Stairway To Heaven

Read a post on FB, and I listed down my new year resolution as follows in different categories: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/21/former-google-career-coach-shares-a-useful-visual-trick.html Business Fooyo Sales 300k from me Fooyo China setup Skoolight 100 schools + seeds/pre-A stage Personal life Family: 1-2 milk packs/month, visit 1-2 times/year, ask them to visit SG or other places of interests Romance: Consolidate my relationships, propose/marriage in 2 years. Health&fitness 70-75kg by end of the year. 0.5-1kg/month Swimming as a habit(2-3 times/week) Fun Visit 5-7 countries/biz trip mostly Personal trip with GF for 2-3 places Skill building Get a driving licence in SG and convert to China Learn Japanese(biz communication level) Digital marketing/adtech skills Read 5-10 books （ Mind) Hope the plans do come true.

Things worth noting down. In the past two weeks, I've been trying very hard on the marketing strategy adoption for our newborn platform " Dadafish ". It's basically to solve the market place chicken and egg problem in a more cost-efficient manner. We start from the teacher acquisition: Location based Door to Door marketing(visit physical store based on locations).  Vertical domain marketing approach(research 2-3 subdomains and find the relevant hosts to host classes on Dadafish) So far, we've got quite a number of classes ongoing, ranging from arts/crafts, language, cooking, sports. For the time being, we focus a lot on language and arts/crafts. Classes coming in the next few weeks: 1. Classes conducted this week: Japanese writing class Chinese class for complete beginners Flower arrangement class   2. Class conducting next week: Japanese writing class French language exchange for complete beginners(3 groups) French language exchan...

I've been working as a project manager on an interesting project named " Dadafish " for quite some time. The intention is to create a sharing economy platform for lifestyle teaching/learning. Put in a more straightforward way, an Airbnb for classes. There is one assumption:  People are willing to pay to learn skills from amateur or semi-pros at a lower price. Quite some ongoing arts classes in meetups are taught in cafe shops at 15-50SGD/session. It's an indirect validation of our assumption. There are also many free language classes in meetups and facebook groups. We did an experiment to validate the assumption by introducing a Japanese friend who's organizing a free meetup to teach Japanese. She doesn't have a certificate and she's currently teaching Japanese in meetups for free. The experiment class was charged at 15 SGD/h per person for a 3-4 pax group class. We posted the class and teacher info in a NUS student/alumni SNS group and three peopl...

It's been a long time since the last blog update. A lot of things happened in the past year, mostly beyond my expectations. 1. First official startup -- Fooyo Though I've been working with startups and individual entrepreneurs since school days, chances/courages didn't come into existence until this lean mobile team decided to work together. It was hard, especially at the beginning when we've got nothing but hardcore ability to code mobile apps. For B2B solution providers, the primary resource is indeed customer relationships. None of us have business backgrounds, neither are we good at marketing or persuading people. The important thing is that we focus a lot on products-- the UI/UX design and development process optimisation. Gradually, people who value our product development skills come to us. Mike's team in  Minitheory is really awesome. We work together to deliver beautiful projects. One of the apps we worked together is Nibble , a food sharing app whi...

Our team went for the exhibition in the RISE conference organized by Web Summit. It was fruitful to learn from entrepreneurs and investors in the community. During this event, we demoed our newborn product, Tutormy , which is a mobile market place for tutors and students to meet and communicate. Some highlights: Regarding products: We visited most educational related product booths during the event. There are basically three types of products in the market. Dashboard management system for schools to better manage their internal resources, including teachers, students, courses, etc. The system also serve as a engagement tool for schools to communicate with parents and other relevant entities. Most teams who are doing this kind of B2B systems are mostly working on domestic markets(spotted some teams from Delhi and one from Philippines). Some have already been quite established and looking for new opportunities(Found one Norwegian company). Marketplaces. There is a HK based st...

I attended the Echelon Asia summit on Tuesday and Wednesday. It was nice. Echelon this year comes with an app which help attendees better connect with each other. It's indeed pretty helpful. In a situation when I cannot find a speaker in the back stage, I connected her with the app and it really helped out. Top highlights:  The talk about scalability: How HotelQuickly manage to launch 6 countries all at once and scale so fast all across. Speakers: Tomas from Hotel Quickly and Suhair from Google. The talk about relationship between southeast Asia and China. Managed to talk to Thomas Tsao and William Bao Bean.  Learnt a lot from them and got to know how VCs think. The talk about relationship between southeast Asia and Europe. The story about freelancer.com. I posted my request to do SEO for my websites. Within minutes, I received 10+ free lancers asking to provide SEO service for me. Unfortunately, the one I chose with high rankin...

It was quite a coincident that this week's meetups all lead to the topic of innovations in health. This Thursday, I attended a luncheon with Ms. Tin Pei Ling who is the youngest member of Parliament. She has a deep knowledge of health&health care related politics including the CPF medical schemes(medisave, medifund, medishield), government's attitudes towards mentor health, etc. I raised some questions regarding healthcare innovations especially for the aging population. It is an important topic in the Smart Nation speech delivered by PM Lee which I attended last year. Ms. Tin gave some suggestions and encouragements. Really appreciated. That same evening, I went to 237.io in China Town to attend a health related event named Smart Health coLAB which happened to be a hackathon briefing. I've got to know people from that industry and the pains people are really facing. The event organisers invited some industrial people to share their solutions to the current...