Reading all the accounts of last weeks Web 2.0 conference, mostly from people who were not there I wanted to remind everyone that the best talks were about doing more with less. Jason Fried of 37signals, was all signal and no noise in his inspirational talk on how to run a software company with three people. Don’t work 60 hour weeks, work 30 hours with every minuet counting for something. I had breakfast with Jason and told him that he had found the point of diminished returns and scaled back, he agreed. Last year Jason gave a workshop, next year he may be delivering the main keynote.
Vinod Khosla the VC’s VC gave much the same message as Jason, start small you can always scale-up after you have found something that has traction. Experiment and keep trying new things with small teams till you get traction, then the VC’s will find you.
Listening to Bran Ferren was worth the cost of the trip to San Francisco, He is the former president of Research & Development and Creative Technology for Walt Disney Imagineering. He’s an uber-Geek and his passion is the computer UI and I agreed with everything he said, today’s computer UI will be transformed.
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