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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	Saturday, July 09, 2005

Business Failure highest in the First two Years   (EntrepreViews) According to Small Business Trends, a survey noted that, across sectors, 66 percent of new establishments were still in existence 2 years after their birth, and 44 percent were still in existence 4 years after. It noted that most of the businesses do indeed have a higher rate of failure in the first 2 years.  The sector with the lowest rate of failure was in education and health services, while the highest rate of failure was in information technology.      5:46:06 PM     comment []   trackback []

Be Careful what You Write in your Blogs   ( tidbits) Blogs are everywhere.  Estimates today indicate there are more than 20 or 30 million blogs. Surveys completed in recent months by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that nearly a fifth of teens who have access to the Web have their own blogs Blogs are where people vent their feelings, share their innermost thoughts, and also their secrets, and it is open to anybody in the world. It creates an issue that what you confide in your blog now may come back to haunt you in the future.  There has been cases where a daughter who confessed allegedly of lesbian practices soon was easily traced to a father who wanted to run for public office. With the ease of finding exact information, and tracing, it is best that people be cautious on what they confide for all the world to see... <more>.     5:03:55 PM     comment []   trackback []

Tech Companies are Starting to Mature  (techdrivenlife) You know that the tech industry is maturing, because most of them have more cash now than they would like to have.  Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, Oracle ,Nokia, Yahoo, Google, Ebay, and others are all reeling in cash.  Some used the cashto buy back stock, some declared stock dividends, some buy up companies, but only a small percentage of them are investing in research and development. It seems that most would rather hold on to their cash rather than go back to the old days when you mak ea huge gamble on a new technlogy.  Even Microsoft, after increasing their research and development and investing in some new ventures, still finds more cash than it wants, and decided to declare a stock divided.  What happens when companies that is now more cautious than ever. What will it do for innovation?   Does it mean that people are now hitting a blank wall on what to invent next?  Does that indicate that technology industry is mature? More detail reports in Yahoo   4:59:59 PM     comment []   trackback []

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