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Key takeaways from “An Afternoon with James Caan CBE”

October 12, 2022

Funds Partnership was delighted to attend the afternoon event hosted by Recruitment Entrepreneur and CXC Global, on October 11th 2022.

We were really in for a treat: listening to James Caan talk about his Rags to Riches story with $1bn in exits and 3.4m followers on LinkedIn; and Farida Charania’s speech on Neurodiversity as the next talent pool for employers. 


The event was wrapped up by a great panel of speakers: Kanan Chettiar, Yvone Foong, Farida Charania and Johnson Chng; as they discussed about driving businesses forward in Singapore, identity security and sustainability.


Key takeaways

James Caan shared about his story and the key areas to look out and improve on when scaling a business. He covered three key aspects : Strategic, Operational and Financial aspects that business owners need to look out for when scaling their businesses.

As an investor, James also shared 3 core attributes investors look out for in an Entrepreneur:

  1. Ability to be a market expert
  2. Entrepreneur’s ambition
  3. Entrepreneur’s work ethics


 About Funds Partnership

Funds Partnership is a special kind of recruitment business. We do not just want to provide our candidates and clients with an amazing match, we also want to be the kind of company that is around, forever. We are all about Impacting Individuals and Empowering Economies through what we do best : recruitment. If you would like to be part of a high-performance team, drop us a note to my colleague Geana at geana@fundspartnership.com.


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