Last day of 2010

Time flies and it is in less than 20 minutes it will be 2011 already! Looking back, I have done what I dreamed to do for a long long time, which is to start my own company and work on products that I wanted to do. My goal is to develop something that is useful and has impact to people's live. With the help of my great colleague, we developed a product and launched in real world with positive feedback. I also learned many valuable lessons as well. This is one of my greatest achievement in 2010.

However, today also marks the end of this service because of internal company issue. It is quite painful and difficulty to terminate what I have worked on for so long. And I am really heart broken to tell customer that we have to shut down the service. Nevertheless, I believe I have tried my very best and I am going to put all those unhappy events behind me and move on.

I am thankful to have wonderful supports from my wife, my parents, my in-laws and friends. Without them, this startup life will be much harder. Thank you!

2011 is going to be a another challenging year for me.

Happy new year!

What I am doing and What I learned so far

It has been about four months since my last post. To update everyone, I have started a company and is currently building a new product that we believe it will make both the users and businesses happy. It is definitely not an easy task and I learned the following in these four months:

1) It is ok to work in coffee shop almost everyday and actually many people do the same. haha
2) Finding the right people to work with you is absolutely essential to startup. I am fortunate to be able to form a team that is highly skilled. Of course we all certainly could improve in different areas.
3) It is also important to learn many different skills before you even start. I am doing programming, graphic, logo design, web site soon, biz development, researches.... I am glad that I was into graphic design before I start doing programming when I was younger. And also I am very interested in technology so new tech learning is not too painful for me. Although I don't considering myself as an expert, those are important skills to build the product as we don't have many resources to hire others to do these.
4) MBA helps, but not too essential for doing startup. Startup is about building a new thing and see whether it is could work out. MBA mostly taught people how to manage an existing business. I believe for HK we need more training to help people do startup.
5) Things will certainly not going well, but it is always a new learning experience.
6) Startup is also about self control. To move thing forward it is important to control my own emotion.

I am lucky to have the support of people around me. A big thank you to you all.

Will post more in the future.

Last day of work. Challenges ahead!

Today is my last day at my current company.

I have been working in this place for three years and I learned a lot from my service here. But the most important element that I am going to miss is the people. Although doing projects are hard, it is the people that make it a lot of fun.

People is what makes a company great and move forward.

What's next? We will see...