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.

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 [...]

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?