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Who is Young Creative Entrepreneur?

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YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS SUCCESS Story - Motivational Video Sources:  Creative Entrepreneur ,  Motivational Success Story

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Principle of Management : IF17 Hi! We are from UniKL Business School, currently studying Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) in Islamic Finance. Nur Ain Nabilah Binti Asmi Muhammad Afiq Hariz Bin Zahari Amaliya Fatini Binti Moha Asri

Faeez Fadhlillah, CEO and co-founder of Tripfez

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Faeez Fadhlillah is the CEO and co-founder of Tripfez and Salam Standard. The University of Sydney graduate was listed in 2016 Forbes 30 under 30 Asia. Retail and E-Commerce. He was also awarded ‘Startup of the year 2013’ by Web in Travel and was named Malaysia’s Young Technopreneur 2013. His passion for traveling has been instilled in him since he was a child, as his family likes to travel a lot. So, it was natural that he turned this passion into a career, but he didn’t open a typical travel agency. Instead, he recognised the potential for Muslim travel and created a platform to cater to this market. TripFez is a state-of-the-art travel portal dedicated to the rise of global Muslim travelers. TripFez incorporates Salam Standard, a new hospitality standard dedicated to Muslim travelers, to create a global reference site for Muslim travellers worldwide looking to find the simplest, cheapest way to a blessed journey. He attributes the success of his company to several...

Jazz Tan Yee Mei, founder of YouthsToday

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Jazz Tan is the CEO and founder of YouthsToday.com. Award winner of Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia, Top 40 under 40 Prestige magazine and the Best ICT in ASEAN region. Founder of the largest youth online engagement platform in Malaysia, Jazz is a social entrepreneur, strategist and an inspirational figure to set course and help young people to thrive at their fullest potential.  Their mission is to fund, educate and support students and young professionals by turning their ideas into successful projects through experiential even ts. Over the years as an entrepreneur, Jazz has successfully launched over 1500 youth development projects across the country and inspired more than 500,000 youths in Malaysia. Looking at the current growth and rate that the platform is growing, Jazz strives to move forward with global expansion and gathering more like-minded entrepreneurs, NGOs and communities to embark on a journey of nation building with the youths. Jazz believes youths are the backb...

Journal 5 : Who becomes an entrepreneur? Early life experiences as predictors of entrepreneurship

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Who becomes an entrepreneur? Early life experiences as predictors of entrepreneurship Ingrid Schoon and Kathryn Duckworth Institute of Education, University of London The purpose of this study is to formulate and test a developmental–contextual model of entrepreneurship that stresses the interplay between early personal characteristics and contextual influences in shaping the step into entrepreneurial activity. Based on the findings, there are certain characteristics that the entrepreneurs all share. Entrepreneurs are more likely to have father who was self-employed and during age 10, they showed a higher levels of self-esteem and has better social skills than most at that age. In the teen years, or specifically in age 16 they expressed higher commitment to work for themselves. Family socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with the academic attainment and social skills of the offspring and showed a positive direct association with entrepreneurship among daugh...

Journal 4 : The effect of entrepreneur mentoring and its determinants in the Chinese context

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The effect of entrepreneur mentoring and its determinants in the Chinese context Song Xiao Ting, Liu Feng and Wang Qin The purpose of this research is to build a conceptual framework and use empirical analysis to explore the mentoring effect and its determinants, especially in the Chinese context . The data were collected from 172 young entrepreneurs which had been supported by Youth Business China, Mianyang Office since 2008. Based on the dynamic process of entrepreneurial mentoring, the key factors can be divided into three categories which are;             mentor quality,             mentoring ability             mentoring intention The variables related to the mentee’s factors include;             mentee’s trait             learning intention         ...

Journal 3: Issues and constraints perceived by young entrepreneurs of Pakistan

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Issues and constraints perceived by young entrepreneurs of Pakistan Saad Aslam and S.A.F Hasnu H1: There exist a positive relationship between self-efficacy and entrepreneurship. H2: There exist a negative relationship between risk and entrepreneurship. H3: There exist a positive relationship between self achievement and entrepreneurship. H4: There exist a positive relationship between financial factors and entrepreneurship. H5: There exist a negative relationship between Pakistani environment and entrepreneurship. The research purpose is to find out intentions of business graduating students regarding launching their own business, and their own perception regarding issues and constraints entrepreneur would encounter after entering into entrepreneurial activities. Furthermore, it focuses to provide a general understanding regarding entrepreneurship. The study also argues unfriendly policies and environment for entrepreneurship slows down poverty reduction and ...

Journal 2: Industry choice by young entrepreneurs in different country settings: The role of human and financial capital

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Industry choice by young entrepreneurs in different country  settings: The role human and financial capital Dmitri  Knatko, Galina Shirokova & Karina Bogatyreva   Efficiency-driven Country (EDC)                         Hungary  Mexico Estonia  Romania Russia  Argentina Brazil Colombia Poland Malaysia Innovation-driven Country (IDC) Austria Australia Belgium Canada Denmark England Spain Finland France Germany Greece Israel Italy Japan Luxembourg Netherlands Portugal Singapore Slovenia Switzerland United States      According to this paper, their study contributes to entrepreneurial entry research stream extending the understanding of entrepreneurial entry decision making nuances related to the individual access to resources and both industry and country-level contingencies. The level of human capital ...

Journal 1 : Modelling Social Innovation for Young Entrepreneurs Living in the Marginalised Communities in Malaysia.

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Modelling Social Innovation for Young Entrepreneurs Living in the Marginalised Communities in Malaysia. Zainudin, A., Raja Suzana, R. K. and Zulazli, H Pertanika Journals Social Scienes and Humanities   Ideas  - Social entrepreneur begins social mission in the form of an idea   Prototyping and piloting  - Social entrepreneur may then pilot or prototype the ideation   Implementation  - Social entrepreneur establishes new form of venture such as a social enterprise or a new policy within an existing institution   Scaling  - Social entrepreneur finally scales up products/ services so as to develop new approach and new impact and becomes part of the norm This paper describes how to model the young entrepreneur's social innovation. Social innovation is been divided into two predictors which the first one is the elements of social innovation that can be grouped to three categories shown in figure above. The...