I’ve been wanting to write this post for over 10 months. I was part of a hot startup team in Hong Kong, been through the ups and downs, and people kept telling me our only chance to succeed, i.e. raise more fund to run the product and hire real talents, is to go to Silicon…
Category: Founder
My Response to “A Google Programmer ‘Blew Off’ A $500,000 Salary At A Startup — Because He’s Already Making $3 Million Every Year”
The Stream Founder One single person with the purple bucket inspired 15 others to dig the stream he started. Lover’s Point Beach, Monterey, California (Photo source: aminariana.com) In a recent article by Business Insider, it told a story that a large, successful enterprise startup tried to poach a “programmer” currently working at Google. The startup made the…
If you ever ask me about innovation again…
This is an old article I wrote when I was busy promoting TalkBox throughout China. Rarely do I find time to sit down and elaborate my thoughts. But this moment, at Beijing’s Shangri-la Hotel, where I am sitting in the press corner at Business Value’s Mobile Carnival and mentally preparing for the presentation I am…
[This is probably the best thing I have written] ESCAPE THE CORPORATE WORLD & PURSUE THE WORK YOU LOVE
I have been asked to share my views on escaping the corporate world and pursue the work you love. First, I have to make it clear that venturing outside the corporate world isn’t for everyone. I am not saying that only certain people are meant for an entrepreneurial path. It is certainly not a nurture…
GROWTH is the new marketing – for non-tech readers
Recently I’ve spoken to an audience of hardware manufacturers. Having bestowed the topic of “the new trend of digital media marketing”, I’ve decided to introduce the growth hacking mindset into this presentation. A lot of you would have read the classic reading, “Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing” by Andrew Chen. If you’re part of…
Be a primer of your team
Last week when I was in Singapore, I met up with a versatile and resourceful engineer and what impressed me the most was the productivity of their team. Just the two of them, they were able to come up with over 20 apps one year and those were not “make a fart” or “throw the…
Should I envy Airbnb’s Office?
Whenever I see offices like these, I always wonder if the people who share or awe understand the gist behind the design (I’m not talking about the ergonomics of the chairs or that 50%-of-our-working-time-should-be-standing-instead-of-sitting-to-avoid-dying-faster-type-of-PR-BS) I’m talking about productivity and efficiency already not being top priority of these taken off startups, when they’re aiming at 200%…