Wilson Ng started helping the family business since 9 years old. Since then, he had dreamt to be a successful entrepreneur, one who starts great businesses  ( he has started 7) from scratch with insight, guts and initiative. He keeps his focus on growing the business by creating value-- not on politics, or wasteful distractions. He brings the same focus to community service, teaching, life and family.

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	Friday, July 01, 2005

A Great Lesson in Life (On Life ) Vivek Paul, who as CEO built Wipro into one of the outsourcing's heavy hitters, and ramped up its business from $150 million in 1999 to $1.4 billion in 2004 has left the company. He traced his great performance to an encounter with an elephant more than a dozen years ago, which helped him crystallized his philosophy in life. Paul was curious why an elephant tied to a small stake in the ground did not yank it up and be on its way. The animal's handler explained that baby elephants tied to similar stakes learn they can't break free. As elephants grow older and stronger, they don't test the stake again--thereby remaining trapped by what should be an obsolete restraint. "I said, 'By gosh! That's probably relevant to people as well,'" Paul said. Source:  Vivek Paul's Elephant Trick   6:04:16 PM     comment []   trackback []

A Great Time to be an Entrepreneur  (EntrepreViews) Joe Krauss, who has a great blog on entrepreneurship, and also founder of Excite, thinks it is a great time to be an entrepreneur.  In fact, he said it cost him $3,000,000 to start up Excite, but only $100,000 to launch his latest venture, JotSpot. He says hardware is cheaper, software is more powerful yet cheaper if not free, there is a lot of outsourcing to global countries at lower cost, and it is a faster and cheaper way to advertise through blogs, Search Engine Optimization, and the like instead of expensive tv and print advertising. He predicts <more>.... 5:18:45 PM     comment []   trackback []

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