Nothing Ever Happens

I will be attending the Supernova 2008 conference. The theme is “Challenges of the Network Age” – and Esther Dyson (among the main speakers) suggests that the real challenge is human nature (Stop Spamming Esther: 7 Tips).
She told a brief anecdote about Conrad Hilton, founder of the Hilton Hotel chain, on the Tonight Show. Carson […]

Feel super energized after a CRAZY last week. Hope more weeks like the past one. In ONLY 5 days:
- had conference calls with two investment banks from NY and SF
- organized and had Noovo a 1 day launch party for 100+ employees from our companies
- finalized deal with a great high-tech firm
- organized and attended […]

On creating great companies.
Greg McAdoo, Partner at Sequoia Capital
(Video)
VS
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Ruby on Rails framework and Partner at 37Signals
(Video)
Both are brilliant and eye-opening speeches, presenting directly opposite philosophies.
Which one do you subscribe to?

Best twit ever (by Michael Arrington on Twitter):
“There’s too many good startups in Israel. I wish they would be more anti-entrepreneur there, like Europe, so they’d all move here.”

Dave Winer’s uber 1337 p057 r0xx0rz:
“..In tech entrepreneurship, repeat success is rare. Not saying it doesn’t happen, it does, but often, the second time an entrepreneur gives it a go, the venture flops. It’s happened to me, and I’ve seen it happen to a number of others, and I understand the reason.
The first time […]

After Jason spearheaded the controversial start-up rules meme, billionaire Mark Cuban added his (A Couple of My Rules for Startups).
Related to the startup lifecycle is a great post from BeyondVC (Should I flip or should I build?).
I will add mines here later- do you maybe have any wisdom to share ?

Seth Godin reminds us (The forces of mediocrity):
“Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance..”
AND
“The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it’s unlikely it would be worth […]

Following up on the controversial startup/work-life balance debate addressed by Jason Calacanis (Can you have a life and work at a startup company?).
These are his curious points:
Why are folks so upset with this concept of working really hard? I’m sure some of it has to do with Duncan’s views on family when he says “expect […]