Snippets

Mar 07

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“What do you see that the rest of us are blind to?” — Tim Westergreen (Founder of Pandora), during his Keynote at Stanford Graduate School of Business Conference on Entrepreneurship last week.

Mar 06

“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.”

A newly released official website of the upcoming Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton can be found here. This marks the modern way of wedding coverage for a Royal family, where you can find all the news updates, pictures, videos and even Twitter feed. The website also offer pictures taken from Westminster Abbey, short history of Buckingham Palace and the virtual tours of the famous palace. Stay tune on the website for more information before the official wedding date on April 29, 2011. The photograph above is taken from their official site.

A newly released official website of the upcoming Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton can be found here. This marks the modern way of wedding coverage for a Royal family, where you can find all the news updates, pictures, videos and even Twitter feed.

The website also offer pictures taken from Westminster Abbey, short history of Buckingham Palace and the virtual tours of the famous palace. Stay tune on the website for more information before the official wedding date on April 29, 2011.

The photograph above is taken from their official site.

Mar 05

Startup Insights from Chris Mitchell, Audio Analytic

One of the most inspiring session I attended last week is a short discussion with Chris Mitchell, founder of Audio Analytic. Chris is one of the Kauffman Global Scholars alumni who chooses to return to U.K. to start his venture locally. Other than the usual tips such as recruit the best engineers to make your ideas happen and to choose carefully which the best marketplace for your product is, I believe Chris has shared with us the most overlooked resources to leverage our startups, i.e. the government. 

Following are some of the insights which I believe are as important as other most commonly discussed tips for startups:

  1. Start locally by finding local investors who are interested in your business
  2. Find alternative research funding, including from various government initiatives and research support
  3. Use your government councils to leverage your sales channels in other countries all over the world

I hope these insights would help getting more ideas on how to start your businesses. Good luck, everyone!

Feb 21

“Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. Requiring a lot of time also does not make a task important.” — Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek.

Alice in Wonderland

Feb 20

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The Age of Stupid. Why didn’t we save ourselves when we had the chance to? An independent and crowd-funded movie to illustrate the devastated future of our world in 2055, due to the global climate change. This movie is produced by Spanner Films, who also produce McLibel, a movie which tells the story of two ordinary people who humiliated McDonalds in the biggest corporate PR disaster in history.

The Age of Stupid. Why didn’t we save ourselves when we had the chance to?

An independent and crowd-funded movie to illustrate the devastated future of our world in 2055, due to the global climate change. This movie is produced by Spanner Films, who also produce McLibel, a movie which tells the story of two ordinary people who humiliated McDonalds in the biggest corporate PR disaster in history.

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