Chris Messina & Tara Hunt are on stage.
Discussion Topics:
- Do it small
- Non zero-sum means is a WIN-WIN for everyone
- Do it for Love
- Do it for Fun
- bunches of camps have sprung up all over the place
- They run BarCamp
- They are looking to build out the Infrastructure for the kind of future we (the Blogosphere) want for ourselve
- Alaska Air snet Tara an email, with everything about her trip, incld. waether, stuff to do, etc. They “get it”.
- You can succeed with out a giagantic liquidity event
- Bootstrapping can be done
- Success can be defined in many different ways
- Knowing just a people can lead to success on certain scales
- Permission is not needed for a small to medium-scale success
- Dogster is a really great example of a small start leading to a large success
- Tara: “Find a niche and serve it well”
- You can sell stuff to companies that are not Internet-related
- Gnomdex is a perfect example of an independant success
- Sponsors will come to you
- There are a lot of niches that we are skipping over
- Invite peole who are working alone, but offer them a place where they can hang out
- Accelerate Serendipity
- If you get noticed, build a relationship with them
- Big Companies should play along with smaller ventures
Marc Canter just slammed a guy from Intel. Wow, this guy is not shy about being perceived as bombastic.
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