Part 1 – Product Development : Product development is only one part of the product cycle. That’s the part I will focus on this article. Managing the product from feedback of users and marketing the product are also tied to build up the start-up as a sustainable business but we will ta...
Build the prototype with an co-founder with engineering background: The best thing to do is to deconstruct the idea into a few basic features and create a simple site or app to test the market. The best way is to adopt the agile development approach – where you determine the features ...
Less frequency of acquisitions for tech companies in Asia due to technology arbitrage and pricing: First of all, most owners of Asian companies or conglomerates are thrifty and less expansive in their acquisitions. Our environment is less sophisticated as compared to what you see in S...
Every challenge is difficult and continues to exist whether the success rate is 10% or 0.1%: Here’s a way to think about the ecosystem in Southeast Asia against Silicon Valley and Zhong Guan Cun: the success rate with a good entrepreneurial ecosystem (which takes years to build) may b...
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 nuances present in ...
I have recently started to jot down some thoughts and reflections on my personal and career or collect bits and pieces of interesting information with a digital scrapbook . It helps me to archive some insights not just from myself but from others during discussions on topics of intere...
It is probably the most anticipated biography that I have pre-ordered during March 2011. When the book was brought forward from March 2012 to Nov 2011, subsequently to today, there was a gut feeling in me that I know that something is about to change. The death of an icon entrepreneur...
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 prog...
This presentation is delivered for Barcamp Singapore 7 which is held on 10 Sep 2011 in Block 71, Mediapolis Singapore. It’s a presentation meant for me to share. In this talk, I present the economics, myths and science in searching for an engagement diamond ring for my fiancee. For ex...
The difference between business strategy & business model: In any start-up, the founders and their team will work out an overall business strategy, which consists of a series of initiatives or directions in how they will execute. The business model depicts how the company generates re...
Different interpretations of marketing from start-ups to large corporations: The functions of marketing gradually changes as a company traversed from a start-up to a multi-national corporation. Specifically for technology start-up phase, marketing is usually divided into two main task...
This course includes elements of the courses which I have taught in Nanyang Technopreneurship Centre as well as some advice which I used to dispense via my role as an entrepreneur-in-residence for INSEAD Business School. I have refined the presentation slides and notes after teaching ...
From the above table, the resale flat prices did not vary signifcantly. In fact, although flats from Hougang Avenue 5 (under Hougang SMC) were older than those from Hougang Avenue 8 (under Aljunied GRC), they seem to fetch higher resale prices. Do note that the Ministry of National De...
