Alliances & Partnership Advising
I came across a posting today about the 9 VCs You’re Gonna Want to Avoid and found it both hysterical as well as scary. If you have ever worked on starting up your own company, know any founders who have, been involved in raising money, or know a single VCs you will instantly recognize a few of these archetypes…a few rang clear and true for me.
The author’s other posts on How to Work the Room and 8 Tips on How to Get Mentored are some other great reads.
I am glad to announce that the rumors of my blogging demise are not true. The past few weeks have had me heads down on a customer project; I have been working with a Fortune 100 financial institution on a project involving a enterprise SOA initiative.
The good news is that there are numerous lessons to be learned (and shared) from this project. The bad news is that the timing of the project correlated with other things going on and resulted in me having less than no time for some items in my life (like contributing to this blog).
I appreciate everyone’s patience while I get my head back above water.
Wow! That’s what I said this morning as I noticed the changes that occurred over the past 24 hours in the Technorati graph that I included in my previous posting. Exactly 24 hours ago, that graph showed a little over 1,000 mentions of the new Apple iphone, now it has skyrocketed to about 21,000 mentions. I guess I underestimated the speed at which either
Either way, after spending a few minutes jumping between blogs this morning to validate my hype-pothesis, I’m sitting here writing this with a small smirk on my face. Way too many of the blog entries fit square into my general hypester category (Apple’s Marketing teams must be very smug right now knowing that people are spending hours building cardboard iphones…).
Amazing thing about hype, how it can be used to distract you from what is really going on (I think that is a parallel to the De Tocqueville model). So, Mr. Jobs…how is that stock option backdating investigation coming along?