First, a great post from Tim Ferris’s blog on the “Transition Curve” of being at a startup (written by Cameron Herold).
Stage 1: The first stage of the concept is called “Uninformed Optimism”
Stage 2: The second stage is called “Informed Pessimism”
Stage 3 – The third stage is called “Crisis of Meaning”
Stage 4 – Informed Optimism.
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I am very excited about this event.
From the site:
The Boulder tech scene is growing like crazy. Twenty of our top tech startups (you can see a few in the sidebar) have banded together to fly in one hundred top software developers, programmers and engineers from across the country, all expenses paid.
So if you are a [...]
Walking around TechCrunch50 today I saw quite a few pitches. I think I can simplify what makes the pitches bad down to this (incorrect) theory:
Investors are drunk party girls at closing time at the bar.
Bad pitches usually come from thinking this.
So:
If you want to get busy with an investor between the term sheets:
Don’t pretend you [...]
So here is my humble attempt using a pocket cameras movie feature.
<3 Molekins + Flowers + Guns
All this talk about 2008 and what it will be, here are 2 things that would make my life a whole lot more enjoyable.
1) Agency for freelancers. Provide the contracts and negotiate so designers can do what they love. This is a huge problem for most every designer I have met.
2) Gift [...]
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