Quotes from Participants and EDB Chairman
"Start-Up@Singapore is not simply a business plan competition - it's a forum where entrepreneurs, business advisors, venture capitalists and industry leaders meet to form a thriving and dynamic community. It's a platform where ideas & dreams are born."
- Mr. Carlos Fernandes, CEO of PerceptiveI, Joint Runner-up of Start-Up@Singapore 2000/01, Singapore Computer Society Young Professional of the Year Award Winner 2003. A Start-Up@Singapore Mentee in 2000/01, and a Start-Up@Singapore Mentor in 2002/03.
"By participating in this program, I am actually meeting and selecting the ones who have this great grand vision and they have the passion, and most importantly, believe that where they will end up could be something that could impact the world. They have ambitions to be as successful as Bill Gates or Jack Welch."
- Mr. Winston Tan, Managing Director of Corporate Brokers International Pte Ltd and one of the first group of mentors in the Mentored CEOs Growth Program
"For someone just starting out, the right guidance and assistance on the road well-travelled can prove vital in the journey. Top sportsmen such as Tiger Woods and Venus Williams have keen mentors working beside them. In the business world, Larry Ellison of Oracle mentored Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com. Louis Gerstner of IBM mentored former Xerox CEO, G. Richard Thomson. Gordon Moore, founder of Intel, was mentor to Andrew Grove, the co-inventor of the micro-processor. Many who have benefited from such mentorship programmes now take pride in their own mentorship role to nurture other bright and young individuals."
- EDB Chairman Teo Ming Kian, Feb 2003
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