By Jason CalacanisA year ago SNS (social network service) Path.com launched as the anti-Facebook. With odd product choices like a 50-person friend limit and an iPhone-only release, the service created a lot of discussion.
I became a huge fan of the privacy-first Path because, as many of you know, I’ve had a slight problem with the way in which Facebook has flipped user privacy, with opting folks in to features they would never embrace.
Back to Path. The service was considered dead. It didn’t help optics with users like myself that the company launched a second app called With.me in June. I figured with that launch Path co-founder and CEO Dave Morin acknowledged he had given up on the Path app on some level.
Never Give up, Never Surrender by @Jason
December 5, 2011 by shkadmin
#SUMHK Dec 12 – Paul Orlando “Customer Development: the methodology people love to talk about”
December 1, 2011 by shkadmin
Paul will be in town for a bit and will be talking at this meetup about “Customer Development: the methodology people love to talk about,” and “A short list of mistakes I made when running my startup.”
Paul’s bio:
Paul Orlando has worked in media and technology since 1996, including time at AT&T in Hong Kong as an “intrepreneur,” where he innovated and sold several new voice and data products and led international business development in China. He found his way back to New York and in 2009 joined Chatfe, a new media startup which helped transform the way online community members communicate, serving as Co-founder & CEO. In this role, he generated revenue from business users, was awarded “Best Business Viability” by Microsoft BizSpark and was written about in the New York Times. Paul now runs a Customer Development course series for entrepreneurs
called Startups Unplugged. He has a BA from Cornell and an MBA from Columbia.
He is fluent in Mandarin and can get by in Cantonese.
As usual, the meeting is at BootHK, 19/f, 231-233 Queen’s Road East in Wan Chai and will start at 7:30pm.
AwesomeShip Wins Startup Weekend Hong Kong | TechNode
November 24, 2011 by shkadmin
After running a couple of weekend startup incubators under the BootUP! name, we hooked up with the global Startup Weekend organization to do another event. The first two being held in BootHK limited the available size to around 20, but we were able to score a great venue at the M-Lab facilities in Kowloon Tong, giving us room for 50 partcipants. This also helped with reaching into the local college community, since it is a part of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University school of design.
Seven teams built startups from Friday night until Sunday evening. The ideas ranged from helping consumers manage loyalty cards to preparing your digital assets for when you die. Similarly, participants varied in their backgrounds and gave a good mix of business, development, and design experts to put together some great prototypes.
via technode.com
The quality of the event and participants was awesome. We has so much help from mentors, judges, and PolyU and it made it a great event that shows really what we can do here in HK.
