I hope you all have had a month filled with great opportunities! Since my last email nearly a month ago, I was fortunate enough to come across an abundance of amazing experiences, notably these two:
BIZTECHDAY 2009
I had the good fortune to be able to volunteer as a videographer for BizTechDay 2009, a 2-day business technology conference for small business owners and entrepreneurs. During the opening speech, the speaker spoke of how our country was founded on the principles of small business. He also emphasized that there was no better time in recent decades than now to start a small business. The conference inspired me to delve deeper into my own entrepreneurial ideas and the energy and enthusiasm from everyone speaking and attending elevated my thoughts to a state where I literally woke up days later with an idea for a startup. In typical entrepreneurial style, I have been thinking feverishly through the business plan and reading books pertaining to the particular kind of website and business I want to launch.
CHIC MEETS GEEK
A week after BizTechDay and thanks to Carol Tran, a geeky litigator and an impressively chic woman, I attended a social event she presented called “Chic Meets Geek” in collaboration with the SF Opera Bravo Club at Pier 38 in San Francisco. They had plenty of VIPs present, a salsa dance performance, and even an a cappella performance by Randi Zuckerberg and friends. I re-ran into plenty of people from BizTechDay there including @EdithYeung, the Executive Producer of BizTechDay 2009 as well as the man “behind the scenes”, Andrzej Buszko. I also bumped back into @ColinAC, the man behind the BizTechDay UStreams (that’s a link to just one of the many seminars during the conference), the BizTechDay photographer, Tim Wagner, and the founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg. I enjoyed Matt’s down-to-earthiness despite him being one of the biggest forces behind blogging as the world knows it today. The party itself was an exercise in contrasts (geek and glam, high culture meets code culture) and made for a surprisingly uncontrollable amount of conversation. Food and drinks were in good supply and it was a stimulating balance between socializing, speakers, and performances.
GOINGS ONS
Besides my current work and various projects, I am also now the intern behind everywun.com ‘s Twitter presence, @everywun. Everywun is a philanthropic startup working to bring more good into the world. I manage the company’s account, grow relevant followers, engage with them through DMs, and keep on top of the latest advancements and uses for Twitter. I believe this will be a great experience and stepping stone towards my ideal work at a tech company someday.
AND YOU…
Two people I know personally are actively looking for new opportunities in their fields:
* A Software Development Manager with 11+ years of extensive software development experience spanning startups to established public companies. Roles have encompassed hands-on development, technical architecture to engineering and project management. He enjoys yoga and meditation.
* A Business Analyst/Project Manager in the computer software industry with demonstrated ability to lead complex projects and full-cycle implementations. He loves helping others.
If you have any interesting stories you’d like to share or events to recommend, please send it along to me and I’d be happy to talk about it in my next email.
I hope you all have a wonderful, wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. Plan your holiday now as there are only 10 days left! As I won’t be going home to Hawaii for the holidays, I will be delivering meals in San Francisco through the Little Brothers organization, SF chapter. You are all of course most welcome to join!
Sincerely, Crystal Chen
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November Blessings
Hello and Happy November everyone!
I hope you all have had a month filled with great opportunities! Since my last email nearly a month ago, I was fortunate enough to come across an abundance of amazing experiences, notably these two:
BIZTECHDAY 2009
I had the good fortune to be able to volunteer as a videographer for BizTechDay 2009, a 2-day business technology conference for small business owners and entrepreneurs. During the opening speech, the speaker spoke of how our country was founded on the principles of small business. He also emphasized that there was no better time in recent decades than now to start a small business. The conference inspired me to delve deeper into my own entrepreneurial ideas and the energy and enthusiasm from everyone speaking and attending elevated my thoughts to a state where I literally woke up days later with an idea for a startup. In typical entrepreneurial style, I have been thinking feverishly through the business plan and reading books pertaining to the particular kind of website and business I want to launch.
CHIC MEETS GEEK
A week after BizTechDay and thanks to Carol Tran, a geeky litigator and an impressively chic woman, I attended a social event she presented called “Chic Meets Geek” in collaboration with the SF Opera Bravo Club at Pier 38 in San Francisco. They had plenty of VIPs present, a salsa dance performance, and even an a cappella performance by Randi Zuckerberg and friends. I re-ran into plenty of people from BizTechDay there including @EdithYeung, the Executive Producer of BizTechDay 2009 as well as the man “behind the scenes”, Andrzej Buszko. I also bumped back into @ColinAC, the man behind the BizTechDay UStreams (that’s a link to just one of the many seminars during the conference), the BizTechDay photographer, Tim Wagner, and the founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg. I enjoyed Matt’s down-to-earthiness despite him being one of the biggest forces behind blogging as the world knows it today. The party itself was an exercise in contrasts (geek and glam, high culture meets code culture) and made for a surprisingly uncontrollable amount of conversation. Food and drinks were in good supply and it was a stimulating balance between socializing, speakers, and performances.
GOINGS ONS
Besides my current work and various projects, I am also now the intern behind everywun.com ‘s Twitter presence, @everywun. Everywun is a philanthropic startup working to bring more good into the world. I manage the company’s account, grow relevant followers, engage with them through DMs, and keep on top of the latest advancements and uses for Twitter. I believe this will be a great experience and stepping stone towards my ideal work at a tech company someday.
AND YOU…
Two people I know personally are actively looking for new opportunities in their fields:
If you have any interesting stories you’d like to share or events to recommend, please send it along to me and I’d be happy to talk about it in my next email.
I hope you all have a wonderful, wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. Plan your holiday now as there are only 10 days left! As I won’t be going home to Hawaii for the holidays, I will be delivering meals in San Francisco through the Little Brothers organization, SF chapter. You are all of course most welcome to join!
Sincerely,
Crystal Chen