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What’s your personal benchmark for success? Cady dress with detachable jewelled necklace, by Prada. My role at the company involves piecing together the perception of different third parties like VCs, KOLs, retail investors and partners. Web2.5 is the adoption of web3 assets like NFTs within -we’re the bridge between web2 and web3. It’s branding for a new era of the internet, with decentralisation, transparency, self-custody and ownership as some of the core beliefs that come with this term. I see web3 is a movement and the term implies a web1 and web2 that came before it. We consider ourselves facilitators of the tech that drives the growth of web3. Empathy is fundamental to the success of any business. So much inefficiency and roadblocks come from failing to understand a situation from outside of your own narrow viewpoints. Seeing ideas through other perspectives enriches these ideas and gives them more dimension. I used to only like working with like-minded people, but this can be limiting and you need people with different viewpoints to cover your blind spots. One thing that is often overlooked is building bridges and understanding what motivates the people you work with, particularly if you’re an employer or manager.

What’s an oft-overlooked tip for growing a business?

A morning routine forces me to give time to myself and makes me feel like I’ve achieved something before the day has started.Īpart from consulting, you also offer speaking and coaching services.

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I’ve also perfected my morning ritual over the years and it now involves a cold shower, journaling, meditation, skin care, some sort of movement and coffee. Most of the time, it’s about knowing how and what to prioritise. I’ve always been super organised but I had to adopt numerous tools for efficiency such as time-batching, reserving mornings for deep work and leaving calls for the afternoon. As an employee, your salary is typically fixed, but as a business owner, while there’s the potential to exponentially grow your income, it comes with the risk of burnout and feeling the need to always be working. I had to unlearn how I saw the concept of time. What are your own challenges in running a business and how do you deal with them? Putting together a go-to-market strategy for SEA is very different to doing one for the US. However, Southeast Asia is such a fragmented market with different economics, cultures, languages and risk appetites. Singapore is a small market and startups often need to look into the region if they want to scale. In your experience, what are the challenges unique to start-ups in Singapore?Īpart from the strict business incorporation procedures, talent shortage and work pass challenges I’d say scaling is a major challenge. Working with startups and small business owners brings a certain kind of fulfillment that a corporate day job just can’t match. I thought hard about how I could capitalise on my knowledge and skill set and make more of an impact. However, I could see a divide between the creative world and the business world and wanted to help close the gap.

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This meant running workshops with business directors and helping them understand how to read a profit and loss statement and how to grow their accounts and revenue. What made you want to help grow start-ups with another startup story?Īs a financial controller, I worked with managing directors and helped grow the agency with a key focus on profit. Plus, my family is originally from Hong Kong, so I wanted to explore more of the east. That was four years ago and I’m still here! I ended up staying because I felt like I could make more of an impact here than in London. I was still working in London when the COO at my previous company called me from New York and asked me what I thought of Singapore-he needed me to cover the financial controller going on maternity leave. Your move to Singapore was originally meant to be a six-month stint.

I went to college in Winchester and moved to London after university. I was born in a little port city called Southampton on England’s south coast.

The 30-year-old tells us about her own challenges in running a business, her personal benchmark for success and how she maintains an impeccable sense of style. On top of that, she is currently also CMO at Alchemy Pay, a hybrid crypto-fiat payment solutions provider. This made her want to use her experience in strategy and business development to help startups grow, so in 2018, she launched another startup story, a consultancy and business coaching platform. While working as a financial controller at a global advertising agency, Karmen Tang found herself inspired by the grittiness and dynamism of starting a business. Cotton tank top and embroidered mesh dress, by Prada.

A little alchemy story