Archive for the ‘Startup’ Category
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
BarcampBelfast 2008 is planned for Saturday 21st June, 9am - 5pm. Last year I had other commitments and couldn't make it but I intend to turn up this year. Mac-Sys did sponsor it last year and will be doing so again. I think we need more of these events.
There's already ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Andy recently posted that his efforts to build Co-Working Belfast have been bearing fruit as he gets QUB and Belfast City Council on board. For my part, I've pledged that Mac-Sys will buy a desk every month and put some loaner kit down there as well to foster mobile ...
Posted in Bedouin, CoWorking, Commentary, Social, Startup, Wireless | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Man, I have a bee in my bonnet about this.
There is nothing I'd rather do than give up this day job with $BIG_COMPANY and survive on my writing while I whiled away the days trying to learn to code to maybe build an app that I want. Apparently (according to ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Steve (The Biscuit) provided this link to The Daily WTF:
"If you’ve worked at enough companies in the IT industry, you’ve probably noticed that the most talented software developers tend to not stick around at one place for too long. The least talented folks, on the other hand, entrench themselves deep ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
The title for this blog post derives from the autre-title for "The Hobbit" which was "There and Back Again". It details an arduous journey, full of frustration and friction, in order to have an adventure and then return home.
As the months pass in $BIG_COMPANY, it becomes clearer to me what ...
Posted in Bedouin, CoWorking, Do Something Now, Social, Startup | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
The Co-Working Belfast guys (David Rice and Andy McMillan) are really hoping that some of you will pledge a desk in the co-working building they have planned for Belfast.
I've already pledged a desk (that I'll be unlikely to use but will pay for anyway) and Mac-Sys is pledging a couple ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
The Economist on Techno-Bedouin.
"The proper metaphor for somebody who carries portable but unwieldy and cumbersome infrastructure is that of an astronaut rather than a nomad, says Paul Saffo, a trend-watcher in Silicon Valley. Astronauts must bring what they need, including oxygen, because they cannot rely on their environment to provide ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
A while ago I ragged on Robert Scoble (almost silently because, let's face it, who read my tripe?) because he was talking about marketing and startups and worked at Microsoft. See the oxymoron there? Working at arguably the most powerful corporation in the world (yeah, they know the backdoor codes ...
Posted in Commentary, Startup | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Dear Colleague
You are invited to attend a Frameworks Entrepreneur workshop to be held at Northern Ireland Science Park, with a presentation on:
“The Venture Capital Process”
By Peter Stafford of A&L Goodbody
Programme Overview:
Raising money in today's environment is no easy task -- but it can be done if you focus on the ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
John Gruber writes:
"Borrowing ideas is fair game, but copying an entire app is wrong. And it’s creepy, in a Microsoft-of-the-’90s way, when it’s a $150 billion company cloning an app from a 10-person company."
This is the #1 demotivator for me when it comes to software development. It's an unreasonable fear ...
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