Today is a monumental day for The X Factor – but I’ll get to that in a second. First, let’s turn the clock back a few weeks. In January, I wrote about a problem I saw with the difficulty of planning trips and the gap it represented in the travel startup space. My friend Chris [...]
THE BACKGROUND Around 2005, Sam Bensalem dropped out of college to pursue his dreams as an entrepreneur. After becoming frustrated looking for a developer, he took up the challenge of teaching himself how to code. Today, he is the Founder of VeVite – a startup that notifies its users when anyone that they are following [...]
Welcome back to the 3rd segment of my interview with Ming Yong, Founder and CEO of Socialwok; the collaborative social feed built on Google apps. Thousands of users. Praised by Robert Scoble. Winner of TechCrunch50′s Demopit Award. A growing track record of working with Google. A global presence achieved from being started in Singapore, having [...]
Branding advice from Ming Yong, CEO of Socialwok from John Exley on Vimeo. Welcome back to segment two of my interview with Ming Yong, Founder and CEO of Socialwok; the collaborative social feed built on Google apps. It was the summer of 2009. The Socialwok founders – based in Singapore – were planning to fly [...]
Interview with Ming Yong, CEO of Socialwok (Intro) from John Exley on Vimeo. Unforgettable. I still remember when I first discovered Socialwok. I was in Singapore’s Supperclub for the the iMATCH Launchpad event, standing behind a panel of investors that included former BitTorrent Founder and President (and current partner at early stage startup program i/o [...]
photo © 2009 Michael Ruiz | more info (via: Wylio) ************* A few days ago, I wrote about the problem of planning tourist trips and how I want to be able to choose pre-selected, step-by-step daily itineraries for cool things to do on every trip I take. I don’t want to have to sift through [...]
photo © 2010 Jorge Quinteros | more info (via: Wylio) *********************************** Yes, I am a travel addict. There are a million cool things to do in New York City. Tons of great restaurants to dine out at, lots of places ‘you just have to see’, shows to watch, stores to shop at….and on and on [...]
This is the final segment of “the dark interview”. In part 4 of my interview with Ben Crox, we discussed Google’s controversy in China. A very sophisticated hacking incident was orchestrated against Google from within China in December 2009, prompting Google to stop complying with the Chinese government in censoring search results. They shut down [...]
I must begin with an apology. The lighting in this interview was very dark! In Part 1 of the series, I dubbed my interview with Ben Crox ‘the dark interview‘ because of the poor lighting. Now, let’s flashback in time. Back to the spring of 2010. At the time, Google was in the midst of [...]
The interview I dubbed “the dark interview” is back for round 3. We are halfway through a five segment interview with Hong Kong’s very own Ben Crox, the Principal Consultant for Web Fusion Technology Limited who is also an evangelist for Project West Chamber. More on that project in a minute (unless you want to [...]