Entrepreneurs

Heart-driven innovator: 21-year-old start-up founder uses accessibility tech to help others

Mr Raymond Ng, 21, Chief AI Officer of Neural Drive, wearing the electrodes and holding the headset with the laptop showing the interface of Neural Drive.

Tastemakers

Kueh chain Ollella’s founder overcomes $200,000 in losses to open fourth outlet in Tampines

Ollella founder Marcella Putri Tanuwijaya opened her newest outlet – a retail kiosk at Our Tampines Hub –on Jan 16.

Forum: Don’t mistake inspirational stories for universal blueprints

School of life: These dropouts became successful entrepreneurs – here’s the grit behind their glow ups

(From left) Ms Merida Lim, Mr Mr Shaik Nifael Nazeemuddin and Mr Chow Yi Tong dropped out of school as teens but have gone on to launch successful businesses.

School of life: He quit school at 18 to ‘clean longkangs’ and started a $3m waste management company

Mr Shaik Nifael Nazeemuddin's waste management company, Jetters Incz, was named one of Singapore’s 100 fastest growing firms in January 2025.

School of life: He quit school at 14, worked 3 jobs to support family and got an MBA at 46

Mindlink Groups founder Chow Yi at PSB Academy, where he graduated with an MBA from Coventry University in 2021.

School of life: Gen Z boss with PSLE cert opens neon art-jamming studios after quitting JC and Nafa

Ms Merida Lim showing off glow-in-the-dark slime, which customers can make at Scuro.

Resilience in the kitchen: 3 F&B operators who kept cooking despite failure, loss and illness

(From left) Ms Sharon Poon, co-owner and roast chef of Eat 3 Cuts., Mr Teo Chye Huat of Hai Nan Zai, and Mrs Jenny Png and Mr Sam Png, co-owners of Woody Peranakan Family Cafe.

Singapore Polytechnic student entrepreneurs stitch sustainability into pet fashion

Pets-R-Us offers pet bibs, collars and manner belts handmade from recycled fabric.

Headstart On Record Podcast

How a young entrepreneur’s own business helped her discover a new career

A young entrepreneur shares why, and how, she is moving on from a student business she co-founded.

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