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Howard Schultz (1953-)
"It is possible to start from nothing and achieve even beyond your dreams."
Debunking the Myths about Entrepreneurship here Are entrepreneurs born? Endowed with some mythical attributes that made them what they are. Could there be indeed a genetic predisposition to be successful entrepreneurs? Even Minister Mentor Lee was initially led to believe that genes ultimately rule. Thursday, March 31, 2005 
What Singaporeans Lack as Entrepreneurs According to The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2001 Executive Report, Singapore scored the third lowest rate of entrepreneurial activity. In the speech addressed by then Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, he highlighted four main values which Singaporeans lack as wannabes entrepreneurs. Wednesday, March 30, 2005
What Does It Take To Be An Entrepreneur? Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew sparked off a small debate last year (2004) when he suggested that Singapore should free up its public sector scholars into the private sector. Not managers they should become but entrepreneurs, he added. Scholars Becoming Entrepreneurs? The idea struck me as not only preposterous but is doomed from the start. Sunday, March 13, 2005
Singapore Success Stories: Dr George Quek (1957-) "Youth is an advantage." -- Dr George Quek
Singapore Success Stories: Ron Sim (1959-) Osim International Ltd, founded in 1979 "Sim is my surname, and the O is actually the globe." -- Ron Sim
Mary Kay Ash (1915-2001), Mary Kay Cosmetics Inc, founded in 1963
Mary Kay Ash was the cosmetics executive who built from a mere $5,000 into $1.2 billion business empire with over 850,000 consultants in 37 countries peddling her products. Sunday, March 13, 2005
Marc Andreessen (1971-) Netscape Communications Corp., founded in 1994
Knowing the immense amount of information that remained untapped in the World Wide Web, Andreessen set out to write an easy-to-use browser, not for just computer geeks, but for any person on the street. The result is the indispensable Internet browser we now take for granted. Sunday, March 13, 2005
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More than just a cup of coffee; it's become a way of life. Howard Schultz's vision and audacity has reinvented the simple Italian coffeehouse culture into an American national pastime, and rapidly growing into a global phenomenon. From four obscure coffee powder retailer shops in 1986, Schulz has since brewed up an incredible 10,000 strong coffee specialty bars worldwide today.
A classic rags to riches tale, George Quek who came from a humble background ventured to Taiwan in his early twenties with only $5,000 in his pocket. Twenty years on, he started BreadTalk and totally transformed the bland and banal task of bread buying into the most charming and delightful gourmet experience for consumers. 
The healthcare product maker has come a long from peddling Hokkein prawn noodles, encyclopaedias, pots and pans, electrical products, door-to-door to the current health lifestyle company, which its brand name Osim alone worth S$203 million.
Arguably, no woman has played a more important role in the advancement and empowerment of women to be their own boss than she.
More than just a little luck, brains and timing, it was Marc Andreessen's vision for a user-friendly browser that for a large part had fuelled the growth of the Internet. 
