Author: Tony Tam
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link: INBOUND 2015 Keynote: Seth Godin
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kGFyrVgUPk&w=560&h=315]
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Dear Yelp, you could be so much more
Dear Yelp, I am writing to you as a small business owner as well as a loyal foodie using your app to find great places to eat. I have rated over 100 small businesses, most restaurants. I manage the digital infrastructure of 2 restaurants in the Bay Area and the Yelp for Business Owner pages. Everyone has…
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link: Pebble Watch
https://medium.com/backchannel/pebble-is-trying-to-run-circles-around-apple-a87d96590d3 – Tony Tam
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Goodbye dropbox.com, hello box.com
2018 update: Now I have box.com for long term storage, dropbox for daily syncs update: box.com is not doing any better either after my switch. The box.com sync app hung and I had to kill it. Recently the dropbox.com sync app on my Mac has been chewing up 100% of my CPU causing my machine…
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link: Ben Evans on blogging ‘Platforms, distribution and audience’
Platforms, distribution and audience http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/9/14/distribution-and-audience – Tony Tam
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Tech Businesses That Are Unprofitable Need To Ask The Hard Questions
Even though I work in high tech, I don’t really understand business that loose money during their entire existence. How can that be a business? I invest in a restaurant that is luckily profitable after 1 year. We offer a product people value and are willing to pay for. We have investors who want to…
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Learning Unconditional Love From My Mother
We are celebrating my mom’s 74th birthday today. She is a medical licensed pediatrician in China. When my family immigrated to the United States in 1980, her medical degree was not recognized here in the states and she lack the basic English to be medical doctor here. She took on a job as a seamstress…
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Has Lyft and Uber Disrupted The Restaurant Employment Market?
After owning the I Prive restaurant for over a year and helping run the digital infrastructure as well as posting job openings on Craigslist, I have a theory that a lot of people who used to work part time at restaurants are now working as drivers for Lyft or Uber. The hours are probably more…
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Performance On The Badminton Court Is 50% Mental Game
I have played badminton for half my life. Four years in high school, four years for the UC Berkeley club, then I picked it up again very seriously trained and competed for 3 years and now I play for fun with my co-worker and near my house. I love playing of course because of…
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Movie want to see: East Side Sushi
quoted from synopsis East•Side Sushi introduces us to Juana, a working-class Latina single mother who strives to become a sushi chef. Years of working in the food industry have made Juana’s hands fast—very fast. She can slice and dice anything you throw at her with great speed and precision. Forced to give up her fruit-vending…