Summary

e outsourced. Bookkeeping is done in-house and then outsourced to a retired accountant to compile
into yearly statements for tax declaration.
Section 3.
THE PEOPLE
The company has only one full-time worker -the owner. Evacomics will outsource or
contract other services: printing, book and merchandise selling, and accounting. Editing will be
outsourced to an experienced writer who wrote scripts for an award-winning local comedy sitcom
and taught script writing for over 10 years.
The owner had worked and taught drawing at a polytechnic for five years. She has six years
of experience at drawing webcomics on a part-time basis and has two years of experience on social
media marketing for her comics. She was also the founder of SGanime, Singapore’s earliest and
largest community of anime fans with over 800 members, and founded SGMA (Singapore Manga
Artists), which gathered more than 200 local artists. These experiences allowed her to obtain skills in
managing online communities and maintain a network with hundreds of creative talents. The owner
is determined to make Evacomics a well-known comic series but realizes that community building
takes time and the first book may not be a bestseller. She will be doing part-time teaching and
freelancing until income from Evacomics is able to support her living expenses. If the venture
expands in the future, part-time assistants will be hired to complete comics and other design work.
The owner holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Academy of Art University in San Francisco
and an MBA from Waseda Business School in Tokyo. She also attained a Japanese Language
Proficiency Test (JLPT) level 1 certification and has Mandarin Chinese as her mother tongue.
8.3.1. Salaries
My pay for first year is mainly for minimal living expenses and annual insurance in case of
hospitalization or disability. Salary from Evacomics is not expected to be sufficient because I need to
dedicate time to work on my first book and constant freelance contracts are not certain. Therefore I
will be also teaching part-time and partner with my friend’s company called “Rays Inspiration” to
design and market creative thinking through comic drawing courses to schools. Income from these
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