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发帖数: 1251 | 1 Feb 28th, Switching between Entrepreneur and Professional Manager
Many would‐be entrepreneurs have good jobs and a steady income to support
their families and loved ones. While being an entrepreneur is a tempting
value proposition, there is no guarantee that a start‐up will pan out. What
are the options for the professional‐turned‐founder if the startup fails.
What is a good strategy and process for switching back and forth between
entrepreneurship and a “9 to 5” job?
This presentation will address the following issues:
· Entrepreneur or Enterpriser
· Career Development Diagram
· Opportunity cost
· Self‐Discovery process to understand who you really are (strengths and
weaknesses, likes and dislikes, self-motivation and values)
· Articulating, building and accumulating your own brand, core assets and
skills
· Strategy for building a sustainable and transferable life‐skills
portfolio
· Developing your core skills – Depth vs. Breath
· Controllable and Uncontrollable variances impacting your career
· Managing your changing needs and expectations over time
· Building your network and not burning any bridges
Time: 2/28/2012 (Tue) 6:30-8:30pm
Location: Room 1E-112, Bellevue City Hall
Cost: Free for SEC members
Agenda:
· 6:30-7:00pm Check in and Social
· 7:00-8:00pm Lecture and Q&A
· 8:00-8:30pm Close-up
RSVP: http://ypchan1.eventbrite.com/
Speaker’s Bio
Yi Ping (Y.P.) Chan, Principal of Chanden Inc.
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/ychan94
Y.P. has over 20 years of experience in business turnaround and
restructuring, entrepreneurship, venture capital, JV and acquisitions in USA
, Greater China, Japan and Korea. He specializes in strategy, operations,
business/financial modeling and infrastructure building. He has management
experience in running companies that range from start-ups to a small public
company listed on the American Stock Exchange. He has had P&L
responsibilities of US$70 million and raised over $50 million in capital for
various companies.
Y.P. has started three companies with one successful exit, one still
operating, another closed with funds returned back to investors. He also
took a small IT consulting/software company from 15 to 70 people in one year
, increased revenue and profit three times, raised US$5.5 million and
successfully exited it two and half years later. In addition, he has worked
and consulted with over 30 start-up and early-stage companies in various
capacities over the past 20 years.
Y.P. is currently a founder and principal at Chanden Inc. focusing on
investment and business advisory services primarily in Greater China and the
United States. His consulting work has included cross-border deals and
projects with electric vehicle and solar product start-ups, restructuring
and bankruptcy advisory with an OTCBB Chinese company, restructuring of a
Korean manufacturing group based in China, cost reduction for 300K ft2
warehouse in Seattle. In addition to his client work, Y.P. is Executive
Director of the Wangdao Management Program (www.wangdaomp.org).
Y.P. was the Interim CEO, COO, and Director of a small publicly listed US
company where he spent four years engaged in business turnaround and
restructuring. Prior to that, he was Chief Strategist and Interim CFO for an
IT consulting company in Hong Kong and was co-founder of a technology
transfer company specializing in the health care sector. He also held a
senior management position with a Hong Kong based venture capital and
technology holding company with operations in Hong Kong, China and the US.
Early on in his career, YP worked for AlliedSignal (now Honeywell) doing M&A
and JV in China and Japan, and he started his career working as an engineer
for IBM and TRW in the USA.
Y.P. obtained both his MBA and MSEE degrees from Columbia University under
IBM sponsorship and his BSEE (magna cum laude) from Polytechnic University
in New York. He was a member of the Young Entrepreneurs' Organization,
serving as a board member of the Hong Kong chapter in 2002 and 2003. He also
served as a development advisor and associate for the Global Chinese
Business Initiative at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania from
1998 to 2001. He was an Advisory Board Member of The Global Business Center
at the University of Washington Foster School of Business in 2011.
Y.P. is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer on topics such as doing
business in China, entrepreneurship, restructuring and turnaround, clean
technologies and career planning at events hosted by US Department of
Commerce, Greater Seattle General Chamber of Commerce, Greater Seattle
Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Asia Business Round Table, Columbia, Darden,
Wharton Business School, University of Washington Foster School of Business,
as well as Chinese University in Hong Kong and The Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology. Y.P. was featured or quoted in interviewed by The
Wall Street Journal, Asia Wall Street Journal, Columbia Business School
Magazine, Chief Executive Magazine, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Worldcity
Magazine, SmartBusiness, and Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce Magazine.
Born in Guangdong, China, Y.P. reads and writes both traditional &
simplified Chinese, speaks Cantonese, Taishan and Mandarin. |
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