Yung Wu

Enterprise innovation cycle (the next “wave” on a Rising Tide)

Most Enterprises have taken their medicine over the past 4 years, since the big crash of 2008, and don’t have much more room to optimize performance through cuts and austerity measures alone. Our bets are that Enterprises are cautiously and selectively starting to explore CAPX and strategic investments — especially in areas that can drive customer acquisition and growth. New […]

by Yung Wu × August 26, 2011 × 0 comments

Long live entrepreneurs !!!

Perhaps a contrary point of view, but I believe that the current market and economic turmoil makes it a very exciting time to be an entrepreneur and to bet on entrepreneurs, and will eventually be quite beneficial to their businesses. Gone are the days, especially in the B2B environment, when customers can afford to ignore a “better mousetrap” (especially where they drive in-year cost reductions or productivity improvements), or make

by Yung Wu × April 14, 2011 × 8 comments

NFQ Entrepreneur’s Playbook

“We hold these truths to be self-evident” — well maybe in the case of the US Declaration of Independence, but not necessarily in the case of what it takes to start, build and scale-up companies to reach critical mass. Why is it that in most cases, that entrepreneurs that found companies rarely make the transformation into being the CEOs that grow the enterprises to critical mass? Or that so many start-ups fail, after tremendous initial growth? After going

by Yung Wu × January 14, 2011 × 2 comments

An Open Letter to Castek’ers …

Dear Friends,

18 years after founding Castek, I will be moving on to new pursuits. From the very first experience of starting the company in 1990 with my founding business partners, Fay Wu and Dragan Kopunovic, bootstrapping its growth through our credit cards, and all of the thrills, chills and spills of an incredible journey through the most exciting times in history for our industry, the birthing of this company

by Yung Wu × May 1, 2008 × 5 comments

Facebook: Angel or Demon?

Massive Invasion of personal privacy? Or inevitable Portent of the Future?So Katrina turns me onto this Facebook phenomena several months ago, and my first instinct tells me that this platform is something which will have ramifications of almost biblical proportions (thus the references to angels and demons). The only question … is it a force for good or evil?It spreads in a pattern that resembles a pandemic, as the