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Turning the Microphone Around [00:03 — 01:16] Who the Storytelling Services Are For [01:17 — 01:53] The Problem: Explaining What You Really Do [01:54 — 02:51] A Human, Interview-Led Approach [02:52 — 04:27] The Business in One Sentence [04:28 — 05:11] Choosing People Rather Than Industries [05:12 — 07:01] A Founder Story from China [07:02 —…
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Premal Patel is a customer loyalty, customer success and engagement specialist with around 30 years of experience across financial services, retail and agency environments. Premal explains how his business helps corporate leaders and entrepreneurs build stronger human connections as AI and digital technology reshape the workplace. Drawing on his book, Yanga Unplugged, he offers workshops for…
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Guest Background & Career Journey Dave Butler is a business coach who runs David Butler Coaching. He focuses on helping founders clarify goals, reconnect with purpose, and build structured, actionable plans for growth. Natasha Clarke is an interior stylist specialising in staging, styling, and design for homes going on the market, holiday homes, and bespoke projects.…
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Hari Pudipeddi’s Background and Career TransitionEarly Influences and Career Path: Hari is a seasoned health-tech professional with a BSc and MSc in Computer Science, followed by a master’s in General Management. He spent 12.5 years at Cerner, joining as one of the company’s first ten hires in India (2004–2016). Exposure to large-scale healthcare systems, product thinking,…
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Watch here on YouTube “Today’s guest, Natasha, has a story that proves your passion can quietly follow you through life — until the moment you’re ready to step fully into it. From her early years surrounded by building, redecorating, and antiques, to a demanding career as a social worker, Natasha always carried a love for transforming…
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Dave Butler Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:35 — 40.0MB) | Embed Subscribe to Entrepreneurs in Action Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSS | More Watch here on YouTube “What would make someone walk away from a six-figure salary, a senior leadership role, and the comfort of a corporate career… to start…
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Neville McKenzie discusses the rapid development of AI technologies and their integration into his production processes. He notes that new AI tools are constantly emerging, requiring continuous learning. The AI Threat: The concern about the potential for AI to make podcasters redundant, necessitating a “radical readjustment” in the podcasting field. He mentions a peer already using…
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Listen to the Audio Watch the Video Morten Damgaard Andersen talks on “Leadership Perspectives: Navigating Multicultural Environments,” in this podcast and also available as a video podcast Morten as a seasoned leader shares insights on emotional intelligence, effective communication, and cultural competence in diverse workplaces. In this episode, we explore how self-awareness contributes to a leader’s…
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Goh Sok Koon is a company secretary a vital role in any business in Singapore. I am fortunate to have met her as she has been extremely helpful to me in getting my business up and running. Even before that, I was trying to get her to appear here on this podcast. By her own admission…
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Neville J McKenzie the usual host of AsiaBizStories Entrepreneurs in Action is asked the questions by Chris Pardey the lead of the Brunel Alumni Association, Singapore . Neville grew up in London. At school he wanted to be a scientist but became a Radar Test Engineer after gaining an HND in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He…
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Kelly Shan is an experienced healthcare professional in the areas of nursing and public health. She started as a scrub nurse in the operating theatre before transferring to a pre-operative anesthesia assessment clinic, “after a few years in the Outpatient Clinic you realize that a lot of even higher education background you know even there are…
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CJ Tan is a regular member of the Brunel Alumni Association. He has extensive experience in manufacturing and quality management, including start-ups and high-volume production. He is skilled in building quality systems and ensuring the safety of employees and the environment. CJ has led initiatives to improve quality company wide and worked closely with manufacturing partners…
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Stanley Mak is a regular member of the Brunel Alumni Association Experienced entrepreneur with a rich history of working in the marketing and communications industry. Skilled in Inbound Marketing, Digital Marketing and Integrated Marketing Communications. With an MBA from the Henley Brunel MBA Program. Originally from Hong Kong he moved with his then employer to Singapore…
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Chris Pardey is the Brunel Alumni Association Representative in Singapore. Chris grew up and was educated in the UK. He has spent over 40 years working in the commodities industry. Spending 20 years with one company, working in the UK, Switzerland and Germany. His move to Singapore saw him eventually being in the right place at…
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Ben Clark in 2010 whilst on a break from training for the London Olympics as a swimmer dove into the sea and broke his neck changing his life forever. Despite having 75% of his body paralysed he was determined to not let it defeat him and set out to live his life to the full. That…
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Mario Ferraro is a thought leader in the area of Global Talent Management and an active member of the Brunel Alumni Association, Singapore He moved to Singapore in 1998 But his unusual journey began in 1987. At the age of 18 one week after graduating from secondary school he moved on his own from Italy to…
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Laurence Barrett is a pioneering aviation engineer, entrepreneur and active member of the Brunel University Alumni Association. He has worked and lived in Singapore since 2014. His career in aerospace started as a systems engineer in 2002 in September 2012 he started an MBA in Aviation at Brunel University after making the challenging decision to leave…
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Chanfang Wang gave insightful answers, highlighted here, during The November China-Team ChinaWebinar Expert Talk: German Manufacturing Machines for Future Chinese “Red Ocean” Companies saw the moderator Xiaolong Hu interesting and informative discussing the Chinese machinery and automation market that is not only the largest, but also one of the fastest growing markets in the world.
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Christmas time and unreliable Supply Chains don’t go well together! Join our latest China Webinar! In the coming year, things are likely to look different. The banking association BdB assumes the strongest consumer boom since reunification in Germany. Despite the high order backlog, industrial activity is likely to be subdued into the coming year. With our…
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The November China-Team ChinaWebinar Expert Talk: German Manufacturing Machines for Future Chinese “Red Ocean” Companies saw the moderator Xiaolong Hu interesting and informative discussing the Chinese machinery and automation market that is not only the largest, but also one of the fastest growing markets in the world. With German machine builders increasingly doing business with Chinese…
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Prof. Peter Sachsenmeier is a strategist, expert in complex technology management, industrial innovator and visionary. He is actively involved in knowledge transfer from research to industry, and combined outstanding appointments in academia with important posts in international companies. He combines deep technology knowledge with a keen sense of new business and management modes based on the…
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Laurie Underwood is an American professor, author and consultant specializing in cross-cultural business communications She has studied worked and lived in Shanghai since 2002 Together with Prof Juan Fernandez at CEIBS, she has co-authored China CEO (2006), China Entrepreneur (2009) and most recently China CEO II (2020). The audio book was released in June 2021. Book…
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Jochen Schultz is the Managing Director and Member of the Board at China Netzwerk Baden-Württemberg, He has been supporting institutions and companies with professional training for 16 years (Schultz Professional Trainings). Which specialises in the development and implementation of qualification measures in China as well as for Chinese companies in Germany. In this podcast a recording of…
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Frank Epping in 1995 founded CUP&CINO in Germany. He is still the sole owner and CEO of the company that started with coffee shops. This podcast is a recording of a moderated webinar titled “How to Participate in the Boom of the Food and Beverage Market in China?” We fast forward to today where this entrepreneur…
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Erin Soutar of the Hive Co-working Space Lavender Podcast studio in Singapore reverses the roles on Neville J McKenzie as he is the one discussing his thoughts on podcasting. The Hive has allowed AsiaBizStories to share the podcast on it’s platform. As Neville talks about the topic of podcasting generally. From using podcasts in education Neville:…
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Elvis Simon is a barber with 33 years experience as a salon owner and teacher of barbering in London, England. He has also founded the Quality Barbers Association, QBA, which is involved in raising the professionalism of barbers. His colleagues include some famous names in the UK barbering and hairdressing world such as Rudi Page the…
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Moses Kakanga was born by Lake Victoria in the old capital Entebbe, Uganda where he attended school before moving to the capital Kampala Makerere University, the oldest university in eastern and central Africa. Where he graduating with a degree in biomedical laboratory technology. Moses then went on to work for an infectious disease Institute for three…
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Ann Morgan is new to the world podcast production and joins Graham Brown the founder of Asia Tech Podcast and myself in our latest conversation recorded in the Asia Tech Podcast studio for the Ask Me Anything Podcast, where we discuss podcasting with a focus on Ann’s questions as she navigates the world of podcasting from…
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Graham Brown is the founder of Asia Tech Podcast. This is our second one on one conversation and was recorded in the ATP studio for the Ask Me Anything Podcast, where we discuss podcasting with a focus on Asia along with the wider personal aspects of podcasting. “Now a podcast is personal as you say. So…
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Graham Brown is the founder of Asia Tech Podcast. In this conversation Graham tells us about his journey from an AI graduate in the 90’s, when there was no demand, becoming an entrepreneur in several industries, going into semi-retirement to travel the world, before being lured back to the world of entrepreneurship in Singapore. “If you…
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John Cheng, Aaron Wong and Wynne Peh are three participants of Feed Camp 2018 and we find out the background to their participation The issue and what if a solution is not found stated by John from Cheng Yew Heng Candy Factory. “… even in FEED Camp 2018 which is really about feeding, you know…
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Glenn van Zutphen is the founder of VanMedia Group a company he founded over twelve years ago and based on his knowledge of over twenty-five years as an international journalist. The mission he chose is to guide thought leaders to significantly shape their organisation and industry by creating and communicating provocative & memorable messages across digital…
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Virginia Cha and Petrina Lim discuss Feed Camp 2018. Virginia Cha, professor-in-residence at Platform E and Petrina Lim, Head for the Centre for Applied Nutrition at Temasek Polytechnic. Feed Camp 2018 is an initiative orgainsed at PlatformE in which Virginia and Petrina are key participants. The issue as thought out by Virginia. “Wondering out loud, you know we’re…
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Jeroen van Overbeek is the founder of Social Impakt a social impact enterprise. Previously he spent over twenty years working in manufacturing in Europe and Asia. He then decided he wanted to change track and switch to making a social impact. The mission he chose was to bring clean water to South East Asia specifically Bali…
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Muriel Boutin-Becuwe, was an entrepreneur I met a few months after I arrived in Singapore in October, 2016, you can listen to our conversation in episode EIA 032 where she discussed her start-up, which was focused on environmental sustainability and social impact. Recently Muriel has become involved with a not-for-profit organisation The Young Professionals’ Group (YPG). In…
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Craig DeLarge is a digital healthcare executive in the Pharma Industry. In a career that spans over thirty years. His focus has developed into challenging leadership roles that have advanced digital health outcomes globally. From his base in the USA specific projects included digital mental health, digital healthcare strategy development education & advisory and change leadership…
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Chris Morris is a Relationship manager & Entrepreneur his previous career roles have been with NHS Trusts and Department of the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs in the UK. This was before setting up a new life in Singapore where he initially supported his wife’s career before finding a role in Change Management and then as…
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Wilson Chew is a User Experience designer with a varied background that revolves around the power of the story. He is also a Co-Founder and Content Strategist of REASSEMBLE, a start-up, which came into existence in March 2018. In previous roles Wilson has worked as a digital marketer and charity fundraising coordinator, Where he made use…
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Christie Fernandez is an Entrepreneur on a mission to create a positive impact in clean transportation & energy in the emerging markets of the ASEAN region, Indian subcontinent, Africa & South America. Christie is the Founder of Sooorya EV, which is headquartered in Singapore and is focused on providing affordable, comfortable & eco-friendly transportation. What’s unique…
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Gary Guwe is one of the cofounders of the Business Development Society of Singapore. In the previous podcast, EIA 037, I had conversations his fellow cofounder Gunes Altungunes, and a couple of attendees. At the time Gary Guwe was out of the country and Gunes suggested that I return at a later event and speak with…
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Güneş AltunGüneş, Chris Dawson and Norrapat Shih are three attendees that attended a recent event in Singapore. Güneş AltunGüneş is a Director of Marketing, Chris Dawson is a Director of Business Development and Norrapat Shih is a Research Fellow at National University of Singapore. The event was organised by the Business Development Society of Singapore. The…
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Shubham Barat, Anushka Singh, Anchal Gupta and Vipul Srivastava are four of the staff members that work with Abhinav Sharma the CEO and Tanisha Chawla the COO, of the startup FocusDigit. An eCommerce platform that provides sellers with end-to-end solution to reach their customers online across multiple channels. In the previous podcast “Supplier and Client Fighting…
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Abhinav Sharma is the CEO and Tanisha Chawla is the COO, entrepreneurs of the startup FocusDigit. An eCommerce platform that provides sellers with end-to-end solution to reach their customers online across multiple channels. Abhinav and Tanisha live and work in Delhi, India and represent the growing number of entrepreneurs that are building companies successfully out…
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JC Sekar is a cofounder of the startup AcuiZen. A startup that is looking at simplifying training and empower a dynamic and dispersed workforce. JC as he is know has after a career that spans 3 decades in the corporate world decided to take the plunge and become an entrepreneur. This is based on the belief…
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Adeesh Agarwal, is the founder of the startup dKreator, a furniture marketplace personalised to a buyers preferences. It applies data science to connect buyers ‘likes’ to a sellers products. Its aim is to get buyers to collaborate, discover products and social proofs, manage their budget and buy the product using its online platform. Adeesh has diverse…
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Muriel Boutin-Becuwe, is a Co-founder of PAPAYAPATHS and Originator of the H3Rs Giveaways Program, a business focused on environmental sustainability and social impact. Muriel previously worked for Schlumberger in North and South America, Europe and Asia, learning a great deal in her various roles. Now an entrepreneur based in Singapore we spoke together a few weeks before the…
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Mark Kay is the CEO and Founder of MJ Creative Ventures; a company that specialises in providing mobile friendly, SEO optimised websites for Small Business owners and non-profits. This is a follow on from the previous podcasts where we discuss how small business owners can develop their websites in order to improve their business. In this…
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Amy Picanço, Is the Managing Director and Founder of Aym Designs. An interior design startup based in Singapore. At heart Amy is a creative but is just as passionate about the business aspects of running a startup. This insightful and balanced approach is the key to why Aym Designs is making steady consistent progress in the…
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Mark Kay is the CEO and Founder of MJ Creative Ventures; a company that specialises in providing mobile friendly, SEO optimised websites for Small Business owners and non-profits. This is a follow on from the previous podcasts where we discuss how small business owners can develop their websites in order to improve their business. In this…
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Daryl Saw is the CEO of the Stewords Riverboat a food and beverage facility that caters for 100 diners as well as having a bar for 150, which is located at the Marina South Pier in Singapore. “A large portion of the young people want to start their own cafes… but they are not aware of…
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Mark Kay is the CEO and Founder of MJ Creative Ventures; a company that specialises in providing mobile friendly, SEO optimised websites for Small Business owners and nonprofits. This is a follow on from the previous two podcasts where we discuss how small business owners can develop their websites in order to improve their business. In…
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Mark Kay is the CEO and Founder of MJ Creative Ventures; a company that specialises in providing mobile friendly, SEO optimised websites for Small Business owners and nonprofits. This is a follow on from the last podcasts where we began taking a look at how small business owners could develop their websites in order to improve…
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Mark Kay Mark Kay is the CEO and Founder of MJ Creative Ventures, a company that specialises in providing mobile friendly, SEO optimised websites for Small Business owners and nonprofits. This is the first in a series of podcasts to help small business owners improve their websites in order Reason why a business have a website.…
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Jane Jia, Jia Wenting Jane Jia, AKA Jia Wenting is the founder of Pawnstar, Shanghai. As sustainability, recycling and upcycling become more main-stream Jane positions herself as a pioneer in the changes that are taking place in China by breaking the negative traditional view of second hand clothing and goods in the Middle Kingdom. Passing through the…
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Nick Moritz Nick Moritz is the founder Wolfpack Response Limited, Shanghai (上海狼群信息技术有限公司). He is an entrepreneur from Detroit Michigan, United States and graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in communication. After graduating he moved to Chicago for a couple of years where he worked as an IT salesman for CDW a large third-party reseller…
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Morry Morgan Morry Morgan is the Managing Director as well as Head of Consulting at ClarkMorgan Ltd., an award winning corporate training firm that develops teams and individuals of multinational companies across the Asia Pacific region, in particularly China, Singapore and Australia. His team works with HR Directors, Managing Directors and APAC Business Leaders post-merger, or…
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Barbara Yu Larsson Barbara Yu Larsson is the founder and CEO of PAKT, which is a Hong Kong-based startup which offers a creative tech solution to the acute space issue that plague all city dwellers globally. Prior to launching her business, Barbara had careers in investment banking and executive search in New York, London and Hong…
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William Leong William Leong worked in Hong Kong for nine years before moving to China in 2001. He is one of the two founding partners of Willsonn Partners Limited, which has been involved in providing accounting services in China since 2003, and has offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Malaysia and Singapore. He has a total…
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Paul Hu Shownotes: Paul Hu is the General Manager of the Naked Hub on Fuxing Road in the heart Shanghai. This Naked Hub is first in the series of four planned to create a creative co-working community that brings together a cool, fun, diverse group of companies and people where everyone shares resources and helps each…
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Shownotes: Peter Lloyd is a very different type of entrepreneur. In his own word he is “Hong Kong British, whatever that is?” He is an interfaith minister, psychotherapist, and importer. He has worked as a journalist, started a publishing company, an online magazine, and also writes articles for newspapers, magazines and websites. It was in his…
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Shownotes Ben Ivey is a young entrepreneur from the United Kingdom. Ben graduated from Exeter University in 2014 and has visited China twice as a student to gain living and business experience, which he is now using to build a start-up in Shanghai while at the same time applying his expertise as a productivity specialist and…
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Shownotes Jonathan Brown from Edinburgh, Scotland and Liang Sun from Shanghai, China they are both business consultants and have created a positive business relationship. Jonathan is a senior executive and an industrialist who has worked in seven countries, started five companies two for himself and three for employers. His passion for China started back in 1983…
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Shownotes Drew Campbell is an Australian national. He is the Founder & CEO of WHS – which is the first independent retail chain of health food stores in Mainland China. His company is the first resident of a new workspace in Shanghai called the Node, and by whose management we were invited. He talks openly and frankly…
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Shownotes: Jeronimo Ramos Leon is a Mexican national and an engineer by training. One of the warmest and friendliest people that I have met anywhere in the world. He grew up on the family cocoa farm in a place called Cardenas in the State of Tabasco, Mexico, which had a population of about 5,000. After school…
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The first series is now over and you may have noticed that there have only been thirteen casts out of fifteen. The reason for this is that two of the episodes didn’t quite fit in with the Entrepreneurs in action theme. We may bring them to you in the future but at this stage it is…
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Thomas Koenig Thomas Koenig discusses his five reasons why businesses fail. He also gives us the reasons why he believes that entrepreneurs are the future for jobs, the importance of creating a business plan that contains a business model in order to be successful, the three approaches that an entrepreneur can call upon to compete in…
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Emily Zheng and Jeremy Ann both took part in TechYiZu’s HackYiZu 2015. Emily is from London and has a financial investment background. However she has recently switched to working for a tech startup property platform that serves the worldwide Chinese community. She is new to Hackathons and uses them to learn about the tech startup world,…
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Lionello Lunesu, Kent Zaitlik and Noah Solnick are three Techyizu volunteers and organisers of Hackyizu 2015. Each briefly tells their own story of their journey in technology, their experience as entrepreneurs in China, the enjoyment they get from helping others develop and improve in the world of technology through their work with Techyizu and the events it…
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Lucio Pentagna Lucio Pentagna explains how after a career as a company director he left his native Brazil and sailed around the Caribbean and to Europe. He then moved to Shanghai where he discovered his passion for making things and proceeded to set up XinFab, which enables the Shanghai community of makers, inventors, startups and entrepreneurs access…
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Kevin Chen reveals how his lead in the recent HackYiZu 2015, which is a Techyizu-style Hackathon held in Shanghai held over two days for people with a passion for technology, entrepreneurship, and social innovation. Where the teams of men and women, experienced and non-experienced created hardware solutions to fun problems. He explained how full-training was given…
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Simon Henry gives a detailed look behind the scene at Juwai.com, an award winning online platform. His first startup after seven startups for others after he and his cofounder identified a blue ocean opportunity in the Chinese real estate industry that is being executed exactly and according to the business plan. Show notes 1. Introduction: (0:00…
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Anna Kuznetsova describes the route she took and alternatives to become an art historian and specialist in the art business, and using her experience of linking the Russian and Chinese arts world, relates the opportunities that exist to those willing to take up the challenge of cross-cultural arts projects, the role reputation and connections plays and…
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Karen Contet Karen Contet discusses her role in two startups that motivates and encourages others by her example, ’Women Who Code HK and W Hub’, insights into what it takes to switch industries and career path, her approach to maintaining a rich balance to all aspects of life, and advice to just starting out…
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Raphael Cohen is an entrepreneur that specialises in the development, implementation and support of new internet companies in Asia. In this episode he gives insights into the challenges faced when creating a startup in the Hotel Booking industry and gives advice to just starting out entrepreneurs. Show Notes: Introduction: (00:00.0 – 00:01.9) The host introduces the…
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Michael Zakkour, is an author, writer, public speaker and lecturer. In this episode he talks about his latest book “Chinese Super Consumers” and the influence that they are around the world, as well as general insights and advice that can help business formulate their strategy. Show Notes: Introduction: (0:00.0 – 1:05.2) Introduction to the guest, Michael…
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Michelle Yeh, a health & beauty industry expert and green lifestyle advocate, as the founder and CEO explains the motivation behind GREEN & Gorgeous, formerly known as myLOHAS beauty – China’s first natural healthy beauty& lifestyle company, how being green doesn’t mean you have to compromise on beauty, a vision for online commerce, how to evaluate the…
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Jean Zimmermann gives a very personal and passionate view of his journey to create China’s first home grown luxury cosmetics brand, Ba Yan Ka La. The professional challenges, the personal challenge that almost lost him the company, and it’s impact; and advises that maybe you should consider taking. Show Notes: Introduction (0:00-0:30): Neville J McKenzie, the…
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Stone Shi Stone Shi explains, how he sees himself and the motivation behind his startup ‘BonApp’ formerly ‘IndulgeSmart’. The keys vital to success and the criteria used to select both investors and partners. An approach to relaxation that he applies and instills in his colleagues, and advice he gives to someone just starting. Title: Introduction and Background (00:00.5,…
