You Be The VC contest Damnit, we were just brainstorming about this same idea a few weeks ago!
Month: September 2007
Journal of Economic Psychology : “I think I can, I think I can”: Overconfidence and entrepreneurial behavior
High failure rates and low average returns suggest that too many people may be entering markets as entrepreneurs. Thus, anticipating how one will perform in the market is a fundamental component of the decision to start a business. Using a large sample obtained from population surveys conducted in 18 countries, we study what variables are […]
Blogging about VoIP
During coffee last week, Om Malik said to me “You haven’t blog about VoIP for a while…” We know each another when we were invited to be on the blogger panel at VON several years ago. Om, now has a blogging empire, in all business and tech (not just VoIP). I replied him “There isn’t […]
Home Sweet Home (with iPhones)
30 hours and finally back home in Singapore. It has being a good trip and I have a lot of fun! :-) Now unlocking the iPhones I bought back. Who wants one? Update: Okay, I was joking when I say “Who wants one?”. These are for friends who asked me to bring it back for […]
People I met
People I met in Bay Area: Bruce Schena – Founder of Immersion. Cool guy to hang out when I am in Bay Area again. David Hornik (August Capital) – One of my favorite VC blogger. Finally got to meet him and I hope to invite to Singapore to talk to the startups here. Dewayne Hendricks […]
My Cab Driver in Bay Area
Meng Weng reminded me to share this story on my blog. I arrived in SFO on Sunday and took a cab to downtown San Francisco. I have a very jovial cab driver and we have a wonderful conversation. Started innocently with “hows your day”, we slowly move to weather and what do I do for […]
San Francisco to Palo Alto
Had a wonderful lunch with Phil Wolff and David Beckemeyer at the Silk. I haven’t have so much fun having conversation talking about voip for a while. The industry landscape has changed a lot bu certainly lots of moving. But one take away from lunch is no one has found the “killer” in VoIP yet. […]
Techcrunch40
Techcrunch already has a great coverage of the Techcrunch40 event so it is pointless for me to repeat here. Beside, I was busy running around, speaking to people, catching up with old friends and making a lot of new ones and not really paying attention. So instead, I will cover a few companies I saw […]
What percent of your monthly income do you pay for broadband?
I am at Techcrunch40 (will blog about it later) but like to share this now via Phil Wolff Disparity between broadband haves and have-nots limit and focus Skype’s market opportunity. Frank Bures’ Wired magazine story looks at Internet Telecommunications Union data to compare raw prices of 100 Kbps broadband access by country. In some parts […]
Wired Nextfest
This is going to be a very long post based on the 250 photos and a dozen of Youtube clips I just uploaded.