Hsu Ken Ooi

No one loves their task manager.

For every sufficiently promising technology, companies will claim to be focused on it whether they are or not.

Something clicked recently when thinking about the difference between control, influence and agency.

At the moment, being AI-pilled is the biggest competitive advantage a founder can have.

This is the toughest question founders face, and given the current funding environment, I get it a lot.

All founders are optimists.

At the end of every batch, we ask founders "What was the most valuable part of the program?"

Iterative Winter 2024 is having its Demo Day on tomorrow (Wednesday, 8 May).

I’m looking for a technical co-founder or hiring my first engineer.

It's the end of the year and everyone's doing it so I thought I'd share my top 10 posts of 2023 and my top 5 book recommendations.

A significant portion of a founder’s time and energy is spent convincing people of things.

A startup exists to solve a problem.

Maybe the most common question I get is what do we look for when deciding to invest in startups?

Given something that needs to be built.

[Update] I wrote a new post on this topic here.

Fundraising is one of the most difficult things a founder has to do.

Things that compound are significantly more valuable than things that don't.

For a startup to win, it needs a sufficient number of successes along the way.

Great founders have this uncanny ability to run highly accurate, localized simulations about their business in their heads.

For many, being a founder is the first time they've had to think about product strategy.

A benefit of studying mathematics is that you learn how to describe things and their relationships.

Brian, Hsu Han, and I are starting a YC-style accelerator called Iterative, focused exclusively on Southeast Asia.

Decide.com was acquired by eBay on September 6, 2013.

Decide.com was acquired by eBay on September 6, 2013.