Tweet House of Seafood@180 owner believes hard work is the way out of poverty and he has never taken a break Entrepreneur Francis Ng has not gone on vacation all his life. In fact, since he set up his seafood restaurant business House of Seafood@180 in April 2008, Mr Ng, 38, has been working from [...]
Tweet Prudential Assurance’s top adviser Celene Chen learnt the importance of having proper insurance protection the hard way. She was 17 when her stepfather collapsed suddenly in the bathroom after a blood vessel burst in his brain. He underwent brain surgery and suffered a major stroke. ‘The hospital bills came up to about $80,000. That [...]
Tweet After a set of personal and financial setbacks, it’s smooth sailing now for entrepreneur Entrepreneur Daphne Fan has seen dark days in her life. After the death of her first child – due to a complicated heart problem – she quit her job as head of e-commerce and IT at former Translink Freight Forwarding [...]
Tweet Mr Gerald Foo, chairman of land-based investments firm Walton International Asia, puts his money where his mouth is. Since he joined Walton in 2003, the 57-year-old has invested a total of US$150,000 (S$186,000) in his portfolio of 15 units of land in Canada and the United States, through the firm. The firm identifies plots [...]
Tweet ‘A house is not my retirement plan’. Entrepreneur prefers to channel savings to businesses and other investments. Lured by the excitement and potential of doing business over the Internet, Canadian Derek Gehl could not wait to start his own in 1998. He was 21 and had just obtained a technical diploma from CDI [...]
