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Your Instructors
Eric Tan | Director, The Resource Group
Eric is an expert in various aspects of human capital development, financial management, risk management and investment structuring. He is also a mentor for NTU, SMU, IES and ACE.
Topic: Business Model Canvas
The process of moving from an idea to the market takes more than just taking the leap. It requires a clear understanding of how the business can create value for the targeted segment through a product or services designed to deliver a value proposition that address a pain or help achieve a desired gain to the customers; and a robust business model is required to go-to-market. The lecture will be conducted using a structured evidence-based learning programme that focuses on the LEAN methodology to help the participants validate their product-market fit using the Value Proposition Canvas and Business Model Canvas.
Connect with Eric Tan: LinkedIn
Balazs Fopoly | Co-founder & Chief Play Officer, Ember Associates
Balazs Fogoly, a naturalised Singapore citizen born and raised in Hungary, immersed in entrepreneurship early. During his years studying economics and finance at a local university he created and bootstrapped his first startup: Hungary’s first online hotel reservation business, bridging language and technology gaps faced by family-owned hotels at the time. He moved to Singapore at the end of 2005 to study at INSEAD and in 2013 he co-founded a corporate training and executive coaching practice, Ember Associates. In 2018 he became the president of the INSEAD Alumni Entrepreneurship Club Singapore, mentoring startups founded by alumni and organising events for the larger alumni network interested in entrepreneurship.
Topic: Sales & Marketing Workshop, Deck Design Workshop, Practise Pitch and Pitch Review
Be prepared to get out of your comfort zone with Balazs Fogoly. In two highly experiential sessions, you will take your skills to pitch – to investors, clients or potential employees – to the next level. Focus and clarify your message and embrace your personality to create a winning deck. And you will also have the opportunity to practice and get feedback from Balazs and your fellow founders in the review session.
Connect with Balazs Fogoly: LinkedIn
Lam Hou Yeng | Director (Managed Services), KPMG Singapore
Hou Yeng is Director within the Managed Services Practice of KPMG. Having over 15 years’ experience at KPMG, with a proven track record in servicing multi-national foreign owned corporations, privately owned companies, family businesses and high net worth individuals has allowed Hou Yeng to provide support and advise clients on accounting assistance, audit, corporate secretarial and payroll compliance services. Her experiences has allowed her to have a broad commercial skill-set across a range of sectors with a key focus of working strategically alongside her clients to help achieve their goals.
Topic: Tax & Incentives
Get to learn more about Corporate Statutory Compliance and Incentives with this sharing session! This session would give you an overview of Singapore’s corporate statutory compliance obligations such as Company’s Act, Corporate Income Tax Act and Employment Act.
The session also covers the types of government grants and incentives available to help your business, such as schemes that allows reduced tax rate or deduction, as well as grants available for internationalisation and innovation.
Connect with Lam Hou Yeng: LinkedIn
Lee Bo Han | Director (Enterprise Incentives Advisory), KPMG Singapore
Bo Han has more than 13 years of experience in grants and incentives consulting and assisted companies from various industries with their grant and incentive applications to various government agencies. He has worked with a variety of companies which spans from multinational listed companies local SMEs and startups. Bo Han also has assisted with more than $1billion worth of R&D tax incentive claims for his clients. Prior to his role with KPMG, he worked as a Biomedical scientist at a leading medical research institute (Walter and Eliza Hall of Medical Research) in Melbourne, Australia specialisingin immunology and virology.
Topic: Tax & Incentives
Get to learn more about Corporate Statutory Compliance and Incentives with this sharing session! This session would give you an overview of Singapore’s corporate statutory compliance obligations such as Company’s Act, Corporate Income Tax Act and Employment Act.
The session also covers the types of government grants and incentives available to help your business, such as schemes that allows reduced tax rate or deduction, as well as grants available for internationalisation and innovation.
Connect with Lee Bo Han: LinkedIn
Sam Lee | Partner, Paloe
Since starting Paloe in 2015, Sam specialises in preparing seed-stage startups for their Series A rounds. He has acted as interim CFO for various tech companies during their fundraising and has built financial models for countless companies. He has successfully raised over USD50 million of capital for tech startups in South-East Asia. Sam will discuss Finance & Accounting in the first session and Valuation & Financial Modeling in the second.
Topic: Accounting & Finance Sharing, Financial Modelling & Valuation
Discover the importance of financial accounting and management, and the balance of protecting and creating value in your business – where bookkeeping plays a key role. Learn how to streamline the challenge of bookkeeping, how to decide on the best kind of financial accounting and analysis format for the business, how to build your capabilities by looking at the common mistakes companies make, and more.
Connect with Sam Lee: LinkedIn
Kuan Hsu | Co-founder & General Partner, KK Fund
Kuan is the Co-founder and General Partner at KK Fund. Prior to KK Fund, Kuan was the Principal of GREE Ventures Asia (now known as STRIVE). As one of four founding members of GREE Ventures, the investment arm of Japanese Internet media company GREE, Inc., he built the fund’s Southeast Asia presence and invested in leading regional startups such as Bukalapak (one of the unicorns of Indonesia), Luxola (exited to LVMH), Pie (exited to Google) and Kudo (exited to Grab).
Topic: Fundraising from VC perspective
Speaker will share a breakdown of fund-raising environment in Asia and explain the different startup finance stages. Participant will be taught a comparison of pre-seed, seed and series A funding rounds. Find out the valuation vs traction matric to help startup know how much to raise. Sharing of some of the more critical questions which VC typically asked during a fundraising pitch. Learn about the thought process of a VC. The speaker will guide the teams to undergo an internal review and fine tune their fundraising purpose.
Connect with Kuan Hsu: LinkedIn
Eric Khoo | Head (Business Development), IPOS International
Eric heads the Business Development at IPOS International, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. Prior to IPOS International, Eric led the IP and Science Solution Consulting team (Southeast Asia) at Clarivate Analytics, advising clients on their IP challenges in R&D innovation and commercialization. Eric holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Nanyang Technological University and Graduate Certificate in Intellectual Property from the National University of Singapore.
He is also a qualified Project Management professional and a certified WSQ ACLP trainer.
Topic: IPOS Sharing
Hidden within every startup and SME lies a treasure trove of intangible assets (IA) and intellectual property (IP) such as trade secrets, know-how, patents, brands, and more waiting to be discovered.
However, not all IAs/IPs are created equal and given the limited resources available, there is a need to know of which assets are “right” for your current stage of business and invest and protect these valuable assets that can help drive growth and revenue for your startup and SME. Find out how you can identify your intangible assets and use them for your business success.
Connect with Eric Khoo: LinkedIn
