Silicon Moon

Shit Entrepreneurs Say

2012-01-30T18:35:00.000-08:00

Amusing short by Mohammad Gorjestani and friends.

A Chrome Superhero

2012-01-27T15:07:00.001-08:00

Shit Silicon Valley Says

2012-01-25T17:01:00.001-08:00

Obama Gave 1% to Charity, Romney Gave 15%

2012-01-25T00:05:00.000-08:00

After reading this news, I have less respect for President Obama.

Obama gives $10,000 over 4 years based on $1.2M? Seriously?? Well, it's better than what I believe Biden gave, which was about $5,000. I hate to say it, but a liberal heart sure isn't a giving heart, which has been statistically true anyway. Maybe before all this talk about income distribution and earning caps on other people, Obama should learn to give more than 1% to the hungry and needy.

His rhetoric is simply assine when you can't live by your words. What's all this talk about fairness and bridging the gap between rich and poor when he can even live out his life through his personal finances. For all his talk, I would have expected 20%-50% of this income donated to charities and nonprofits. The point that is left out of this discussion is that many people don't want to give more to inefficient government programs (i.e. D.C. public schools had the highest per capita spend but the bottom 10% in the quality of education and the countless national pork projects), but would opt into giving to the charities and nonprofits of their choice. Instead of increasing the tax rates on the "rich" why not require that increase to be donated to nonprofits targeting specific societal needs?

Fotoshop by Adobé

2012-01-20T23:57:00.000-08:00

Simply a brilliant and amusing commercial by Jesse Rosten.

This commercial isn't real, neither are society's standards of beauty.

Follow on twitter.com/JesseRosten

2012 Digital Predictions by Soap Creative

2012-01-19T15:01:00.000-08:00

2012 Digital Predictions

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Seoul Time Lapse 2011

2012-01-18T01:45:00.001-08:00

Makes me miss Seoul.

Seoul Time Lapse 2011 from Oh Choong Young on Vimeo.

CES 2012

2012-01-16T20:41:00.001-08:00

MooCowHog's photostream on Flickr.

Random pictures from this year's CES (Consumer Electronics Show).

Twitter is Hiring! Inside Sales team

2012-01-16T18:47:00.000-08:00

Just helping out a friend at Twitter. If you know of any excellent candidates, they can apply directly or I can provide an introduction to my friend. Just read the two descriptions below...

Account Manager, Inside Sales

If you’re an enthusiastic Twitter user with relevant account management experience, analytical skills, and a passion for learning, we invite you to talk to us about our advertising sales organization at Twitter, Inc.

Responsibilities
• Collaborating with a high volume of advertisers to understand their objectives, recommending best practices, and developing effective campaigns
• Executing, optimizing, and analyzing advertising programs using internal tools and dashboards
• Resolving campaign issues in a timely and productive manner, and identifying and implementing process improvements
• Managing contracts and renewals, and assisting our Sales Finance organization with payables and collections
• Providing feedback to our product and tools teams to help us scale our advertising platform
• Mentoring new team members as our organization grows

Requirements
• Demonstrated ability to create, develop, and enhance customer relationships
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, attention to detail, and a bias for proactively resolving issues
• Aptitude, creativity, and a preference for working in small, collaborative teams with minimal supervision
• A passion for Twitter and our mission
• BA / BS degree

Account Executive, Inside Sales

If you are an enthusiastic Twitter user with relevant sales experience, a strong track record, and solid customer relationships, we invite you to talk to us about advertising sales opportunities at Twitter, Inc.

Responsibilities
• Drive a high volume of sales through managing the complete sales process from prospecting to close.
• Create consultative sales presentations to demonstrate how Twitter’s advertising products can be leveraged to connect with consumers
• Thought leadership – immersing yourself in the evolving social media landscape, and adapting to Twitter’s ongoing product developments
• Mentoring new team members as our organization grows

Requirements
• 2+ years of inside sales experience working with medium size companies.
• A track record demonstrating an ability to succeed within a high volume sales environment and with driving the full sales cycle from start to finish: cold calls, building pipelines and closing business.
• Strong drive to beat targets, relentlessly positive attitude and incredible work ethic.
• Deep understanding of Twitter and the social media landscape, and opportunities for marketers
• Aptitude, creativity, and a preference for working in small, collaborative teams
• A passion for Twitter and our mission
• BA / BS degree

What Makes a Cool Entrepreneur?

2012-01-16T18:39:00.000-08:00

CoolEntrepreneurs

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Martin Luther King Jr. on NBC's Meet the Press in 1965

2012-01-16T16:50:00.001-08:00

CES 2012 - Samsung's Smart Window

2012-01-13T06:39:00.001-08:00

1st KoreaTown Comedy Festival

2012-01-11T01:57:00.000-08:00

If you're in LA, check out the 1st annual KoreaTown Comedy Festival.

Thursday, January 12th at 7:00pm

CGV Cinemas
621 S. Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90010

Limited Presale Tickets: $11
At The Door: $15

All seats are first come, first served. OPEN SEATING, not reserved seating.

All proceeds go to LiNK (Liberty in North Korea) & KOLLABORATION (Empowerment Through Entertainment)

Aiko Tanaka (Comedy Store)
Amy Anderson (Comedy Central)
Andrew Fung (Fung Brothers)
Andy Hur (Dehydrated Comedy)
Bart Kwan (Just Kidding Films)
Danny Cho (Ktown Cowboys)
David Fung (Fung Brothers)
David So (Youtube Star)
Eliot Chang (Comedy Central)
George Wang (Dr. FoodManChu)
Jonathan Park (Dumbfoundead)
KT Tatara (Comedy Central)
PK (Kollaboration)
Walter Hong (Big Guy Productions)

How to Create an Early Stage Pitch Deck

2012-01-07T22:40:00.001-08:00

How to Create an Early Stage Pitch Deck

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A Lesson in Economics, Socialism and Why Pubic Policy Cannot Equalize Society

2012-01-06T11:46:00.000-08:00

I came across this through a friend's Facebook post:

"An economics professor at a local college made a statement t

hat he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan". All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little..
The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. It could not be any simpler than that.
Remember, there IS a test coming up. The 2012 elections.

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation."

2012 predictions: It’s Doom & Gloom for Amazon, RIM and Zynga

2012-01-04T09:03:00.000-08:00

My 5th annnual technology predictions post is up over at VentureBeat. Check it out!

Galaxy Nexus and Google+ Hangouts: Social MC's

2012-01-04T02:35:00.000-08:00

What is Vidquik?

2011-12-24T23:38:00.000-08:00

Our new product video is up...

"Vidquik is a web conferencing & sales solution platform. Our core product is an embeddable web conferencing widget with a powerful backend routing technology to increase your sales and customer service productivity. Please visit www.vidquik.com and contact us for more information."

Long version...

Tebow Mic'd Up vs Bears 2011

2011-12-16T15:32:00.001-08:00

Zynga's IPO Fizzles

2011-12-16T08:35:00.000-08:00

Admittedly, I was being courteous in my review of Zynga's long-term prospects in my post in Technorati. They are still a multi-billion dollar company, so Mark Pincus or any of its investors have nothing but tears of joy.

My analysis was towards various statements I've heard that it was "game over" within the social gaming space and that Zynga will be the juggernaut forever. Knowing the gaming market, I just saw a few signs that told me the opposite, which I can say has happened since they have experience revenue decline over the past two quarters.

My original post from June 2011:

"Zynga. The juggernaut of social gaming has some analysts saying "game over" and conceding to his position as the dominant player in this new market. This reminds of how some people were saying Darko Milicic was going to be a "bona fide superstar". Also reminds me of the chatter that app makers Slide and RockYou were going to be billion dollar babies a few years back. If you know gaming, the tides can turn fast so $500 million in revenues can become $50 million in a few years. Supposedly Zynga is recently making "headcount" acquisitions of companies based on number of engineers, so I wonder if they are able to get the best talent and retain them in this manner? Well, I know John Doerr, the Coach K of Silicon Valley is big on him, but I'm 50/50 on this prospect. He could become a superstar or just a solid contributor like a Shane Battier."

Galaxy Nexus: Calling All

2011-12-15T09:00:00.001-08:00

Zeitgeist 2011: Year In Review

2011-12-15T08:55:00.001-08:00

How the world searched in 2011...

TED: The Ahn Trio

2011-12-14T22:50:00.001-08:00

Dave McClure's Designing 4 Emotion Presentation @ WarmGun 2011

2011-12-02T09:18:00.001-08:00

At the Warm Gun 2011 Conference today. Dave McClure's presentation here kicks it off.

Designing 4 Emotion (WarmGun, Dec 2011)

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CNN on "Film: Egg donation exploits women"

2011-12-01T13:31:00.001-08:00

Julie Peterson reports on "Eggsploitation," a documentary that claims egg donors unknowingly risk their health for money.

KSEA Business Venture Contest: $10,000 Prize

2011-11-28T17:54:00.001-08:00

KSEA (Korean-American Scientists & Engineers Association) is hosting a micro-seed fund contest. Entrants can win $10,000 to jumpstart their startup.

WHERE: Deliver your business plan pitch during the Young Generation Technical and Leadership Conference (YGTLC) on Saturday, January 7, 2012 in San Francisco. Venture Capitalists from Silicon Valley will be the judges.

ELIGIBILITY: Competitors must register for the YGTLC and submit your idea by December 14, 2011 for eligibility. Check the website for complete details.

The $50 conference registration includes 2 nights of lodging at Embassy Suites, 8 meals, and access to the Job-Recruiting Career Resource Fair.

DEADLINE: December 14th, 2011.

PRIZE: Up to $10,000 prize will be awarded to the top finishing individuals with successful business plans.

For more information, please visit YG.KSEA.ORG

This Week: Start-up Accelerators in Silicon Valley

2011-11-22T00:38:00.000-08:00

"PBS's NewsHour correspondent Hari Sreenivasan reports on start-up accelerators in Silicon Valley that are helping new high-tech entrepreneurs get their footing."

Help Vidquik Get User Feedback! Get the Most Users on Vidquik & Win $300!

2011-11-15T16:34:00.001-08:00

Android-based Watch Mimics the Smartphone

2011-11-14T12:27:00.001-08:00

Dick Tracy comics come to life...

"Android-based watch mimics the smartphone" Springwise

i'm watch - the first real smartwatch in the world from im watch on Vimeo.

Fok Diet? Make me Okinawan!

2011-11-07T18:59:00.000-08:00

HatTip to R Kwon. Derived from "The China Study" and promoting plant-based diets. I met a researcher a few years ago who studied the diets of Okinawans, which has the highest average life expectancy and highest number of centenarians per capita. He was saying that it was their diet of vegetables, seafood and steamed/boiled pork that was a major factor in their longevity.

Also the life expectancy of China is 73 years (80th in the world) vs. U.S. is 78.3 years (36th) vs. Japan is 82.6 (1st) vs. Okinawans probably 90.3 years. I know other factors affect China's numbers, but looking at a diet of green stalks, roots & beans vs. scallops, shrimp, steamed pork belly & Japanese greens has me thinking, "Make me Okinawan!"

The China Startup Report

2011-10-31T16:28:00.001-07:00

"Interested in starting a company in China? Here’s a quick report on China through the lens of a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur.

This 15 min guide by Bowei Gai aims to cover the basics of Chinese market size, opportunity, key players, competition and infrastructure."

The China Startup Report

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Having Faith Like a Child Does Not Mean Thinking Like a Child

2011-10-30T23:31:00.000-07:00

Recently, the Barna Group published research related to their new book, You Lost Me: Why Young Christians are Leaving Church and Rethinking Church, in an article, “Six Reasons Young Christians Leave Church”.

Nothing here is really a major revelation. Their research “uncovered” six themes why 59% of young believers disconnect from church life after age 15. Three of them were related to the primary focus of this post, which is how people and the church deal with doubt:

• Churches seem overprotective
• Churches come across as antagonistic to science
• Church feels unfriendly to those who doubt

It is disturbing to me since these are issues that I experienced during my high school and college years, and nothing has seemingly changed in over twenty years except that today there is an obvious void of leadership and teaching within churches and parachurch organizations. If our culture more highly prized knowledge, truth and loving the Lord with all of your mind, the three issues above would hardly exist. Instead, there is a culture of ignorance and fear of knowledge sewn into the fabric of the Church that needs to be cut out.

Assuming God is omniscient, what does a believer have to be concerned about? That Ricky Gervais will outwit God? And then there is Jesus who indirectly claimed to be the most knowledgeable person on earth and who I believe is the most intelligent person in history. So what are people concerned about? Open questioning and knowledge seeking should be embraced.

“Unbelief is the absence of thinking” - Dr. David Martyn-Lloyd Jones

The idea of universal knowledge and public education came from the Protestant movement, so that everyone could read the Bible for himself or herself and that there would be no “high priest”. The first law in the U.S. to require universal public education came from the same roots:

“It being one chief end of that old deluder Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures… and to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers” - Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1647

So what have the body of believers become today? A group of people that fear rigorous thinking and hard questions? A body that embraces ignorance?

There are thousands of roads to believing in God and growing in faith. For myself, I was the first person from my family to attend church and become a believer during 8th grade. Prior to this, I didn’t hold any reverence for the Bible or Christian imagery. I was a natural skeptic and very cynical, so it took me years to be confident in the existence of God and fully accept the validity of the Bible and have satisfactory answers to all of my doubts about God. Knowledge gathering and critical analysis actually built a bridge to faith for me. It wasn’t a completed bridge and not all my questions were answered, but it was enough for me to take that leap of faith. The bridge will never be completed by knowledge alone, but there is enough body of evidence available to help the most critical mind across that chasm of faith.

Since those early years, I have never doubted the existence of God, the validity of the Bible or the life of Christ. Instead I have swung the pendulum of embracing God’s grace and abusing God’s grace. I struggled with living a life pleasing to God since it’s simply difficult to live such a life without being in a bubble. For many believers who are driven, submitting your will to God is a constant struggle. I do know when I was most comfortable in life and ignoring God, or at my most sinful and ignoring God that he was always with me. During my many drunken nights, most arrogant days and selfish moments, I knew the fact that God was always with me. I am not reveling in my sin, but just explaining that it wasn’t any feeling more so than the little knowledge I had of who God was that always brought me back to God.

“Jesus Christ insists that the whole trouble with people of little faith is they do not think. They allow circumstances to bludgeon them. They allow their feelings to collar them. The Bible is full of reasoning. We must never think of faith as something purely mystical. Faith progresses through thinking, Jesus tells us. Look at the birds. Think about them. Draw your deductions. Look at the flowers. Do the same.

This is the essence of worry. Instead of letting reason control your thoughts, other things have controlled them and you go round and round in circles. That is not thinking. Worry is the absence of thinking. Unbelief is the absence of thinking. And for a Christian a lack of faith is a failure to think." - Dr. David Martyn-Lloyd Jones

Which is why I believe whether early in a person’s faith or midstream, he or she needs to face doubts and questions about why they believe and how do they really know that God is real. I know of too many stories not just young believers but young leaders from churches who renounce their faith after simple challenges to their faith, such as reading a book by Sam Harris, one drunken night or sexual escapade.

The certainty of God and my faith has only increased with time, and it’s not because I’ve drunk more of the Kool-aid or become more isolated from the world. It’s actually been the opposite. One example is that the Bible’s validity has increased over my lifetime and its lifetime. When the Nabonidus Chronicle, an ancient Babylonian text, was discovered in 1879, it verified the existence of Beltshazzar, the King of Babylon from the Book of Daniel. Prior to this discovery, some people doubted the existence of such a King and even the validity of Daniel and his accounts. It’s not just one example -- there are dozens and dozens of examples where the Bible has stood up to the challenges of skeptics and was eventually validated by archeological finds over the past couple hundred years.

I believe there is a reasonable explanation as to why a fair number of world-class physicists come to believe in God. From Sir Isaac Newton to Cambridge’s John Polkinghorne to Princeton’s Freeman Dyson and many others, studying the creation of the universe led them to an inevitable truth of an ultimate creator.

“God, like a master builder, has laid the foundation of the world according to law and order... God wanted us to recognize those laws by creating us after his image so that we could share in his own thoughts.” - Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)

So why isn’t a church safe place for youth or anyone else to express doubts? What is lacking in the culture or organization of churches to embrace such questions and critical thinking? I remember when I, or others I knew, would ask questions and a common response was, “Well, sometimes we have to have faith like a child.” I hated that response especially since I knew by then that God was not dumb and does not revel in ignorance.

A 2011 NetKAL Experience

2011-10-27T08:06:00.000-07:00

Unofficial video from the NetKAL Summit and Gala that Christine and I attended. NetKAL (Network of Korean American Leaders) is a mid-career professional program that Christine and I went through a few years back.

Spherical Flying Machine Developed by Japan Ministry Of Defense

2011-10-26T23:52:00.000-07:00

Where Should I Eat When I'm in Chicago?

2011-10-24T18:20:00.000-07:00

My answer on Facebook that was popular...

I grew up in Chicago, from a family that loved to eat out, and a lover of meats and fatty foods (not for the health conscious, but you're visiting Chicago, right?). First, if you're visiting Chicago, you have to eat steak. It was the historic hub of the cattle industry, Morton's Steakhouse was founded here, and where else are 48 oz portershouses standard?

The local favorites are The Chop House and Gibson's. You can't go wrong with either, but Chop House has been rated "best steakhouse" in America for several years by numerous publications so I would go here. After growing up on Chop House, Gibson's, and others, Peter Lugar in Brooklyn was weak. "Steak for three" at Lugar's is like a steak for one in most Chicago steakhouses.

For higher end restaurants, I would recommend Alinea, Charlie Trotters and MK Restaurant. Alinea and Moto started the micro-dish trend (20 course dinners) several years back and frequent experimentations with liquid nitrogen.

For mid-tier priced restaurants and street food, there are countless choices. If you can travel out to the burbs, I would recommend Bob Chinn's Crabhouse in Wheeling, IL. This is one of the best seafood places you'll ever eat at and has the best Alaskan King Crab (yes, in the burbs of Chicago). They have their own daily shipments of fresh seafood flow in and the largest volume of King Crab. This one restaurant generates over $30 million in revenue and typically ranks 4th in the nation. In Chicago, I would recommend going to Rick Bayless' Frontera Grill. Bayless was the winner of Top Chef Masters last year and is an excellent chef.

For fast food, I would recommend Portillo's (chain with many locations) or Al's Beef and get the Italian Beef sandwich. If you haven't tried Italian Beef, then you haven't been to Chicago. Get it "dipped" (in beef juice) with peppers. Then travel to Buffalo Joe's in Evanston, IL and go to Buffalo Joe's. Their buffalo wings have won two national recipes (for any food) and is the standard for many wing fanatics. Their consistency in quality and size of the wings have gone down over the past decade, but it's still tasty.

Then find a Pot Belly's for one of the best subs you'll have. This was a Chicago institution for years with only two locations until several years ago Starbuck's Howard Schultz invested into it and expanded it throughout the Midwest and D.C.

For pizza, Giordano's is my favorite. It's stuffed pizza, not pan so it's even thicker and heavier with meats and cheese. Voted "Best Pizza in America" by NBC and others. I would also check out Spacca Napoli if you love Neapolitan style. And a local favorite in the burbs is Burt's Place, which has a pretty good fan following.

Update 1/9/2011: Recent TIME magazine article on Grant Achatz and Alinea, a three star Michelin restaurant

The hottest restaurant in Chicago right now is Girl & the Goat, which was started by Top Chef winner, Stephanie Izard

Thoughts on Harbaugh Handshake from Mary Poppins

2011-10-17T22:57:00.000-07:00

My thoughts on the whole Harbaugh vs. Schwartz situation are summed up below. First, is my email to the Jim Rome show, which I didn't check yet if it got on. Second, is my quick take on it.

Dear Sir,

Coach Harbaugh's lack of proper etiquette and gentleness was offensive to all the proper ladies I know of in London. My heart goes out to Coach Schwartz especially since he was one of my favorite students as a young girl.

Mary Poppins
London, England

My real take is that if Schwartz won and Harbaugh did the exact same thing, would he have gotten upset? I bet not. I am not a fan of either team, but looking at Schwartz's demeanor as a coach he is the type to overreact. He was looking for something more since he was pissed off that he lost. Many of us have been there. If Schwartz was simply insulted, he wouldn't have chased after Harbaugh and bumped him to look for a fight. The guy is a loser. He's a sore loser and I lost some respect for the Lion's as an organization.

Age of Monsters - Rock Paper Scissors Trailer

2011-10-16T22:41:00.000-07:00

New FB game from Jeff Matsuda, who was the primary designer for The Batman cartoon series and use to draw X-Men, Avengers, and others. So it must be good :)

"Beginning Oct 19, download the game here: http://massivejoe.com/aomfw

If Michael Bay made a Rock Paper Scissor game, we'd like to think this would be it.

Age of Monsters -- Rock Paper Scissors transports the classic schoolyard game to a monster-eat-monster, post-apocalyptic world where mortals dare not tread (kinda like North Philadelphia).

From the mind of Jeff Matsuda, the Emmy Award winning Producer and Creative Director of The Batman cartoon, and his team at Massive Joe Studios, AOM -- RPS is the Rock Paper Scissors game to end ALL Rock Paper Scissor games. "

Milton Friedman on Greed

2011-10-13T22:01:00.000-07:00

HatTip to Dave D. Milton Friedman interviewed by Phil Donahue in 1979.

So easy to forget that under Communist regimes more people have been killed (i.e. Gulags, Khmer Rouge, political prison camps, etc.) than all the wars combined in the past 100 years. That's what one alternative to capitalism does with their bottom 20%.

Vidquik Beta is Live!

2011-10-12T19:11:00.001-07:00

Our beta is live! Well, it’s been alive for a few weeks now, but our blog gets the standard blog treatment among social media. Twitter and Facebook get much more attention hence the delay in posting this announcement on our blog.

As a recap, on September 13th, 2011 we launched our free one-to-one web conferencing service, which is video plus online presentation sharing, at DEMO, the prestigious launch conference in Silicon Valley.

There was great confirmation from people who were seeking an easy-to-use web conferencing solution and along the way we garnered some great press:

“DemoFall 2011: Top 5 New Techs I’d use” IEEE Spectrum

“The 15 Most Intriguing Pitches from DEMO Fall 2011″ Network World

“Vidquik tries to disrupt online meetings with free 1-to-1 web conferencing” VentureBeat

You can read more news clips from our Facebook page here. We also revealed our strategy and product direction, which is to focus on enhancing sales productivity and providing salespeople powerful but easy-to-use tools related to our web conferencing platform.

Vidquik is not focused on the collaboration space and providing tools to enhance corporate communications. We are focused on increasing sales productivity and helping salespeople close deals, so as we look towards our official launch in November 2011 we ask for your feedback and any recommendations you might have for our product. We appreciate your continued support and help!

Why Startups Fail

2011-10-12T19:03:00.000-07:00

"Building a successful business is every entrepreneur's goal--but only 1 in 12 succeed in doing it. Why do startups fail? The Startup Genome project analyzed data from 3,200 companies and came up with some answers. At the core of any successful business are two things: a good product and a large market for that product. In other words, a startup should be able to scale. And to scale properly, it must balance the growth of five core dimensions: customers, product, team, business model, and funding. The dominant reason for failure: premature scaling of one or more of those dimensions."

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Steve Jobs' Greatest Quotes

2011-10-08T02:39:00.001-07:00

Steve Jobs' Greatest Quotes

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Occupy Sesame Street! Cookie News!

2011-10-08T02:08:00.000-07:00

99% of the world's cookies are consumed by 1% of the monsters! Join the Occupy Sesame Street movement!

Landscapes: Volume Two by Dustin Farrell

2011-10-07T15:56:00.000-07:00

Landscapes: Volume Two from Dustin Farrell on Vimeo.

Wozniak Tearfully Remembers His Friend Steve

2011-10-06T17:54:00.000-07:00

"Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak spoke with The Associated Press Thursday morning about his friend and former business partner Steve Jobs."

100th Roundtable Entrepreneurs Share An Insider's View Of 1M/1M Program

2011-10-05T23:24:00.000-07:00

(Repost from 1M/1M)
What began in 2008 as an interactive forum to encourage entrepreneurship in the wake of the financial crisis continues to gain momentum. The One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative will be celebrating the 100th free online roundtable for entrepreneurs on Thursday, October 6, 2011, 8 a.m. PDT. Sramana Mitra reflects on the journey here.

During the 100^th roundtable, several entrepreneurs who work with 1M/1M from all over the world will be sharing their entrepreneur journeys - their ups and downs and goals - as inspiration for other startup entrepreneurs. These 1M/1M entrepreneurs, who usually meet during the members-only private roundtables, are at various stages of building their businesses and will each provide an insider's view of the 1M/1M program.

This interactive roundtable will be moderated by Sramana Mitra, founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. "We are very proud of the progress our 1M/1M entrepreneurs are making. At this stage, we have validated our model of a distributed, democratic and 100% virtual entrepreneurship education and incubation program," shares Mitra. "We are able to positively impact the journeys of entrepreneurs around the world. It gives me confidence that we can achieve our goal of restructuring capitalism, and establish Capitalism 2.0 through the 1M/1M global initiative."

Usually, all attendees are invited each week to pitch their businesses at these free online roundtables. Entrepreneurs gain the experience of pitching their businesses with straight-shooting feedback from Sramana Mitra and advice on what their next steps should be. Mitra is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant who writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy, and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series

You can find more information and register to attend the 100th roundtable here: http://strategyroundtable-oct6.eventbrite.com/

Apple Floundering?

2011-10-05T12:31:00.000-07:00

There was a mixed reaction yesterday at Apple's media day to the announcement of iPhone 4S. Every was expecting the iPhone 5, but it didn't happen. My initial thoughts were that Apple was forced to show something. Yes, there were some software improvements and Siri is cool, but was it really worth the effort of the PR push? I believe some analysts who wrote about production delays on the iPhone 5 called it correctly. There was no way they could launch the iPhone 5 in October or even November, but with the Kindle Fire announcement and the upcoming launch of Samsung's Nexus Prime and Android's Ice Cream Sandwich operating system Apple felt the pressure.

Android is still experiencing leaps in growth while Apple's market share of the mobile OS pie is stagnant. Bill Gurley called it correctly months ago that Android is an unstoppable freight train, and Apple feels it coming. Samsung alone approaches iPhone's sales numbers and I stated for a while now that by 2013 Android will takeover the seemingly unstoppable iPad in the tablet market. And this is not Tim Cook's fault. Whether it was Cook or Jobs, this was and is inevitable, which is why Apple had to start a patent battle that many consider dirty or counter to all that Silicon Valley stands for.

How the Patent War is Stifling Innovation in Silicon Valley

2011-10-05T08:40:00.000-07:00

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Silicon Valley’s Pay-It-Forward Culture Drives Innovation

2011-10-04T13:47:00.000-07:00

My first blog post at Privy.net is up! Check it out here or just read below:

Recently, the highly regarded serial entrepreneur and Stanford lecturer, Steve Blank, wrote a piece titled, “The pay-it-forward culture of startups”. Reading it allowed me to revisit a common question that is asked to so many people in Silicon Valley. What makes this area so unique as the entrepreneurial innovation engine to the world? Representatives from countries, cities and companies all over the world visit the halls of HP, Google, Facebook, Twitter and others every week to somehow bottle the special air we breathe here or the secret potion that’s poured into our water.

There have been numerous studies done on the rare combination in Silicon Valley of venture capital, major research universities and a large pool of engineering and entrepreneurial talent, but I really believe it is the intangibles that make Silicon Valley unique and foster an incredible amount of innovation. The tangible elements have been replicated, such as in NYC or Boston, but the intangibles are more difficult to replicate.

Steve Blank described the pay-it-forward culture and how it allowed a young Steve Jobs to be mentored by Bob Noyce, Founder and CEO of Intel, and how this helped in Job’s development to become the most influential CEO of the past decade. It is the ubiquity of this pay-it-forward culture that makes Silicon Valley unique.

What does paying it forward mean? Providing information and knowledge about how to build a technology company, how to raise venture capital, and the countless lessons learned from startup life. There are seminars and consultants that provide such knowledge, but an important fabric of Silicon Valley are the experienced entrepreneurs who are happy to pass down their experiences, mistakes, successes and any kernel of wisdom that they can provide to help others to succeed.

In other industries, regions in the U.S. or elsewhere in the world, it would be considered idiotic as a business practice but not here in Silicon Valley. Most people understand that it’s not the idea, but the execution that creates the bridge towards success. A common saying is that for every “brilliant” startup idea you have there are at least 10 other people thinking the same thing, so it becomes a race to execution.

Imagine traders on Wall Street sharing all their ideas openly or Hollywood producers sharing movie script ideas? I assume this rarely happens. The culture of investment banking in NYC and Hollywood in LA value information and ideas as a competitive edge more so than in Silicon Valley.

Another essential element that I believe helps to create this pay-it-forward culture is the notion that some or most of a startup’s success is driven by luck. You have to assume at least one if not all your competitors are just as smart as you, work endless nights like you and have no social life like you. So what is the difference? Luck. I remember reading a great op-ed by a serial entrepreneur during the late ‘90s. He had 5 successful exits (a few of them were hundreds of millions each for his coffers) and 4 failed startups, but in the end he attributed most of his success to luck and timing, which he stated he could not control. So even with some of the most arrogant entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley there is an underlying sense of humility.

After my first startup during my late twenties through all the hardships that my co-founders and I endured, I remember speaking with my colleague and close friend, Jimmy, about vowing to help other entrepreneurs as much as we could so they don’t suffer like we did. This first startup was based in Chicago and Seoul. It wasn’t Silicon Valley, but the startup experience created this pay-it-forward culture within me that resounds strongly to this day.

Since Silicon Valley is the startup Mecca of the world, I eventually moved here in 2004. There are factors that attract many technology entrepreneurs all over the globe to build their dreams here and this critical mass of like-minded people is what has made Silicon Valley unique.

Disney's New iPad Game

2011-09-29T08:59:00.000-07:00

"The inventor of cool: Etienne Mineur" by Robert Scoble

Vidquik at the Startup America HD Social Lounge, DEMO Fall 2011

2011-09-27T07:12:00.000-07:00

Justice League of Apple

2011-09-23T11:29:00.000-07:00

In the world of Steve Job's and Apple...

Tesco Homeplus Virtual Subway Store in Korea

2011-09-22T17:35:00.000-07:00

Very cool innovation in South Korea.

Our First Google Wallet Customer

2011-09-16T19:23:00.000-07:00

George Louis Costanza, Google Wallet's first customer.

BOATLIFT, An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience

2011-09-16T09:42:00.000-07:00

"Tom Hanks narrates the epic story of the 9/11 boatlift that evacuated half a million people from the stricken piers and seawalls of Lower Manhattan."

Vidquik Presentation at DEMO Fall 2011

2011-09-15T16:44:00.000-07:00

Vidquik's DEMO page is here.

Should Have Listened to My Wife, Don't Tell Jokes at DEMO

2011-09-14T00:35:00.000-07:00

Christine, my wife, was my presentation coach for the DEMO Conference and was awesome. Improved my speech and Vidquik's presentation by 300% and I welcomed 90% of her feedback. Part of the 10% I rejected was not to tell my joke. She repeated her warning and got annoyed when I didn't say, "Yes." On stage, during the time while I waited for Jason and Jae to connect on our service, I said:

"During our alpha, since we don't require login or registration, we were very popular among political dissidents across the globe. Especially in China, Libya, and North Korea."

Approximately 500 attendees present and about 10 people laughed. One cricket would have been louder in that big ballroom. I also heard a big whooshing sound flying over the audience's heads. But we did get a few investors and partnership leads since they really liked my joke :)

Droid Bionic "Arena" - Verizon Commercial

2011-09-08T16:15:00.000-07:00

Angry Black Man on Korean Bus- Music Video Response

2011-09-06T23:42:00.000-07:00

Clavier Says Groupon Dealing With "Short-Term" Issues

2011-09-06T19:16:00.000-07:00

Idiotic Black Dude on Korean Bus Misunderstanding Elderly Man

2011-08-28T23:46:00.000-07:00

From Adrian H.: "Wow. Infuriating. An elderly man told a black man on a Korean bus 'Neega yohgee anjuh' - which means, 'You can sit here.' The guy understood it as another N word. I wish he spoke Korean, or someone on that bus spoke English. Or that someone actually stepped in instead of watching it all go down. But Koreans are perennial bystanders. Miscommunication & misunderstanding account for a whole lot of the world's problems."

Demolish the Status Quo in Entrepreneurial Education

2011-08-24T18:09:00.001-07:00

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Hitler Learns HP is Abandoning WebOS

2011-08-19T10:49:00.000-07:00

News & Links List

2011-08-18T11:12:00.001-07:00

"Lessons In Corporate Strategy From BlackBerry's Flawed PlayBook" Fast Company

"Google just bought itself patent protection" CNET

"Suck on it, AppleSoft — Google pulls a rope-a-dope" Dan Lyons

"Android steals 20% of tablet market from iPad over past year" BGR

"Android trounces Symbian, iOS in Q2, study finds" CNET

"What If Tim Berners-Lee Had Patented The Web?" TechDirt

"Why software patents are not fixable" Macro.org

"Groupon’s Strikeouts Reveal an Unspoken Truth: Jonathan Weil" Bloomberg

"Progress On The Startup Visa Movement" Brad Feld

"Games in Google+: fun that fits your schedule" The Official Google Blog

"An Idea for the Economy that will Freak Out a lot of People but could be Fun to Discuss." Mark Cuban

"UK Riots & Poverty Put on a Google Map" ReadWriteWeb

"Big Brother isn't watching you
Dismissing rioters as mindless is futile rhetoric. However unacceptable the UK riots, we need to ask why they are happening" Guardian

"They've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
Obama still has supporters, but theirs is a grim support." WSJ, Peggy Noonan

"The Obama Downgrade, Alphabetically
H is for Hillary, who would have made a better president." WSJ

Vidquik Launching at DEMO! Sept.12th-14th

2011-08-12T08:42:00.001-07:00

I'm pretty excited to post that we’re launching our beta at DEMO!They had over 1,000 companies apply for this session and accepted approximately 5%. Our team believed DEMO was the best fit for Vidquik since the conference is owned by IDG whose publications (200 magazines and newspapers and 460 websites including Computer World, Mac World, and PC World) include our target markets of SMBs and tech influencers within corporate walls. Also DEMO has a rich history of companies such as Palm, Tivo, ETrade, Salesforce.com, and others launching at the conference.We were aware of the criticism of DEMO, but some of that is hype by competitors (i.e. they don't make you buy extra tickets) and our team thought the benefits outweighed the negatives, which is primarily cost vs. other launch conferences.Now instead of launching our beta at the end of August, it will be pushed back to September 12th-14th. See you then!

Louis CK - Turning 40

2011-08-11T23:05:00.000-07:00

The Google+ Song from Break

2011-08-10T11:25:00.000-07:00

USA Inc. from KPCB

2011-08-08T17:27:00.000-07:00

"USA Inc.is a non-partisan report that looks at the U.S. federal government (and its financials) as if it were a business. Mary Meeker, partner at KPCB and former financial analyst at Morgan Stanley, created and compiled the report with the goal of informing the discussion about our financial situation and outlook. USA Inc. examines the country’s income statement and balance sheet, aiming to interpret the underlying data and facts, and illustrate patterns and trends in easy-to-understand ways. The report also analyzes the drivers of federal revenue and the history of expense growth, and discusses basic scenarios for how revenue and expense growth might change to help America move toward positive cash flow."

8 Year Old Covers Train's "Hey Soul Sister!"

2011-08-05T18:06:00.000-07:00

News & Links List

2011-08-05T14:09:00.001-07:00

I've been busy with Vidquik, so catching up on some old links here...

"New travel tools let you create and carry custom itineraries for trip" USAToday

"See the World & Plan Your Next Trip With This iPhone App" Mashable

"Apple pilfers rips off student's rejected iPhone app" The Register

"A ‘deal-a-day’ site for sports tickets" Springwise

"How I Did It: John Vechey, Founder of PopCap
How a small company is capturing a big audience in the casual gaming market."

"The 9 Most Important Things to Remember If You Want to Sell Your Startup" TechCrunch

"Alexandra Wilkis Wilson of Gilt.com: Four Traits Your Co-Founders Must Have" BNET

"The Rise and Inglorious Fall of Myspace
It once promised to redefine music, politics, dating, and pop culture. Rupert Murdoch fell in love with it. Then everything fell apart" BusinessWeek

"For foodie travelers, a guide to culinary activities worldwide" Springwise

"Challenges of local social commerce" Gravity7

"Business Models on the Web" by Michael Rappa

"The Resume Is Dead, The Bio Is King" the99percent

"Bob Rodriguez: The man who sees another crash" Fortune

"South Korean Schools to Replace All Textbooks with Tablets" TheNextWeb Asia

TEDTalk: Mark Pagel on How Language Transformed Humanity

2011-08-05T00:26:00.000-07:00

Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity | Video on TED.com

The Evolution of the Geek

2011-08-03T23:04:00.001-07:00

The Evolution of the Geek over at Visual.ly

"When you hear the word ‘geek,’ an image of a nerd with tapped glasses and a pocket protector instantly comes to mind. This infographic shows the evolution of the geek from super nerd to super chic. These days it’s cool to be geeky, whether you’re a film geek, tech geek or book geek. While there are still different levels of geekdom – one thing is for certain – geeks rule the world."

by Flowtown via

"Facebook Game" by Peter Su

2011-08-02T07:17:00.000-07:00

Peter Su is a venture capitalist turned singer and songwriter.

Sergey Brin on "To Tell The Truth" Back in 2000

2011-07-29T17:33:00.000-07:00

In 2000, Sergey Brin was on the TV game show, "To Tell The Truth".

Microsoft's Video Bashing Gmail: "He's the Gmail Man"

2011-07-28T17:12:00.000-07:00

TEDTalk: Geoffrey West on The Surprising Math of Cities and Corporations

2011-07-28T00:36:00.000-07:00

Back home after a week of travel! Anyway, here's a good TEDTalk to check out:

"Physicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities -- that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other aspects of a city can be deduced from a single number: the city's population. In this mind-bending talk from TEDGlobal he shows how it works and how similar laws hold for organisms and corporations."

Anatomy of the Mobile Market by Visual.ly

2011-07-19T01:56:00.000-07:00

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Slave Leia PSA from Break Media

2011-07-17T09:53:00.000-07:00

"Kaley Cuoco addresses an important issue affecting cosplay girls across the globe: Slave Leia fatigue. With so many choices available to women who cosplay, there's no reason everyone needs to be Slave Leia. By acting now, we can save Slave Leia for when we really need her."

TEDTalks: Matt Cutts "Try Something New for 30 Days

2011-07-17T09:47:00.000-07:00

"Is there something you've always meant to do, wanted to do, but just ... haven't? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals."

Another Chinese Power: Rare Earth Metals

2011-07-15T09:42:00.000-07:00

A relatively unknown stranglehold that China has on the world is that they produce 95%+ of most of the rare metals used in electronics. They have huge trade and political leverage against most nations including the U.S.

"Japan discovers 'rare earth' minerals used for iPads" Guardian

Abandon Earth—Or Face Extinction by Stephen Hawking

2011-07-15T07:17:00.000-07:00

"Stephen Hawking says all we have to do is survive another two hundred years and the human race will be saved, because by that point human settlements in space will already be well-established."

Determinism's solution... leave the earth. My old thoughts on Hawking and determinism, "Is Man Determined or Free?... Thoughts From "The Matrix: Reloaded"

Starting Your Startup by Joe Stump

2011-07-15T01:00:00.001-07:00

Great presentation by Joe Stump, Co-founder & CTO of SimpleGeo.

"Choosing your technology stack is one of many decisions you’ll have to make when creating a company from scratch. Along with this, you’ll need to figure out who you should found a company with, who you should take money from, what the company culture should be, management processes, and who to hire when. Joe will be covering basic technology stack choices (cloud v. hosted, frameworks, etc.) as well as other critical decisions one faces when starting a startup."

Starting your Startup

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Visual.ly Graphic Profile of Me: Twitter Data-Generated Infographic

2011-07-13T15:07:00.000-07:00

The embed code was too big for my blog, so I'm just posting a direct link until this is fix.

Update: Just inserting the graphic here...

Nexon is the Arvydas Sabonis of the "Tech IPO Draft"

2011-07-13T11:40:00.000-07:00

Last month I wrote a light piece over at Technorati listing my top picks in a mock "Tech IPO Draft". Here's the combined version of those two articles, which lists these companies:

1. Facebook
2. Groupon
3. Trulia
4. Legalzoom
5. Zynga
6. Gilt Groupe

What I wanted to include on this list but didn't get a chance to was Nexon, Korea's leading online gaming company. I would have compared Nexon to Arvydas Sabonis. Not so much that Sabonis was a fading talent when he entered the NBA, but because he played many of his prime years overseas in Russia. A better sports analogy would have been Ichiro Suzuki since he went "public" in Japan, came to Major League Baseball, and still kicked ass for years. But I have to stick with the basketball theme here.

Most likely, Nexon will go IPO in Japan next year and I heard from investment banking contacts that they are looking at a US$10 billion IPO. I know industry people question why Nexon is going public in Japan since it's not an ideal public market and they would have gotten far better multiples in the U.S. They will hit over $1 billion in revenues this year and their margins are far better than it's U.S. counterpart, Zynga. They still have many years ahead to prove that they are global player and not just dominant in Asia, so many a better comparison for Nexon is Dirk Nowitzki.

News & Links List

2011-07-13T08:30:00.000-07:00

"How Google+ Will Balkanize Your Social Life" Technology Review

"4 Reasons Skype Should Fear Google+ Hangouts" Business Insider

"Google+ Could Revolutionize Customer Service" CNET

"How To Move Your Facebook Photos To Picasa (Soon, Google Photos) In A Flash" TechCrunch

"Is Google’s Hangouts Its Killer App?" NYTimes

"Nokia’s $200m secret shows the rot goes way, way back" GigaOm

"Groupon's Boston Problem: Copycats" WSJ

"RIP LulzSec. Now what?" CNET

"Chrome breaks 20 percent global browser market share" GigaOm

"Mark Suster: Understanding the Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries" peHUB

"Wizards of bullshit: How Forbes turned $6.5 million into $20 billion" 37 Signals

"Former YouSendIt CEO pleads guilty to Web attack on his old company" LATimes

"How the growth of emerging markets will strain global finance" McKinsey Quarterly

"The Rise of the Impact Economy" Aspen Institute

"The Hangover Part 2 Hangover: "No Prejudice, No Lens" by Teddy Zee

"Calling all 'A-level' Korean women: Stop apologizing for being successful" CNNGo.com

Google+ is the Twofer of the Social Web

2011-07-11T15:20:00.000-07:00

There's been so much buzz and analysis of Google+ it's been amazing (including my own:). What's also been interesting is the early movement of some tech celebrities, such as Kevin Rose, to replace some of their current online nesting grounds with Google+. For Rose, it was his blog. For others, it was or will be their Twitter or Facebook accounts. As Google+ builds its user base and features, it can replace one or more of a person's social media habits, so I'm calling Google+ the "Twofer of the Social Web".

It's a twofer for various reasons. Google+ has created a two-prong attack on Facebook and Twitter. It allows for people to replace at least two of their social media hubs with one site saving time and energy. For me, I don't think I'll replace my blog with it, but if a significant number of my Facebook friends transfer over I will move my personal social network to Google+. My Twitter account is another possibility. My Linkedin network and utility? Maybe.

What about you? What do the early adopters of Google+ see this as a replacement for?

Asking Mark Zuckerberg for Google+ Invite

2011-07-09T14:03:00.000-07:00

HatTip to Sangsoo. Amusing...

Visual Guide to Circles in Google+ by Ross Mayfield

2011-07-07T01:42:00.001-07:00

Visual Guide to Circles in Google+ by @ross

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New Web Conferencing Platform! Vidquik Alpha Launches!

2011-07-02T16:55:00.000-07:00

My recent side project, Vidquik, is in alpha. So we need to work out the kinks and polish it up before our wider beta launch. We're going to launch an easy-to-use WebEx / GoToMeeting (no download, no registration necessarily) next month, but for now it's just the video chat. Would appreciate everyone's help in testing it out, reporting bugs and telling us what sucks about it. Thanks! More from my blog post over at Vidquik:

Our alpha went live today! For those of you that might not know what an “alpha” is, it’s the stage of software development when live testing begins. It’s typically before a product’s full features are complete. After alpha is the beta stage, where a product’s primary features are completed and ready to be tested by a greater audience than in the alpha stage.

For Vidquik’s alpha, we are only providing our video conferencing (not a full web conferencing platform) to the public and we appreciate any help that we can get in terms of your feedback, insights, complaints, or bug reports. Just a few minutes after our alpha was released we received several notices that our email confirmation link was broken. FAIL. Of course the matter was quickly resolved. We appreciate all of your notifications, comments and suggestions, so please keep them coming!

About a month from today, our beta launch will present Vidquik’s full platform, which is a video and presentation sharing platform. Think WebEx or Citrix (GoToMeeting), but stripped down to their core essentials. AND we made it extremely easy to use. There are no downloads involved, no registration is required, and no login is ever necessary. A simple to use GoToMeeting with zero hassles. Best of all, for one-to-one meetings we will provide it for free. If you use WebEx or GoToMeeting, you’re paying $49 per month. With Vidquik, it will be zero.

Don't Be Rich, Live Rich - One Year on the Road - The Good and the Bad

2011-07-01T08:06:00.000-07:00

"We travelled for one year, taking our work along. This presentation is about our experience, with the good and the bad, and some tips & tricks when you want to copy this lifestyle."

by www.nomadz.nu (This presentation was presented on Barcamp Ghent 4 - 2011)

Don't be rich, Live rich - One year on the road - The good and the bad

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Google+ First Impressions: My Big Three Takeaways

2011-06-30T23:41:00.000-07:00

My thoughts on Google's new social networking platform, Google+, is up over at VentureBeat:

"Google+ first impressions: My big three takeaways" VentureBeat

Also picked up by their syndication partner, The New York Times here.

News & Links List

2011-06-29T10:48:00.000-07:00

"Sean Parker On Why Myspace Lost To Facebook" TechCrunch

"Google+: First Impressions" Mashable

"First Night With Google Plus: This is Very Cool" ReadWriteWeb

"The New Silicon Valley Douchebag" TechCrunch

"The Top 10 Types of Douchebags in Tech and How NOT to Be One" Jason Nazar's Blog

"Bill Gurley Explains How Twitter Will Rule The World And Why Groupon Won't" Business Insider

"100 million Android fans can't be wrong" Fortune

"Why Android will gain HUGE tablet marketshare later this year" Scobleizer

"World's Best Cities to Work and Live" BNET

"The Economy Is Worse Than You Think
Expect more bad news until someone enacts a plan to bring deficits under control without raising taxes." WSJ, Martin Feldstein

"Why We're Going Back to Single-Sex Dorms
Student housing has became a hotbed of reckless drinking and hooking up." WSJ, John Garvey

"India's unwanted girls" BBC

"Elite South Korean University Rattled by Suicides" NYTimes

The Google+ Project: A Quick Look

2011-06-28T14:07:00.000-07:00

Asian/American/Actor: Overcoming Yellow Face

2011-06-27T11:15:00.000-07:00

Our good friend, Dave, is in David Henry Hwang's "Yellow Face", which is playing at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago June 14 - July 17.

Tech Draft 2011: After Their IPO (Part II)

2011-06-24T02:18:00.000-07:00

Part Deux of my prior piece at Technorati Tech covering Legalzoom, Zynga, and Gilt.

"Tech Draft 2011: After Their IPO (Part II)"

News & Links List

2011-06-24T02:09:00.000-07:00

"Why Either of these Two Asians Should Be Yahoo!’s Next CEO" Forbes

"The Real Reason There Was No Email On The BlackBerry PlayBook" Business Insider

"What Every Startup Can Learn From AirBnB" GigaOm

"Most Influential Women In Tech 2011" Fast Company

"Web Start-Ups Get Upper Hand Over Investors" WSJ

"Over Half Of VC Firms Have Shut Down, And Many More Are Dying" Business Insider

"12 Things To Know About Raising Seed Financing" Business Insider

"What’s The Real Deal With AngelList?" TechCrunch

"How to Raise Venture Capital" Quicksprout, Neil Patel

"The End Of Blippy As We Know It" TechCrunch

"Google Sued by PayPal Over Claims It Stole Trade Secrets" Bloomberg

"Killer Quora Thread is a Treasure Trove for Early Adopters" ReadWriteWeb

"Self-Published Author Sells a Million E-Books on Amazon" ReadWriteWeb

"Why do I keep coming back to the Nexus S?" This is my next.

"The dark side of South Korean pop music" BBC

"JERRY BROWN'S BUDGET DISASTER" Powerwall

"Christian Faith Requires Accepting Evolution" The Huffington Post

Tech Draft 2011: After Their IPO, Who Are the Pretenders and the Real Deals?

2011-06-21T09:54:00.000-07:00

My short piece over at Technorati's Tech Channel is up. Quick and easy ask since they requested short posts. 20 minutes to spare after our girls go down :)

"Tech Draft 2011: After Their IPO, Who Are the Pretenders and the Real Deals?"

Sung-Bong Choi on Korea's Got Talent

2011-06-18T08:34:00.000-07:00

Old clip that made the rounds on Facebook a couple weeks ago. Then emails from people like my parents. Then I got emails from non-Koreans, so this deserved a repost. Great story about Sung-Bong Choi, who grew up as a homeless orphan.

Samuel L. Jackson narrates "Go the Fuck to Sleep"

2011-06-16T23:05:00.000-07:00

Hilarious. A "children's" book for adults. Video embedded if you want to hear Samuel Jackson narrate. I'm RIGHT HERE. Our girls take at least an hour to go to sleep every night over the past several months. First, they were kicking and screaming, "Ouuutt!! 10 mo minutes!" Now they make me sing Old MacDonald at least 15 times each night with requests, rejections and repeats... "NO! Pig is out! Daddy, sing 'blue penguin'... Now, sing 'scary dinosaur'. No, two 'scary dinosaur'..."

News & Links List

2011-06-16T01:54:00.000-07:00

"Facebook Valuation Nowhere Near $100 Billion: Analyst" CNBC

"Why Groupon Is Poised For Collapse" TechCrunch

"The checkered past of Groupon's chairman" Fortune

"Groupon’s Founders Make Words Pay, But for Whom?" peHUB

"The Biggest Red Flag In The Groupon IPO Isn't The Sea Of Red Ink" Business Insider

"Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal" Short Logic

"The need for an Alternative to Facebook" Altly Blog

"Why it's harder to make money on Android than on Apple's iOS" Fortune

"Google Acquires Postrank: A Fork in the Road for the Future of Social Media" ReadWriteWeb

"EBay acquires Magento, builds a commerce OS" GigaOm

"What Makes A Startup Successful? Blackbox Report Aims To Map The Startup Genome" TechCrunch

"SV Angel: “We Won’t Pass On Old Entrepreneurs”" TechCrunch

"Every Entrepreneur Needs to Outwit the Devil" Forbes

"The 7 signs of failure for internet startups" VentureBeat, Bjoern Lasse Herrmann

VenCorp & The Kauffman Foundation's PitchU Contest

2011-06-15T14:02:00.000-07:00

Just posting news about VenCorp's PitchU contest where startups can win up to $25,000 for their company. Here's the overview:

1. Submit your 2-minute elevator pitch to YouTube and tag it as "PitchUniversity".
• send the link to info@vencorps.com
• remember to keep it PG, folks!

2. Receive feedback from our expert judges and the startup community via our PitchU video Library.

3. Once a month our judges will choose one pitch to win $5,000 cash. No equity. No fuss. Period. The best-of-the-best will be invited to the VenCorps™ community for a chance at winning a $25,000 investment!

Silicon Moon

Shit Entrepreneurs Say

A Chrome Superhero

Shit Silicon Valley Says

Obama Gave 1% to Charity, Romney Gave 15%

Fotoshop by Adobé

2012 Digital Predictions by Soap Creative

Seoul Time Lapse 2011

CES 2012

Twitter is Hiring! Inside Sales team

What Makes a Cool Entrepreneur?

Martin Luther King Jr. on NBC's Meet the Press in 1965

CES 2012 - Samsung's Smart Window

1st KoreaTown Comedy Festival

How to Create an Early Stage Pitch Deck

A Lesson in Economics, Socialism and Why Pubic Policy Cannot Equalize Society

2012 predictions: It’s Doom & Gloom for Amazon, RIM and Zynga

Galaxy Nexus and Google+ Hangouts: Social MC's

What is Vidquik?

Tebow Mic'd Up vs Bears 2011

Zynga's IPO Fizzles

Galaxy Nexus: Calling All

Zeitgeist 2011: Year In Review

TED: The Ahn Trio

Dave McClure's Designing 4 Emotion Presentation @ WarmGun 2011

CNN on "Film: Egg donation exploits women"

KSEA Business Venture Contest: $10,000 Prize

This Week: Start-up Accelerators in Silicon Valley

Help Vidquik Get User Feedback! Get the Most Users on Vidquik & Win $300!

Android-based Watch Mimics the Smartphone

Fok Diet? Make me Okinawan!

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