Program Overview

In a Listening to Your Business workshop, participants:

Examine their businesses with strengths, weaknesses and opportunities Visualize their businesses three years in the future Formulate internal planning processes to establish interim goals and strategies Identify resources to assist in reaching business goals Examine and respond to challenges and transitions Develop action plans to grow their businesses Explore operational systems needed to support growing businesses Discuss ways to improve profitability and financial performance

Target Audience

Specifically designed for aspiring entrepreneurs to access their passion, vision and be prepared to be an intentional entrepreneur

Program Schedule

Date*: 2 December 2016, Friday , 9:00 am to 1:00 pm

Venue: 50 Nanyang Drive, Nanyang Technological University

Cost^: $500 per pax

* Class will commence only if there are 20 or more participants

^Terms and conditions applied

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Learning Outcomes

Successful completion of this course will increase participant knowledge and ability to:

Instructor Profile

Mr. Roderick Chia is Managing Director for IDM Venture Capital. He is also heading Spiral Communications and Spiral Commodity. Prior to this, he spent 5.5 years in the online gaming industry at Infocomm Asia Holdings assuming the role of CTO and VP for Strategic Projects and achieved a profit for S$7.6M for the company. A serial entrepreneur, inventor, and founding President of Innovators and Entrepreneurs Association of Singapore, Roderick led his management team into a series of entrepreneurial ventures which became their excellent track record. In 1999, they founded Postkid and grew it into a

phenomenal success. He was awarded a finalist for the Phoenix Award in recognition of his entrepreneurial determination and strong leadership skill. Roderick is also the co-inventor of the patented RIDN technology and was honored with the Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Award, for the fifth time. Roderick graduated from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He also obtained a master degree from NTU and University of Washington.

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About Kauffman Foundation

The late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Kauffman established the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation as the first foundation to focus on entrepreneurship as one of its primary areas of interest.

An epitome of American entrepreneurship, Kauffman saw business enterprise as one of the most effective ways to unleash human potential and stir the economy to life. He viewed entrepreneurship as the most powerful strategy to help individuals gain economic independence and serve as a catalyst for creating jobs and wealth in society.

Today, the Kauffman Foundation is devoted to advancing entrepreneurship as one of the fundamental aspects of life in the United States. Focusing on research, education, technical assistance, and policy, the Kauffman Foundation works to increase the number and success rate of individuals engaged in the process of starting or growing their own business or idea. The Foundation works with partners to design programs based on the proven principles, techniques, and leadership tactics that make starting and growing a business a more common choice for Americans of all walks of life. The Foundation is based in Kansas City, Mo. and has around $2 billion in assets.

About Kauffman FastTrac®

Created by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the first foundation to focus on entrepreneurship as one of its primary areas of interest since 1993, FastTrac® is one of America’s leading entrepreneurial learning programs and remains on the cutting edge of providing programs that are written by entrepreneurs, facilitated by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs. Over the years, FastTrac® has served more than 350,000 existing and aspiring entrepreneurs in the United States.

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has achieved the rare accolade of being Asia Pacific’s first Kauffman Campus and Nanyang Technopreneurship Center (NTC) is privileged to be the only authorized licensee of the prestigious FastTrac® program in Singapore. Taught by Kauffman certified facilitators, the Singapore version is based on the highly sought after FastTrac® program, supplemented with best teaching practices of NTC and aimed to help participants to hone the skills needed to create, manage, and grow a successful business.

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About Nanyang Technopreneurship Center

Established in 2001, Nanyang Technopreneurship Center (NTC) is a multi-disciplinary university-level centre which serves as the focal point of technology entrepreneurship development within the University and the region, where creativity and entrepreneurship will thrive, leading to the creation of new business ventures that will provide the new engine of growth for Singapore.

NTC equips its students with the requisite knowledge and skills in entrepreneurship competence through the Master of Science in Technopreneurship and Innovation Program (MSc TIP) for postgraduates, the Minor in Entrepreneurship Program (MiE) for undergraduates, the Entrepreneurship Development Program for executives, as well as several national and campus wide events and activities held year round. As part of its mission to deliver a holistic entrepreneurship education, NTC encourages passion as a key motivator for dreams to be realized; inculcates an entrepreneurial mindset to initiate innovative changes wherever possible; harnesses technology as an enabling tool for learning and business.

About Nanyang Technological University

Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) is ranked 13th globally. It is also placed 1st amongst the world’s best young universities. The university has colleges of Engineering, Business, Science, Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, and an Interdisciplinary Graduate School. It also has a medical school, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, set up jointly by Imperial College London.

NTU provides a high-quality global education to about 33,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students. The student body includes top scholars and international Olympiad medalists from the region and beyond. Hailing from 80 countries, the university's 4,300-strong faculty and research staff bring dynamic international perspectives and years of solid industry experience.

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Contact Information

Ms. Nora Wu

Nanyang Technopreneurship Center

Address:

50 Nanyang Drive, Research Techno Plaza Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637553

Website:

www.ntc.ntu.edu.sg

Email:

fasttrac@ntu.edu.sg

Telephone:

65922598

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