Entrepreneurship & Guts

July 9, 2011

(Shanghai, China) Always have a dream in sight and reach for it. Not sure if I ever mentioned this before but during my last semester in college, I took up a course on Entrepreneurship and its semester long group project involved writing up a credible business plan, one that someone could actually bring it out [...]

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GIS Taiwan 2011

June 19, 2011

(Shanghai, China) Ping An Insurance – Wow, it’s headquarter is extremely beautiful. I’d been accepted to the GIS 2011 conference again. I’d attended it during 2009 and meet great friends, and interacted with smarter peers. This year, my entry was among the ten best entries and there was supposed to be additional incentives to the [...]

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Young, gifted and blocked

May 23, 2011

Korea needs fewer wage slaves and more entrepreneurs EARLIER this year Humax, a maker of digital set-top boxes based in Seoul, announced that its annual revenues had exceeded 1 trillion won ($865m) for the first time. For South Korea, this is something of a milestone. Humax is a classic start-up, founded in 1989 after a [...]

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Competitive Strategy Game: Week 8, 9 & 10

May 17, 2011

(Washington DC) Home to American policies’ decision making Almost a month had passed by since this game ended. My memory of the thought process that went into making the decisions is a little hazy by now. After Week 10 results are announced, the cost for each tram was finally revealed to others. We looked back [...]

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Graduation

May 8, 2011

(Ann Arbor, Michigan) Big Stadium – The Michigan Difference For today, goodbye. For tomorrow, good luck. And forever, Go Blue! I had been slow updating about my life recently. It was not the lack of content, rather the lack of willingness to sit down and start typing it out. Also, another tidbit to add here. [...]

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BP Trading Simulation Challenge

March 30, 2011

(Sandusky, Ohio) Crash and burn. I saw the BP’s participation certificate tucked somewhere on my table and decided to recount the event that occurred few weeks ago. BP came to campus and provide a trading simulation exercise on crude oil. It was supposed to be a competition among all the participants doing thee simulation. I [...]

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Competitive Strategy Game: Week 6 & 7

March 25, 2011

(Boston, Mass.) Chapel within Boston University. Basically, there are not a lot of changes within this two period. Each firms are playing cat and mouse with each other. My group has been trying to undercut each other in the effort to drive other firm out of the competition. Considering the short period of time left, [...]

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Competitive Strategy Game: Week 5

March 11, 2011

(Providence, Rhode Island) Fear not the ambiguity that lies in front of you. Market update for the previous period produced a lot of headache, for me especially.  We were too greedy in Market A and did not expected another new entrant to undercut us so much as the was an equilibrium with other firms in [...]

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Stories from Class

March 10, 2011

(Orlando, Florida) Hogwarts School of Magic: It’s all magic to me. Here’s two laugh worthy stories from one of my classes this week. That’s why it’s nice to study in Michigan, the faculties here are blessed with great experiences, and often funny encounters. Story 1 This story was from a professor’s experience in the 80’s. [...]

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Competitive Strategy Game: Week 4

February 24, 2011

(Orlando, Florida) Mickey, cast a spell and dissolve my worries away. Week 4 Updates from the previous week, we sold off all of the productions and netted some profits. But considering that we sold out, there’s the unfortunate hindsight that we are charging too low and do not command enough market share. So, the challenge [...]

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