Archive for October, 2007

Career Guidance for Today’s Pinoy Tech Graduates
October 13, 2007

Marc Andreesen’s guide to career planning is interesting:
part 0, part 1, part 2, and part 3

How does it apply to the Philippines situation, which is obviously different from what Andreesen describes? One way would be to look at the future of Web startups in the Philippines. In the original article which I quote, Paul Graham [...]

The Future of Web Startups – in the Philippines
October 13, 2007

Here are some of my reactions to Paul Graham’s latest article, The Future of Web Startups. Pardon the lack of a creative title. All quotes below are from the article. Read his article before this post.

It’s so cheap to start web startups that orders of magnitudes more will be started. If the pattern holds [...]

Product and Technology Innovation
October 3, 2007

One great frustration I have with myself is that I can’t think of an original product to build.

So while I urge people to build “the next hot product,” and put up “the next hot Pinoy startup” (a topic I’ve discussed in the past), I find myself unable to follow my own advice. To this end [...]