Welcome to the Singularity

So it is public now, and hence I am allow to blog about it.

Singularity is here!

Singularity is the first large-scale online web conference in the world, and you can be part of it.

This year, over 100 of the most influent minds on the web will be discussing and modeling what the future of the web will be like... of course after this year's MIX and MAX.

This conference is planned to take place in the cloud between October 24th and the 25th - so you won't have to go thru all the pains of booking flights, hotels, nor submitting expense reports, which makes it not only great, but greener.

The conference is being organized by multitasking Aral Balkan, which most of you people will know him for his work in the Flash Community, and his talking bunny.

The world as we know it is more interconnected now than ever before, twitter has become essential part of it and we even feel lonely when its service is down - well not everyone, but yes! there are people; and having a web conference on the web, and by the people from the web, will really set the roots for the kind of world we are all working to make reality.

Aral is still picking up on presenters, although there is already a list of really compelling people making in the elite. If you think you have what it gets to get people talking about the future or a service that can revolutionize the way we convey our life in the matrix, go ahead and mail them your idea - who knows you might end up being one of the stars on one of this year's best conference.

More info here.

Later.

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[Entrepreneurs] Getting your idea off the ground

During the past month I’ve been following on Guy Kawasaki’s blog How to Change the World, Guy is a former Apple Fellow who left Apple in 1997 for the second time in his career to start what he calls an “angel investor matchmaking service” called Garage.com, where he currently plays the role of Managing Director.

It’s been quite an amazing ride going thru his posts every week and yesterday was no exception.

I got to the office as usual and opened up Google Reader, and as I was checking my regular feeds I came across this post called No Plan, No Capital, No Model... No Problem. I went thru the post and started playing the video in it so I could listened to it as I go thru my email and stuff - there is also an MP3 version available there too, but I like to watch from time to time their faces.

I have to be honest that the idea of putting things together myself has never been that far away from my head and lately the little bug of myself entrepreneur has grow more... I have already my first startup on hold due to too much work from me and my associates, although I think it is time to get some things rolling, even more after watching this guys talking.

So here is what Guy has to say about it:

I’ve moderated many panels in my time, and if I had to choose one that entrepreneurs should watch, this is it. If you’re one guy/gal or two guys/gals in a garage, it will push all the right buttons, and you’ll love it.

There is a good disclaimer following to it though:

However, if your plan is to raise several million dollars from venture capitalists and then hire five engineers, one vp of biz dev, one CTO, two testers, and a vp of marketing to ship a product in a year, you probably shouldn’t spend your time watching it.

But anyway, post is here and Google Video here, and if you happen to go on or not here are a couple of notes I took from the Q & A session that goes after the first hour of video, hope you guys find this useful.

What should be the driving feeling for a biz?

• Do what you love to do and focus on it.
• People that comes to biz with the intention of doing millions and billions of dollars they never do and is the people who focus on something they love who often get successful.
• Businesses often don’t go according to the plan, but is the ability to catch opportunities as you get them and be able to execute with such will is what will make us successful.

What about competency?

• People will always be generating ideas and some of them will try to go for similar ones of things that have already worked in the arena or not, but when it comes to evaluating and put them to work, execution is key, it will define how ideas will evolve and how they will be targeted in different ways, at the end they all will become different products.
• You always have learn to observe and adapt.
• Learn your audience and focus your ideas on growing towards that, anyway this what you love to do. Don’t you?!

When do you get to pay your self?

• Do it as soon as possible, cause if you do not you will always find other ways to expend that money.
• Don’t pay your self exuberant amounts of money. Pay yourself enough as to not worry about not having money but don’t pay yourself enough as to feel comfortable and think like “Ok, this is all I need”, you still need to maintain some level of hunger to keep being successful.

Any last conclusion for entrepreneurs?

• Life is good right now... and now is the moment to do something!

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