The trip to Silicon Valley companies are so inspiring. The speeches from great entrepreneurs lead me to think about business plan more realistic. Probably, US is a free country. People are open to share their opinions. I find some of their views are contradictory to each other.
Innovative business ideal, good market and great team are [...]

I was not very impress with ****** air flights…there was an air steward that was very rude. i asked him for extra immigration forms on board the plane and he replied: “can you please wait” in a very irritated tone..argh…what happened to their services? I asked for water and they forget too…argh…

It was really off [...]

If getting jet lagged meant waking up at 5am, drinking good ol’ A&W root beer while chatting on msn and skyping about how i am a US convert on day 1, then put me on all 15 hours flight to US!

Enthusiasm was the key to keeping me awake; not the brewed dark coffee and not [...]

We, the 3rd batch iLead group finally started our SV trip today after a long flight journey, and it’s a pleasure for us to have Tom as a guide. Our first day is a combination of Stanford tour, Stanford shopping, and talks at Stanford!
                
During the tour, I kept telling myself that this is where [...]

>Day 1 in Silicon Valley really rocks! The sun, the wind, the place and definitely the company made this trip really memorable. The Stanford tour was awesome. The architecture of the school is so pretty and their book store carries so many things. And most importantly, what amaze me is how entrepreneurship is so [...]

Besides the slight jet lag, we definitely had a blast on the 1st day of our study mission.
We spent most of the time today walking around campus @Stanford. We also met a few interesting entrepreneurs today! I would love to say a few words on 2 of them; Casey (Prof Tom’s previous student) and Laina [...]

Today’s the first official day of our iLead trip to the Bay Area. We’ve woken up to a rather cloudy morning but we trust the summer sky that the day will be filled with sunshine and not rain :). We’ll be at the Stanford Oval at the top of Palm Drive in about an hour’s [...]

Stanford University is located in the heart of the Silicon Valley, situated adjacent to the city of Palo Alto. It’s emblem is a tree, unoficially known as the “Stanford Tree”.
Stanford was founded by the Governor of California Lelend Stanford and his wife. It is named in honor of their only child Leland Stanford, Jr., who [...]