Passion and Tech: Why Philippines is Emerging as Silicon Valley of Asia

Passion and
Technology
Innovation:
Why the Philippines is
Emerging as the Silicon
Valley of Asia
Dream, Work Backwards, build teams, ignore
rockstars… oh yea be random and make sure to fail
lots of times.

kevin@startupdragons.com

We have enough
people telling us
how bad it is…

Kevin Leversee

On the Field of Self
stand a knight and a
Dragon, you are the
Knight Resistance is the
Dragon.
–Stephen Pressfield

Kevin Leversee

Whatever
you can
Dream you
can do.

Kevin Leversee

Scar tissue
is stronger
than regular
Scar Tissue is
skin, realize
the strength
– move on.
Stronger than
-Henry
Rollins
normal skin…

Kevin Leversee

Kevin Leversee

Train like
a boxer…
Kevin Leversee

Resources or
Resourcefulness?
Kevin Leversee

Teacher: what are you drawing?
Little Girl: God!
Teacher: well no one knows what
God looks like!
Kevin Leversee
Little Girl: Well they will in a
minute!

We will have 100years of
technology evolution by 2025.
Kevin Leversee

Nature is wasteful
Out of 10 Million eggs
Only Kevin Leversee make it.
ten will

Small
World
Math
6 Degrees
Kevin Leversee

六四事件
Kevin Leversee

"Nobody ever discussed
politics ever." They paused &
added, "Well, except online,
of course. We all discussed
politics online.“
–Egyptian man after revolution

Kevin Leversee

tsunami & ideas
once unleashed
are unstoppable

Kevin Leversee

Do you want to sell sugared water for
the rest of your life or do you want to
change the world?
-Steve Jobs
Kevin Leversee

The Internet demands that we notice. It illuminates
that which we least want to see. It shows many of our
youth struggling and hurting and crying out for help. Of
course, the Internet does not do this by itself. It does it
because we’re looking. But we’re not seeing. We’re
giving agency to the Internet so that we can blame it for
what it reveals, rather than forcing ourselves to
contend with what we see.

At the end of the day, the Internet is not the issue.
The issue is us.

Citation: boyd, danah and Alice Marwick (2009). “The Conundrum of Visibility.”

Kevin Leversee

About Kevin Leversee:
Called the ‘Apostle of Hustle’ Kevin has
been building Mobile Social and Web
Business for over 15 years in 5
countries. Once voted Australia’s Top
Technology is the enabler of 60 Startups, Kevin now focuses on
business not its purpose.
helping others get ideas to market. He
@kevinleversee
speaks and teaches at leading
kevin@startupdragons.com technology and innovation events.
American Expat adopted by both
Australia and Philippines. Is a Excited
Father and family man He loves:
#Mexican Food #Music #Innovation
#Ocean #Beer in no particular order.
Kevin Leversee

Sources:
This Quotes mulltiple sources regarding Tiananmen The Internet Dissent and Technology Capabilities
http://globalcitizen.net/Data/Pages/1155/papers/20090209145414862.pdf
This is one of the leading sources about the technology used in Tiananmen 1989 and what that meant for our future
http://www.mendeley.com/research/political-economy-tiananmen-square/

http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv-reviews/as-it-happened-tiananmen-square--the-tank-man/2008/05/15/1210765032939.html
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/tank-man/ Documentary about the June 1989 Tiananmnet uprising

Wikipedia on the June 1989 Tiananmen uprising http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989
Media Used to report 1989 Tiananmen Square http://www.waccglobal.org/en/19972-communication-and-national-identity/933-Crippling-Government-
Information-Control-in-China-The-Role-of-new-media-technologies*--.html
Fax Machines and Networks in 1989 how Chinese used during Tiananmen http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2009/06/03/tiananmen-square-and-technology/
http://legendofpineridge.blogspot.com/2006/10/china-internet-and-tiananmen-square.html Internet use to communicate Tiananmen

2004 viewpoint on social media and how internet plays a role in Tiananmen and more
http://many.corante.com/archives/2004/06/04/fifteen_years_after_tiananmen_massacre_will_the_internet_be_the_new_hope.php
Interview with Tank Man Photographer http://asianhistory.about.com/od/china/a/WidenerIntervw.htm
Internet Use in China 1989 and as it relates to Tiananmen http://www.vsw.org/exhibitions/Result_ZERO/G_Yang.pdf
Impact of Pro Democracy movement in China 1989 http://ebookee.org/The-Impact-of-China-s-1989-Tiananmen-Massacre-China-Policy-Series_1328063.html
Internet use and Culture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#Use_and_culture
open communications (fax and e-mail) are widely thought to have helped to bring down the Soviet military coup in
1991. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5064
Arab Uprising http://www.channel4.com/media/images/Channel4/c4-news/FEB/23/Graphic_ArabWorld_unrest.jpg
A personal political blog regarding arab uprising and more http://marisacat.wordpress.com/category/democrats/lie-down-fall-down-dems/
Internet as a tool for social development http://www.net4dev.se/uimonen/INET97.htm
Chinese computer networks established e-mail links to the Internet as early as the late 1980’s
Chinese youth using web for revolution http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/7/chinas-young-using-the-internet-as-a-tool-for-revo/?page=all
Detailed and quoted amongst multiple sources as the use of Internet and network technologies during Tiananmen Square
http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/ogandy/c734%20resources/kluver-uschinapolicyexpectationsinternet.pdf
MIT report on the Arab Uprisings and technologies used http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/guest/27122/
People Powered Movement and the Arab Spring how technology levels the playing field http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/guest/27122/
We are all Khaled Sain = the facebook page after Khaled Sain was murdered by police in their custody for posting pics of police brutality and corruption that
started the Egyptian Movement http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/world/middleeast/06face.html?_r=1

Kevin Leversee

Sources:
Watse is good http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2009/06/waste-is-good-free-excerpt-in-wired.html

40 years after the moon http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/tag/moon-landing/

Killing Rommel start of special forces http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004PGO25O/ref=as_li_ss_tl/?ie=UTF8&tag=thecompaadvan-
20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=B004PGO25O
and killing the resistance dragon http://youtu.be/zHjxQmxZDuA

Lighting homes with recycled soda bottles http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2011/0822/Used-soda-bottles-light-up-the-
world-for-free
Randomness and failing fast Cory Doctrow http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2008/05/cory-doctorow-think-like-dandelion.html
Sell sugar water or change the world? http://lci.typepad.com/leaders_resourcing_leader/2008/06/selling-sugar-water-or-changing-the-world.html

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/03/02/dunbar-interview/ About the 150 cognitive limit on relationships
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Granovetter s leading social scientist that formulated both small worlds thru short paths and weak ties
tter/documents/granstrengthweakties.pdf about weak tieies in social groups and clustering with close ties
http://www.analytictech.com/networks/weakties.htm interesting follow up on Granovetters work
http://smg.media.mit.edu/classes/library/granovetter.weak.ties/granovetter.html more
http://www.danah.org/papers/ A true pioneer in the social networking and new media space

http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/visualizing-friendships/469716398919 good stuff for mapping social net

Network Centric WarFare how small world math translates into http://www.dsto.defence.gov.au/research/4051/page/4403/

Small world Exercise from Cornell University talks specifically how ideas spread, randomness dramatically decreases the degre es of separation
http://pages.physics.cornell.edu/~myers/teaching/ComputationalMethods/ComputerExercises/SmallWorld/SmallWorld.html

Small world networks, all organic networks are the same math 6 degrees or less, randomness is good.;
http://scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com/search/label/SmallWorlds
Physics and http://pages.physics.cornell.edu/~myers/teaching/ComputationalMethods/ComputerExercises/SmallWorld/kleinberg_small_world_hand out.pdf
Social and Biological network structure shows how ideas spread thru small world math= this is important as it ties in meme’s political uphevals and is the math
behind what is happening in our world today http://aps.arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0112110/

Kevin Leversee

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