I had the fortune of meeting Kun Gao, co-founder (together with Vu Nguyen) of CrunchyRoll (CR) on my recent trip to the Valley. I’d like to think we hit it off well the two times I was there in that month. I didn’t quite tell Kun enough of how much I liked their cool basement office at 340...

I picked this up off a forwarded email from a contact of mine - we both have been watching Singapore-based Garena for a while from a personal angle with much interest. The founding team are friends of mine, so I was very happy to learn that the Garena management team had raised $2M from Toivo Annus...

The East has been milking it for the longest time now - Nexon (of MapleStory fame) knows it very well, with 85% of its $230M revenues in 2005 coming from virtual asset sales. The majority of Silicon Valley poo-poohed the free-to-play model when it was first mooted, and had to eat its words sometime around...

It’s really hard to catch a falling knife without getting caught. I’m sure the recent whip-saw movements in Wall Street (and the resulting effects in global equity markets) have left many of you breathless, and hopefully none less worse the wear. Unfortunately, our friends over in the Valley...

I’m sitting in a conference room at the Suntec NUS Guild House listening in to Leslie Loh (of SystemAccess and NextView), and thought I’d pen down some of Leslie’s and my own thoughts and observations: Singaporean entrepreneurs need to learn to be better speakers. It’s really...

This looks like it’s gonna be one heck of an MMO - I can so imagine zillions of young girls (and even adult ones!) lost in the world of SanrioTown and Hello Kitty. With its launch, every other MMO sharing overlapping user/age groups - Neopets, GaiaOnline’s upcoming zOMG!, and what-have-you...

As the economies of both nations continue playing important roles in the Asia in the macroeconomic landscape in the years ahead, it would be foolhardy for us (or US, however your geopolitical inclination may be) to prognosticate Western ways and ignore the oft-subtler ways in which things get done in...

The following are my notes from the session held as part of The Dealmaker Forum - Social Media | The Insider’s Playbook to Market Domination. This was a half-day mini-seminar on 30 April 2008, organized by Dealmaker Media, and supported by Fenwick and West. I will be putting up whatever legible...