Yahoo Hack Day – Indonesia
Michael Smith Jr. – Apprentice VC
by michael_msft
2M ago
I think this will go down as one of my favorite events ever. To this day I have never been to or helped to run a more fun event. Weeks of planning went into this and it was a hardcore multi day event. But it was so much fun. This was November, 2009. Way before the Jakarta Startup scene took off. Yahoo! Southeast Asia Open Hack Day ..read more
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All roads pointed to Asia…
Michael Smith Jr. – Apprentice VC
by michael_msft
2M ago
It’s funny to go back and look at some posts and realize they captured a moment in time where I made a big decision in my life. While it was happening I probably didn’t quite grok what was going on. Reminiscing over Up in the Air… What happened after this was me asking my boss to move me out of the USA. He said give me some time and he would see what was possible. About six months later he comes back and declared to have two places I could move to and both start with an H. Guessing Hong Kong was easy but the other one escaped me. The other one was in Europe but I still could not figure ..read more
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Back to the phone market…
Michael Smith Jr. – Apprentice VC
by michael_msft
2M ago
Wow, – this one is a doozy. I really loved my BB – I can’t lie. This is why I might be too excited for the Clicks iPhone keyboard. Nokia will get attacked on all fronts! So what really happened is the market is Android and iPhone. I wasn’t too far off. Nokia got crushed with Blackberry and there really is just Google Android, non-Google Android and iPhone. I do think we are slowly going to witness some of this unraveling due to the way app stores operate, come on Apple, and how AI might turn into the new interface. bring the future I say ..read more
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ASEAN Podcasting…
Michael Smith Jr. – Apprentice VC
by michael_msft
2M ago
I am going through my old posts and grabbing some as I go and writing about them. This one is kind of interesting at the moment because I have been thinking a lot about doing some sort of podcast/video show focused on the region to some extent. This Week in Asia Episode 15: The iPad Tsunami – Guest Star! This is Jan 2010. You could say I was involved with doing some form of this over 13 years ago. This format was fun. Talk about current events, some global stuff, some local stuff, pontificate about tech and just have a bit of fun. I consider this format to be kind of cool and something ..read more
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Mapping my career to the 5 major Technology Eras
Michael Smith Jr. – Apprentice VC
by michael_msft
10M ago
I am not using ChatGPT to write stuff but I am using it more and more to research things, play with the plugins and get a better handle on how to make it useful for how I work. I do find that feeding it data and asking it to add to it or format it to be quite positive. I am pretty sure when all this Copilot stuff is integrated into Office, I will be using it a fair bit. I tried to use the Webpilot plug-in to read my LinkedIn profile and organize it but it wasn’t allowed to read the page. I cut and pasted it and asked it to grab the Technology Eras by years according to Bill Gates: 10 Breakthro ..read more
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How to book time with Michael Smith Jr.
Michael Smith Jr. – Apprentice VC
by michael_msft
10M ago
SEO’ing that title a bit. I am still doing my best to remain accessible and trying to help. Here is the Calendly link for ASEAN Startup Coaching: https://calendly.com/dreampipe/asean-startup-coaching For those that want to book that please let me know in the booking what you would like to discuss. I have NO set agenda for the call so the idea is you have questions and I will use the time to try and answer or discuss. If you book time with no agenda then it won’t be super useful for either of us. Here is the Calendly link for a face to face Coffee: https://calendly.com/dreampipe/coffee For this ..read more
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Coach Parin (Mehta)
Michael Smith Jr. – Apprentice VC
by michael_aws
2y ago
There was a time back in my Spuul days where I got a call from a guy at Google who wanted to help us with our ad stack. We were a small company and usually Google wouldn’t return our calls or spend much time with us. However, Parin somehow come across our site and offered to help. And help us he did. What started then was a great relationship that has lasted across many of my gigs as I am always bugging Parin for advice. We usually meet for a coffee, a bagel or we go for a walk. I have probably been getting “coached” without realising it and it has become an important method for me to bounce i ..read more
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Web3 Developer Report (2021) from Electric Capital
Michael Smith Jr. – Apprentice VC
by michael_aws
2y ago
Interesting way to view the growth of Web3 – how many devs are working on it ..read more
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Web3
Michael Smith Jr. – Apprentice VC
by michael_aws
2y ago
I won’t claim to be an expert so when I write about any of this it is for my learning and sharing and discussions with rationale people. First off – it is early yet. We have a long ways to go. Read this one to see how some of this stuff works, how hard it is and how centralized a lot of it it still is: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html This twitter thread kicked off my Matt, of WordPress, is really good. There is a tendency to slam all old stuff in favour of new stuff but we all know everything inherits from the old. So Web3 is building new stuff but a lot of it is built ..read more
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What lies ahead? – by Jeremy Wagstaff
Michael Smith Jr. – Apprentice VC
by michael_aws
2y ago
Love reading stuff by Jeremy as he is a writer and deeply researches his stances. In this article he takes a stab at predicting what Apple is working on or where it might be going: What lies ahead ..read more
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