Founder of Startup Weekend and Startup Enthusiast Based in Boulder, Colorado

Archive for October, 2007

Flying Away

Friday, October 12th, 2007 Posted in Thoughts |

In some funny news, the Atlanta Startup Weekend's organizer Lance just wrote a post responding to Paul Graham's latest essay entitled "If you don't live in SF or Boston, you will fail in business." Actually, it is titled "Why ...

No Sleep Until… 6 Companies

Thursday, October 11th, 2007 Posted in Startup Weekend | 4 Comments »

In the next 6 weeks I will be cofounding 6 companies with 3-450 cofounders. What are you up to? West Lafayette (October 12-14) Boston (October 19-21) DC (October 26-28) Chapel Hill (November 2-4) Atlanta (November 9-11) San Francisco (November 16-18) Then Thanksgiving with the family. ...

Startup Weekends Spreading

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 Posted in Startup Weekend |

Exciting times. 14 Startup Weekends will have taken place by the end of the year. One of my favorite things about traveling to the weekends is finding the heart of the community. Chapel Hill, just announced, has ...

Boulder Startup Weekend

Sunday, October 7th, 2007 Posted in Boulder, Startup Weekend | 5 Comments »

I am thinking about January 25-27 or Feburary 8-10 for the next Boulder Startup Weekend. What do we all think?

Flowers

Sunday, October 7th, 2007 Posted in Thoughts | 1 Comment »

I learned 5 important things this week

Saturday, October 6th, 2007 Posted in Boulder, Thoughts |

1) Technology is engaging, addicting and full of fun situations. 2) Compelling stories grow legs. 3) Being angry makes me angry. I much prefer the mountains to an angry phone call, at a 10:1 ratio. 4) Hope sells and people ...

5 Things That Bug Me About New Twitter

Thursday, October 4th, 2007 Posted in Design, Redesign, Twitter | 8 Comments »

I aired my grievances with the 'new twitter' earlier today, and just saw Bryan Veloso tweet about his disliking of the new look as well. Here are the 5 things that bug me. 1) Color It just seems off. The ...

TipDish and Startup Weekend Houston

Monday, October 1st, 2007 Posted in Startup Weekend, exhausted | 2 Comments »

I joked at the opening speech for Houston- "What would be really cool is if someone said came in with a niche need that their company would buy a web application for." I never thought it would actually happen. ...