Singapore seemed so, well, manageable while we were there. Small, good transport, great airport… Happy to be in Portland now though – a real city with real weather, much to do and a great outdoors to explore.
September 2005 – months after leaving an MNC, dusting of an old business plan made suddenly relevant by switching to an open source base instead of reinventing wheels. Two days of spreadsheets – downloads, conversions, cost of support – wow, we have a winner.
October – first partner locked in. Stuart, an ex-investment banker sacrifices life at home to share a 10′ by 11′ office in a dive of a building near Lau Pa Sat in the heart of the financial district.
December – board up to 5 members, me, Stuart, an ex-partner from Bangkok, a CEO of a global multimillion dollar company and a product marketing specialist with the Internet’s largest hardware supplier.
January – exec team flushed out with the addition of Alec who brings all the domain knowledge we need and years of development and open source heritage. Finally! Some legitamacy in OSS circles.
It sure felt like we were moving fast – always does at that stage of a startup. Looking back, well hindsight etc.
All the decisions that brought us here – to follow.
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October 7, 2006 at 12:07 am
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December 3, 2006 at 4:18 am
I have had similar experience with Singapore having lived there from 1992-2004. I like yur foray into OSS and I agree singapore is not the best place for anything new and entreprenuerial. You can see my profile in Linkedin and we share a mutual friend in Jacob Pillai. Best