Archive for the ‘Tips’ Category

The Average Woman Who Conqured Everest, 7 Summits, North and South Poles

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Lei Wang (http://www.leisVentures.com) is an average woman but a truly inspiring story! On the 23rd of May 2010, Lei reached the summit of Everest and became the first Chinese woman, as well as the first Asian-American woman to climb the highest mountain on every continent and to ski to both the ...

A Geek’s Guide to Startup Banking – What do you do after you close financing

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

This is my 2nd post in the “Geek’s Guide” series about all the things that entrepreneurs hate to do, are not good at doing them, but have to do them anyway. These things include office space (My first post is on this topic), legal, HR, administration, banking, accounting, insurance, payroll, ...

A Geek’s Guide to Startup Office Space

Monday, November 9th, 2009

An interesting benefit for me in starting up Yottaa is to become a semi-expert in unexpected domains such as startup office space in Boston area, banking, HR and administration etc. I've learned some tips and thought they might be useful for my fellow entrepreneurs. This post focuses on office space. ...

The 64KB Java Language Problem - Lesson Learned from Using Rhino to Process JavaScript

Monday, September 1st, 2008

This entry documents a few tips related to using Rhino JavaScript Engine to process JavaScript code. If you are using Rhino, you probably won't run into the issues covered in this post during development or even testing. However, you are fairly likely to run into these issues after your system ...

Fix for WordPress TinyMCE Editor Problem

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

If the visual editor (TinyMCE) in your newly installed Wordpress is not showing up, this maybe a solution to your problem. First, Make Sure your visual editor is turned on. In the Wordpress admin, up in the upper right corner, click on your user name, and then make sure “Use ...

The Misleading Business vs. Technology Argument - Tips for Startups

Friday, December 21st, 2007

In this high tech industry, one of the most misunderstood and potentially misleading conventional wisdom about startups is the separation of "business side" and "technical side" and "technical people should listen to the business people". This is the teaching from almost every business school textbook: don't lead with technology, ...

Bill Gates, Microsoft and Corporations

Friday, June 16th, 2006

Wah, Bill Gates is leaving Microsoft to focus on giving away his money...Though the transition will take two years to happen, this signals the ending of an era. What would microsoft be without Gates? MSFT is officially becoming a different kind of company. Over the last 30 years, Microsoft's capability ...