Son Le Thanh (Son)

Feb 11

Welcome to the fireside event with Mohammed Alabsi

Thank 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…

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Feb 9

What’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…

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Published in Vietneer

·Jan 30

Why 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…

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Published in Vietneer

·Jan 23

What 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…

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What do you want to hear from entrepreneurs, change-makers, tech leaders in Vietnam?

Jan 22

What 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…

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Jan 22

What types of mistakes can you make as a founder ?

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Jan 22

What types of mistakes can you make as a founder ?

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Jan 22

What type of mistakes can you make as a founder ?

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Jan 21

I knew nobody in Silicon Valley and how I met the founder of Startup Grind

Nearly 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…

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I knew nobody in Silicon Valley and how I met the founder of Startup Grind

Jan 21

I knew nobody in Silicon Valley and how I met the founder of Startup Grind

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