A Few Recommendations

Hi,

Now back in New York, I've started to reconnect again to some friends. A
few of them have new ventures that they are starting, so I'm helping to
spread the word.

A friend of mine, Julia Hsu, is starting her own private ophthalmology
practice in Flushing, Queens. She graduated from MIT undergrad and Harvard
Medical School. Here's her office contact info:

Julia Hsu, M.D.
Ophthalmology
136-36 39th Avenue, 6th Floor
Flushing, NY 11354
718-888-9785
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Another friend of mine, Linda Cheung's husband, Peter Chang, is starting
his own private practice in internal medicine in Manhattan, on the upper
East Side on July 1st, 2003. Here's his office contact info:

Peter K. Chang, MD
Internal Medicine & Gastroenterology
12 East 86th Street
New York, NY 10028
Tel: 212-744-6888
Fax: 212-861-1829
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Another friend of mine, Cynthia Cheng, is starting her own wine tasting /
recommendation service. If you are interested in planning a personal or
business event, and would like assistance with the wine selection and menu
matching, you can check out her website. She also organizes monthly wine
tastings. Here's her contact info:

cynthia sin-yi cheng
cyn-et-vin
212-580-1949
thia@cynetvin.com
www.cynetvin.com
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Years ago, while I was in business school, there were several Internet
based networking websites, such as PlanetAll and SixDegrees. Those have
since been bought out or folded. I was just introduced to a new online
networking website called Friendster. Here's their email for inviting
friends to join:

Josh Li has invited you, Josh, to join Josh's personal and private
community at Friendster, where you and Josh can network with each other's
friends.

Friendster is an online community that connects people through networks of
friends for dating or making new friends.

Friendster is for people who are single, people in relationships, and
anyone who wants to make new friends or help their friends meet new people.

You can use Friendster to:

* Meet new people to date, through your friends and their friends
* Make new friends
* Help your friends meet new people

Once you join Friendster, you will be automatically connected to your
friend Josh, and all of Josh's friends.

(If you are already a Friendster member, you were probably invited with a
different email address than you are using with Friendster.)

Click below to join Friendster:
http://www.friendster.com/join.jsp?invite=789591869241

or, http://www.friendster.com/join.jsp?invite=478639

So, even if you are married, if you are interested in networking with other
people, you should check out this website.

Another "online community" website to check out is: www.thesquare.com. It
is for folks who attended some of the top schools in the U.S. This group
hosts networking activities in major cities such as New York, LA, San
Francisco, Boston, Chicago, etc. They also have job postings. Right now,
there is a trivia contest between the alumni of the various schools.
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Finally, here's a QUOTE OF THE DAY, forwarded by Adam Ritter:

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games.
26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've
failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
- Michael Jordan

Have a great summer!

-Josh.

P.S. By the way, many of you have always wondered how I write these emails
addressed to you individually. Well, when I was doing my own startup, I
bought this piece of software called Mail King. It allows me to create
these "personalized" emails.