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2025 (2 posts)

The VC Liquidity Game: Who Really Wins at the Showcase?
Thoughts on Ditching the Database Bloat: AI and the Return to Flat Files

2022 (1 posts)

2022 Key insights from Singapore Tech EcoSystem

2021 (11 posts)

Building a sales organization
Brad Feld on validating your startup idea
Chat with Priscilla on UX
Single man flying suites: The future is here
Founder University day 2021 May 4th
Advice from Johnson on fund raising
Weekend insights with Jerry and Liza
Balancing features on between power users and general masses
An evening of insights with the Hutters
Paid acquisition strategy review
Advise from Casey Winters on SEO metric tracking for startups

2019 (42 posts)

Analysis of MeetUp.com’s penetration into Japan and relevant mobile behavior on crowded trains
Examples of various networks failing at scale
Crypto-currency exchanges
Microsoft university penetration strategy
Growth Leaders Cocktail Hour & Modern CMO Panel
A simple framework to identify areas of innovation
An unchanging constant as the source of trust
Thoughts on excessive use of leverage
Launch Scale conference with Jason Calcanis Day 2
Launch Scale conference with Jason Calcanis Day 1
Chat with Yi
Insights from evening with Wine and Jam session with Adriene and Dennis, Birthday party with Konstantine
Thoughts on avoiding the greater fool theory
Learnings on enterprise sales - SVB and SalesForce workshop
Insights from dinner with Brian and Jason
Book summary AI super-powers, China, silicon valley and the new world order by Kai Fu Lee
Mark Zuckerberg chats with Yuval Noah Harrai on the Future of AI
Book summary - Range
Non-purchase of DOMO despite 10% dip
Book summary: The essential Drucker
Insights from Klaren’s birthday
Insights from dinner with Yuan
Tesla autonomy
Blitzscaling with Microsoft
Societal comparison between our current day and age versus the era of communism's rise
Book summary: The Nature of Technology
Insights from lunch with Manish and Ketan
Insights from Monday lunch
Insights on managing Big Data from meet up with Dean and Ved
Coaching for founders
Book summary: Your First 100
Book summary: Thinking in Bets
Insight from dinner with Sujit
Insights from house party at Qyunh's
Book Summary: Lost and Founder
Reflections on communicating with your users via email
Reflections on organizational observations
Key take aways from the Blockchain revolution
Reflections on maximizing output with limited resources
Understanding cognitive biases is important for startups
Key take way from the Truth Machine, Michael J.Casey
Navigating the trough of sorrow

2018 (57 posts)

Take away from Johnson on wealth
Reflections on self mastery
thoughts on digital nomadism
Analysis of Saudi Arabia's revenue model disruption and technology trends within Jordan
Facebook is now a phase 3 social network
Reflections on King Herod’s architectural feats
Technology gestation and social norming in Jerusalem
The proper order of things - running of a back packers
Mobike and Bird's #GrowthHack tear down in Tel Aviv
Benchmarking customer success
Necessity breeds innovation
Insights from Val of Totango
Insights from Hannes
Key insights for Jerry's birthday party
Book summary - what got you here won't get you there
Book summary - the goal
learning across diverse areas as a continued source of insight
Reflections for the evening on return on capital
For latter reference
Practical advise from mum on how to grow your business
Ray Dalio: Beating the stock market by learning history
Book summary: Creative capital
On similarities between organizations and organisms
Reflections for the morning
Insights from lunch with Jamie
Insights from drinks with Charles Wu
Ideation process
Morning reflections on marketing and story telling
Quick summary of Facebook early days
On fund raising
Reflections for the afternoon
Reflection this morning on profiles
Humor of the day
Tim on User centric design
Casey Winter on growth, market places and content loops
Tim on doing manual sentiment analysis
Reflections for the morning
Insights from Vibhu
Insights from Steven
Learnings from QiXiang, Vivian and Angelina Wu
Insights for one on ones with Friend said in Singapore
Learnings from Patrick and Brian on building a SAAS based startup targeting other startups
Insights from visit to Singapore
Kenji and Johnson - Learnings in trading patterns
Reforge: Dealing with friction
Friday morning coincidence
Key takeaways from dinner with Jerry and Johnson at the Rosewood hotel
Key takeaway from \"Connected\" by Nicholas A. Christakis
Key takeaways from dinner with Josh
Takeaways from conversations observed for the week
Phases of starting up a new product
Steve Jobs in between the lines on user research and market trends
Reflections on the decentralized multi-sided market place - GetData.IO
Evening reflections on the importance of story telling
Keys take aways from \"Be Slightly Evil\
Learnings from chat with Ved
Discussions with Regina on Go To Market expansion

2017 (6 posts)

Book Summary: Hooked
Blitzscaling Lesson 19 - Jeff Weiner ,
Brian Rothenberg - Building market places from zero to billions
Blitzscaling lesson 5 - Mozilla
Blitzscale lesson 2: Sam Altman
Blitzscaling Lesson 1: highlights - Reid Hoffman