About

Background:

My name is Coach Wei, an Internet junkie who loves hanging out with great people while doing interesting projects along the way. My professional career started at EMC Corporation whom I joined right after I graduated from MIT. In 2000, I decided to leave EMC to start Nexaweb aiming for a richer and more interactive web. With over 7,000 enterprise deployments and has brought some of the most mission critical applications over the world to Web 2.0, Nexaweb is widely recognized as a pioneer in rich internet application and enterprise web 2.0. Since April 2009, I have been focused on “yottaa”. “yottaa” is a a very different kind of company that we are taking a new approach in building it while breaking new grounds in cloud computing.

In this blog, I enjoy things related to entrepreneurship, software, services, web, new media and startups.

Legal:

This website, coachwei.com, is a personal website and it is not an offering from any organization that the author is affiliated with:

1. Ownership: All the work on this website, including (but not limiting to) articles, software, code, comments, graphics, diagrams, etc., are owned by the owner of this website, unless ownership is explicitly stated otherwise. They are products of the author’s own creation, not products of any organization that the author is affiliated with – unless stated otherwise;
2. Independence: Opinions, viewpoints and comments on this website represent those of the author, not any organization that the author is affiliated with;
3. Sponsorship and Donation: This website may accept donation or sponsorship from third party entities from time to time. A donation or sponsorship does not change the ownership and independent nature of the work from this website;

Please contact coachwei at alum.mit.edu immediately if you have comments or issues with the above mentioned legal aspects regarding to any work on this website.

Affiliation Disclosure:

• Yottaa: Yottaa is a Boston and Beijing based cloud service company. We are breaking new grounds in cloud computing;
• RockStarApps LLC: RockStarApps acquired a web performance tool that I wrote in 2008 called RockStar Web Profiler(I swear to God that it took 5 times more work that I expected) and thus I became a part of RockStarApps LLC;
• Nexaweb: I am founder and Chairman of Nexaweb Technologies, an Enterprise Web 2.0 software company that I started in 2000. Over the years at Nexaweb, my responsibilities ranged from coding, raisinig $20M+ financing, pre-sales and post sales, growing revenue from zero to multi-million dollar, running a team, making coffee, balancing financial books (don’t hire me for this!), etc;
• Apache Software Foundation, Eclipse Foundation and W3C: I contribute to projects at Apache and sometimes Eclipse Foundation. Currently I am involved with an Apache incubator project called “Apache XAP” as a project lead and a committer. I also contribute to W3C as a working group member;
• OpenAjax Alliance: I am fairly involved with OpenAjax Alliance. Currently I am a member of the inaugural Steering Committee;
• Social Computing Magazine: I am an advisor to Social Computing Magazine;
• MIT Alumni Association of Boston: I was chairing the Entrepreneurship Committee a while ago and still involved in various activities;
• I also an advisor to a few Boston area organizations (The ones with public links include TechStars and VisibleMeasures). These companies are pioneering and defining the landscape of new categories in the web 2.0 ecosystem.

My involvement with the above affiliated organizations abides by the corresponding IP and confidentiality agreements.

Visitor Stats:

This blog has a few hundred unique readers per day with over 20000 unique readers in October 2006. Some detailed data can be seen here. You may also want to take a look at my Sys-Con blog aggregation page: http://coachwei.sys-con.com/.