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05.07.08Starting Up With No Handlebars
StartupI heard this song Handlebars (by Flobots) a few weeks ago, but I just came across it again online. This song can mean whatever you interpret it as. However, it begins with a childhood dream that they could do anything you want. It starts with easy concepts such as riding a bike and writing in comic books. Then, as a teenager, one starts thinking he can change the world, and starts thinking about important career moves. However, as the "do anything you want" mentality continues, factors such as politics, social responsibility and power start playing in....
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05.05.08Why I Like Silicon Valley
StartupSilicon Valley is the place to be for technology companies. More importantly, it is a great place for startups and new ventures. Many places in the world have tried to replicate the what we have in the Bay Area, but not as successful. The reason I like Bay Area is its community. 1. Community drives excitement. When you get a bunch of similar people together, it is naturally motivates them to get excited about common interests. One example is through the rise of technology blogging. Blogging, whether one is praising ...
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04.29.08In A Strange World
StartupThe thing that excites me about the startup world is that you know never know what's around the corner. One day, it seems like everything is going great; the next day, your world is falling apart. You are on your own. You must make every decision on your own. No one knows the right answer at first. It seems like everyone is trying to give advice about what makes a startup. Sure, there are some general tips that can be applied to any business, but each startup is in a different context. The strange thing is that even with all ...
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04.24.08Startup Idea Generation
StartupThinking of an idea is the first step and also the one of the hardest parts of a startup. I was lucky enough to talk to Steve Wozniak after his talk about idea generation. One of the inspiring things that he said to me was to think limitlessly. In other words, do not care what is possible and what is not possible. Many times, I get trapped thinking inside the box of what web applications can do. I have a good sense of what you can do with PHP/MySQL, and have also revolved all my thinking about code. Rather than thinking ...
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04.21.08I Like iJigg
StartupI met Zaid, one of the founders of iJigg, over startup school. iJigg hasn't had as much press as the other Y Combinator startups, but I think it deserves a look. Personally, it helps me solve my problem of finding chinese music. The site has a pretty strong international presence; supposedly most popular in Thailand. Being in the US, it takes a lot more effort searching for what music is popular across the Pacific. Of course, the site also has a good amount of indie music. Check it out!...
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10.12.07Yossi, Young Entrepreneurs, and the Arena
Startup (1)5:51am and I should be studying for my EE midterm tomorrow today, but I've just been distracted by this inspirational post. Yossi Vardi, the orginal investor in ICQ and a believer in young entrepreners, uses Roosevelt's 1910 speech to give an analogy to today's entrepreneurs in the area: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is ...
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08.31.07Entrepreneurship 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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08.03.07Young 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?
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08.03.07Flip Side of Entrepreneurship: Hard Work
StartupYou 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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07.29.07TechCrunch 9 at August Capital
Events, Startup (2)TechCrunch 9 at August Capital was a blast. I had a lot of fun talking to the people there. Here are some of the pictures I took. Sarah Meyers was also videoblogging at the event. More coverage at: TechCrunch Dean Takahashi Industry Girl CenterNetworks Epicenter...
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Writer: Jeff Wang. I am currently a student at UC Berkeley, majoring in Computer Science. Most posts will be dedicated to young entreprenuers.
My previous work experience include Microsoft and TechCrunch. I am an aspiring entrepreneur.
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