Business Plan Presentation

It's over in that 15 minutes. That few minutes of attention when you get to present all that you had done for the past few months. The story that was written, edited, and edited again to be presented by 4 authors to an audience of venture capitalists, professors and students. Finger crossed that it would gain acceptance and recognition by the experts. The countless hours since we embarked on the journey, working through day and night to try and do NUS proud in the Wharton Business Plan competition, at the same time trying to pull through EAS 446: engineering entrepreneurship II.

To Jeffrey (our CEO), Raj and Estee, can you guys still remember the time when we meet after work every weekday from 7pm till 12 midnight just to conduct concept testing? Or the Sats and Sundays spent at Jeff's house figuring out our value propositions, the business model, and our marketing startegy? Remember when our morale was at an all time low and we just felt like giving up? How we successful pissed Estee off and she locked herself at home? Things seemed so comical now.

Jeff's place became super not productive and we shifted to a more professional setting, the science center. Too bad there's no pictures.

Amidst all the hard work, we took a day off or two each week for bonding sessions and to relax.

All these efforts and time spent was unleashed out in the 15 minutes of presentation and the 15 minutes of questions and answers that followed.

Jeffrey's slides proved to be the talkpoint of the day, and hopefully in years to come :P as Etoims wowed the audience with the many animations and our video of our product.

I guess it was the same with the other groups. The sweat and tears everybody had poured into their business plan, all for this 15 minutes of presentation to gain the recognition by the venture capitalists.

We made it. The VCs were totally impressed by our work. It was a hard and tiring journey, but one which strengthened the bonds between NCBVians.

kudos to Symmatrix who got awarded most improved business plan by our peers and Peiling who got awarded most value added by Professor Babin!

6th Batch NOC rulez!

Business Plan presentation in my dreams

Today's my Business Plan 446 final presentation.

Last night dreamt that I was presenting it, not only to the class, but to the whole world!

Here's how the dream goes:

Someone was presenting in front of me. She halfway broke down, and thus the MC ushered me onto stage. I asked the MC whether the nation was watching because the audience in front was so big that it seemed like I am on a WWF Ring instead. The MC said "not only the nation, but the whole universe!"

So cool, can talk to the whole universe! Shiok haha. Anyway, I began speaking, and the words are exactly the same as my rehearsals the previous night. I turned around to look whether my slides are working. The slides are also the same as the ones in the real world, and I can even read the words on it. After I went on to my second slides, the slides suddenly cok up. It went to the slides of the girl that broke down before me.

I exclaimed "SHIT" (yes, in front of the whole universe who is watching), and started clicking on the wireless controller. After a few seconds, Neeraj came on stage and said "dude, this is about 30 odd slides in front." I gave up on the controller and fiddled with the keyboard. It miraculously appeared. After a while, Estee and Jeffrey also came on stage and the 4 of us meddled around with the slides.

I woke up after that. hahaha.

(oi, stop saying I stressed. Just felt the dream very funny! This means well prepared to the point of transcienting reality ^^)

chicken thigh or chicken breast?

I prepared sphaghetti with chicken for lunch. As I cooked too much, I gave some to Niki when she came around the Sales Center. Because the meat was frozen, thus I had to fried the meat for a longer time.

Niki: 哇，味道不错勒。但是我比较喜欢 thigh meat.

me: 这是thigh meat.

Niki: 哇，能把 thigh meat 煮成 breast meat，功夫不错。

肥 B Vs 莱哪 in NCBV Platinum Chef

finalists:
Phebe
Lionel

Venue: W311

Judging place: E611

Judges:
Yap Pei Ling (visual effect)
Jeffrey Tiong
Jaron Liu
Iris Tan
Wayne Chia

Dish in contest: Black Herbal Chicken Soup

Time started: 3pm

Winner to be announced at a later entry...

A Competitor

Today right after I opened the sales center, a tall and handsome guy walked in.

I thought he was a potential customer, so I greeted him nicely.


He said "Can I have some information for my customer?"

I was not sure whether I heard that right. Nobody had walked in the front doors and asked for information for their customer before.

me: Pardon me? You interested in the condominium units? For yourself?

him: No, for my customer.

me: Just to inform you that we are not working with other agents for this business.

him: wow

me: but you can still have the information. You won't get any commission though.

him: why would I want to do that? I don't work for free.

he walked off. hahaha.

A Niche Market

All right guys, before you start sueing me for racism, hear me out...this is one great idea that might award me the Nobel Prize for Peace...

Was sitting in my office eating banana (very similar to how Newton sat under the apple tree) when a great idea crossed my mind. At this point, I must thank Wong Jiali (she insisted on acknowledgement) for being the apple that fell on Newton.

Having been immersed in a world of entrepreneurship, with this word appearing to me nearly every single day, having drank, eat and slept business plan, I finally decided on a niche market which nobody has ever exploited. The racists!

The Racists' Guild is one of its kind. Of course, only racists can join. No non-racists, no anti-racists whatsoever.

Here's the Rascists' Guild pledge to its members, and the members to one another:

We, the racists of the galaxy, pledge ourselves as one united people. Regardless of race, language or religion, to build a democratic guild, based on justice and equality, so as to achieve happiness, prosperity and peace for the galaxy.

This implies that racists from ALL races can join. Guess what this means? It means racists get to interact with other races!

Due diligence (as successful entrepreneurs must always conduct due diligence) has suggested that racists are racists because they do not understand each other. Thus, the Racists' Guild give them an opportunity to learn more about one another. In time to come, these racists will cease to become racists, and they will be expelled from the Guild to make room for other racists. This business model saves money for investors as the Guild do not need to expand to make way for more and more racists.

Now doesn't this value proposition deserves a Nobel Prize for Peace?

Arrival of Spring

Spring's here! Although the nights are still freezing cold, the days are getting warmer.

People are starting to walk around in t-shirt, there's even a half-naked man walking around as I walked to work today.

While stopping at the food truck at 11th Market to get my breakfast, caps were blown off people's heads and there's a mad chase to get their caps back. A cyclist got knocked over by the wind. Ouch! My laptop bag got knocked off my shoulder and landed on the floor with a thud.

The best thing was...when a woman pushing a baby tram pass my sales center door...the wind blew the door open and it knocked into the tram. haha....yah I know I seemed heartless...

but it's really funny what!