Archive for May, 2007

Interview by Karla
May 25, 2007

Nina interviewed Karla Redor. Now, Karla interviews me!

What is your dream tech start up?

The dream tech startup is Telecoms and Internet related. Areas related to what I do for work now – except instead of just working on it, I will own it. Now you wonder why I post about “Web 2.0 startups” and related [...]

Feels Great to be Pinoy
May 25, 2007

Nobody has tagged me, but I wanted to answer Marc’s Feels Great to be Pinoy post, now that I’m out of the country.

What are the 3 signs you see happening now that make you say, “it feels great to be Pinoy”

We might feel bad about our country having the same problems over and over [...]

Six Quirks
May 22, 2007

I haven’t felt like blogging lately, so here’s a light post to satisfy being tagged by Karla and Rico.

I have bipolar disorder. A lot of my quirks comes from that!
I have short attention span in watching video, whether on TV or on the PC. Or movies. Unless it’s documentary, because…
I’m not interested in fiction. I [...]

Problogging and Quitting your Job
May 12, 2007

Jayvee – one of the original Pinoy probloggers – asks bloggers if they can get time off from their job to attend a presscon.

My reply in his comments: No. This is conflict of interest with your day job. You can argue all day whether bloggers are media people or not, the fourth medium after print, [...]

12 year old Pinoy starts a startup!
May 11, 2007

Luke Rivera, a 12 year old Pinoy in New Jersey, starts a startup! It’s called Switcheroony.

What’s Switcheroony about? Luke explains it.

I got to chat with his dad, my colleague in the old days. The dad invested the money but Luke did the work. No joking.

Now, where’s the next Pinoy startup in the Philippines?

Founders at Work
May 3, 2007

I finished reading Founders at Work. Very interesting. If you have built a startup (me), plan to (me again, in the future) or even if you are employed by one (me right now), you can relate.

Someone told me in reaction to Paul Graham’s Why to Not Not Start a Startup that one requirement missing was [...]