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Heislyc Loh is doing so. Instead of starting another yellow phone book of "Silicon Valley Malaysia", should try to think in terms of impact to Malaysia or Global Startup. Back to the basic, get out of building.The most interesting startup cluster, where are them? Have you talked to them?

Right now, I can observe there are two interesting cluster: Money Comparisons & Taxi Hailing. I don't think any of the startup is in your so called Panel, Refer List, or even contact list.

*SIGH*. No impact to me either.

There is ranking.

Normal Execution * Normal Idea = Normal Value
Normal Execution * Great Idea = Good Value
Great Execution * Lousy Idea = Normal Value
Great Execution * Great Idea = Great Value

This passport can go anywhere except: Israel.

Good.

Let me be frank, comparative advantage is nil, endowed resource (brain) not utilised, infrastructure is crippled by bureaucracy, culturally conservative. Good, what a FCKing environment to grow and we shall do best!

Cheryl, hmm, I still haven't receive invitation :P

Sorry to ask, but curiosity won't kill me.

Equity, this is an important component. Don't always think tech is 80% of product while in fact it is just 20%~30%, the rest are either designer, finance, operations, users managers.

There are also reasons why equity is not given in big block. Do you want to buy back your equity when your startup is having a deadlock problem? Think wisely.

The solution from the government is always a quite simple one: Try another one again. Our government seems to be firm believer of Lean Startup, when one doesn't deliver result, make sure we pivot by starting another new new project. Maybe the old one just leave it running.

DDEC, AIMS, MDEC, MAGiC, ICON, etc. One failed, start another. This is the pivot, pal.

Ideas are not cheap. Contrary, it is very expansive. So expensive that it should be carefully ration. The key characteristic of idea is that it spread. So, a controlled spread is always preferred to uncontrolled spread. Like a virus, try not to get too much attention is part of the strategy, take out the first few key users, then start moving fast. 

Then grow global. We are born to solve problem, not just in Malaysia, but the world. We serve the world, pal.

Back to the same old question again: What define a startup? Then we start thinking about exposing the right thing instead of company that shouldn't be there.

Alas, one thousand small victories doesn't add up to one decisive defeats. Where is the turning point? Where is the critical mass and junction? Can't see any.

Plus, not every startup doesn't build a solution to solve a problem. This is a misleading thinking. A startup have a vision and reality, the difference between reality and vision is a problem. There is no ONE definitive answer for the problem. We have to test it out every round to see how it goes.

What really headache is SMEs style thinking. Startup might be SMEs, but not all SMEs are startups. Starting with an unknown unknown must not be confused with a known unknown.