Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008
A Conversation with Sir. Ken Robinson @ TED 2007
One of my favorite talk at TED in recent years was Sir. Ken Robinson’s talk during TED 2006 on how our education system is many times failing to equip children with the tools they need for creativity.
This was particularly relevant to me since I was one of those children who was most often getting sent [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in General by austin
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Stephen Hawking looses some weight with a flight on Zero Gravity
Peter Diamandis who among his many pursuits was the founder of the X-Prize Foundation just took the stage at TED 2008 and spoke about how he helped organize a weightless experience flight on his Zero Gravity adventures for Stephen Hawking.
It was an incredible short story about how Stephen loved the experience and although they were [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Conference by austin
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Roy Gould - Worldwide Telescope demo @ TED 2008
Originally more famous for tripping on Scoble’s tear jerker switch and much anticipated leading up to TED.
Roy Gould yesterday demonstrated the Worldwide Telescope. It should now be much more famous for the actual project and the TED video which is now available for everyone to see.
No Comments » - Posted in Conference by austin
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Understanding why TED is so special
A lot of conversations in the blog-us-phere are occurring about the TED conference. Sometimes with appreciation & envy, often times with curiosity about what occurs behind the great videos people have seen online, and at times with a little disdain at the idea of an elitist self-congratulatory meet-up for rich people & celebrities (not a [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Conference, Social Web by austin
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Who’s Twittering from TED
TED is my favorite conference of the year. It’s influenced a lot of what we are doing at our new project Akoha and is the highlight of my conference season.
I’ve arrived at TED and have been tracking who is on Twitter while at TED.
For my friends who are following my TED twitter feed, I [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Conference, Tools by austin
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Angels come out to hit on young entrepreneurs - Les Anges Financiers is Thursday Feb. 28th
Despite the cold weather, Montreal is hot for young entrepreneurs. La Jeune Chambre de Commerce will this Thursday the 28th of February host its 13th edition of Les Anges Financiers. This fast paced evening will give a unique chance to some lucky selected Start-Ups to show off their talent in front of the Montreal Angel [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Angel Financing, Fundraising, Montreal by austin
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
How many Angels can dance on the head of a pin? Ice Angels Uniting in Canada
Instead of trying to answer the Aquinas like epistemological question of how many angels fit on the head of a pin, this post is about the changes that are occurring in the Canadian angel community for high-tech startup funding.
For a community of angel investors to be effective, there needs to be a density of [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Angel Financing, Canada Tech Scene, Entrepreneurs, Fundraising by austin
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Akoha is coming out from behind our curtain
My readers know that my partner Alex and I’ve been working on a company called Akoha with a great team. We’ve been working in quiet on something that that we’ll be launching later this year.
The entire Akoha team are proud to be able to start to pull back the curtains on some of what we’ve [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Akoha, Grass Root Conversations by austin
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
New Akoha Career Site powered by Standout Jobs
I liked it so much, I bought the company.
- Victor Kiam
Ok, well I didn’t buy the company, but I am an investor and co-founder of Standout Jobs. At Akoha we are also proud customers of Standout Jobs.
My involvement in the company was based on my own experiences with hiring, promoting jobs, managing the difficult task [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Akoha, Standout Jobs, Startup Resources, Talent Search by austin
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Follow the DEMO brick road - Standout Jobs launch wrap up
The road to DEMO 08 is paved with a lot of hard work.
I had forgotten how much work, until I was able to see the Standout Jobs team firing on all fronts to get ready for their 6 minutes on stage, get RECEPTION (our service) launched and get their customers prepared to launch with [...]
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