January 2012
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What I learned in 2011 building my first startup
I spent most of 2011 trying to do a startup for the first time. Some stuff I learned:
1) The hardest challenge is self control. It’s about showing up every day and being consistently focused. People like talk about startups, success, and failure on the scale of grand decisions, but in reality it seems what works is accumulating small advantages over time.
2) Shipping the first version is...
October 2011
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August 2011
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I just got meta-copied
I sometimes get requests from start-up friends in the US asking whether there are Chinese clones of their companies. So I thought it would be neat to make a really simple website that kept track of who’s copying who. Each company would have a page showing other companies copying or being copied by it.
I found myself with some free time this weekend, so 2 SQL tables and 2.5 hours later, I...
July 2011
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Open letter to BlackBerry bosses: Senior RIM exec... →
What an awesome letter
June 2011
6 posts
Until next time
Just had a pleasant and rewarding tour through the bay area. It was great seeing old buddies and meeting new friends.
I’m excited to go back to Beijing and tell my team about the incredible entrepreneurs I got to meeting, and all the things I learned from them. If I had to sum it up, it would be to dream big, act small, and work relentlessly.
Until next time!
Tight Aggressive
Selective aggressiveness is the dominant poker strategy. It means to play only few hands, but playing each one aggressively by betting and raising. But this is not a post about poker, it’s about building stuff.
Two years ago, I wanted to work on a weekend project with a couple of friends. The idea, inspired by our apartment-hunting woes, was to create a tool for apartment hunting. It would...
We have t-shirts : )
Every time I come back to the US, I have to make a few routine pitstop. Seattle, the Valley, and of course… Battle.net