I visited Geni.com on their invitation yesterday. The first time I come across Geni was on Techcrunch when it amazed everyone with a US$100M for a 7-weeks old company. They are founded by a bunch of ex-Paypal and eBay employees. I finally got around playing with their tool and I have to say I am […]
Month: September 2007
In Los Angles
Just checked into Westin Bonaventure Hotel in LA. I like to meet the genius who put the ethernet connector on the table far away from any wall power plug. And United Airs tried to charge me US$191 to make a slight change (30mins earlier flight) for a US$204.80 ticket. Good Lord!
Packing for LA
Almost done packing my luggage and preparing to leave for LA. The last week was really busy for me as I was running around doing errands, meeting people, and making sure things still go on while I am away. Speaking of errands, I bought a NAS 500Gb MyBook yesterday. A minute after it is booted […]
Interactive credit crunch
Bought to you by FT Who say subprime credit woes cannot be fun :-)
SMS Text News » Nokia et al: A continued diatribe
I think we all looked the other way though. What the hell was I doing buying an N95? Great phone. I love(d) it. But it’s not actually very difficult from a bog standard mp3 enabled, photo enabled Nokia 6000 series from, say, 3or 4 years ago. The picture quality is better. There’s more memory, sure. […]
How to value a startup
With just an idea and no track record to speak of, it is not easy to value a startup at the idea stage. In early stage company that is still losing money, a common method is to use discount cash flow. Briefly, project how much the company is going to worth 5 years later assuming […]
journalism.sg » Looking for patterns in 10 years of ‘light touch’ regulation
This is a preliminary analysis of case files from 1996 to 2006, representing all known state actions directed at regulating internet content. The database can be found online at www.calibratedcoercion.wordpress.com. http://journalism.sg/… (source)