Internet Entrepreneur
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Co-founder at Xackup
- Co-founder at Eskwela.com
- Past
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- Founder / Country Manager at Pusit.com / Friendster Philippines
- Co-founder & CEO at Project Napa, Inc.
- General Manager & Product Manager at StockMaster.com, Inc.
- Founder at JustVentures, Inc.
- Product Marketing Engineer at Texas Instruments, Inc.
- Education
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- University of Pennsylvania
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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
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Co-founder
Xackup
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
October 2006 — Present (2 years 4 months)
http://xackup.com/
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Co-founder
Eskwela.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
April 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)
Co-founded a social directory for Filipino students and alumni. Eskwela means "school" in Tagalog.
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Founder / Country Manager
Pusit.com / Friendster Philippines
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
November 2004 — October 2006 (2 years)
A Friendster affiliated company. Worked on pre-paid online / mobile advertising and "social ecommerce" with the Friendster Philippines mobile platform.
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Co-founder & CEO
Project Napa, Inc.
(Internet industry)
March 2000 — November 2003 (3 years 9 months)
Worked on people search engine (Wikipedia meets Facebook) but switched to data mining for the PR industry.
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General Manager & Product Manager
StockMaster.com, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
December 1998 — February 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.
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Founder
JustVentures, Inc.
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)
July 1996 — December 1998 (2 years 6 months)
Founded an investment research portal, which StockMaster.com acquired in Dec 1998.
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Product Marketing Engineer
Texas Instruments, Inc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TXN; Telecommunications industry)
July 1995 — July 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
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University of Pennsylvania
BS, Electrical Engineering, September 1991 — August 1995
Four years of fun, drinking and oscilloscopes.
- Activities and Societies:
- CSA, KSA, TSA
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STIRR
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Y Combinator News Group
Terence Pua’s Contact Settings
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