Yu-kai Chou

Good eveningt Yu-kai Chou,
Answering your question on the Twitter direct message, I am electronic engineer, with training in database administration with Oracle 9i, and perform maintenance on electronic level in notebooks, projectors and motherboards here in Brazil, in the state of Sao Paulo. I really like technology and music, I am musician too, hahhaaa! but that is past! When you come to Brazil, tell us before we can talk! A big hug and success in your work! Junior Baptista – brasmeta01@hotmail.com

Hello Junior Baptista!

Thanks for your note! You seem to have a super interesting background! I’ll definitely let you know if I go to Brazil! Where can I find your music? I’d like to help you get more listeners

Hello,
I am a marketing student in Vancouver, Washington and I am doing a report on
” measuring the effectiveness of time and money spent on implementing social marketing into a companies overall marketing plan?” Where can I find some actual data that has measured the effectiveness of implementing social marketing? I am finding lots of websites telling me what social media works, but nothing that backs it up with actual data from real companies. Your website has been very helpful.

Thank you!
Davin Crow

I made a blogpost just for you my friend

http://yukaichou.com/randomfunny/roi-numbers-social-media/

I read your article on cost and time using programmers in India. I have been taken. Seriously taken. My initial contact with Manish in Japir was in 2008. His skype communications sounded like he understood the entire scope of the project. “No problem no problem he said ..” Here we are four years later and he wants me to pay him and his team to re-vamp the scope the project for a third time at my cost.
The site is http://www.AmericanContractorExchange.com. It is not functioning, there are tons of bugs and tons of fixes… “they send status reports and include always the word “done”. There are bugs and broken functionalities that I find months down the road and bring to there attention and they acuse me of approving the project by not finding the bugs in time. “even though I pay them to design and test.
Now they are not returing my emails or calls. I need to find a reputable attorney in Japir…. It really scares me to think that their legal system and attorney could be the same…rip offs!
Do you have any suggestion on how I may proceed to get my money back. I have not published their names as of yet but I am becomming very angry at the thought of my project laying there wounded. I have people here in the U.S. …on in particular a widow…who is counting on me… NOT GOOD carma..

Regards,
Steve Valencia 209.256.7742

Hey Steve. Sorry that you had a bad experience. First of all, I want to say that not all Indian firms are unreliable or bad to work with. Many of them are great. My post is simply to warn people not to get too excited about the hourly rate.

My biggest advice for you is that…you should have read my blog earlier… as far as my knowledge goes, I do not know how you can get your money back. You’d probably need to find someone a lot more qualified to speak on this matter, or at least a trustworthy Indian friend here in the states. Sorry I couldn’t help you much here, but my post was meant to prevent things like this from happening, but as for solving it, I am powerless