Archive for January, 2006
During my time as a computer consultant, working with clients to clarify their software goals (or their website development goals for that matter), I had this conversation more often than I care to remember. This is very funny (or painful) to any of us who have ever worked in the field.
In a stroke of brilliance, Yahoo is now buying companies before they are even founded. This definitely wins best parody of the month. Or is it even a parody?
I wonder if any researchers have done the analysis to see how much overlap there is between Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the personality traits that are actually useful for succeeding as an entrepreneur. My guess is that these are not pathologies…but prerequisites!
It took me 2 hours to write up the meeting notes, half an hour to fix the bullets that weren’t working because of the lousy text editor in Writely (where my friends and I were collaborating on the notes), 1 minute to find out that Writely can not actually post the article to my blog, [...]
I attended the Ready to Rocket 2006 session this morning, which was sponsored by Rocketbuilders , a Vancouver based market strategy and consulting firm that helps technology companies capitalize on market opportunities.
The presentation started with an overview of the successes from 2005. Next, Geoff Hansen presented an IT Outlook for 2006. This was followed by [...]
It’s that time of year again. If you are an investor willing to invest in startups, or an investor seeking between $100,000 and $1 million, registration is now open for the 19th Annual Angel Forum, hosted by Bob Chaworth-Musters. I’ll let speak for himself:
Current Angel investor preferences are for both tech and non-tech companies [...]
