Dijital Life

About

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. What I enjoy most is to start and build companies. It’s been a winding road from a little valley shaped by a beautiful river and lots of mountains in Hunan (where I was born) to Boston. I went to Tsinghua University and MIT for degrees. I live in Cambridge, MA.

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 bringing the next generation web to the world, and raised series A in 2003. With over 5,000 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.

Right now I am working on something very interesting called “yottaa”.

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 does some interesting stuff, but if I want to keep my job, I’d better shut up:-);
• 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 now;
• Nexaweb: I am founder and Chairman of Nexaweb Technologies, an Enterprise Web 2.0 software company that I started in 2000. At Nexaweb, I’ve done work related to writing code, raising $20M financing, pre-sales and post sales, growing revenue from zero to multi-million dollar per year, running a team, navigating legal issues, making coffee, balancing financial books (which I am terrible at), 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/.