A Critical Look into the Most Important But Deficient Skill in the 21st Century TL;DR If you have been reading my work, it’s probably because you care about the topics I write about. You read because you believe I may have some important insights from my domain of expertise (Technology), that…

and the 13 Reasons Why — Prelude I’ve been seeing a lot of arguments in my social feeds recently about which software stack is the best. These arguments usually revolve around performance, ease of use and community backing for a specific stack. It is important to point out that there is no such thing as a perfect…

Understanding the key components that drive the service marketplace. — People tend to go all in into a business, often times not fully understanding the mechanism that govern the marketplace. In this article, I want to explore the dynamics of starting a service based business. It is often said that people don’t buy drills because they need a drill. People…

Perspective on disruptive ideas, and where to go next. — Prelude At RedSquare, we often get many requests to build digital products for “startup” founders. Most times we don’t end up taking the project because they approach us with no funding and no validation. Repeatedly, they come to us thinking their ideas is so valuable that the only thing standing between…

A Reflection on Product Teams & Lessons Looking Forward Prelude One of the hardest things about building a startup is building a product team. Upon raising hundreds of thousands of Ringgit, startups especially in Malaysia find it hard to find product-market fit. This is essentially caused by underestimating the importance of…

With every tech startup founder I’ve spoken to in the last 3 months, there seems to be a unanimous concession that the most recent fresh graduate/intern batch of software developers are the worst ever. This happening in a time where the cost of going to universities is at its highest…

We’re living in a time where founding a startup has been easier than ever, with open source technologies dramatically lowering down the cost of digital product development and with access to capital being abundant. However, it is easy to underestimate the ability and the cost of tech team to create…