After I offered “7 Tips for Encouraging Bloggers to Write About a Conference,” Gabe Moretti, the editor of the DACeZine, asked me to contribute an article on blogging (I guess that could have been my eighth tip). It appeared in the June 26 DACeZine. What follows is a version of the article appropriate for a […]
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Continuing my twitter experiment from April and May I try to select a good quote every couple of days that is applicable to the challenges of entrepreneurship. I collect these quotes for entrepreneurs into a blog post at the end of the month. Enter your E-mail if you would like new blog posts to your inbox.
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It takes a long time to be an overnight success. It’s very important how your tell yourself and others the “story so far” of your entrepreneurial journey.
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I spent the day at Structure 08 and–at the risk of getting too mereologic–felt that the whole was much less than the sum of the parts. The conference was focused on cloud computing which I believe is an important technology trend. They recruited several very good speakers–and many poor, or at least poorly prepared, ones.
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Interesting panel on “Cloud Computing: Creating Value for Web 2.0 Apps” cloud computing tonight at VLAB. Here are a couple of key things I took away: Jonathan Bryce, a co-founder at Mosso, gave the history of Rackspace’s incubation of a new model that can disrupt their existing business. At a starting price of $100 a
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The summer I turned 16 my brother and stayed with my Uncle John and his family in Oregon. I always meant to reconnect with him and then one day he was gone.
Since I am at DAC this week I will use the DAC website as a representative example. Add a blog that allows (moderated) comments and (moderated) trackbacks. DAC: Not yet. Give every session and every event a permalink. DAC: This is actually true for the last seven and a half conferences (back to 37th post
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The emotional ambience at DAC (the Design Automation Conference) is what you get when you pour the excitement of a high school science fair, the sense of the recurring wheel of life from the movie Groundhog Day, and the auld lang syne of a high school re-union, and hit frappe. Some related quotes–at least I
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Two very good CEO speeches I still remember, in each case a good leader put himself in the same boat with the rest of us during tough times.
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A passage from chapter 15 of Jerome K. Jerome’s “Three Men in a Boat” captures the risk that an attitude of perfectionism toward work can hinder startup founders.
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