Why

After spending way too much time reading and commenting on other people’s blogs, I finally succumbed to blog envy and launched my own. Ironically, having a “digital presence” was something I outgrew back before college. Little do I know, everything comes in cycles; just bigger, cheaper, and better. Back in the days, before the web but not the ‘net, I was a co-sysop of an BBS that was “co-located” out of a buddy’s room. He was lucky enough to have 4 gigs of storage, a couple of USRobotics Dual 14.4 modems, spare phone lines, and ultra cool parents. I tagged along because I though it was cool to run a “elite” BBS. It was essentially a cross between a message board, blog, napster, and AOL (or more appropriate, Prodigy). This was back in 1991.

Now finally, I have an informal place to gather my comments, archive my thoughts, bookmark my favorite posts, and generally vent on/about anyone and anything I feel like. Please dont take this blog or life too seriously, enjoy the sunshine.

What

This blog is about the birth place and epicenter of the digital revolution, a tiny piece of land on the Bay Area penninsula I call “650.” Previously ingenuous but now iconastic companies were born here: Yahoo!, Google, Sun, and HP etc. No need for history lessons Sometimes, they grow up and move to 408 or 415 where they take on the world. Always, they retained the spirit and the heart of a very unique place I call home.

So what will I write about?

Like everyone else
- The business of technology
- Venture capital
- Entrepreneurship
- Start-ups

Hopefully unlike everyone else
- Product management/marketing
- Academic research and its application to high tech marketing & strategy
- China and Taiwan’s tech industry
- Useful tibits for the anyone that rolls up their sleeves and do the dirty work neccessary to make this place hum

What not to expect
- correct grammar
- correct spelling
- chronological & logical reasoning

Who

A little about me. My name is Will Hsu. I grew up between Taipei and the Bay Area. Got my engineering degree at Stanford and MBA at Wharton. Spent my previous lives as an investment banking analyst, a product manager, and an entrepreneur (I dont like this word, too self important) - all in 650. I’m a jack of all trades who lived through the times of Apple IIgs, B2B, to social networking. Like many of us, I rode up dot-com boom down the dot-bomb bust. After two year in Philadelphia, I’m now back, because I am and forever will be irrationally exuberant.

I’m currently getting my paycheck from the product marketing department of eBay.