Living the life of an entrepreneur is tough. You work your butt off and get paid almost nothing for years, and the chances are you will fail at the end. Living the entrepreneurial life is definitely not the “easy” life. However, in my opinion, it is the most fulfilling one. I believe that being an [...]
I got bashed
Recently, I wrote a blogpost titled The Government should pay entrepreneurs salaries to save the economy. I wasn’t saying that this plan is 100% correct, but it seemed logical to me, so I wanted to put it out there to see what people think about it. At least I had some support from [...]
Invest in early stage startups in a recession
A recession is the perfect time to invest in startups because
1) You get MUCH better deals with valuation
2) Each dollar gets you more stuff
3) A much bigger talent pool (not just labor pool) that are unemployed and ready to move to a startup
4) Competition Haven: large companies are [...]
Our goal with Viralogy is to provide the platform that helps promote all of the great bloggers in our community. With the Viralogy Blog, we reached out and did video interviews with some amazing bloggers. My co-founder Jun did an extraordinary job at it!
Today we’re launching two more projects to power up the Blogger’s [...]
Yes, that’s me….a little while ago. I’m actually dancing to the 16th note.
This is Yu-kai Chou, and you have been FDtized.
The first launch is usually crappy
Whenever we first launch a product or make a business plan, we would be so proud of it and send it to everyone. A month later, we think it’s so crappy that we are embarrassed to send it to anyone. Then we make a super improvement and think it’s the [...]
Hung out in Santa Monica (LA) with cool people
Hung out and learned a lot from Sean Percival (LALAWag), Lotay Yang (Black Card Circle), Andrew Warner (Mixergy)
Andrew Warner’s Extreme Gutsy Move for his first business
Andrew needed to sell ads on his first business, but he was too small for the advertisement agency to consider. He [...]
Running a Startup is stressful
Think of running a startup like preparing for a test, in which if you failed, you will get kicked out of school and end up wasting the last 3-4 years of schooling.
Now think of it as a test where if you failed it, a dozen of your friends in the [...]
