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…
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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…
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%…