My so-called startup life

Why? Why? Why?

David Wang — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:14:24 +0000

Simon Sinek covers a great comparison between the CEO of Sprint and the CEO of Nike in his blog post, Why Does Your Company Exist? I decided to explore this question… Why does UDFI exist? It started as a way just to be independent, but it’s morphed into something more through the years, eventually leading me [...]

Seth’s blog: Creating the list

David Wang — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:38:18 +0000

Seth Godin cover’s an interesting topic about questioning what your list of things mean to you. I thought it’d be fun to go through this exercise, since I am creating Simplizt, a task management system focused on lists. Do you make the list you check off, follow and work on every day? I personally make my list [...]

Developing New Startup Ideas

David Wang — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:11:54 +0000

Chris Dixon posts on his blog about sharing ideas to people so that you can work on improving your own selection process. That was pretty much what I was thinking when I started my Free Idea Friday campaign on this blog. I’m not sure if other entrepreneurs have this problem, but my mind is always [...]

Free Idea Friday!!!!

David Wang — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:20:10 +0000

It’s Free Idea Friday! So, today’s inspiration is my doctor’s visit this morning. I thought it’d be fun to “futurize” my visit today. Check-in: So my doctor’s office is pretty advanced in that they have a automated call that calls me in the day before to see if I’m still going. I have a feeling that, [...]

Your idea sucks, now go do it

David Wang — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:25:01 +0000

Someone on Newtech posted this interesting blog post from 2008 (an oldie but a goodie) – Odds are, your idea probably sucks, so hurry up and go do it. From what I understand, VC’s and Angels expect about 20% of their investments to be home runs, 30% to get their money back, and 50% to [...]

Wordpress Setup

David Wang — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:05:53 +0000

So a handful of friends have asked me what I use to blog and how this blog is setup. I pretty much setup all my blogs the same way, using Wordpress as a base, then installing several plug-ins into the Wordpress system to make it more available, linked, and integrated with my other tools such [...]

Explanation of the different types of hosting options

David Wang — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:19:42 +0000

‘What type of hosting should I get?’ I’ve had this question asked of me several times by other entrepreneurs, I thought I’d cover the Pros and Cons of each of the different types that you can get. Hopefully it will help you decide what the best approach is for your startup. dedicated server – this is [...]

Free Idea Friday

David Wang — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:49:05 +0000

Every week I’ll blurt out (really that’s what it is, a blurt) some product ideas I have for a specific technology. This week it’ll be the iPad. So I’ve been thinking a lot about the iPad, especially after reading Paul Bucheit’s thoughts on it. I was pretty excited to hear about the iPad when it was [...]

Startup Digest – go make your own luck

David Wang — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:43:03 +0000

There’s a great article on venture hacks about going out to the StartupDigest events and making your own luck. I have to be honest, I’m not really an out going person and making that stretch to actually talk to people is a difficult thing for me. No excuses, but I think its a byproduct of [...]

Open Angel Forum in NYC

David Wang — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:40:40 +0000

Looks like Open Angel Forum is coming to NYC. Not sure what the deadline is for the applications, but the event is on April 8th. For a little background, Jason Calcanis learned that certain groups of angels were charging entrepreneurs to present. He made a huge stink about it on his show This Week In Startups [...]