I had a crazy month traveling across Shanghai, Hong Kong, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Palo Alto, Los Angeles and finally back in Singapore. It was great trip, mostly business but in between some personal stuff, catching up with ex-boss, old friends and making new ones. A great evening with Marc Canter and his family (love […]
Category: Random Musing
Nokia – The best is yet to be?
On the left is Pindar Wong, one of the pioneer of Internet in Hong Kong in the late 80s. When I first met Pindar in 1992, I was still merely a student whereas Pindar just sold his company, HKNet. Anyway had lunch with him two days ago. I couldn’t believe my eye when he hold […]
For all the geeks out there…
Awesome! via Marc
China Surpasses U.S. in Technological Prowess
China has surpassed the United States in a key measure of high tech competitiveness. The Georgia Institute of Technology’s bi-annual “High-Tech Indicators” finds that China improved its “technological standing” by 9 points over the period of 2005 to 2007, with the United States and Japan suffering declines of 6.8 and 7.1 respectively. In Georgia Tech’s […]
Sailing to Tioman
We set off on 24th early morning. We did our immigration clearance on the west side of Sentosa. We set off immediately to the east. Wind condition was bad so we were on our engine assisted sailing. Along the way, we saw a Malaysia police marine heading towards Pedra Branca, for the first time in […]
Evening with Vint
I was asked to introduce and moderate this evening session with Vint Cerf in Singapore jointly organized by The Digital Movement and IDA. I didn’t take much notes but I managed to twitter a bit here and there during the session. Vint Cerf is a great speaker and therefore really needs very little moderating nor […]
Deal Flow Is Dead, Long Live Thesis Driven Investing
This flow-centric business model made a tremendous amount of sense when the venture industry was relatively small and immature. Back then, there were only a handful of competitors and funds were relatively modest in size. For example, in 1980 there were only 183 venture capital firms and each firm had an average of only $41.6M […]
Next Stop
Goodbye lands of the Vikings. Waiting for the plane to go back to Singapore for a short transit (a warm bath and change of cloths) before flying to Shanghai. See you on the other side of the globe.
Copenhagen
I think this is my first trip to Copenhagen but I am not sure. Small city (about 1M people) but lovely town. And gosh, they love their hotdogs!
Short Vacation
Wrapping up my vacation in, erm, I can’t remember how long but must have being several years. Vacation for me means staying in my bed and playing World of Warcraft for 3 days. As my sis-in-law getting married in France, my wife insist we take a short vacation through Swiss Alps, thru Geneva and end […]