Archive for March, 2007
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
DemocampMontreal2 Tonight
DemocampMontreal2 is tonight. We have some visiting guest in from out of town including some great guest presenters and my friend, angel investor and tech entrepreneur Patrick Lor.
This week at Democamp the following presenters will be demonstrating tonight at 6:30 at the SAT.
It promises to be a great night and the SAT is opening the bar, so [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Canada Tech Scene, Community, Conference by austin
Friday, March 23rd, 2007
Hiring with your heart on your sleeve
The number one job of any leader is talent development. Recruiting, retaining, equipping and developing the talent in your team is the not only the most critical part of creating a successful company it is also the hardest.
Raising financing takes time. Dealing with customers, partners and earning revenue takes time. Working on product and getting any of the [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Akoha, Entrepreneurs, Leadership, Startup Resources, Talent Search by austin
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Microsoft Seadragon, PhotoSynth and Virtual Earth 3D demo with Adam Shepard at TED 2007
One of the demo’s at TED 2007 that really impressed everyone was from Adam Shepard and Microsoft Research. I wrote about the Seadragon and Microsoft Virtual Earth demo from the conference, but I also got to sit down with Adam during the conference and get a demo on film.
This is impressive stuff that is visually [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Conference, Interview by austin
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Democamp & BarcampCalgary instigated
During my recent trip to Calgary my friends Patrick Lor, Claudia Moore & Sarah Blue from Cambrian House and Kemptom Lam helped me organize a local blogger dinner where I got to meet some great local entpreneurs, Calgary social media & tech folks.
In attendance where Patrick Lor, Sarah Blue, Claudia Moore, David Gluzman, Tom West, Jasmine Antonick, Matthew Dorey, [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Blogging, Canada Tech Scene, Community by austin
Monday, March 19th, 2007
An Interview with Mr. Craig Silverman who Regrets the Error
I’ve had the pleasure to work closely with my friend Craig Silverman for more than five years starting while he was part of the media relations team at Zero-Knowledge Systems and then when we worked together on various projects since then.
As part of my continuing series of interviews with members of the Canadian technology scene [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Blogging, Canada Tech Scene, Interview by austin
Friday, March 16th, 2007
Is Twitter like Tribbles for the Internet?
I admit it. I heart my Twitter. It’s fun and is forming a new way to keep in touch with my friends as I engage in an informal back channel conversation occurring throughout the day.
You can follow my Twitter conversations here - http://twitter.com/austinhill
I don’t find it distracting, with just an IM window quietly [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Blogging, Community, Tools by austin
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Calgary Blogger Dinner Thursday March 15th
It’s short notice, but I’m in Calgary doing some business and visiting family until Friday and was speaking with some local friends & bloggers who expressed some interest in organizing a blogger dinner.
Shel Israel (co-author of Naked Conversations) was talking to me on Monday about how he and co-author Robert Scoble have met bloggers around the [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Canada Tech Scene, Community by austin
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Tesla Rocks
I got to check out the new Tesla Motors vehicle which they had on display at the TED conference. Electric candy that makes you go hmmmm. I recently got rid of a toy, but this certainly got me thinking. Potholes in Montreal and a lot of investing in my current startups puts this [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Personal by austin
Friday, March 9th, 2007
Giving birth to a new dream - Akoha
I’ve heard the process of naming a company is often compared to naming a child.
I don’t have any children yet, but I’ve been through the naming process with more then ten companies (including spin offs, rebranding, as an investor, founder or advisor) and in the last six months have been involved in the naming of [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Akoha, Personal, Startup Resources by austin
Friday, March 9th, 2007
TED 2007 conversations
One of my favorite highlights of TED are the conversations with the incredible people who attend. David Hornik, who before becoming VC extrodinaire and gracing the pages of Business 2.0 (check your current issue) was my lawyer and mentor when I first went to the Valley, organizes a great dinner party every year with his [...]
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