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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Nine venture-backed startups IPO'd in 2009, but just one of them was based in Silicon Valley: Sunnyvale security firm Fortinet Inc. (Note that Fortinet is led by Tsinghua University alumni, also co-founder of NetScreen).
Close-by, San Francisco's Open Table IPO'd in May.
Otherwise, it was all Massachusetts, Chicago, Seattle, and Texas. ...
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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, ...
Posted in Main Page, Tips, Yottaa, startup | 4 Comments »
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. ...
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
Not sure whether this is lucky or unlucky, I am probably wedded to the pattern of "starting a company during a down economy". For comrades who are starting a company during the current couple of years, you are probably wedded to the same pattern too.
To me, the root ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
What does the Ajax community want from future browsers? How are these different requests prioritized? Web developers have done amazing things with Ajax for both Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 applications, but what barriers need to be removed to enable the next generation of browser-based innovations? The future of Ajax ...
Posted in WebDev | 4 Comments »
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Background:
My name is Coach Wei. My goal in life is to be a good husband, father, son and friend while try to do some meaningful things. My professional career started at EMC Corporation whom I joined right after I graduated from MIT. In 2000, I founded Nexaweb with the goal of ...
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Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
OpenAjax Alliance has made substantial progress in the last 12 months since its inception. The cornerstone is OpenAjaxHub 1.0 (OaaHub 1.0).
OaaHub 1.0, an open source project under Apache V2 license, focuses on interoperability - it enables different Ajax components to inter-operate with each other using a "pub/sub" mechanism while ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
My company, Nexaweb, together with SitePen, Mozilla Foundation, Redfin, etc, joined force in making an important contribution to the open source community. See SitePen, Mozilla
Foundation, Nexaweb Technologies, Redfin, & SnapLogic Announce Open Source
Contribution of TurboAjax Group’s High-Performance Grid Widget to Dojo
Foundation.
This is interesting not only because it bridges a ...
Posted in WebDev | 1 Comment »
Friday, August 10th, 2007
I have been involved with W3C's Web Application Format (WAF) Working Group(WG). WAF has been working on "widget" for about one year. Marcos Caceres, a smart recent PhD graduate from Australia, has been doing some good work here.
A year ago, I was neutral about WAF's widget effort, even supportive primarily ...
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
Enterprise 2.0 Conference (http://enterprise2conf.com/) is going on here at Boston Westin Waterfront this week. Nexaweb is showing its Enterprise Web 2.0 Platform here.
Enterprise 2.0 is a term initially coined by Harvard Business School professor Andrew McAfee just about one year ago. His definition was much more around things like wikis, ...
Posted in conference, software business model, web 2.0 | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Introduction
OpenAjax Alliance has been growing well with over 70 members. The initial OpenAjaxHub received immediate community response - most are positive and a few responses were negative but turned out to be very helpful. Over ten Ajax offerings demonstrated support for OpenAjaxHub already (such as Apache XAP, Dojo, Nexaweb AjaxClient, ...
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Today is the fourth annual MIT CIO Symposium. The weather could have been better and parking could have been much better (my house is within 25 minutes walking distance from MIT. I drove instead and spent 30 minutes looking for parking) - but the conference is fairly well attended. My ...
Posted in WebDev, conference, web 2.0 | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Quite a few people are asking me what I think of Sun's JavaFX annoucement . It is funny and we saw this coming - Who wouldn't anticipate Sun to make some big annoucement at JavaOne ? People were predicting the annoucement is going to be "open sourcing Java" - Oh, ...
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Adobe sent out a press release this morning titled "Adobe to Open Source Flex ". Is that so? Dana Blankenhorn from ZDNet says this is A sign of desperation from Adobe ...Is that so?
After reading the press release a few times, the title "to Open Source Flex" seems to ...
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Sunday, April 15th, 2007
In my previous post, “Web 2.0 Re-examined: the Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value “, I described a “Web 2.0 Technology Stack ” that contains three building blocks: Application Client Container, Internet Messaging Bus and Enterprise Mashup Server. In this post, I’ll explain more in detail of what an ...
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