Singapore
Singapore
25-year-old aspiring entrepreneur Beh Weng Wei has always admired successful, innovative entrepreneurs such as Willy Foo (CEO of LiveStudios Singapore) and Dato’ Seri Tony Fernandes (CEO of AirAsia) who dare to dream, take risks and overcome obstacles to make their dreams come true. Following in those footsteps, Beh could be on his way to doing the same.
As this year’s Young Entrepreneur Awards (YEA) grand winner, Beh was presented with a total of $17,000 worth of prizes, including $10,000 worth of Canon business products sponsored by Canon, $5,000 in cash prizes sponsored by MediaCorp and $1,000 in cash prizes from Nanyang Technological University and Spring Singapore.
For his award-winning business plan, Beh combined two ideas: art and framing. Called Frambie, it’s an online custom-made picture frame service that makes it easy for customers to order photo prints together with a picture frame that they can design themselves.
Beh combined two ideas: art and framing.
In addition, Frambie also serves as a platform for photographers and graphic artists to showcase their works of art and sell it with an accompanying picture frame to interested customers.
Of course, the Canon business package that Beh received would go far in helping him launch his entrepreneurial dream.
He explained, “Canon is a reliable brand. And since part of Frambie’s business involves the printing of photos, Canon printers will be used to perform this task. I believe that Canon’s high-end printers will help Frambie deliver better value to customers and satisfy their need for high-quality prints.”
As a closing, it’ll be interesting to find out Beh’s thoughts about Canon’s ‘Think Big, Think Canon’ campaign from a younger generation’s perspective.
He said, “Canon’s ‘Think Big, Think Canon’ initiative is definitely very supportive of young entrepreneurs, I have no reason to not recommend this platform to my peers.”
Adding, “I think Canon Singapore is doing very well with this initiative and they already have the right channels to reach out to young entrepreneurs.”
Canon is definitely honoured to be an integral part in helping aspiring entrepreneurs such as Beh Weng Wei turn their dreams into reality.
Introduced in 2010 by Canon, the goal of the ‘Think Big, Think Canon’ campaign is to reach out to entrepreneurs, particularly in the Small and Medium Enterprise segment (SME). In addition to advancing businesses with cutting-edge Canon innovations, Canon aspires to go beyond technology and empower entrepreneurs to take their business from start-up to success.
The YEA, jointly organised by Canon and MediaCorp, is designed to help budding entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 to 40 turn their start-up idea into a real business with cash and technological solutions, courtesy of Canon.