Asia Futurama - What Next in Our Life?

A copy from my journal in Facebook

Somehow - I strongly believe that we in Asia have an opportunity to build the next Black Swan, a company that in 3-5 years can be as important as Google is being seen today. Keeping a perspective of the future world that we want to create is necessary so that we make the right decisions as we work towards building it. The three key building blocks for my thinking about the future are broadband, mobility and emerging markets. Broadband will enable on-demand, net-native services. Mobility will empower users with computers in their pockets. Much of this future will begin and spread faster in emerging markets because they have very little legacy.

The opportunity lies in putting these building blocks together and creating an ecosystem of focused enterprises which can build out elements of the future. This is what I think of as the Emergic Enterprise Ecosystem. I am trying to have the best of both worlds - be an entrepreneur AND build the ecosystem. Starbay Development Limited is my 1st entrepreneurial endeavour - focused around incubator of mobility and software-as-a-service, with a focus on emerging markets like Southeast Asia. The Emergic ecosystem is about taking some of the other disruptions and getting greater leverage.

I did not start off thinking like this or with a master plan. These ideas have evolved in the past year. My goal is to make a positive difference to the middle- and bottom-of-the-pyramid in emerging markets through the appropriate use of technology. In doing so, I believe we can also build out the next Black Swan from Asia to the rest of the world.

Sample in China, we have one of the world's largest populations. And amongst all the enterprise that Asians have been known for, it will be good to also build one of the world's largest corporations in the next decade. Ambitious, yes. Earlier, it would have taken decades to build the next-generation conglomerates. But now, disruptions provide an opportunity to compress time. Google has become the largest media company (by market capitalisation) in about more than 6 years. We in Asia should set ourselves the goal of doing so in even less. Let us embrace Aggregate and Brainstorm Coming Disruptions, leveraging Entrepreneurship to Focus on building the next Googles.

Hear me, Asia... China...India...Malaysia...Singapore...Indonesia... others?