LIN Bin
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About LIN Bin
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Why TSM South Korea?
What motivates you to join TSM?
Information age has already come. In nowadays, almost every business has related to information technology to a certain degree, and technology has resolved into human's daily life. The development of society has required a more detailed segmentation of services. Potentially there is still much of technology/service area for us to dig out. Hence, I would like to seize this opportunity to get to know how other technology companies started up and operated, and hope that this journal experience could be useful for my future entrepreneurship.
Why pick South Korea?
As with the rising popularity of Samsung, South Korea has again proved its strong competency on electronic science and technology industry. Integration of hardware and software will be the key for our future electronic products. Meanwhile, I am also interested in the future moves of South Korea's large companies like Samsung, as South Korea is neighbour of China and recently has just open a free trade area - Shang Hai. Hence, I would like to take a deep look into how the previous "Asian Tiger" conduct its business, as well as experience the local culture.
Internship Opportunities
What types of internship opportunities interest you?
- IT Consultancy
- Software Architecture
Any ideal firms (based in South Korea) that you wishes to join?
Starting a business
What types of business interest you?
- HRIS related businesses
- Any other technology related businesses
What plan do you have in starting a business?
HRIS Solution Provider. Back in 2011 while working for Samsung Asia Pte Ltd, there was this idea to start-up a HRIS software company to provide a powerful yet customizable Training Needs Analysis solution for the market. My HR Director back then had conducted a market research and found there was a gap in this segment. However, due to the lack of funds as well as our binding contract with the company at that time, the plan of spawning a start-up was put on ice.
Over the past few years, Software-as-a-Service solutions have been increasingly prevalent in the market and there is a growing adoption among SMEs in adopting such solutions. As such, should this market segment still be unfulfilled and feasible, I would not hesitate into diving back in doing such a start-up.
Past Experiences
MGMT221: Entreprise Development
Just last semester AY2012/2013 Term 2, I was very privileged to take an entrepreneurship module - MGMT221 Enterprise Development under Professor Soon Loo - a serial entrepreneur who was recently awarded the Top 10 Most Outstanding Person of the Year Award. In this module, as part of the term project, I had the chance to get my hands dirty to try start a business. Although the social enterprise business did not take off in its entirety due to the lack of traction and time constraint, we did get secure 90% of the resources required get it up and running. After all as Prof Soon Loo mention, "entreprenurship is not an easy journey" and thus there were many lessons learnt through this process. I would say one of the most important lessons learnt was to ensure that for any kind of business, the make up of the team was right and balanced.
SMU Ventures
After the experience from MGMT221: Enterprise Development, I realized that as a student in SMU, there are many avenues for students who have a great business idea to pursue. However many-a-times, these avenues tend to be hidden away. That is why, I decided to put myself forward to serve in SMU Ventures. As part of my responsibilities, I am in-charge of maintaining the social media and web presence of the club as well as to provide technical advise to the best of my abilities on technology related business should the need arise.
In addition, apart from my responsibilities, I actively keep a lookout for possible mentors and speakers (usually technology related) to bring in to the club so that fellow students can learn from them.
