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Shit Silicon Valley Says

For those who listen to my technology news podcast This Week in Asia, you will know how I feel about Asian startups trying to be Silicon Valley. The short story is, I think Asian startups faces very different type of issues and challenges compare to our Valley counterpart. It is unreliable to assume their method [...]

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5 Malaysian Entrepreneurs I admire and a lesson I learn from each of them.

I do realized that most of us (including myself) admire most world’s top-notch entrepreneurs like Donald Trump and Richard Branson. But then again, don’t forget that our country also have inspiring entrepreneurs who are currently making their stands, at par with renown entrepreneurs as well. For this post, I would like to talk about 5 Malaysian entrepreneurs that I [...]

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Making it Ghetto and Lean

Fat Sumo aka Noah Kagan is well known for many things. Being part of the early team in Facebook and Mint, he also started a startup called Gambit. His most recent venture is something call AppSumo, which is a daily deal site for Startup Geeks. This site was first started with an outsourced work which [...]

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Who Says Socialmedia Don’t Matter in Asia

If you are an entrepreneur in Asia and not marketing your product using socialmedia, here are some stats about how much adoption of social media in the region. These slides and data are compiled by WeAreSocial Singapore

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Business Matching Company SocialWalk Receives RM 1 Million Investment

It came to our attention that Socialwalk.com, a business matching company for buyers and suppliers receives a RM 1 Million investment from Crystal Horse Investments (CHI). Socialwalk has been in business for 2 years and it has started as a result of the now defunct MSC Pre-Seed program. This is the very first time the [...]

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