Visit to Big Bang Café
Today, Brenda and I visited Big Bang Café with the participants of China Business Exchange Program. Big Bang Café is located in the heart of Beijing’s CBD area, and is surrounded by the tall skyscrapers around it. The session started off with one of the partners, Jason, sharing with us his views about entrepreneurship. “Many of the successful entrepreneurs did not have the best or most brilliant ideas. They succeeded because they believe in what they are doing, persevere when things were hard and kept working towards their goals.” We then proceeded on to understand more about the...
Read MoreOur Excursion to Tianjin Eco-City
Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City, an hour’s train ride away from Beijing, was the result of a collaborative agreement between the governments of China and Singapore to jointly develop a socially harmonious, environmentally friendly and resource-conserving city in China. Hoping to learn more about this project, YEAN liaised with Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City for an industrial visit to the area (a component in the NOC program YEAN always look forward to!). Despite the immense disappointment of being rejected by NOC for our sponsorship, YEAN decided to self-fund and proceed on with our...
Read MoreSino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City Visit
Last weekend, YEAN embarked on our first self-funded industrial visit – to the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City. Arriving in Tianjin via the high-speed train! To give a short introduction, the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City is a collaboration between the governments of China and Singapore to develop a thriving city that is socially harmonious, environmentally-friendly and resource-efficient. The first of its kind, the Tianjin Ec0-City will then be a model for sustainable development for other cities in China. Looking at the eco city, we realised that many aspects were very much...
Read MoreThe visit to Chinaccelerator and why Dalian is a good place for startups
This post originally appeared on vanessatan.mobi. This time last week, I was on the train to Dalian to visit Chinaccelerator along with Duncan, Calvin as well as the YEAN peeps. The whole gang of us Some pictures while on our way to Chinaccelerator I recall Cyril, Founder of Chinaccelerator, mentioned that he had a surprise for us – it turned out that coincidentally, Sean, Managing Director of SOSventures, also flew into Dalian to visit Chinaccelerator as well. Sean and Cyril Cyril Sean giving an introduction [Edit 27th June @ 14:43h] And Cyril just reminded me – Before...
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