I couldn’t believe myself when I first learned about the news that I was chosen by BusinessWeek as one of the Asia’s Top 25 Young Entrepreneurs.
Until today, I’ve never consider myself as a successful entrepreneur. Even though I’ve started quite a few sites and services that have gained me some recognition, I’m mainly doing them for my love for technology and the love of making things. I enjoy the challenges of making technology useful for people. Until now, I’m still starting up new businesses (the latest one being Widgeo.us) with the core value of making technology the way people (or most people) would want it.
The company that’s being featured on Businessweek - Ping.sg runs almost entirely on the basis that the site is built for the community, thus the community would decide on how they want it to be. I love to see that things I can build are being used by a lot of people, and that people are loving it. That, to me, is more valuable than any amount of revenue that I can generate. Maybe my last statement is against the name of being an entrepreneur, personally I’m always considering myself an enthusiastic technologist than an entrepreneur. This is also the reason why I am directly involved in technological development for all of my sites/companies so far.
I am flattered by being recognized by one of the top business magazines in the world as one of the Asia’s top 25 young entrepreneurs. I am not who I am today alone, thanks to everyone who have supported me all along.
Congratulations to all my friends who have made it to the list too. Surprisingly, I personally know at least 4 other top Asia’s young entrepreneurs.
And, I would really appreciate if you could vote for me.
For now, I will continue to build more and better things. Anyway, it’s not so much the desire to do business but the love of technology is what getting me into all of these.
Last night’s talk was great. Not only that the talk was well-received, I did learn some tricks from the audience as well. That’s where I really love technical discussions, we all learn from one another.
Here are the slides that I’ve promised. It’s done with Google Docs. If you want to know, the slides builder is great, but if you’re using it from Singapore, the lag is sometimes a little too much and occasionally (I should say more than occasionally) you will get kicked out of the app for saving failure.
Thanks to all of you who attended the talk, especially those who were asking and sharing things during my session. Thanks to Michael for putting in so much effort to organize the PHP event. If you are a PHP programmer and are based in Singapore, do sign up for Singapore PHP User Group.
Feel free to leave some tips/comments/feedback in the comments for this post. :)
There’ll be 3 talks during the event and I’ll be speaking for one of them, on Security in PHP.
I’ll be sharing some security measures that web developers should be looking out for when writing applications. If you have some input on this topic that you think I should share, please drop me a mail at chua@uzyn.com, or you can also attend the event and raise it up as well. I will appreciate your input. We should all share and learn from each other.
During those days when Wireless@SG decides to play a trick on me again, I’m so glad to have Broadband on Mobile. It almost never fails to deliver.
I’ve been having Broadband on Mobile 10GB plan for awhile now, but have not been able to use it on my 3G phone with my laptop as I’m using the SIM on my iPhone. Not only that iPhone doesn’t support 3G connection, it cannot, like my good old Nokia 6280, functions as a modem to my laptop too.
Now that I’ve got Multi-SIM, everything’s working fine again. One SIM in my iPhone, another in my good old Nokia 3G phone. I’m a mobile warrior again. I can even make (or lose) money playing mobile poker on my phone while on MRT.
Damn this sounds so much like payperpost.
No, it is not!
I’m typing this post in Starbucks at Suntec where there is Wireless@SG access point but a non-working DHCP.
Come to think of it, maybe this is the plan all along. Had all Wireless@SG connections are working great, who would’ve signed up for the mobile broadband services from the 3 telcos?
