Terence Pua

Current
Past
  • Founder / Country Manager at Pusit.com / Friendster Philippines
  • Co-founder & CEO at Project Napa, Inc.
  • General Manager & Product Manager at StockMaster.com, Inc.
Education
  • University of Pennsylvania
Connections
137 connections
Industry
Internet
Websites

Terence Pua’s Summary

I specialize in messaging apps, web scraping, text analysis, extraction methodologies, spidering and heuristics + algorithms. I like to turn unstructured data into "actionable" information.

I also like working on the integration of the desktop and the web.

Terence Pua’s Specialties:

Productizing software/online ideas, product development, project management, entrepreneur, playing golf.


Terence Pua’s Experience

  • Co-founder

    Xackup

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

    October 2006Present (2 years 4 months)

    http://xackup.com/

  • Co-founder

    Eskwela.com

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

    April 2006Present (2 years 10 months)

    Co-founded a social directory for Filipino students and alumni. Eskwela means "school" in Tagalog.

  • Founder / Country Manager

    Pusit.com / Friendster Philippines

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

    November 2004October 2006 (2 years)

    A Friendster affiliated company. Worked on pre-paid online / mobile advertising and "social ecommerce" with the Friendster Philippines mobile platform.

  • Co-founder & CEO

    Project Napa, Inc.

    (Internet industry)

    March 2000November 2003 (3 years 9 months)

    Worked on people search engine (Wikipedia meets Facebook) but switched to data mining for the PR industry.

  • General Manager & Product Manager

    StockMaster.com, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

    December 1998February 2000 (1 year 3 months)

    Headed a team of developers to productize new concepts and ideas in the field of online financial services & information. Acquired by Red Herring.

  • Founder

    JustVentures, Inc.

    (Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)

    July 1996December 1998 (2 years 6 months)

    Founded an investment research portal, which StockMaster.com acquired in Dec 1998.

  • Product Marketing Engineer

    Texas Instruments, Inc.

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TXN; Telecommunications industry)

    July 1995July 1996 (1 year 1 month)

    Worked for TI Telecom Business Unit focused on research and marketing in the areas of xDSL and cable modems.


Terence Pua’s Education

  • University of Pennsylvania

    BS, Electrical Engineering, September 1991August 1995

    Four years of fun, drinking and oscilloscopes.

    Activities and Societies:
    CSA, KSA, TSA

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