About Yu-kai
Hey there. Glad to see you here. I am a passionate social Entrepreneur, Social Media Marketing Speaker, and a Power Coach. I am now running Viralogy Inc, a Silicon Valley company working to make the web more efficient through social media and conversion technologies. Right now we are focused on Dynamic Insights, an AI/Recommendation Engine Extension for eCommerce Sites on Magento.
I’m also a Web 2.0 Marketing Advisor and Speaker and have spoke at Google, The Internet Marketing Conference, Venture Capital Gatherings, and Entrepreneur Associations. I was also selected as one of the Top 100 Young Leaders of California to attend the Governor’s Global Climate Summit with Governor Schwarzenegger.
I originated the FD Lifestyle, leveling up in life like a hardcore gamer. Instead of idling in town as a NPC, I prefer to go out and gain experience, assign skill points, build teams with other high level occupations, talk to relevant people, and conquer cool quests. I have also helped hundreds of Gen-Ys in their career choices and have them level up in the FD Lifestyle. One of my life goals is to make everyone around me successful.
The three things I want to change in this world are 1. Improving the education system, 2. Helping people find the careers they are passionate about, and 3. Making human systems sustainable.
I am a very straight and direct person, and I usually give honest opinions to people when they ask. This can be constructive or destructive, depending on how people deal with criticism.
I am a follower of Christ, and my hobbies include playing/teaching chess, writing/playing string quartet pieces, writing Chinese novels, and rating high quality movies. I don’t have time for hobbies though.
Feel free to judge me based on the content on this site.
you’re inspiring
i’ve had ideas for small businesses floating around my head for a bit last year and tried to get a little free consulting from the SBA but it fluttered away in the hustle and bustle of life, work, school, etc. I just feel like I didn’t have enough positive influences (for business/entrepreneur stuff) or people who could help me.
I figure that I’ll try to get some more education on the subject before I go back to it. and I never felt I had the capital to hire a web designer, a CPA, a partner, etc. i guess it takes a special type of person. I’m not going to give up, it’s just that i’ve felt like i’ve never had enough hours in the day.
you are inspiring, though
Hello Matt,
Thanks for the awesome kind comment!
Here’s what I have to say to you:
I sounds like you are still going to school. First of I will tell you that there’s no better time to start a business (don’t wait until you have a lot of savings in your bank account and are 45 years old…) because you have the least to lose and so much to gain. At worse, you have something on your resume that helps you stand out.
With that said, being an entrepreneur is really about people skills and time management. You don’t need to have a lot of money to hire web designers, CPAs, etc etc. What you need to do is to make people want to work with you. I’m sure you have friends who are talented in a lot of areas, and the point of a leader/entrepreneur is to bring people to your vision. Giving them a part of the company really helps, but if you make the whole experience meaningful and exciting enough, people will want to volunteer for great opportunities.
Juggling with time is the most difficult. You have to seriously be extremely motivated. You need to quite all your activities that don’t matter 5 years from now. Would watching this TV show make your life better 5 years from now? Would making new friends matter to your life 5 years from now (YES!), you need to use your time most efficiently. If you are working too, make sure the money you make are put into things that matter. Also, make sure you are learning as much as you can from it. You don’t need to be a CPA to do your accounting. You can learn a lot of it by yourself. If you go to “My Library’ on my blog, you can see a Start-up kit that introduces you to tools that do your accounting for free, and easy ways to set up your company structure for a little amount of money.
Finally, I want to say that when you start your company, focus on tasks that make your company more valuable. Registering your licenses, printing cool business cards, making a cool logo is fun/cool and stuff, but in the early stages it does nothing to help you get closer to success. I would say focus on that.
Let me know if you need any sort of help/advice. Send me an email and we’ll talk more
Hey!
Have You been in Guatemala?
Hello Fabiola,
Nope, unfortunately I have never been to Guatemala
Hey man,
Just stumbled upon this site while trying to find the FD career site. After switching to a mac last year, I lost track of my old book marks. Good to see that things seem to be kicking up! I’ll be hopping on the Chou stream in a minute =)
Take care!
Judith
Hey Judith!
Good to see you here! We should hang out sometime!
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Hey,
You seem interesting. I found your article because as I’m reading for my college class I stopped to think, how come most Asian people in know are so smart and get good grades. I know I probably shouldn’t think that but I did for a minute and then Googled it:)
Anyways I’m from Panama, came here when I was seven and now years later I’m finally realizing the importance of education. I’m so blessed to be in the states and that I’m really able to be anything I want. Your focus on education is awesome.
I pray you will be blessed:)
Heydi