August 2007

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• 08.31.07
  Entrepreneurship Class at Cal: IEOR 190C
  Startup (1)

  These past 5 days have been a hectic first week of school. However, there was one class that stuck out: IEOR 190C - Entrepreneurship & Innovation: Web 2.0. The goal of this 1 unit class is to have students (mainly engineers) come up with a business plan, and, if they want, implement it. The lecturer, Bernt Wahl, is a great motivational speaker and definitely has some great stories. Being a scientist himself, he couldn't help but give business majors a hard time, "What? MBA? People actually go to school for that kind ...

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• 08.23.07
  Back in the USA
  Uncategorized

  Finally back after a long break in China! Everytime I go there, I see something new. It was actually nice not going online everyday. I didn't feel like a slave to email either. I'm excited to be back at school too. Things are definitely gonna get busy REALLY soon. I'll make an effort to keep posting though.
  
  
• 08.10.07
  Top Blogs Censored in China
  China (2)

  This post is written from behind the great firewall of China. First of all, I'm having a blast here for my vacation. The hotel I'm staying in is amazing; it definitely beats any hotel I stayed at in the States. The food is really awesome. Moreover, I am also extremely impressed by the progress of the economy. However, being the internet-junkie that I am, I had to test out exactly how severe the internet censorship was. Specifically, I wanted to see which blogs are censored. The experiment: I tried to access the Technorati Top 100 list. The rankings ...

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• 08.08.07
  China Internet Startup’s
  China (2)

  I am waiting at SFO; I will be flying out to China tonight. Great Firewall of China, here I come! While I'm on the topic, here's a cool picture of all the thriving startup's half way across the world. Behind the online censorships are websites about to revolutionize the way 1 billion people use the internet.
  
  
• 08.03.07
  Young Companies with Sweet Offices
  Startup (1)

  You don't get this at large corporations: Facebook: Twitter: Threadless: Anyone else with a sweet office care to invite me over?
  
  
• 08.03.07
  Flip Side of Entrepreneurship: Hard Work
  Startup

  You ask any computer science student to describe his classes and he will start ranting about how time-consuming a certain class was. In my case, the class was CS150: Components and Design Techniques for Digital Systems, the beast of all beasts at Berkeley. The project was to build a wireless video conferencing system, which included memory controllers, video encoder, wireless card drivers, arbitration system, and a graphics engine. I easily put in 50 hours a week for just this ONE class. It was hard work. But I thought to myself, what the ...

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• 08.01.07
  Scoble Declares “War” on the 20’s
  College, Trends (6)

  Today, the TechCrunch interns, including me, posted our Top 10 Facebook apps. In kind gesture, Scoble comments, "It’s war. The 40 somethings vs. the 20 somethings" and comes up with his own Top 10. Here's my short response to the 40's :) 1. Google Reader Shared Items. This is way more useful for those who read a lot of feeds. Plus it shows you who has the most popular blog posts in the past few hours. - Hmm I should check this out 3. The video application - Lets you send video messages to all your friends from your computer’s webcam.Yes ...

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