{"id":57,"date":"2005-02-22T09:26:22","date_gmt":"2005-02-22T01:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2019-09-27T10:06:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T02:06:43","slug":"asknlearn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/asknlearn-57","title":{"rendered":"ASKnLearn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was an interesting talk by Yee Jenn Jong who is CEO of ASKnLearn, a dotcom that actually survived the crash and is now doing quite well. Yee used to be an NUS (National University of Singapore) lecturer.<\/p>\n<p>ASKnLearn are into LMS (learning management systems), e-learning content and IT training services.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Audience observations: His warm-up exercise (stand up and freeze for 20 seconds) produced reluctance in the audience and I was left asking what was the point?  But at least he was trying to do something different...<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He gave examples of successful entrepreneurs - Siberian footballer, Michael Dell, the CEO of Singaporean company BreadTalk.<\/p>\n<p>He offered a prize to whoever got up to come and get it. As expected, (for an audience of Singapore students) no-one moved. His point was those who get up and make the most of opportunities get somewhere...<\/p>\n<p>He asked... are you a person who<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>makes things happen?<\/li>\n<li>watches things happen?<\/li>\n<li>wonders what happened?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stages in a start up:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Idea<\/li>\n<li> Incubation <\/li>\n<li>Start-up <\/li>\n<li>Growth <\/li>\n<li>Maturity <\/li>\n<li>Decline<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>He had an idea for e-learning before the Internet was available - and then when the technology developed, he went further in 1999. These are key decisions - leave the security of your job, put your house and future on the line... It's not for everyone, but it is the kind of thing Singapore is encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>He talked of the importance of the elevator pitch (he had to sell to former MOE boss), where you have maybe just a couple of minutes to sell your grand idea to someone important or who has money.<\/p>\n<p>I was wondering as he talked about the feasibility of outsourcing Singapore Maths...?<\/p>\n<p>I also wondered when he was talking about the NASDAQ Crash - do the students know what that means?<\/p>\n<p>Singapore's IDA (Infocomm Development Authority) provided \"FastTrack\" money to schools in Singapore to encourage takeup of IT infrstructure. And it is an extraordinary infrastructure - and sadly, underutilised. IDA provided work for ASKnLearn in their growth stage.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The audience became quite noisy at 50 min point - the internal clock was telling them it was time to move on.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/asknlearn-57#comments\" id=\"comms\">1 Comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a review of a talk given by the CEO of the Singapore startup ASKnLearn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12217,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/12217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}