musings & critique about hi-tech, academia, building startups, and a journal to building eKita
Friday, July 27, 2012
Well the last few days have been quite eventful. Still running quite behind on backlog of work (when am I not?) but its worth piping in here to jot some things down.
This week started off great when on Monday I had a chance to catch up with Claude Barthels who is going to be one of my organizers on the ground for setting up 3 Day Startup in Luxembourg.
I caught him up to speed on things, and we are going to continue talking with the student group BetaCube to get more team members to organize it with us.
We already have a few sponsors committed and are going to start moving forward again now. We had previously been putting things on hold in order to respectfully give Farvest their chance to react and participate since they were the initiator - but as entrepreneurs we simply cant wait around for slow moving overweight corporates to get in line. So, happily, all organizers and sponsors involved thus far have agreed - lets get this show on the road!
Tuesday started off nice and fresh with a local meetup called OpenCoffee, where from 9:00 until 12:00, tech people meetup at a nice coffee shop downtown and share projects, business ideas, technology tidbits, and have a good time networking.
It was quite impressive, actually, the turn out - both in quality, diversity, and quantity! Alot of very big movers and shakers doing lots of big things here in Bangkok.
These meetups in Bangkok are quite good actually, I'm impressed each time.
Of course - everywhere I go and everyone I talk to about 3DS here results in nothing but positive eagerness to be involved and see it happen. From Tuesday's meetup alone I found 2 more event organizers who are keen to help build 3DS here in Bangkok with me. Both of them are founders of their own startups.
So we went and had lunch together, when one of them also called a contact of his to come join us. Not surprisingly, the contact was also very interested in 3DS. It was none other than the President of GEW Thailand.
Since we are already planning to do 2 GEW events in conjunction with eachother we discussed adding him to the mix. The response was excellent! We now have a very eager potential partner to work with, who will be involved in deploying the first 3DS here in Bangkok as one of the high-lite GEW events!
Wednesday was a workday at home to actually catch up on things.
There has been an incredible amount of progress and movement in Israel regarding 3DS events, on all 3 fronts: Center Region, North Region, and South. All are seeming to move along quite nicely - although as always there have been big changes and things to take care of.
Thursday was a great day again in town, where I had the pleasure of having a nice brunch with Jakob Lykkegard, a relative "local" in Thailand - originally from Denmark - who has had an incredible story mixed with business and adventure all around Asia. He learned Chinese and lived there until realizing he didnt like it so much - so he learned Japanese to live there, and still wasnt all that satisfied - so now he lives in Thailand (and yes has apparently learned Thai as well). Quite a story by itself for a young professional but wait - theres more. He's exited a few companies already, especially focusing on facebook games and similar social media markets, and currently invests and gets involved heavily in others. With a big focus here in Thailand now that he's found the place he wants to call home. A veritable well of experience and knowledge of how to setup business here in Asia, he's already been of great help to me in setting up eKita here...And obviously - he's very excited about 3DS too!
Thats not all though - Thursday also had me following up on a conference call to Lux to speak with another one of our supporters there who confirmed their eagerness to sponsor the event. Since its a firm we already work with quite alot all around the world, its always nice to continue doing business with them.
Well - today, Friday, have 2 more conference calls to Europe and one big weekly crunch session for eKita.
Then I'm going to try and squeeze in a meetup with Kelly Kampen, Bangkok StartupDigest curator and a "local" entrepreneur as well (www.jajoop.com & www.do.jo) before being late to my lady's friends' birthday party, heh... ;-)
I caught him up to speed on things, and we are going to continue talking with the student group BetaCube to get more team members to organize it with us.
We already have a few sponsors committed and are going to start moving forward again now. We had previously been putting things on hold in order to respectfully give Farvest their chance to react and participate since they were the initiator - but as entrepreneurs we simply cant wait around for slow moving overweight corporates to get in line. So, happily, all organizers and sponsors involved thus far have agreed - lets get this show on the road!
Tuesday started off nice and fresh with a local meetup called OpenCoffee, where from 9:00 until 12:00, tech people meetup at a nice coffee shop downtown and share projects, business ideas, technology tidbits, and have a good time networking.
It was quite impressive, actually, the turn out - both in quality, diversity, and quantity! Alot of very big movers and shakers doing lots of big things here in Bangkok.
These meetups in Bangkok are quite good actually, I'm impressed each time.
Of course - everywhere I go and everyone I talk to about 3DS here results in nothing but positive eagerness to be involved and see it happen. From Tuesday's meetup alone I found 2 more event organizers who are keen to help build 3DS here in Bangkok with me. Both of them are founders of their own startups.
So we went and had lunch together, when one of them also called a contact of his to come join us. Not surprisingly, the contact was also very interested in 3DS. It was none other than the President of GEW Thailand.
Since we are already planning to do 2 GEW events in conjunction with eachother we discussed adding him to the mix. The response was excellent! We now have a very eager potential partner to work with, who will be involved in deploying the first 3DS here in Bangkok as one of the high-lite GEW events!
Wednesday was a workday at home to actually catch up on things.
There has been an incredible amount of progress and movement in Israel regarding 3DS events, on all 3 fronts: Center Region, North Region, and South. All are seeming to move along quite nicely - although as always there have been big changes and things to take care of.
Thursday was a great day again in town, where I had the pleasure of having a nice brunch with Jakob Lykkegard, a relative "local" in Thailand - originally from Denmark - who has had an incredible story mixed with business and adventure all around Asia. He learned Chinese and lived there until realizing he didnt like it so much - so he learned Japanese to live there, and still wasnt all that satisfied - so now he lives in Thailand (and yes has apparently learned Thai as well). Quite a story by itself for a young professional but wait - theres more. He's exited a few companies already, especially focusing on facebook games and similar social media markets, and currently invests and gets involved heavily in others. With a big focus here in Thailand now that he's found the place he wants to call home. A veritable well of experience and knowledge of how to setup business here in Asia, he's already been of great help to me in setting up eKita here...And obviously - he's very excited about 3DS too!
Thats not all though - Thursday also had me following up on a conference call to Lux to speak with another one of our supporters there who confirmed their eagerness to sponsor the event. Since its a firm we already work with quite alot all around the world, its always nice to continue doing business with them.
Well - today, Friday, have 2 more conference calls to Europe and one big weekly crunch session for eKita.
Then I'm going to try and squeeze in a meetup with Kelly Kampen, Bangkok StartupDigest curator and a "local" entrepreneur as well (www.jajoop.com & www.do.jo) before being late to my lady's friends' birthday party, heh... ;-)
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