2004/11/16

It was indeed a very profound chatting with J. last night at Sherwood, after he left our subsiderary company in HK, he took 6 months off, travelling to Italy for 2 months. take 3 months course at Stanford, enjoy casual living and enjoy life; he told me what inspired him the most is : Why suffer himself in a business like ISP and can't turn away pursuing other life ? I agree half of his comments; what's correct ? the hard part, ISP is really a time , energy, money consuming business, you have to devoted 100 percent to achieve milestones; what's incorrect ? if you believe in what you are doing in the begining, the things you do will never be success, no to mention you have to motivate people who share the same belive with you.

His trip to Taipei is for a road show, he worked on project base for a wireless / mobile techonology company which is on the process of share / fund raising, J. told me he would like to observe more about the owner of this technology company before deciding to join them or not; he still looking for a career in Venture Capital, we exchange idea about how a VC identify the opportunity, my idea is , it left only 2 things for VC to look after, one is distructive technology which will replace current technology and change the patter of user; second is raw material which will ultimately running out in a certain period of time.

when our conversation relate to the career ahead, we both agree that next Spring will be my best timing pursing next venture, then I successfully obtain a few executive recruiters' contact from him. this is a good side as serching from HK, I may garner a higher positon to shoot for either Regional Positon or direct access ticket to China, I should initative my contact early next week.

this afternoon, when EMBA classmate Lu visit without appointment, we chat about his consultant / advisory challenge in PWC, when I told him Media and Entertainment consultant is a strong function in PWC woroldwide, how come the presence in Taiwan is almost intangible, if his dept. strategically thinking of reaching to other field, Media is a virgin land to be discovered in Taiwan, he agreed with my insight and told me the life cycle of his current industry - Financial Service / Telecom will reach its pleatue soon, how to identify next business arena is a key for him, I asked him to conduct an internal study about the market, potential and reply to me about my idea, I may forming an consultanting arm with PWC in the near future.

anyway, I am doing nothing but shopping for new venture.

Had a meeting with S. this morning, a courtesy visit from him, S. told us he only on board for 3 weeks. yes, this is the final competitor who run for the same chair with me, a very interesting feeling arose and we had a good converstaion, I think he is qualified to run the company, it will be tough, but what else is easy these days?

posted by Roger @ 11/16/2004 02:23:00 下午

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