User:Claire.teo.2014

== About Claire Teo ==
SMU email: claire.teo.2014@business.smu.edu.sg
Facebook: Claire Teo
Academic Year: 4
Degree: Bachelor In Business Management
Major: Marketing
Subsidy: yes

== Why TSM Silicon Valley? ==
What motivates you to join TSM? I've always been interested in Entrepreneurship since 17 where i've participate in pitching competitions, joining SMU Eagles Inc, and after being exposed to the tech world from my experience in CashShield, i fell in love with the idea of how technology can be disruptive in good way and i want to learn more and see more of that when i join this study mission in SV. As much as the word, disruptive, seems really attractive but i do understand that disruptive also means business owners have get users to adopt to a new behavior/way of doing things. - This is extremely challenging and i would like to learn more on how they did it. Being a president of Eagles Inc also allowed me to see entrepreneurship in another perspective as an organization p.o.v. where i realize the importance of ecosystem and i would love to see how S.V has achieved that. Also, personally im a year 4 student and i believe i will never get this chance to be visiting companies in SV upon graduation and hence i would like to take this chance to give myself the best exposure as a student before stepping into the working world.
Why pick Silicon Valley?
Ultimately, what's most attractive about Silicon Valley is its network. I've always believe that network and people play a huge role in entrepreneurship and Silicon Valley is known for it's network where if you have an idea or a question, people are willing to point you in the right direction to find like-minded people and everyone's just located there.

== Starting a business ==
What types of business interest you?
Tech businesses have always interest me as i love how creativity and abstract the business model can be like
What plan do you have in starting a business?
I do have an intention to start my own "uber"/"coffee meets bagel" of modeling where the app eliminates the role of a modeling agency and the app does the matching of clients and model. I've been a model since i was 17 and have also been in a role of client (events coordinator) where i need to hire model. I do see a huge gap to be addressed and i believe that this industry has been too stagnant. It would be able to move forward if we could introduce the concept of technology within this industry. Also, with an innate interest in the fashion industry, it excites me how i can bring in the element of entrepreneurship and actually have a potential to make a difference.

== Past Experiences ==
Adelaide Entrepreneurship Challenge 2013 (Finalist, Best Pitch)
Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (Project Executive) 2012 to 2016
CashShield (Strategic Partnership) 2017
Eagles Inc (Partnership Dep Director) 2016 - 2017
PAK Challenge (Sponsorship & Partnership Director) 2017
Eagles Inc (President) 2017

== What keeps you ticking?==
My fave quote from forbes "Even the best ideas are cheap, but execution and lessons learnt are priceless" I've always told my eagles members as well that regardless what idea you have, please go and try it. Only if you try then you learn from it and it doesnt mean that trying = success. The beauty of it is that you would learn so much more about starting your own business where u not only build technical skills, you would also be building softskill and character shaping when things dont work out, and etc. This is applicable to how i view things in life as well. I believe that if you have a chance to do something, just do it as only when you put an action to it, that's where it would make a difference.