http://cheehoong.com starts with a dream, ends with a reality Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:55:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I received an invitation from Taylor's University College as a speaker to talk about entrepreneurship last week. The event titled "Cradle Commercialisation Workshop at Taylor's University College" is jointly organized by Taylor's University College and Cradle on the May 2010. The invitation surprised me. It is a ... http://cheehoong.com/my-life/the-invitation-as-a-speaker BOOTSTRAP OR DIE. Its time to tighten your belts Technopreneurs, funds are limited for the year 2010. According to source theStar inTech, 2010 Budget for Grant has been cut by RM 1 Billion, leaving RM 2.7 Bil to be handed to deserving applicants. The worst news for my company, is ... http://cheehoong.com/entrepreneur/lesser-funding-from-mosti-bad-news-for-technopreneur-for-the-year-of-tiger The ups and down were extreme within the past few months. Things seems great one moment and hopeless the next. One day you may think of being the next Google, and the next, you may be pondering how to let our loved ones know of our utter failure; and on ... http://cheehoong.com/my-life/the-emotional-roller-coaster There are 2 things in my mind keeps bothering me these days. First is a SALES CONTRACT~! SALES CONTRACT~! SALES CONTRACT~! SALES CONTRACT~! SALES CONTRACT~! SALES CONTRACT~! SALES CONTRACT~! SALES CONTRACT~! SALES CONTRACT~! SALES CONTRACT~! SALES CONTRACT~! SALES CONTRACT~! SALES CONTRACT~! SALES CONTRACT~! SALES CONTRACT~! SALES CONTRACT~! SALES CONTRACT~! SALES ... http://cheehoong.com/my-life/the-2-things-in-my-mind Back dated to 7-9 December 2009. MSC Malaysia kre8tif is the last event I attended in year 2009. Kre8tif Digital Conference, in the mission to showcase the best work from the Malaysian creative industry, and to invite many international industry experts to share their ... http://cheehoong.com/entrepreneur/kre8tif-the-last-event-i-went-for-the-year-2009 Time flies, since the day of being awarded with RM150K from pre-seed, 1 year passes like a blink of an eye. Life of an entrepreneur has never been easy as i have expected, but i didn’t expect it to be that tough. Through out the year, we have been focusing ... http://cheehoong.com/my-life/its-been-a-year “FREE”, from the author of “The Long Tail”, Chris Anderson. The word FREE, sounds cheap, sheepish and stingy. However, I found it to be intelligent, brilliant and fascinating in the sense of business and marketing strategy. Long before this book was published, the word “FREE” has come ... http://cheehoong.com/entrepreneur/the-free-model-cheap-but-intelligent According to the source from greyreview.com (The Unofficial Guide to MSC Malaysia ICON Grant) and MSC Malaysia, our PM announced the establishment of the MSC Malaysia ICON grant programme, with the amount of RM12.86 million allocation (under the second economic stimulus plan),  to spur the creation of local online ... http://cheehoong.com/entrepreneur/a-grant-for-contents-msc-malaysia-icon-grant-unofficial-guide I was brought up with Chinese education, my English is always broken. So, when comes to pitching, preparation and the flow of presentation is very much important to me. I attended a Startup Garage recently hosted by Entrepreneur.my. One of the session talks about pitching for MDeC pre-seed grant, conducted ... http://cheehoong.com/entrepreneur/lets-talk-about-pitching Malaysian Top model Amber Chia has now became the role model for all Malaysian startups. A lesson that should be learnt when dealing with businesses. According to the news in the recent papers (see: news 1, news 2), Amber ran into a business partnership with a friend ... http://cheehoong.com/entrepreneur/amber-chia-the-role-model-for-faulty-startups