Chris Leong

Key to start-up success

Chris Leong — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:36:32 +0000

I was at echelon 2010 in Singapore and attended the Dave McClure’s keynote presentation where Dave McClure shared his thoughts on the future of internet start-ups (which is getting better and better) and why large VCs are not suitable for internet start-ups. Here are his slides. Startup 2.0: A Silicon Valley Story View more presentations [...]

What is success?

Chris Leong — Wed, 26 May 2010 02:54:30 +0000

I saw this great video from my friend’s blog – Sybreon Ones Nought. I find it very true and want to share it. There are some things success is not. Its not fame. Its not money or power. Success is waking up in the morning so excited about what you have to do that you [...]

Evaluating your business idea

Chris Leong — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:24:09 +0000

A friend of mine, Bugs Tan has a great way for inventors and entrepreneurs to evaluate good business ideas. Bugs Tan is an award winning inventor who is very passionate in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship. Based on his experience, he came out with a practical series of questions to help entrepreneurs and inventors [...]

Factors that attract VC to New Ventures

Chris Leong — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:03:51 +0000

A friend of mine, Eliza Nordin is a VC and have recently did a great presentation on the subject “Factors that attract venture capitalist to new ventures”. Here are the slides to her presentation. Follow her on Twitter to tap into her thoughts: elizanoordin Overview of Teak Capital Teak Capital is a venture capital management [...]

What is a good business idea?

Chris Leong — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:05:37 +0000

Before answering the question, What is a good business idea? Let me ask you this question, do you need a good business idea to start your business? A long time back, my MBA professor once told me that your business idea do not need a competitive advantage to make money. The class was stunned but [...]

Budgeting for Cradle pre-seed grant

Chris Leong — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:16:44 +0000

I’ve been meaning to write more about the entrepreneur scene in Malaysia, but I just can’t seems to find the time to do that. But I would like to share with any budding entrepreneurs that wants to apply for the Cradle pre-seed grant a useful budget spreadsheet. Like any grants, Cradle’s pre-seed grant has rules [...]

Enabling Your Business Ideas With Grants – Cradle Funds

Chris Leong — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:52:34 +0000

Quite some time back, I wrote about some resources that Malaysian entrepreneur can check out to get their idea started. Cradle Funds had just launched its new commercialisation grant (RM 500k) to assist entrepreneurs in their ventures. Cradle has 2 grants, one for product development and one for commercialisation. With these 2 funds, Cradle had [...]

Is Friendster better off with MOL?

Chris Leong — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:53:13 +0000

In the last post, i had talked about losing mind share in US. However, Friendster is still very strong in Asia, especially in Malaysia and Philippines. Friendster is the #11 site in Malaysia and #6 in Philippines (Facebook is the #1 in both countries). However they have been losing market share for a long time [...]

Friendster is losing mind share in the US – Try searching Friendster in Amazon

Chris Leong — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:39:01 +0000

Friendster is now Malaysian. Malaysia’s MOL has just bought Friendster a couple of weeks back for an undisclosed sum. It was rumored to be at the region of USD 26 million, a large sum of money considering the fact that they have been losing share and mindshare to Facebook. While I am happy that Malaysia [...]

Sorry for not posting

Chris Leong — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:28:04 +0000

The reason that i’ve not been posting lately is basically to have some time to reflect on how should i position my blog. So stay tune for more news ArrayArrayArrayArrayArrayArrayArrayArrayArrayArray