https://dchua.com/tags/startups/ Recent content in startups on davidchua Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2013-03-18-lta-first-government-agency-to-engage-developers/ Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2013-03-18-lta-first-government-agency-to-engage-developers/ LTA seems to be sincere in trying to engage the development community to find out how best they can help to empower developers to build more mobile apps around their dataset. Last week I was asked to come down for a meeting with LTA apparently to discuss about my old android app, Traffic@SG. Today, I met two of the engineers and we had a short chat about how the app work and what problems I’ve encountered. 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/2012-03-13-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/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/2010-11-22-singapore-traffic-android-application-alpha-released/ Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2010-11-22-singapore-traffic-android-application-alpha-released/ After hacking around the Android SDK for sometime to work on a project for class, I’ve decided to try and do something relatively quick and easy that made use of the Project Nimbus dataset just to go through the whole development cycle from development to publishing on the Google Android Market. I present to you, Singapore Traffic. A simple one Activity Android application that tells you where are the road hotspots around the island as well as where the road congestions are. 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.