A brief summary on today's session:

1. The talk given on "growth hacking": The marketing and promotion methods shared by Bjorn are quite amazing. Large amount of investment into marketing is one way, spending almost nothing but try to catch people through various existing sharing channels can be more powerful than I imagined. The approach to popularizing an app is so diverse and is readily available if you invest time and efforts.

2. The story-telling style sharing about start-up is quite interesting. Entrepreneurship is always a hard way to go. Team is ultimately important. Other obstacles and challenges may turn out to be beneficial somehow. Be flexible and agile when creating something by keeping everything as simple as possible. Try to recognize and try your best to correct errors at earliest stage possible. Focus on the product itself to differentiate. Last but least, be well prepared to suffer if ever go into founding a start-up.

At the beginning

The purpose of this blog is to set some target for the coming semester.

The very first target is to challenge myself as much as I can. I really want to see what I can accomplish if I ever try to push myself beyond limit.

Also some concrete targets:
- Get to know more about both the technology side and business side of web applications and explore effective and efficient interaction between the two.
- Try to create application which really serves someone's need and do it well
- Get a deeper understanding of the web-application landscape today so as to understand where we stand and where we shall stand
- Really improve on the hardcore programming skills and learning skills
- Communicate more efficiently and seek to learn from people around

There is a saying "journey is the reward", but I need to have a fulfilling journey first.

千里之行，始于足下。