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JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs
Objectives
• Identify characteristics you share with entrepreneurs.
• Create. a Personal Entrepreneur Profile card
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JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs
• Famous Entrepreneurs:
- Education
- Profile
- Power
- Vision
- Success
• Who are they?
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• 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
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http://www.hyflux.com
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• 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.
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JA It’s My Business! Celebrate Entrepreneurs http://www.banyantree.com
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• 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.
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1988, a small retail outlet in Far East Plaza
http://www.77thstreet.com
2004, 77 th Street Plaza in Beijing

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
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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.
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• 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 .
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http://www.fareast.com.sg/
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• 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.
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http://asia.creative.com/
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• 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.
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• Home: Singapore
• Education: Business Administration (Finance) Degree
• Profile: Started a Apex-Pal with SGD100,000 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.
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http://sakaeholdings.com/
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You will now complete your Personal Entrepreneur Profile Cards and know what type of Entrepreneur you are.
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Activity:
Personal Entrepreneur
Profile Card
• Now you will create a Personal
Entrepreneur Profile Card for two stages of your life:
 the present
 the future.
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Personal Profile Card (Sample)
My Life Now
Home:
Education:
Profile:
Power:
Vision:
Success:
Singapore
Student
Likes science and digging in the dirt. Has a great bug collection and loves to garden.
Ability to work hard for long hours without complaint. A love for bugs, a desire to help people, and a dream to travel.
Should study bugs and gardening, and volunteer at a science or horticulture center: Needs a passport to travel.
Fastest eater in Secondary 1.
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Personal Profile Card (Sample)
My Future Life
Home:
Education:
Profile:
Power:
Vision:
Success:
Sydney, Australia
Ph.D. in Entomology
Owns a bug farm and sells bugs to farmers that help their crops.
Discovered a bug that eats other bugs and disease spots that harm crops. Found out everything about them before anyone else.
Beat out all competitors by being the first to find and sell the good bugs. This business makes a difference in people's lives.
More than 20-billion bugs sold. Crop yield for farmers has increased by 50 percent.
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Recap:
GOLDEN RULES
1. Fill A Need
2. Know Your Customer and Product
3. Be Creative and Innovative
4. Believe in Yourself
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