创业难，守也更难，弃业最难。
Of the perils of businesseurship
The correct product range and spirit of business for given brand name
I manage multiple brands, all of which market and sell their respective range of leather goods and services. Generally, entrepreneurs recognise the need to inject a certain business spirit into their painstakingly chosen and designed brand. However, most if not all have not considered that a certain brand name has its inherent spirit inseparable from […]
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The first time the concept of money hit me
I was the class treasurer in ACJC. On one particular month, I had to collect $50.00 from my classmates to pay for the upkeep of the school swimming pool and printing of lecture notes. With something like $1500.00 worth of cold hard cash in my hands, I couldn’t, for the first time ever, wrap my […]
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My life is commercialised whether I like it or not
Everything we say, we do, we buy, we engage is a result of commercialisation but in someone else’s favour. For example my mum buys stones. If I am without choice a commercial statistic, I can seek to reverse the direction even though I can’t unplug.
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The rent setback
Compare an employee who earns $4000.00 a month and a small businesseur who makes $4000.00 in revenue. Let us assume both generated $4000.00 because both put in equal amounts of work in their job and trade respectively. But do you as the business owner really bring home $4000.00? This is a question that needs to […]
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The more I accumulate the more I fear losing
I graduated from college hopeful, optimistic and had an extremely great appetite for risk. I had nothing and hence nothing to lose. Now I find myself in a position with alot more; power, money, autonomy, an identity and most importantly an awesome relationship with my dad and mum because of my involvement in my family […]
MoreFeeling embarrassed and paiseh over taking my friends’ monies
When I first started my business, something that took me quite some time to accustom myself with was taking money from my friends. The kind of moral accountability that accompanied their support for my business, ie when they bought belts from me, was quite choking. Will my leather be too weak? Will my buckles break […]
MoreAhead of the game
It is my prerogative to say now at age 26+ that I have persevered, albeit only three years, going through countless ups and downs, taking the largely unbeaten path to achieve my mid-term targets. In the twinkle of an eye, I have been rebuilding my family business for three years running and am still going […]
MoreWhere is the glory in Entrepreneuring?
“You have staff working for you, don’t you?” “How’s business?” “So what do you do exactly?” The truths to these questions are usually less ideal than the answers. The glory in being an entrepreneur lies in the success of having emerged victorious, of being the self-made man from scratch. In the meantime, weather the indignity.
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