A Frog in the Valley

Bonjour Sylvain! (This is the official notice.)
I’m pleased to approve your request for a press pass for Web 2.0 Expo.
Yeah! I am pleased to announce that I will be covering the Web 2.0 Expo for Canoe. There is even a rumor about a Montreal based company on the launchpad… Details to come soon, [...]

For those not satisfied by my output around here, or even in my del.icio.us bookmark trail, check out my new linkblog. To be integrated here via an RSS widget… sometime. It’s highly addictive to slap some (messy) stuff there that I somewhat find “of interest” without editing or filtering (beyond the fact that it’s about [...]

From Paul Graham’s excellent collection of essays : The 18 mistakes that kills startups.
1. Single Founder
2. Bad Location
3. Marginal Niche
4. Derivative Idea
5. Obstinacy
6. Hiring Bad Programmers
7. Choosing the Wrong Platform
8. Slowness in Launching
9. Launching Too Early
10. Having No Specific User in Mind
11. Raising Too Little Money
12. Spending Too Much
13. Raising Too Much Money
14. Poor Investor [...]

Whoa. I clean this up every few weeks and it has been quite consistent for the last few cycles… 5000+ spams on this blog. Many thanks to Akismet!!

Seb sent me a link this weekend about the new bedouins…
A new breed of worker, fueled by caffeine and using the tools of modern technology, is flourishing in the coffeehouses of San Francisco. Roaming from cafe to cafe and borrowing a name from the nomadic Arabs who wandered freely in the desert, they’ve come to [...]