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Sam has started and managed 3 high growth businesses in the last 8 years. As the co-founder of Optimal Usability, Optimal Workshop and Optimal Experience he understands the practical realities of running global businesses. With a passion for working with smart people on interesting projects, Sam went from sharing a desk with his co-founder to becoming the 27th fastest growing business in New Zealand.
Shirley is actively involved in Emerging Markets Entrepreneurs (EME), a business incubator in Cambodia. In addition, she is promoting the growth of women-owned enterprises in Cambodia and Vietnam through the Mekong Women’s Entrepreneurship Challenge, a program funded by infoDev (World Bank). Shirley stems from a background in finance, starting her career in investment banking and subsequently working in private equity for a sovereign wealth fund. She maintains particular interest in the role that private sector plays in the sustainability of emerging and developing economies.
Based in Perth Western Australia, Marcus is the Managing Partner of Future Health Ventures, an angel fund investing in Health Technology Startups.
With both a medical and management background, Marcus works actively with Future Health's portfolio companies, currently acting as the CEO and Medical Director of HealthEngine, Australia's largest online medical directory and health appointment search engine.
Marcus supports the tech startup eco-system as an organiser of Startup Weekend Perth, Silicon Beach West, Aurelius Digital (an angel investor dinner series) and is the founder of Sync Labs, Western Australia's first tech startup community co-working space.
Marcus has experience as a management consultant, and sits on several private and not-for-profit boards which supports his interest in venture philanthropy and social enterprise.
Coordinator of McKinsey Mekong Business Plan Challenge - Lecturer - University of Puthisastra (UP) - Phnom Penh
* Pionier of the internet in cambodia
* Open Forum first email service in Cambodia (1996)
* Bigpond first ISP in Cambodia (joined in 1998)
* Online first broadband provider (2001)
* Sabay first Online Game provider (2007)
* 20 years programing experience
Kunthy is the General Manager at Digital Divide Data. Kunthy helped build the company from a small data entry team with a few thousand dollars revenue to $300k for FY11
Pakk has more than 10 yrs experiences in IT Engineer, Executive, and Management.
His carrier background has been working with Mobile Network Operators for both local and international Company
Sopheap Seng is the Head of the Department of Computer Science at the Institute of Technology of Cambodia
Tony is an Information Management Specialist at the US Embassy. He holds a bachelors in Computer Engineering and a masters in International Studies. His experience includes software development, IT and project management.
Lim Cheng Soon is an entrepreneur, designer, and developer. He is the founder and curator of Hacker Monthly — the print magazine of Hacker News and one of the most prominent magazine among programmers. Before that, he had built and sold several online businesses. He is based in Malaysia, and travels all over the world with his wife.
Startup Weekend Cambodia will be giving a FREE Lean Startup and Business Model Canvas training session at Hackerspace Phnom Penh on Saturday 19th May @ 2pm. If you are new to business or an experienced entrepreneur wanting to know about some of the latest approaches to launching successful tech businesses then this session is for [...]
If anyone is interested to learn more about Startup Weekend and the event here in Cambodia, please come along to the FREE session being held at Hackerspace Phnom Penh on one of the following dates (both sessions will be the same): Saturday 5th May, 2pm – 4pm Tuesday 8th May, 6pm – 8pm The location [...]
Last year, in 2011, Cambodia hosted it’s first Startup Weekend and the winner of that event was a team called “SMS Dating”. What has happened to them since? Startup Weekend Cambodia caught up with the founder David Wilkie. Are you still called SMS Dating? No, we renamed to Chibi and we are online here: chibitxt.me [...]
Here’s a list of the projects being built at Cambodia Startup Weekend this weekend. Attendees – this is also the order of the Sunday pitches: SuperFAQ A SAAS for keeping track of your websites FAQ. Maintain, promote and keep track of popular questions using built-in analytics. SMSDate A service that allows users to anonymously setup [...]
Here is a rough guide to help you to prioritize what to do during this weekend: Friday Evening Map MVP Identify your customer Agree on weekend deliverables Saturday Morning Refine MVP Market research Start BUILDING your product / prototype! Saturday Afternoon Customer Validation (Facebook, Twitter, Surveys, A/B split tests) Keep BUILDING your product [...]
Saturday 3rd September @ 2pm Location: HackerSpace Phnom Penh This is the sixth in a series of ‘Mini Startup Weekend’ events that we are holding between now and the big event on 9th September 2011. Preamble The purpose of this event is to act as a last minute Q & A session before Cambodia Startup [...]
This is a guest post from Duncan Murtagh who recently completed Startup Weekend in Taipei ! Like Cambodia will shortly, Taipei hosted its very first Startup Weekend on August 12-14. My team built and Idea Management System called Vetter. We came in 2nd. Here’s some Startup Weekend tips, with a few specially tailored for a [...]
Saturday 20th August @ 2pm Location: HackerSpace Phnom Penh This is the fifth in a series of ‘Mini Startup Weekend’ events that we are holding between now and the big event on 9th September 2011. Preamble Do you get nervous before giving a presentation? Do you worry even more when the audience is important? Let’s [...]
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