Business of Software Conference 2010.
Patrick Foley was kind enough to interview me for his excellent Startup success podcast. We had a brilliant chat about business, running a small company, Java, marketing, PDF, red handprints, the general Hannibal and a whole lot more. What is it really like to do 42 slides in 42 seconds each? The podcast is lively,…
One of the most profound talks at #Bos2010 was by Joel Spolsky. As well as discussing VCs, he also talked about change. We live in an almost perpetual state of change and generally it is a very good thing. But change can also mean destruction. Craigslist has revolutionised the classified advertising industry and decimated the…
One of the ‘themes’ at #Bos2010 was Frank. Jason Cohen introduced ‘Frank’ as the sales guru he felt that he needed to hire at any cost because he was just a technical guy and sales is some black art known only to these mystic sales gurus… Paul Kenny developed the story, reminding us that Frank…
One of the highlights of Bos2010 for me was the chance to meet Giacomo ‘Peldi’ Guilizzoni, the founder of Balsamiq. He gave a really personal and passionate talk about how he had started out at Adobe and decided that he wanted to setup a business. And what a success it has been – Mockups is…
I am a snob – I like to hang out with intelligent, interesting people. In 2008 I was in two minds about whether to go so I asked the organizer, Neil Davidson, what was the real reason to go. He paused for a moment and then replied “You can get all the information in the…
