Feb 11Welcome to the fireside event with Mohammed AlabsiThank you for signing up for the fireside chat with Mohammed. I would like to give a quick rundown about the speaker’s experience and the audience. Mohammed is a technology leader with a track record of growing engineering teams, solving complex engineering problems, and delivering business-critical products. Mohammed brings his…2 min read
Feb 9What’s the most important skill for founders?When I was 10 years old, my morning routine was carrying vegetables on a bicycle from a family-run farm to market for my mom to sell. In between school hours, I was doing other tasks like selling cut fruits on the streets, collecting recycle items and selling them at merchants…2 min read
Published in Vietneer·Jan 30Why celebrating small wins is crucial to keep us moving forward?Yesterday I received two contributions for Vietneer — a USD 5 contribution from Indian immigration in Silicon Valley and an article from a young Vietnamese software engineer working at a local unicorn. Since starting Vietneer, I paid some pocket money for various infrastructure costs. I want access to career advice…2 min read
Published in Vietneer·Jan 23What do you want to hear from entrepreneurs, change-makers, tech leaders in Vietnam?“Vietnam has early seen tremendous amount of maturity and growth that is going to put it as a very important hub for the region” — Binh Tran, co-founder of Ascend Vietnam Ventures However, everything is not as rosy as it looks. The majority of Vietnamese software engineering students could not…2 min read
Jan 22What types of mistakes can you make as a first time entrepreneur?Today is the graduation day of cohort 2 at Insignia Ventures Academy which I was proud to be part of. Timothy Lee, the former partner at Sequoia Capital, was invited to give a guest lecture on the topic of “Why Founders and Operators Make Great or Terrible Investors”. The magic formula for success When I…2 min read
Jan 22What types of mistakes can you make as a founder ?Today is the graduation day of cohort 2 at Insignia Ventures Academy which I was proud to be part of. Timothy Lee, the former partner at Sequoia Capital, was invited to give a guest lecture on the topic of “Why Founders and Operators Make Great or Terrible Investors”. The magic formula for success When I…2 min read
Jan 22What types of mistakes can you make as a founder ?Today is the graduation day of cohort 2 at Insignia Ventures Academy which I was proud to be part of. Timothy Lee, the former partner at Sequoia Capital, was invited to give a guest lecture on the topic of “Why Founders and Operators Make Great or Terrible Investors”. The magic formula for success When I…2 min read
Jan 22What type of mistakes can you make as a founder ?Today is the graduation day of cohort 2 at Insignia Ventures Academy which I was proud to be part of. Timothy Lee, the former partner at Sequoia Capital, was invited to give a guest lecture on the topic of “Why Founders and Operators Make Great or Terrible Investors”. The magic formula for success When I…2 min read
Jan 21I knew nobody in Silicon Valley and how I met the founder of Startup GrindNearly a decade ago (April 2012), I landed in Silicon Valley for a backpacking trip in 10 days and I had no planned agenda for the trip. Follow my heart to the land of startups During 1997–1999 when I was still in high school, I read stories about the founders of Yahoo and “The road head” book from…2 min read
Jan 21I knew nobody in Silicon Valley and how I met the founder of Startup GrindNearly a decade ago (April 2012), I landed in Silicon Valley for a backpacking trip in 10 days and I had no planned agenda for the trip. Follow my heart to the land of startups During 1997–1999 when I was still in high school, I read stories about the founders of Yahoo and “The road head” book from…2 min read