The mai Bangkok Business Challenge® @Sasin 2015
Congratulations to Team iSP Inc from our part-time MBA class for winning the Best Presentation at The mai Bangkok Business Challenge® @ Sasin 2015.
Led by Professor Wilton Chau, our Professor of Practice in Entrepreneurship, the team has been short-listed as one of the 16 semi-finalists among 48 teams from 18 countries.
This semi-final round engaged MBA/ EMBA school teams in top universities from Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and United States of America. This competition is known and featured with various assessments on innovation, product/service commercialization and entrepreneurial spirit to attract venture capital funding, ranged from traditional business plan and judge-panel presentation, to booth exhibit and 99-seconds pitch.
The Competition
The mai Bangkok Business Challenge® @Sasin 2015, as Thailand’s Only Global New Venture Plan Competition is held Feb 12-14, 2015. This is co-hosted by the Market for Alternative Investment (mai), Thailand’s stock exchange for medium-sized public companies, and the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University, collaborated with Sasin Entrepreneurship Center #sasinbbc2015
CUHK MBA Team – iSP Inc
CUHK MBA Team – iSP Inc, is teamed up in five members, four current part-time 2nd year MBA students, namely Joseph Leung, Joyce Wong, Cameron Hon, Sonia Huang, and one CUHK MBA Alumnus, Wayne Chan, who is original inventor of the US-patented bladder curvature detection technology commercialized as baby toilet training device – ‘BabyGo’.
Hear what the team say……
Blessed with adaptive and insightful battlefield advisories from Professor Wilton Chau, and synergized from our teammates’ different working expertise in the fields of biomedical engineering in baby product development, investment, marketing, supply chain, and management/ HR consulting, our team presented pragmatic business model in marketing positioning, operational planning and product R&D areas. These competitive edges, our great perseverance and team spirit enabled us to strive through from semi-final and play-off round to be qualified as one of 6 finalists in final round among fierce competition. Though we were neither native English speaker nor championed as winner in this competition, we won the Best Presentation of our group, thanks to our creativity, persuasiveness and team collaboration.
All in all, we succeeded in not only enriching our entrepreneurial determination and spirit by learning different innovation and dimensions from participating teams, what’s more important for us is to shed light on its pragmatic learning and practice approach adopted in CUHK MBA entrepreneurship program, and helps us to attract different interested parties/ investors all over the world to further explore our project. This journey is once-in-a-life chance and experience to integrate our school learning into real-world practice and develop business. We are more than welcomed to share our experience and insight of this competition and start-up journey with all of you. Stay tuned.
