Video from Startup School Conference

Startup School is a great conference for people who are interested in startups. It is great that a video is available for people to watch online.


Watch live video from HackerTV on Justin.tv



[Update: full-length videos at Omnisio.com. It is very cool that the slides are being shown at the same time!]

Learn from other's mistake about building a company

It is important to learn from other people's mistake. If you want to start your own technology company you need to read the following blog post about what the owner of mycarpoolstation.com had gone through.

I wish there are more company owners out there who are willing to share their own experience in such a great detail.

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What soft skills a leader should possess

The followings are the three important soft skills that the profession of Leadership in Asia class taught us:

1) Have a board knowledge on different issues in the world
2) Be able to persuade people
3) Have a real interesting in people

Ten Questions with Jeffrey Pfeffer Article

Ten Questions with Jeffrey Pfeffer is a good interview article with lots of good suggestions on how to manage the company better. A good read.

Managing both Management and Programming Responsibilities

Here is a great article about how to manage both programming and management responsibilities at the same time. I was in this situation not long ago where I have to manage the project, but also needed to work on part of the application because of resource constraint. Focus is really the key! Luckily the resource constraint problem should be solved very soon. For the next two projects coming it seems that I don't need to do any programming myself.