Archive for October, 2006
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Words of Widsom for Upcoming Web 2.0 Conference
Web 2.0:
For every 1.6 billion dollar buy out, there are 1.6 million start-ups in garages digging their own websites.
Startups 1:
If your target market is the readers of digg, reddit, and delicious then you’re trying to sell shelves to a carpenter. If he really wanted them, he would have built them himself, years [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Humor, Silicon Valley by austin
Monday, October 30th, 2006
Urgent Notice to all Entrepreneurs : It’s Obvious
Every entrepreneur should read Evan Williams post on the birth of Obvious Corp. I had the fun of witnessing Evan introduce Odeo at the TED conference where he did a great job leading to a lot of media coverage. Evan wrote the widely read post Ten Rules for Web Startups back [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Entrepreneurs, Startup Resources by austin
Monday, October 30th, 2006
Crowdsourcing or Community Production - An Interview with Hugh McGuire from Librivox
I’ve been thinking a lot about the differences between organic gift communities that undertake social production and crowdsourcing. I made my previous post on the topic of crowdsourcing a day before I had the pleasure of having lunch with Montreal author, entrepreneur and the first person to utter the word Librivox, Hugh [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Community, Interview by austin
Monday, October 30th, 2006
My apologies to Mr. Robert Herjavec
In my previous post regarding the CBC show Dragon’s Den I used the phrase Polygamous Marriage while referring to the shotgun financings. While reviewing my logs I’ve noticed more then a few visitors to my site were searching for information on Robert’s marital status and somehow found my post.
The Wall St. Journal once mistakenly reported [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Humor by austin
Saturday, October 28th, 2006
Let my packets go …
Many years ago, I dreamt of creating a secure privacy overlay network with implications for free speech and Internet civil rights. While the Freedom Network may be gone - there are great people working on the same issues.
I ran across the great project from the University of Toronto’s - Citizen Lab called [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Internet Freedom by austin
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
Crowdsource this
Miss Rogue’s sadness over the misuse of the term crowdsourcing struck a chord with me.
Lately I’ve been feeling uncomfortable with the term myself. The buzzword is just too closely associated with the concept of sourcing labor for my liking.
Jeff Howe responded to Tara’s post,
Why would it make you sad? What examples of [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Community by austin
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Puff the Magic Dragon, Lives on CBC
I’ve been watching the new CBC show Dragon’s Den, and I’m concerned by the examples being set for any entrepreneurs watching or participating.
Anyone who thinks this show has anything to do with real business angel investing is probably smoking the same stuff as Peter, Paul and Mary.
Now, for those who haven’t [...]
16 Comments » - Posted in Entrepreneurs, Startup Resources by austin
Monday, October 23rd, 2006
Are you a maverick at work? Free Yi-Tan Community Call with Polly LaBarre
I recently picked up Mavericks at Work after reading this interview that Guy Kawasaki did with co-author, Polly LaBarre. I’ve only read the first third of the book, and I can say so far I’m really enjoying it. The authors discussion of how corporate language can shape unique organizational behaviour really struck home.
I normally recommend [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Entrepreneurs, Startup Resources by austin
Friday, October 20th, 2006
I went to Democamp and all I got was a case of unconference fever
I first heard of Barcamp last May right when I was leaving Radialpoint to start my new project. Barcamp and Democamp are some of the fastest growing examples of the unconference tend.
I contacted the primary instigator of the Toronto’s Barcamp/Democamp scene David Crow - who was kind of enough to meet with my partner [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Community, Montreal by austin
Thursday, October 19th, 2006
My inauguaral post speechwriter is on strike
So the blog is ready. My new friend Patrick has done a great job of helping me setup all my plug-ins and pretty up my pages. While Shane and Patrick helped me get the site ready - I was going to be writing a billiant inaugural post.
I was going to write [...]
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