https://dchua.com/tags/entrepreneurship/ Recent content in entrepreneurship on davidchua Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2013-08-28-some-technical-management-readings/ Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2013-08-28-some-technical-management-readings/ Been doing quite a bit of spring cleaning on my MBP lately and found a couple of articles hidden away in the corner in one of my bookmark folders that I thought I should share. Been reading them over the week and found it helpful in gaining some perspective in the technical management shape of things. The product design sprint: a five-day recipe for startups Show How, Don't Tell What - A Management Style Your team should work like an open source project https://dchua.com/posts/2013-03-14-jfdin-we-made-it-onto-hn-frontpage-1/ Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2013-03-14-jfdin-we-made-it-onto-hn-frontpage-1/ So yesterday, Sung and I decided to ‘launch’ our one-day hackathon Pomodoro Timer project onto HN. To be honest, I was pretty skeptical that we’d even more than 10 points, and perhaps 1 or 2 comments. To my surprise, not only we managed to go past the 50 points mark, we also hit the frontpage and was hovering around #1 for a really short period of time. What is the project about? https://dchua.com/posts/2013-01-27-leanux-week-2013-day-3/ Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2013-01-27-leanux-week-2013-day-3/ Attended Lean UX Week 2013 Day 3 held at Microsoft’s offices today. The following are just my notes for personal reference and are written as it is. Quotes: Talking about your startup/pitch to others, is not customer development. It doesn't validate anything. "Relationships are important than being right" "Lean startup is not cheap startup" "If u can develop a metric, and if u can meet that metric, then you have developed an important muscle in your company. https://dchua.com/posts/2012-04-11-the-new-internet-bubble-and-the-rise-of-the-countless-entrepreneurs/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2012-04-11-the-new-internet-bubble-and-the-rise-of-the-countless-entrepreneurs/ The recent announcement that Facebook is acquiring Instagram for US$1 Bn have made shockwaves all across the globe. This comes hot after the heels of the well publicized IPO of Groupon and the pending Facebook IPO. Now, to me, Instagram is no where worth the $1bn that Facebook is willing to pay for it. For one, its only a small team of less than 10 men. Secondly, Instagram has no business revenue. https://dchua.com/posts/2012-04-04-dont-estimate-software/ Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2012-04-04-dont-estimate-software/ Just read a great post by Dan Shipper which was posted on Hacker News. In his article, Dan writes about how as humans we tend to be unable to estimate complexity and hence we make really bad estimation of how long it will take to do something. Now let’s talk about software. When a non-technical person attempts to estimate software development time they come armed with their two basic heuristics: complexity based on size and complexity based on speed. https://dchua.com/posts/2012-03-13-big-ideas-are-scary/ Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2012-03-13-big-ideas-are-scary/ Big ideas are scary. That's the gist of what I've got from Paul Graham's keynote speech at PyCon US 2012 and "Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas" Don't be afraid of big ideas, instead attack it from different angles in smaller bites. Start small and eventually you'll get there. Oh and check out the rest of the videos from PyCon US 2012 https://dchua.com/posts/2012-01-16-handling-foreign-currency-exchanges-for-freelancers/ Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2012-01-16-handling-foreign-currency-exchanges-for-freelancers/ As freelancers here in Singapore, we often have to purchase goods/services online which are often not priced in Singapore Dollars. So how then do we account for it in our yearly tax declaration to IRAS? According to the folks: These amounts [price] in Singapore dollars may be shown separately beside their respective amount in foreign currency on your tax invoice. In your GST return, you should report the amounts in Singapore dollars shown in your tax invoice for “value of standard-rated supplies” and “output tax due”. https://dchua.com/posts/2011-12-15-steve-jobs-on-the-iconic-think-different-ad/ Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2011-12-15-steve-jobs-on-the-iconic-think-different-ad/ Rob Siltanen then Creative Director and Partner at advertisement agency TBWA/Chiat/Day: Steve was highly involved with the advertising and every facet of Apple’s business. But he was far from the mastermind behind the renowned launch spot. In fact, he was blatantly harsh on the commercial that would eventually play a pivotal role in helping Apple achieve one of the greatest corporate turnarounds in business history. As you’ll learn later in my account, the soul of the original “The crazy ones” script I presented to Jobs, as well as the original beginning and ending of the celebrated script, all ultimately stayed in place, even though Jobs initially called the script “shit. https://dchua.com/posts/2011-12-14-1980-steve-jobs-on-apple/ Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2011-12-14-1980-steve-jobs-on-apple/ If you’re into computing history, this is quite interesting look into the mind of Jobs at a time when Apple was just getting pretty famous. (Apple II) Notice how the Steve Jobs of 1980 contradicts the Steve Jobs of the iPod-era in philosophy. https://dchua.com/posts/2011-02-06-why-we-never-seem-to-finish-our-great-ideas/ Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2011-02-06-why-we-never-seem-to-finish-our-great-ideas/ Some guy on HN asked recently about a problem that most of us have. You know that brilliant web-app that you came up with in the shower? The one that you know is going to change the world when its released? After coming out of the shower, you rush to your room, usually still dripping wet, to take out a piece of paper and scribble the idea down before you forget. https://dchua.com/posts/2010-06-24-the-joys-of-engineering-leadership/ Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2010-06-24-the-joys-of-engineering-leadership/ Its always great to watch both Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman speak at Google’s IO conferences. This year at the recent Google IO 2010 conference, they gave a talk on ‘The joys of engineering leadership’ which I’d recommend every technical manager to watch. Their trademark humor and banter makes the video not only entertaining to watch but absolutely insightful too. Well worth the 56 minutes. https://dchua.com/posts/2009-11-09-morning-business-observations/ Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2009-11-09-morning-business-observations/ What started off as a typical Monday morning, ended up being a real-life class in how to conduct business. I was out with my dad for breakfast (which by itself is pretty rare considering that he works, and we seldom eat out for breakfast) at our nearby ‘kopitiam’ (coffee shop), when we decided to replace our aging water heater that no longer works. We stopped by a local hardware store that seems to be running for as long (or more) as the number of years I’ve been breathing.