Starting up in Silicon Alley (Session in Web2.0open)
Part of what I love about the Web2.0 NYC this year is the Web2.0open (a barcamp type event right in the middle of the sales floor). This afternoon, a session took place about “Starting up in Silicon...
View ArticlePodCampAZ 08 Recap
PodCampAZ is a great example of the way to do a conference, unconference or not. They did a fantastic job. It was just as fun as the stories I heard about last year. Evo Terra and Brent Spore lead an...
View ArticleThe Perceived Funding Crisis
Verbose talk about funding in the last week. Gary Vaynerchuk said we are at a unique time: nobody has money, the playing field is level. In a panel on ‘The Startup Climate‘ at the AZ Entrepreneurship...
View ArticleTen Tables of Four Please – A Modest Proposal
Along with all my travel, I go to a lot of group dinners; usually around 40 people. At these dinners, generally, there are quite a few social media folks and people in startups (no one person is going...
View ArticlePodCamp Boulder
PodCamp is an unconference around new media. If you have never been to one, make a point to go. The most creative and passionate conversations I have ever have taken place at these types of events....
View ArticleOpen Source Bridge in Portland This Summer
Portland will be hosting the Open Source Bridge Conference June 17-19th 2009. The card says it is ‘connecting developers across projects, languages and backgrounds.’ Also of note, this being planned...
View ArticleWhy Speakers Shouldn’t Be Paid
Hey there, about to stick my head up here and get shot at, but I had some interesting converstaions this weekend and feel like someone should post them. Conference speakers should not be paid. Woah....
View ArticleThe Death of Modern Conferences, Review of Boulder Startup Week
Last week we tried a little experiment out. We planned a conference that was 100% distributed, 100% volunteer, 98% free and open (one event had tickets that went to charity). We called it Boulder...
View ArticleFOO Camp 2010- A Humble Recap
FOO Camp, an ‘unconference’ yearly held in Sebastopol, California. What is FOO? Friends Of O’Reilly. Started in 2003 it seems to have been a really good excuse to get all the smart people that work...
View ArticleShould All Speakers be Curated from the Community?
If you hang out with enough speakers, you’ll end up hearing this (dreaded) line: “I only go to events I speak at.” To me, this is a selfish and borderline exploitative take on the role played by a...
View ArticleThere Needs to be A Startup Community Code of Conduct
I was having coffee with Niel Robertson in Melbourne this week and we were looking at the startup community down here and sharing stories about what we have seen and what we love about it. There is a...
View ArticleParallel 18 Accelerator Program in Puerto Rico
I just was at the launch party for Parallel 18 which is an accelerator program in San Juan, Puerto Rico! It was an amazing trip and fun to visit San Juan for the first time. The city has this odd...
View ArticleEvents I’m Excited for at Boulder Startup Week 2016
Boulder Startup Week is next week! That is amazing and we have over TWO HUNDRED free and open events for our amazing community. If you are new to BSW here is the quick pitch: I created my perfect...
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