January 28, 2020

As a business consultant to SMEs, very often I receive inquiries to help draft a business plan. 10 out of 10 of these business plans are either to get a loan or to pitch for funding. I always tell them that good numbers (positive indications) in your business plan stand a good chance, but one

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January 14, 2020

Which Type of Entrepreneur are You? After years of engaging with SMEs, and I can safely say that there are basically 3 types of entrepreneurs today: The Cockroaches The Deer The Wolves The cockroaches are the lone rangers. Able to survive in any tough environment, they are the kind to not be shocked even if

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December 10, 2019

Here’s a standard entrepreneurial journey. You have a business idea and you try to run the business on a small scale. Once it starts making some money, you scale it up. If you lose money, you either scale it back down or go back to the drawing board by changing the business idea… right? Some

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April 27, 2019

Quoted from the Avengers Movie, Nick Furry: “There was an idea, called the Avengers Initiative. The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people, see if they could become something more. See if they could work together when we needed them to fight the battles we never could.” Even super heroes cannot fight

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March 4, 2019

Some people may relate entrepreneurship to a marathon whereas some may relate it to a triathlon. Personally, I associate entrepreneurship closely to burden races like the Spartan Race. It is not that I’m looking down on other sports but simply, I have it in my mind every time I partake a Spartan Race. Spartan Race

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