Viralogy

The team at Viralogy wishes everyone a very happy New Year. To celebrate the start of 2010, we decided to put together a list of New Year’s Resolutions from our team, and share both our personal and professional goals. After having had a successful 2009 full of growth and change (Viralogy Year in Review), we look forward to a prosperous 2010. We wish you all the best, and would love to hear your own New Year’s Resolutions in the comments below.

Yu-kai Chou (Co-Founder & CEO)

Personal Goal: Lose 20 pounds.
Professional Goal: Raise $2M for Viralogy and get to sustaining revenue.

Jun Loayza (Co-Founder & CMO)

Personal Goal: I want to maintain a healthy and happy relationship with my girlfriend Kim Ear. We’ve been together for over two years now and have never spent more than a week away from each other. I have never been a fan of the long distance relationship, but to be honest, Kim is definitely worth it. I know it’s going to take a lot of sacrifices on both our parts to make it work, but I’m confident that Kim and I will be able to stay together throughout my new startup journey in 2010.
Professional Goal: 1. Make a sale of our new analysis product/API during March 2010
2. Get $1,000,000 in funding by June 2010

Olina Qian (VP of Business Development)

Personal Goal: Utilizing the 80-20 rule to get work done more productively, yet enjoy life to the most. Trying to stay healthy and stay happy!
Professional Goal: Raise 1 Million for Viralogy. Continue extending my border of network while build up Viralogy’s Ecosystem.

Joseph Yi (Director of Marketing)

Personal Goal: 1) Run 6 miles a week.
2) Write 4+ blog posts a week (Viralogy, Personal, other sites).
3) Enjoy year 7 with my girlfriend.
Professional Goal: 1) Learn Photoshop.
2) Close 4 long-term corporate accounts for Viralogy consulting.

Jaremy Rich (Director of Business Development)

Personal Goal: I look forward to getting married to my wonderful fiancee, Sarah in 2010. I also hope to continue working to get into better shape. Lastly, I’d like to get my money’s worth out of the products I use this year, and improve my photography skills.
Professional Goal: I want to make sure that Viralogy offers the most relevant, interesting, and useful analytics package to its customers as possible. I will do everything I can to help Viralogy improve its services each day.

Joseph Hsu (Web Designer & Developer)

Personal Goal: 1) Make going to the gym a habit (even though it seems to be on everyone’s list… every year)
2) Take time off just to mess around in Photoshop like the old days
3) Help someone find their passion
4) Deploy a Facebook app (or revive an old one)
Professional Goal: 1) Learn another programming language
2) Improve workflow
3) Help build an awesome API

Ekta Shah (Social Media Analyst)

Personal Goal: 1) Go to Gym regularly. Not to be a slacker.
2) Keep writing nice blogs and read good books. Finish the books from the list.
3) Do lot of paintings.
4) Be nice to my Hubby!!
Professional Goal: 1) Learn scripting and front end designing.
2) Make Viralogy successful.
3) Finish technical reading.
4) Work smart, not hard.