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Day 4: It’s the weekend! Time to go to Everland!!! After 2 grueling hours consisting of a ride on the subway and 2 bus rides, we finally arrived at Everland and were raring to go! Being the adrenalin junkies that we were, we headed straight for Everland’s scariest ride- the T Express, the world’s second steepest rollercoaster…
And the company visits continue with startups Ideabove, VCNC, Memebox and Flitto! Day 2 started off with a visit to Ideabove which develops a social music app called swizzle.fm that would enable people to network through their common love of music to share and discover music. Ian, the founder of Ideabove and his team blew us…
It’s day 1 of our great adventure to South Korea and Japan, after weeks of enthusiastic planning, the journey starts off with our flight from Changi Airport to our first stop, Incheon International for our very first company visits in South Korea- Twinword Inc. Taking the red eye out of Singapore, everyone was excited that…
Next, we have another J – Jeremy! 1. Describe yourself with three words Challenger, Never-‐gives-‐up, Sociable 2. What’s your reason for joining TSM Korea instead of any other study missions? It’s specific to Technopreneurship and it’s Korea! I’ve always wondered how they are always catching up to the latest technologies. I would like to experience the working culture & lifestyle. 3. Tell us something interesting about the company you are in charge of for TSM Wantedly (Japan’s largest social recruiting site) They’re a direct competitor of LinkedIn, one of the highest traffic website in the World. However, they are able to garner 61,000 users and is currently Japan’s most popular social recruiting site. Trippiece (Social Travel – User Generated) All their contents are user-generated. It’s amazing how they can entice/encourage people to share their travel plans, grow their user base, and eventually retain them. 4. Why did you choose your company out of so many start-‐ups in Japan/Korea? They’re in a highly competitive niche, and yet able to stand out victorious in different ways. I’m sure we, as a class, would be able to learn much from these companies. 5. What is the biggest thing that you wish to achieve out of this TSM? Starting up a Technology Company – The culture that should be instilled, the lifestyle, the attitude, the hierarchical structure, the business strategies, anything under the blue-‐blue moon that you can think of related to starting up a technological company.
It’s week 6 and everyone’s flooded with project deadlines to meet! No matter how busy we are, we still gotta fill our tummies! And so we set off to Crossings Cafe for a much needed midterm break! Before setting off, everyone met at SIS B1 to discuss and confirm some of the trip’s details… While…
And the second week kicks off with a spirited sharing session by some of last year’s TSM veterans! Jocelyn, Wah Chun, Melissa, Clinston and Yan Xin dropped by to tell us more about their time in South Korea, so what did they do in the land of kimchi? Eating and shopping their way around Seoul- it’s…
Our first TSM class ever! Laughing and joking amidst making preliminary preparations for our exciting trip ahead! It was a lighthearted start to the class, with Prof Ben sharing his interesting and wonderful past experiences with previous TSMs After the introduction was done, it was time to plan, plan, plan! What to do? Where to…
TSM Korea-Japan 2014 