Rev. Billy Graham gave a talk at the TED conference in 1998 regarding Technology, Faith, and Human Shortcomings. I’ve embedded it below.
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Paul Graham has an excellent essay entitled “What Startups are Really Like.” Read it here.
I found myself surprised at how often I agreed with the words of PG or the entrepreneurs he quoted within. My experience working at Athleon has taught me many of the lessons he mentions within his essay. Particularly, the lesson that entrepreneurs work on a different time-flow than the rest of the world, and the emotional roller coaster a startup can be.
Over the course of the past year, I have loved working with Brent, Ryan, Jason, and Dan on Athleon and I am incredibly proud of the product and how far it has come in a year. With this small team of 5 (now 4), we have launched All Team Apparel, the Game Film beta, an updated version of Playbooks, and rewritten large components of the back-end code (running on Debian Linux, Apache 2, MySQL, and Perl with some features written in Flex/AS3) to prepare the site to scale for future growth.
Nobody says startup life is easy. The past year has not been, but I wouldn’t do things differently. The lessons I’ve learned have been valuable, hard-earned, and worth it.
WordCamp is coming to Seattle! Bloggers from all over the Northwest will meet to network, share knowledge and experiences, all while learning from some of the biggest names on the web.
Centered on the world’s most popular blogging platform – WordPress – this is THE event to learn about the blogging tool used by millions of consumers and businesses alike. WordPress powers some of the world’s most visited sites and blog networks.
WordCamp Seattle 2009 is happening on September 26, and runs from 8:30am to 5:15pm at the Adobe office building in Fremont. Tickets for the event cost $25 and can be bought at Eventbrite.
The keynote speakers for the event are Chris Pirillo (Lockergnome) and Liz Strauss (Successful & Outstanding Bloggers).
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