Title: Future Entrepreneur

Gender: Male

Age: 28

Sun Sign: Cancer

Chinese Sign: Metal Rooster

Location: Los Angeles, California

Vincent Chan is a student, a web designer and a future entrepreneur, who is hugely influenced by the book “Built to Last” by Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras. Vincent began his career at Hong Kong Trade Development Council working as a web designer. After two years working experience and reading some highly motivated business books, he realized that working for others is not his goal. During free time, he developed an interest in business, investment and entrepreneurship. When he was 20, he started to network with different entrepreneurs, real estate investors, and stock investors on the internet and learned from them.

In 2003, he left his home of Hong Kong to attend college in California, for most of the best companies are located in the United States. Since his goal is to build a global business in the future and he believes the knowledge he learned from school was not enough, he tried many ways to learn about business in this country. While he volunteered for the MIT Enterprise Forum at Stanford, he had a chance to meet many CEOs and venture capitalists giving him a real eye-opener.

In 2004, Vincent and his friends won the 3rd place in the Wharton Africa Business Plan Competition, organized by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the world’s leading business schools. In the same year, he co-found the Caliea International Entrepreneur Alliance, a database of entrepreneurs worldwide. Although this project was a failure, he learned a valuable lesson.

In 2005, after studying two and a half years in the College of San Mateo, Vincent has transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles, majoring in Economics. Recently, he founded Othx, a personal blog search engine, which has a pretty good start.

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