable venture, with high-profile clients and thousands of users of its mobile learning applications.

This entrepreneurship talk was held on 11 January 2017 at the Business Enterprise Centre. The talk provided students with an opportunity to learn from an entrepreneur, and obtain valuable information through the Q&A session.
 

    

Mr David Wee, Founder of Wee's Collection

Mr. Wee Soon Jin, David
Founder
Wee’s Collection
 

Mr Wee is a TP alumnus who graduated from the Diploma in Business (Diploma with Merit) in 2003. He founded David Wee’s Collection – a business specialising in the buying, selling and renting of vintage items such as coin phones, old analogue clocks and tiffin carriers, etc.
 

Wee’s Collection has been involved in many community projects such as the Singapore Heritage Festival 2012, Joo Chiat Heritage Nite and People’s Association Passion Art Month, etc.  Mr Wee has also participated actively in many TP events, and loaned out many of his collection for display.

Mr. Wee entrepreneurial journey and his business were featured in The Straits Times (Sat, 30 June 2012). Main Section Page A4 and Life! Page E10 & E11, December’s 2012 issue of Prestige Magazine, as well as the January 2014 issue of NS Man Magazine.

This entrepreneurship talk was held on 16 July 2015 at the Business Enterprise Centre. The talk provided students with an opportunity to learn from and interact with a real-life social entrepreneur, and at the same time, opened up possibilities for the participant to be engaged in social entrepreneurship.
 

Ms Valerie Pang, Co-Founder of SDI Academy

Ms Valerie Pang
Co-Founder
SDI Academy
 

Ms. Valerie Pang is an entrepreneur who has been involved in different types of businesses. She is the Co-Founder of the social enterprise, SDI Academy, which provides English courses to migrant workers. Her idea on SDI Academy was well-received and resulted in her being awarded with the DBS-NUS Youth Social Entrepreneurs Programme (YSEP) grant of S$50,000.00 in 2015.

    

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