Here I’m going to make a confession. To the haters: thanks for all the hate. Why do I say that? They make me stronger. While the compliments are feed the ego, compared to the criticism they don’t help as much. We thrive on feedback; that’s how we make our product better. The people who have given feedback are those who have a problem and are unsatisfied; they want improvement and so do we. And the haters, [...]

If you think entrepreneurship is like a bed of roses, think again. All the misconceptions commonly thought need to be clarified.
We’ve been taught in school to make great employees. It was a pity my schools never taught me entrepreneurship, and never really exposed me to this option.

A big chunk of Blackberry users are from Indonesia. Initially, I thought the page was really great – wow 600-800 comments in every single post. Coming from over 800,000 members it is considered a quite an engaging page. But as I clicked in, they were all filled with spam by users posting their own BBM pins as a form of exchanging contacts. It is definitely a different culture – and better still, they recently renamed the [...]

Authored by Jean M. Twenge, Ph.D and W. Keith Campbell, Ph.D, The Narcissism Epidemic provides a fun insight on how the Generation Ys in the Unites States are increasingly becoming narcissistic.

So Shaker emerged as the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2011. Of course, just like every other TechCrunch reader, I was excited to test it out. In my first minute of loading the app, Shaker seems like a mash-up of Second Life and Habbo Hotel. The only difference seems to be that the entire experience is based in a bar.