Technopreneurial.com was founded in August 2000 to disseminate information about Asian technopreneurship. The site was originally created by David Burnett to make publicly available the research from his Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. The fellowship, named after the founder of IBM and awarded by the Watson Foundation, allowed David to conduct the first comprehensive research project on technology entrepreneurship in Asia.

In the course of his research, David focused on the role that technopreneurship has and will play in Asia's economic growth and development. The end-goal of the project is to produce research that can help new and prospective technopreneurs better understand and realize the existing opportunities for technopreneurship and innovation. The research focused on uncovering key strategies for success within the Asian startup and venture capital communities. By analyzing the wisdom and lessons learned by current and new technopreneurs in Asia, David identified strategic insights into the driving forces behind the success of Asian technology entrepreneurs. In addition to recording strategies for success to aid budding entrepreneurs, startups, and venture capitalists, the research also focused on differentiating country-specific obstacles that face local startups; assessing the risk-reward scenarios that face venture capitalists in various Asian countries; highlighting strategies for government agencies that encourage technopreneurship; and providing evidence on the development externalities of entrepreneurship and technology.

Although Technopreneurial.com was originally designed to post the findings from David's research, the site has evolved into a resource for Asian startups. Numerous writers now contribute articles to the site, and new insights and resources are added regularly. The new focus of Technopreneurial.com is to uncover the wisdom of Asia's brightest technopreneurs -- and to provide information about all things technopreneurial. If you have information that you would like to see on Technopreneurial.com, or if you have ideas, articles, or opportunities that you want to share with the Technopreneurial.com community, please let us know.