by Bernard | Aug 22, 2018 | Founder's Insights, Our Stories, Startup & Entrepreneurship
When Bernard started ALPHA Camp in 2014, he knew it was going to be a challenge to build a business that can really empower people for the future of work through lifelong learning. Students from different backgrounds would come into an in class, immersive, full-time...
by Bernard | Oct 19, 2016 | Founder's Insights, Startup & Entrepreneurship
Graduates in Singapore are facing something of an employment crisis at present. Currently, resident degree holders have found their unemployment rate at 4.3 percent—which is roughly double the national rate of 2.1 percent. Yet strangely, there is one industry that is...
by ALPHA Camp Singapore | Sep 30, 2016 | Founder's Insights, Startup & Entrepreneurship
DISCLAIMER: One thing you should know about being an entrepreneur is that there really is no such thing as “a typical day”. Every day brings a brand new challenge, perhaps some firefighting to do, a scandal to manage, a last-minute deal to secure… Hence in no way does...
by Bernard | Aug 1, 2016 | Founder's Insights
As a former electrical engineer and coding bootcamp student, here’s my piece of advice: Learning how to code is not enough. By that I mean, if your goal is to launch a career in tech, start your own tech startup, then simply learning “coding” would not get...
by Bernard | Jun 15, 2016 | Founder's Insights
Getting a good education is the recipe to a good job and a good life. That’s what I heard as a kid growing up in Hong Kong. After 30+ years: I hold 3 degrees from MIT and University of Waterloo (whose students, as Paul Graham said, were better than any universities)...
by Bernard | Jun 11, 2016 | Founder's Insights
A 36-year-old friend of mine recently got turned down by a “venture capitalist” in Taiwan, who said: “you are doomed to fail if you start your own business because you are too old.”Is age really a key determinant on whether or not one will be successful in starting...
