Entrepreneurship

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Rooted in results: How Kim Lim is building her beauty empire on personal proof 

Every treatment and product from the entrepreneur’s five brands goes to market only after she test-drives them for months

The Emerging Enterprise Award recognises startups and young businesses across Singapore and Asia by providing resources to boost their growth.
EMERGING ENTERPRISE AWARD 2025

Transforming everyday life through creativity and innovation

These Emerging Enterprise Awards finalists are using technology, design and creativity to reshape how people eat, live and connect

Over the years, Dr Ng Chin Siau, founder of Q&M Dental Group, developed Singapore’s largest dental chain with diagnostics, dental education and lab capabilities.

Serial entrepreneurs are reshaping South-east Asia’s business landscape

How financial systems must co-evolve with unconventional SMEs

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THRIVE NEWSLETTER

So you want to be your own boss? Read this first

[SINGAPORE] At the Thriving as an Entrepreneur fireside chat moderated by thrive last Friday (Aug 22), three young entrepreneurs shared candid insights on being your own boss.

From left: Alicia Hong, CEO and co-founder of Digi-Up!, Nicholas Cheng, co-founder of Tracework.ai and VideoPulse, Kit Yong, founder of Forte Biotech and Vivien Shiao BT's young audience editor and the moderator of the panel discussion.

Student years are the best time to test startup dreams, say young founders at fireside chat

At a panel discussion moderated by thrive, The Business Times’ young audience initiative, entrepreneurs share their take on the benefits of starting a business while in school

A session on menu engineering and cost management at Excelerate.sg’s training kitchen. Beyond acquiring operational skills, workshop participants will learn to develop unique business models.

New workshops help aspiring hawkers find winning business recipes

‘Hawkerpreneur’ workshops provide training in menu planning, cost control and branding

Cathy Kim and her 26-year-old son Jeon Joon Hyeong have a small business making and selling hand-made ceramics.
TAKING HEART

YWCA launches accelerator to help female entrepreneurs scale their business

This is part of the charity’s new Hopemaker Movement, which seeks to uplift the lives of women

ASN notes that while profitability in the F&B industry remains challenging, interest is growing, particularly among home-based F&B operators and corporate professionals looking to enter the space.

New workshop to dish out lessons for aspiring F&B entrepreneurs

Organised by Asia Startup Network, the half-day session explores what it takes to run a food business in Singapore, from concept to cash flow

Instead of simply accepting higher business failure rates as a sign of healthy risk-taking, we should focus on creating a system that enables entrepreneurs to succeed in the first place.

Failure not always a stepping stone to success

The misconception of risk-taking in entrepreneurship should be cleared up

Singapore is one of the world’s greenest cities, with 7,800 hectares of green space. Its green cover is over 40 per cent, earning it the moniker “City in a Garden”.

A living laboratory for future urban solutions

Singapore should strive to be where cutting-edge technologies and human-centric solutions are co-created and scaled globally to address the world’s most pressing challenges