That Thing You (Forget to) Do: Lessons in Product Development, Management & Marketing

That Thing You (Forget to) Do: Lessons in Product Development, Management & Marketing

Recently, I was invited by startup incubator JFDI.Asia to deliver a talk entitled “That Thing You (Forget to) Do” (inspired loosely from Tom Hanks’ movie “That Thing You Do”) on best practices of product development, management and marketing. In this post, I have included the presentation (which is free for...
Building and Managing Tech Teams in Asia 2: Cultural Nuances & Scope Creep

Building and Managing Tech Teams in Asia 2: Cultural Nuances & Scope Creep

In the second part of the series I am building up on building and managing tech teams in Asia, I want to focus on the problem of scope creep and why paying something cheap might cost you more. The other highlight of the article is to understand the various cultural...
Building & Managing Technology Teams in Asia 1: The Tech Conundrum

Building & Managing Technology Teams in Asia 1: The Tech Conundrum

In Asian countries, most mobile-web technology start-ups have found major difficulties in building technology teams. A few factors contributed to the problem, with lack of talent being the most common cited reason. Other factors include weak entrepreneurial ecosystem and inactive programming communities. Any start-up founder with a business background will...
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The Audacity to Win by David Plouffe

The book “The Audacity to Win” by David Plouffe focuses on the inside story from the perspective of the campaign manager for the Obama Presidential campaign 2008 and the lessons learnt from the historic victory to elect the first African-American president. With an insider view, the story starts from how David Plouffe together with Robert...

Google Chrome OS: Initial Impressions

Last week, Google released their initial version of how Google Chrome OS will look like. Within 24 hours, a lot of developers took a look at the first release of the OS. There are two ways to build Google Chrome OS: (1) You can build the Chrome OS from source code on Ubuntu following thru...

The Chronicles of a Mobile-Web Economy

Today, I was invited by Institute of Infocomm Research, A-STAR to present on the status of mobile-web space in the 16th InfoComm & Media Horizons conference focusing on the theme "Quad Play Services – Maximizing Opportunities" in the Genexis Theatre, Fusionopolis. My talk centered on the how media content and apps play a part in...

My 5 Favourite TED Videos

If I have to organize a TEDx event, which are the five videos I will choose to show? Here are my choices, ranging from topics in social media, social entrepreneurship, education, culture and economics. Other than attaching the abstracts, I have also included my own thoughts on why I like about these TED videos. ...

Why and How Facebook should come to Southeast Asia

Should Facebook set up an Asian HQ via establishing a presence in Southeast Asia? With recent statistics demonstrating their dominance in the Southeast Asia market and a drip down effect into India, Cambodia and Vietnam, we provide the reasons why they should do so and the strategies how they can tackle a fragmented market...

Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson

Recently, I am intrigued by the issue of the diamond formation in football tactics, particularly, with both Ancelotti's Chelsea and Mourinho's Inter Milan which are now adopting it. Jonathan Wilson's latest article on the diamond formation prompted me to take a deeper look on the history of football tactics and here are my thoughts after...

Building Online Communities & Social Networks: Strategies, Tools and Trends in Chinese

Yesterday, I have delivered a seminar entitled "Building Online Communities: Strategies, Tools and Trends" for the Masters students in Technopreneurship and Innovation (创业与创新硕士课程).

The Problem of Relative Choice for Singaporean Voters

Some time back, the Prime Minister of Singapore announced a few sweeping changes to the election system to encourage more dissenting voices within the Parliament in Singapore. He proposed the following changes namely: (1) Permanency and Number of Nominated Members of Parliament in the Singapore Political System: Nominated Members of Parliament will feature as a...