i tend to agree loudly to this Brian, but my pitch is that if Malaysia
wants to be no.1 Govt has to interfere correctly.
We are not a top world economy. Tun Dr. Mahathir applied that principle
of guided (read interference) very well to put us up there.
No European country has an MDec like ours. It is there to arrest the
slow process (USA took 200 years) of going thru evolution.
We are not going to repeat wars and market crashes to reach where USA is
today. We learnt from their past and thus M'sia has the benefit of
hindsight, and MDec can do wonders if it applys the right pedals to the
right rubber.
I am frustrated with simple stuff:
1. When IAP still features kuailohs instead of us M'sians. This is not
to ask for grants. This is not even to ask for recognition. But this is
just to ask to stop this nonsense of looking up to others that now we
have our own goat and mutton. This is asking for pride where pride is
due. This does wonders if you put some Malaysians up there where their
words can inspire more than just thru the inside pages of TheStar's Intech.
2. MDec asked for help but do not change the rules of the game. Today
the game is fast-changing with its attendant processes to achieve it. We
need not copy and paste from Singapore nor Silicon Valley. Honestly i do
not see any borang gomen that is original. I can show you lots of
principles in used by 1st world nations that are mind boggling. No, not
that i am asking to be deported to those fascinating countries. I am
just asking, 'learn from others in order to overtake them'. Nope, i m
not saying 'copycat them'. I am saying look at the rules. We can change
them well when it comes to us.
In the end, i have a dream:
"Where Malaysia need not follow others to get there. Where Malaysia
dares to break the rules yet is correct in the end. Where Malaysia can
win, win in its own Blue Ocean".
Rafe,
I am still at a lost why you suddenly blow up. I never mentioned your
name. It was Raja Iskandar who hentam more keras than me. I do not even
know that your CEO is who actually. They fill me in. To me i do not care
and i dont want to know. All i want to know is when do you want to get
into the bull ring and score your own KPI of '5 top world class
developers'. I been waiting. waiting since last year. I kept going to
the MDec cafe and sms you hoping to discuss progressively. Remember our
last sit-in last year where Azrul, Raja, Boh and you (with Rozi) was
around and you told me lots of stuff such as "Hacking contest with
USD10k prize" and i pour out free as in no need to pay me ideas - all in
the name of helping u and MDec. I never talk about getting me paid or
make me look good. I talked until hoarse about making Malaysia look good.
Sincerely if you blew up tak tentu pasal again, i am going to personally
go there and kick your ass till the Pau Lady poster drops down.
Don't make this into a personal war cos it is not. Think of our country
together or else fuck it!
On 5/19/10 5:26 PM, BRIAN RITCHIE wrote:
Let me say this. The biggest underlying problem with Malaysian
"Technopreneurs" is the reliance on Gov to provide you with funding.
While I think its great that the Gov gives out such grants, my
personal believe is that they shouldn't. Not at all. To no one, no
matter how great your idea is. This causes the exact situation we r
seeing here where people who get it sometimes abuse it ( or not) and
people who don't whine ( or not ). What happened to the real spirit of
Entrepreneurship ? What happened to starving days and running around
to get your idea across to VCs and selling your services.
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