Yesterday I attended the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders seminar to hear Bill Campbell, chairman of Intuit and corporate coach to startups such as Google, interview Danny Shader, CEO of Good Technology. Stanford posted a video of the seminar. Danny Shader has an interesting background including companies such as GO Corporation, Collabra Software, Netscape, and Amazon.com. Danny was an entrepreneur-in-residence with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Benchmark Capital before joining Good Technology. Bill Campbell was an economics major and a former football coach before his highly successful software career. Good Technology originally developed audio hardware for the Handspring Visor…
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My other blog is rebuilding
I am changing web hosts and while the name servers update you may experience odd things within my web space. Not to worry, it is expected, and I will bring my site back to life on its new home on TextDrive.
4orty2wo Entertainment event tonight
Jordan Weisman, Sean Stewart, and Jim Stewartson 4orty2wo Entertainment are speaking tonight at the San Francisco International Game Developers Association about alternate reality games and I Love Bees, highly successful marketing campaign created for the launch of Halo 2.
Adobe to acquire Macromedia
Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia for $3.4 billion in stock.
Dan Neil and General Motors
What would you do if the writing of one of your employees pissed off a client so much they pulled their account worth over $10 million?
New York Times photo shoot
Today I was photographed for a New York Times article on the tension between employers and employees over weblogs.
Guinness Believer event
Tonight I attended a Guinness Believer event at the Merchants’ Exchange in downtown San Francisco.
Guinness event next Wednesday
You know it is going to be a good day when you receive an e-mail from Guinness inviting you to an all you can drink party to learn more about your favorite beer and give feedback.
Harvard Entrepreneurship Conference
Harvard Business School hosted an Entrepreneurship conference on March 3. Sean Silverthorne of HBS Working Knowledge summarizes the themes of the conference and provides choice quotes from speakers.
RSS your way with more options
My weblog now has a RSS feed for every category and individual entry.