Wednesday, May 19. 2010
Your team had spent
days and nights working to launch your startup, it is time to get
attention and recognition. Journalists and notable bloggers have
hundreds of stories competing for their attention, and getting a few
minutes of their time can be next to impossible - let alone convincing
them to write a story about your company. Furthermore, most PR firms are
simply too expensive for the vast majority of struggling tech
startups.
Submit your startup to Discovering Startups and
get feedback from community of users, potential customers as well as
investors.
Tuesday, May 4. 2010
Echelon 2010 is a 2-day conference (June 1-2) organized in
Singapore.
Prominent speakers this year include A-list angels such as Dave
McClure (Founders Fund, the Facebook early investor), Joi Ito (Twitter
board member, CEO Creative Commons) and startup management stars such
as Bret Terrill (Zynga, #1 social gaming startup), Vishal Gondhal
(IndiaGames, India's #1 game portal) among other prominent
representatives of the wider media and web industry. Last year, our
event (link)
attracted 500 attendees for a 1-day event which saw startups from over
10 Asian countries pitching to a renowned panel of
investors.
Key topics in 2010 will include:
- Mentorship, Investments and New Funding
Models
- Cloud Computing and Enterprise Web
- Social Gaming and Social Networking
- Mobile Applications and Location Based
Services
- Product Management and Marketing
- Social Media and Online Marketing
- Startup Cultures and Lessons
-
SocialTV: The Emergence of Social Networking and TV
Register now
Monday, April 12. 2010
Army-owned Viettel
group just became one of the pioneer organizations using open source
software (OSS) in Vietnam. According to local ICTnews, since
July 2009 more than 2,200 PC units in Viettel network of stores and
postal counters had been installed oss: Ubuntu, Open Offfice, X-Unikey,
Mozilla ThunderBird. This is the first stage, and all new PCs will be
used with OSS from now on, Viettel said.
Viettel is one of the
fastest growing telcos in the world with revenue of $US 3 billion in
2009. The move will lead other State corporations and organizations to
use OSS and inspire local OSS developers to launch new
applications.
Thursday, March 18. 2010
According to AP, PayPal, the online
payments unit of Internet auction site operator eBay Inc., plans to
double its staff in Asia to 2,000 by the end of the year.
PayPal
will tie up with China UnionPay, Chinese largest provider of electronic
payment services, to allow consumers in China to buy from a network of
nearly eight million online merchants worldwide.
In
Vietnam, PayPal parent eBay local partner chodientu.vn helps Vietnamese
customers to participate in international trade. Chodientu.vn' online payment platform nganluong.vn is still in its
infancy among many children in online payment market in Vietnam. So far
there is no dominant player in the industry and Vietnamese customers are
hesitate to pick a premature service provider.
PayPal
has been talking to State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) on regulations, business
cooperation opportunities. If a local player becomes a PayPal partner,
it will pull a large number of Internet users and etailers, and
contribute greatly to the new development of e-commerce in
Vietnam.
Thursday, January 15. 2009
Late last year with
some friends and partners, I launched TechLang a new website covering
technology news in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. In addition to profiling
and reviewing new technology companies, Techlang holds technology events
and connects startups to investors, advisors, job seekers and service
providers through community networks.
I will dedicate more time on
TechLang from 2009, however my blog http://jasonlog.supersized.org is still live with my
personal view on Vietnam's web landscape.
TechLang welcomes all you guys as
contributors, guest writers or whatever you name it. As startup
entrepreneurs you can tip us
your ventures so that we can follow and help you connect to the right
circles.
Thursday, January 8. 2009
One year ago I made the predictions for 2008, now it is time to
recap:
Again there is no momentum for startups to get to fast
track: lack of seasoned management, hard to monetize with high traffic
sites. Most chased consumer entertainment services and few startups
target enterprise apps SaaS and click and mortar hybrid that have more
sustainable revenue model.
My predictions for 2008:
Social Media:
* Many new startups will be launched
until mid year then some quit of exhausting. [Right: 2nd half 2008 saw
few new startups, VC Corp quit Facebook clone game (Zoomban)]
*
Some large tech companies such as FPT, CMC will opt for acquisition
instead of in-house development. [Wrong: FPT launch its own incubator
(Visky) and the FPT chairman takes care of these projects. I think it
was not a good choice.]
* Self hosted Wordpress based blogs are
increasing popular. [Quite true.]
* Active Yahoo360 accounts
will drop 50% [Right: rumor of Yahoo SE Asia shutting down Yahoo360
service.]
Search Service:
* No local
player can challenge the Google' dominant position. [Official launch of
local search service xalo.vn, no bright future for this search
engine.]
Online Gaming:
* WOW will be
exploring the market through Asian affiliate. [The local market was
ready for WOW, I did not know why Blizzard Entertainment still did not
enter this promising game land.]
* Audition Online is still the
top casual MMO. [Audition rocked again.]
Mobile:
* iPhone would be the top choice of wish list among local
professionals and Vietnam would be the largest market of iPhone in
Southeast Asia with sales of 200K to 250K of units end of the year 2008.
[iPhone was truly a hit in Vietnam mobile market, without software based
unlock solution iPhone 3G was a bit slow demand, but the number was
still about 200k.]
* No one remembers DVB-H ever in existence.
[What did DVB-H mean?]
* Wimax is still in testing and not a
commodity until yearend. [Did Intel still bullish on Wimax this
year?]
Investment:
* Some international
VC firms will enter Vietnam market in addition to incumbent IDGVV, DFJ Vina. [Softbank China and
India Holdings is an important player now.]
* Local VC and
angels network will be formed to get a piece of the pie. [Not a clear
trend in Vietnam, but some practice in existence.]
I will
make the predictions for 2009 in next couple of days.
Saturday, December 20. 2008
Earlier this year I wrote about FPT CEO blogging with some interesting
comments. But two months ago the blog had been down with error message.
Now the CEO blog is replaced
by new FPT 2.0 effort Visky: Welcome to Visky!
Are Mr. Truong Gia
Binh tired of blogging or Visky will blog on behalf soon?
Monday, December 15. 2008
Mainstream and social media in
Vietnam discussed "VTV
lost Miss World Final broadcasting rights" these days.
"According to an agreement between RAAS and VTV, RAAS would
provide Miss World 2008 shows free of charge to VTV for broadcasting on
its VTV3 channel only. All profit earned from advertising during Miss
World shows on VTV would be contributed to a charity fund.
RAAS
withdrew the broadcasting rights for the final show because some
websites in Vietnam stole the signals from VTV’s broadcasting of the
Miss World fashion and swimwear programmes to broadcast live on their
websites or upload on their sites illegally. These acts, according to
RAAS, were serious copyright violations.
However, VietnamITV
was not the only one; other websites, namely VTC.com.vn, PDA.vn,
Clip.vn, stole signals from VTV and broadcast the Miss World shows live
on their websites."
RAAS is a business group founded by
a powerful Vietnamese Overseas family with business operation in the US,
China and Vietnam. As a partner of Miss World Organization, RAAS holds
exclusive broadcasting rights in Vietnam territory.
Of course VTV
could not control the redistribution of its video signal across
Internet, especially user generated content websites. VTV tried to
explain it was out of their control but Vietnamese Internet users (about
20 millions) care? If young Vietnamese want to watch the Event they can
find on many video sharing websites whether VTV did broadcasting or not.
Are Julia Morley
aware of this?
Friday, December 5. 2008
An interesting presentation prepared
by FaberNovel, a french consulting firm, which produced many reports on
Web 2.0 services. In the mid of recession and falling price of Google's
shares, the slides shed light on the long term strategy of Google from
Internet to mobile world.
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