Starting up with NT $ 500 Tien Cheng-te comes from a very poor family in Chupei, Hsinchu County. After graduating from the Department of Food and Nutrition at Ta Hwa Institute of Technology and completing his compulsory military service, he found himself unemployed without a dime to his name. He was very lucky to find a job as a salesman in a company marketing Western pharmaceuticals.
五百元起家來自竹北清寒家庭的田正德，畢業於大華工專食品營養科，服完兵役後，身無分文的他，經過一段無業的生涯，好不容易進入一家西藥公司當推銷員。