Glue is coming together nicely!
I can’t promise that this will be my last pre-conference post on Glue , but I can promise that if you’re not planning on attending the conference you’re going to be missing out on a great event. To give you a sense of who is coming (other than our great group of speakers), below is a list of some of the companies and organizations that have people already registered for the event: …
April 23, 2009· 1 min read
Hit me with your best pitch (@ glue)
Brad , Eric and I came up with the idea yesterday we’re calling Pitch Brad and Seth at Glue . The concept is pretty simple: if you’re an entrepreneur who is attending Glue (and you should be attending Glue ) and you have a great business idea you’re working on and you’d like to get feedback from a few VCs (that would be Brad and me), we’d love to see you. Here’s what you have to do: …
April 2, 2009· 2 min read
Don’t be caught on the sidelines
On my drive in this morning I was trying to think of reasons for you to NOT come to Glue …and came up completely blank. Glue is a unique chance to engage about some of the most current topics surrounding web technology with a national audience. Come talk with George Reese about securing cloud infrastructure (he has an upcoming O’Rielly book on the subject); hear about OAuth, OpenID and how they play into web architectures and services from Andrew Nash (PayPal) and Danny Kolke (etelos); debate the role of XMPP with Peter Stain-Andre, Jack Moffitt and Seth Fitsimmons (3 XMPP heavyweights); rub shoulders with Mitch Kapor (uber-angel/advisor, founder of Lotus Development Corp); geek out about cloud databases with Alex Iskold (AdaptiveBlue/ReadWriteWeb) and Stu Charleton (Elastra); and much much more (see the full agenda ). …
April 1, 2009· 2 min read
How to get your company into VCIR
Todd Vernon approached me last week to tell me that his perception – and that of a number of people in the Denver/Boulder community – was that the VCIR company selection process was a complete black box. This was eye opening to me (being involved in the process for years, I thought we had done an ok job letting people know how things work) and as I thought about it I realized that we really haven’t talked a lot about how we find companies for the conference and what the vetting process looks like. …
February 27, 2009· 1 min read
Glue just keeps getting better
In case you still haven’t signed up for Glue (see my compelling post on why you should be coming here ) let me give you two more reasons: Josh Elman and Bob Frankston . Josh is the “platform guy” at Facebook (and is helping push a greater degree of openness at FB) and Bob is the co-creator of VisiCalc (and will be talking about how he’s thinking about the web as a platform). Both have signed up to give keynotes at the conference (along with David Heinemeier Hanson and Mitch Kapor both of whom I wrote about in my previous post about the conference ). …
February 18, 2009· 1 min read