Entrepreneurship
I’ll be at SXSWi 2008
For those of you who don’t speak nerd, I’m going to the South-by-Southwest Conference in Austin, TX on Friday (through Tuesday). I’ll be attending the ‘Interactive’ conference which is a lot of people from the internet who think they’re forward thinking, amazing individuals.
In reality, it’s a lot of parties put on by a lot of […]
Watching construction
There’s a multi-story office building going in right next to my light rail station. It’s about 7 stories tall and the structure is largely complete. The light rail stand is level with the third floor.
Nearly everyone waiting at the station watches the construction workers build away. At any given point in time, nearly half of […]
Everyone is a consultant
Penelope Trunk is predicting it: the end of consulting. I agree. I call myself a ‘consultant’ but I realized that all the work I’ve done in the last few years has been, in essence, “consulting.”
I’m not surprised, either. It’s easier than ever to become an expert (Wikipedia, right?) and it’s especially easy to work from […]
Takeaways from Community Next
This weekend was the third iteration of Community Next and it was focused on developing for platforms (in other words: how to make money off of Facebook). I’ve been tossing around some ideas myself and only needed to listen to one or two panels to determine following:
The “bubble” has decentralized. Instead of one big commotion […]
What’s in a name?
Andre wrote an interesting article on naming products yesterday. This is where I step in and argue the opposite: names don’t matter.
I was talking with Chris one morning and we stumbled into an interesting discussion. What do you think of when you hear of some famous company names for the first time?
Burger King and […]
