Boulder AWS Anonymous held its first meeting last week, and there were eleven attendees despite the fact that the meeting had been inadvertently scheduled at the same time as Obama’s inauguration. Attendees represented a wide variety of uses and potential uses of Amazon Web Services, ranging from hosting popular websites and application development to load …
Eric Marcoullier of Gnip has set up an email list exclusively for local startup executives. Here’s who’s eligible to join: 1. Your company must be funded (at least some angel money) 2. C-level and VP level folks only; and 3. Open to all verticals, not just IT / Internet, etc. There are already 70+ on …
Kudos to Cameron Robertson and the other organizers for kicking off an on-campus web developers club at CU. The first meeting of DIV, CU’s new student web development club, is taking place on January 28th at 6pm in the Bechtel Collaboratory (check out http://cudiv.com for full details). DIV was created to foster discussion about topics …
I love this post by Jessica Mah (thanks for the link to Dave McClure). Jessica talks about 3 types of “amateur entrepreneurs” and says she’s “been every single one of them.” And she’s learned from those experiences and won’t make them again. Type 1 Amateur Entrepreneur: All ideas, no implementation. Type 2 Amateur Entrepreneur: Lots …
Here’s a trio of interesting events coming up soon. Web Directions North is taking place in Denver from February 2-6 and features 8 half-day workshops, a full day seminar focused on educating web professionals, a free education summit, parties, receptions, and two days skiing or boarding at Breckenridge. It’s aimed at all web professionals, and …
This is a lesson that first time entrepreneurs in funded companies usually learn very quickly. I’m on the board of several companies currently, and if you know me you know that I rarely take an aggressive stance. I use the magic of subtle influence, not a brick over the head. I’ve adopted Brad Feld’s mental …