Humor

Archived Posts from this Category

The world is my scrapbook and this is my canvas

Posted by austin under Blogging, Humor

I like to draw cultural references from all sorts of places to make my posts more fun.

As I pull together source material I have begun to realize that some of the references I use may be dated (I often forget my true age since I either grew up too fast starting companies at an early age or more accurately never grew up and like to pretend that I’m still a kid) either way I realize that many of the people using the Internet today may have no idea who Roman Moroni is - and why his massacre of the of the English language is so funny (from my earlier post No Fargin Iceholes Allowed).

Thanks to the Internet - this is easily fixed. Meet Roman Moroni. (Youtube link for the RSS enabled)

I would be remiss not to include a link to my favorite children’s television show that was my inspiration for my post on community production. For those not familiar with The Electric Company - I was making reference to the fact that with communities you’ve got the power. (YouTube link for the RSS enabled)

As a storyteller - I love how easy it is to tap into the Internet to find resources that help to shape or craft a story.

On Thu 23 Nov 2006. [3] Comments

 

How not to pitch a venture capitalist

Posted by austin under Fundraising, Humor

Respect.

On Wed 15 Nov 2006. No Comments

 

Words of Widsom for Upcoming Web 2.0 Conference

Posted by austin under Humor, Silicon Valley

  • 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 ago.

  • Startups 2:

    If you build it, they might come. If you have a nice website they might stay. If you offer a free service, they might use it. If you’ve gotten this far without thinking about where the cash comes from , you’re in trouble.

    These are among the great words of wisdom I found in a great post from Des Traynor. To this I can only add,

    I refuse to let anyone upgrade me to Web 3.0 this year at Web 2.0. I’m technically running Web 2.0 on Internet 1.0 since Internet 2.0 has been delayed. Attempting to convince me to upgrade to Web 3.0 would be like running Windows Vista on a PDP/11 which everyone knows is not buzzword compliant.

    I’m going to be in San Francisco next week for Tim O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 conference which should be interesting. This will be my first attempt at blogging during a conference. I tend to be very busy meeting people at conferences - so I’ll have to see how productive my posting will be.

    My old team from Radialpoint are sponsoring the conference and will have a team attending. My friends Joi and Roger are speaking and a bunch of friends are going to be in town. It should be a fun show.

    I’d be interested to hear which other Canadians are going to be heading down for the conference. Given I’ve only increased my readership to an estimated 0.00000016 of the Canadian population (well, I’m being generous to myself - I doubt everyone who has visited the site is Canadian) I may just have to run into them down there.

    • On Tue 31 Oct 2006. [4] Comments

     

    My apologies to Mr. Robert Herjavec

    Posted by austin under Humor

    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 my net worth as in the range of $100 million (trust me, it’s never been anywhere near that). Aside from the humorous part of it, my assistant Elizabeth started to get funny phone calls from women inquiring about my own marital status. This was followed shortly thereafter by an email that went like,

    Hey there fuzzy bear, liked the picture of you in the article. If you are ever in the bay area and looking for another grizzly bear to tumble with contact me.

    I don’t know Robert personally, but a quick search shows that he is happily married.

    I don’t want any roaming grizzly bears thinking Robert entertains polygamous intentions :)

    Stephen Colbert is right grizzly bears are dangerous.

    On Mon 30 Oct 2006. No Comments

     

    « Previous Page