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Angel’s Gate Supports The Young Entrepreneurs

As part of our ongoing efforts to promote entrepreneurship, Angel’s Gate is proud to be a supporter of “The Young Entrepreneurs” program, a unique business plan contest that helps with character building while fostering entrepreneurship.

The Young Entrepreneurs (TYE) is a program created to introduce students aged 15-20 to Entrepreneurship. Unlike other school programs, this program was created to offer the same access to students from all schools. The sessions for TYE 2012 started on Saturday, March 10th with 30 students from Deyi Secondary school, Raffles Girls School, ITE West, Raffles Institution & GIIS.

In three days, the students got to meet a variety of entrepreneurs who exposed them to business models, marketing, law and finance among other things. Day one was kicked off with some presentation skills training. This was followed by a lively workshop conducted by Suzanne Druce and Krish Krishnan from Jeiva. On Day two focussed on marketing techniques which were taught to the students by Deeptha Khanna, MD at P&G and Douglas Gan, serial entrepreneur and CSC’s Entrepreneur of the year 2011.

Deeptha Khanna, MD at P&G speaking to the students

Hian Goh and James Chan made law and finance seem cool thanks to the great flair they brought to the session. At the end of Day 3, the students reviewed Angel’s Gate episodes to learn various concepts and terminologies.

The sessions were kept interactive to keep the students constantly engaged and interested. In spite of three long days, the students had great feedback and were eagerly awaiting returning to the sessions on Friday, March 16th. On a scale of 1-10 on whether the program helped the students improve their understanding of what it takes to start the business, 25% responded with a rating of 8, 50% with 9 and 25% with 10.

Now the students are busy coming up with their own ideas. In the next three days, each of the ideas will be reviewed and analysed as only 7 will be picked for the main business plan contest which will be held on April 14th.

Who knows? We might see some of these promising young entrepreneurs in future episodes of Angel’s Gate!

This article is written by Guest Contributor: Ms. Kavitha Mantha, Senior Project Director, TYE

Guest Judge on Episode 7

No more Mr. Nice Guy? Guest Judge Professor Sheila Wang, NUS Business School Decision Sciences Adjunct Professor, makes an appearance in Angel’s Gate. What will a female Judge bring to the table?

An entrepreneur with a revolutionary technology for scuba divers; a co-working space that encourages collaboration and creativity. Episode 7 airs 19 March, Monday at 8PM (SG/HK) on Channel NewsAsia.

Catch past episodes and other exclusive clips on our YouTube Channel here: youtube.com/angelsgate

Find out more about Professor Sheila Wang and the other Judges on Angel’s Gate here: angelsgate.com/tv/angels

CapitaLand Hope Foundation $1 per “like” Charity Campaign

CapitaLand Hope Foundation and Angel’s Gate believe that giving back to society should start early.

This is why Angel’s Gate is honoured to have CapitaLand Hope Foundation as our official Charity Partner, in promoting the spirit of charity amongst the entrepreneurial circle.

CapitaLand Hope Foundation is donating S$1.00 for every “like” generated by businesses and projects on the Angel’s Gate website. Through this campaign, CapitaLand Hope Foundation is supporting and encouraging entrepreneurs to give back to society as they promote their businesses. It is a common misconception that giving back should only begin after businesses take off. Angel’s Gate and CapitaLand Hope Foundation would like to change that, and promote the spirit of giving among business owners right from the beginning of their entrepreneurial journeys.

CapitaLand Hope Foundation, the philanthropic arm of CapitaLand, was established in 2005 to further CapitaLand’s corporate social responsibility commitment to build a better future for underprivileged children. Its focus is to support programmes for the shelter, education and healthcare needs of underprivileged children in Singapore and overseas.

Do your part for charity, visit angelsgate.com and click on the “like” button of projects that interest you, support entrepreneurship and support charity!

Episode 2 airs 13 Feb at 8PM SG/HK on Channel NewsAsia

A fun business idea that might make the Judges bust a move or two; a mobile app that could change the way we type; and an eco-friendly business with potential.

Tune in and join the conversation on Twitter using #TheAngelsGate or on our Facebook page! Which entrepreneur impressed you? Who’s your favourite Judge? Should they have accepted the deal? We’ll love to know your take!

Full episodes are available on our YouTube channel a day after airing on Channel NewsAsia. Subscribe and watch exclusive clips not seen on TV!

UPDATE: Full episode 2 is now available on our YouTube channel!

Episode 1 of Angel’s Gate now on YouTube!

A confident entrepreneur believes he has the ultimate biomedical invention that will change the lives of mankind forever; a social network of a different kind; a social entrepreneur with a sweet business idea; and a music business that just might strike the right chord with the Judges.

CapitaLand Hope Foundation will donate S$1.00 to selected children’s charities for every “like” on all projects on http://www.angelsgate.com Help us reach our target of 100,000 “likes” for charity!

Join the conversation on Twitter using #TheAngelsGate or on our Facebook page! Which entrepreneur impressed you? Who’s your favourite Judge? Should they have accepted the deal? We’ll love to know your take!