Discourse
Why Exits are Important (as a metric for Start-ups)

Why Exits are Important (as a metric for Start-ups)

My friend, Rama Mamuaya (aka @rampok) from DailySocial.net (the top tech & social media blog in Indonesia) wrote a tweet this morning, “How exactly does one measure a startup’s success? Exits?” I want to emphasize why exits are very important as a whole for the technology scene in Southeast Asia. It is one of the...
Building a (Mobile-Web) Start-up: the 2011 way

Building a (Mobile-Web) Start-up: the 2011 way

The era of business plans and presentations to raise money for mobile-web start-up ideas is over. In Silicon Valley, the venture incubator, Y-Combinator led by Paul Graham and his team have crushed this old school way of building an internet start-up by mentoring teams (with co-founders coming from a software engineering background) to produce a...