MEC 2009 updated

The Malaysian Entrepreneur Challenge(MEC2009) - An event organised by Kenneth Tai for entrepreneurship training and as well as competition for undergrad students. This time he included working people as well. This event is in collaboration of the global entrepreneur week of the world. How did the event go? lets take a look

Team- Jack Ying, Victoria Yeong, Raymond Lam, Yuet ling and Brian Yeoh

Day 1

First, the Deputy Finance Minister launched the event. Followed by speakers giving talks on entrepreneur skills, marketing, online selling, etc. Well, honestly for me this day it was kind of boring as we all thought we are supposed to compete with the rest of the teams. All i see that day was bosses of SMEs and i thought, heck..am i going to compete with these people? haha! its pretty scary if u were in my shoes. There were networking sessions where everyone exchanged cards, and there was i standing there, i went on knowing people but they dont seem to be interested from the way i see their body language. Maybe students have nothing to offer? lol

Day 2

This is the day where the battle began=P. Many teams took part in this event and wer the only HELP team. Sunway had three! Include those working people in, there were about 17 teams? To name a few, there were teams from MSU, MMU and TAR. There were motivation and business talks from Kenneth and at the end of the day, we had to do up videos to win the competition. "videos will be posted in FB)

Sunway team

Sunway team 2

Adult team(champion team)

and finally HELP team(look at jackying)

The rest

3rd Day

AS for the last day,We have to challenge each other based on many areas such as

(1) Creating at least 1 commercial for one of our sponsors (our group managed to create 4 commercials in 2 hours for our sponsors- which include script writing, shooting of the commercial using our camera and editing the commercials

(2) Creating a Mascot for our sponsor Entrepreneur circle as well as coming out with a business concept and competitive edge to market it

(3) Given only RM5 as capital, we are supposed to create a business which can bring in RM200,000 in 3 months (we decided to use the RM5 to buy 5 packs of RM1 Nasi Lemak for all 5 group members after the 3 months)

(4) Given only 90mins, we are required to sell as many CDs of the training program as possible to friends and strangers in the streets. Old school method=P

Adapted from Sunny Khoo=P

Victoria Yeong, Our HELP mascot

As for the ending results, we were winners, lost to the adult team. They were damn good, they managed to sell 44 cds within an hour. I believe this is pure determination. So u see if we want to do something, we can do it=) "except maths for me" hahaha!! MSU got 2nd runner up and HELP team got 1st runner. Anyhow everyones a winner.

Would like to take this opportunity to thank Commander of HELP DSA( for sponsoring us), Alex Chin(for lending us his videocam), Eugene Low(for his computing skills for video editing), Yeehoo's and my parents(for coming to attend the event when we needed), the HELP team and finally those who supported us. I thank you youu...

Up next its exams and HSBC YEA 2009-2010, Will i win this coming competition? =)
Finally goodluck to everyone for the incoming exam