Can A Startup Do Offshore Development? Part 3

Posted 02.02.2010 in Business, Technology
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The biggest issue we faced as a team, with half our staff in the US and the other half in Malaysia, wasn’t communication, culture or misalignment of interest. It was collaboration.

Are You A Stamper Or A Painter?

Posted 10.03.2009 in Faith
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There was once a man who visited a machine world. He saw a young stamper. It’s purpose was to stamp pieces of metal and make them flat. The man was curious. “What are you doing?” asked the man. “I’m stamping. I’m a stamper.” said the machine proudly. “I stamp pieces of metal and I make [...]

Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2

Posted 07.15.2009 in Business, Technology
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In my previous article (Can a Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 1), I talked about alignment of interest and trust as being the two most critical aspect when starting a new offshore development team. Now on to more operational considerations. Hiring Of all the issues we ran into when we first built our team, hiring was the [...]

Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 1

Posted 06.30.2009 in Business, Technology
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One of the first things I did at Zoecity was to build a new engineering team based in Malaysia. Zoecity’s headquarters is in Seattle but we have a satellite office in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. We started looking in January of 2008 and it took us roughly six months to fully staff our [...]

Delighting In The Lord

Posted 06.25.2009 in Faith
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Are we setting our priorities straight to get what we want? Is it possible for us to have our cake and eat it too? Psalm 23 suggest we can. Delight yourself in the LORD.

How To Evaluate Early-Stage Web 2.0 Companies

Posted 06.14.2009 in Business, Technology
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What is the most important thing you need to know about funding an early-stage Web 2.0 startup? DCF? TAM? SAM? What do you think? I found my answer changed when I went from investor to entrepreneur.

What Do You Do After You’ve Drank Your Kool-Aid?

Posted 06.03.2009 in Business, Technology
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Running as CEO of a startup, one big pitfall you can have is to over-believe your own Kool-Aid. When you lead a startup, you are a visionary. You see a future and believe in it so much that you put your company, employees and investors at risk to achieve it. So what do you after you’ve drank your Kool-Aid?

Running on God Time

Posted 05.27.2009 in Faith
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God is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. He is independent of of time. Can it be that God has advanced so much in learnings, growth and advancement that we cannot possibly understand the context of his decisions?

The Medium Is The Message Part 2

Posted 05.20.2009 in Faith, Technology
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The Internet is the most influential, prolific, and cultural impacting event in this lifetime. No other medium has created so disruptive a change in media consumption and distribution. What biases does the Internet medium portend for us?

The Medium Is The Message Part 1

Posted 05.03.2009 in Faith, Technology
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Marshall McLuhan’s 1964 book, “Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man” makes the statement that the medium is the message. In other words, any form of media, be it oral, print, TV or electronic carries with it an inherent bias that affects the consumption of the message.