Posts by: alvinlai

Sniffing out Great Ideas, Company Culture and Demographics! – Interview with Lookery CEO Scott Rafer

by alvinlai

I present you Scott Rafer, CEO of Lookery, a user-targeting service that helps site owners amplify their audience data. In this  interview (conducted pre-event), Scott invites us for a peek into his mind to understand how he goes about sniffing out great ideas for profitable businesses, his views on important…

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Of Sci-fi, LA, Ramen & Superheroes — Interview with Genkii CEO, Ken Brady

by alvinlai

I present you Ken Brady, CEO of Genkii, the startup that brought us the first virtual world on the iPhone and iPod touch. Ken is one of those guys who can’t be described with any one-word moniker. (He once sold a screenplay to Miramax!) He is at once…

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Both of us own 50% of our new startup? Wait a minute!

by alvinlai

Both of us own 50% of our new startup? Wait a minute!

Let’s do a startup, okay let’s see: you and I are both founders, check. So it’s only logical that you own 50% and I own 50% of our new upcoming startup right?

Wait a minute!

Surely it isn’t as simple as that isn’t it?

In a recently conversation with…

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Where are the Asian Hackers?

by alvinlai

Where are the Asian Hackers?

Paul Graham of YCombinator and Lisp fame wrote about great hackers as people who really love to program and someone whom you definitely want around in your high tech startup.

In his essay, he notes that the “most important tool to a hacker is probably his office” and…

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