Archive for the ‘Business Insights’ Category

Monster Marketing

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Wil Shipley talks about Hype and how "Monster Market" your software, create hype, and possibly get laid in the process. Amazing speaker. Wil Shipley is a developer at Delicious Monster, famously known for creating Delicious Library, a software to keep track of all your movies, music, games and books.

Lee Kwan Yew Global Business Plan Writing Workshop

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

Attended the LKY Global Business Plan Writing Workshop yesterday after class yesterday. The whole workshop took 2 1/2 hours and wasn't really what I was expecting. Looking at the name of the event, one might have thought that it was going to be a long technical-oriented workshop on how to write ...

Ruby on Rails Hosting

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Its about time! We'll be launching our ruby on rails packages soon and we're looking for beta testers to try out our new environment. All trial users will have a special discount at the end of the trial. Accounts come with a control panel & external shell access to do ...

Microsoft to buy 5% of Facebook

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

The Rumour Mills are on full speed with sightings of Mark Zuckerberg in Seattle, talking to Microsoft executives. Could MSFT actually be considering in buying stake in Facebook? Rumours have it that Microsoft is eyeing a 5% stake in the company for $500 million. That's crazy-talk! Maybe Zuckerberg was right ...

Kid-sized Latte

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

I've been reading news that Starbucks is actually considering targeting the kids market after executives noticed that there is an increasing trend of children accompanying their parents to Starbucks. Will this actually be a good move? Personally, if Starbucks actually "kiddie-size" their offerings, they will only damage themselves in the long-run. ...