People’s Software Company

Day 3, Davenport, IA > Erie, PA.  610 mi.
8:30 AM, elaborate gas station mini-mart, Geneseo, IL:
Me: “Do you have any creamer for the coffee that came from an actual cow?”
Clerk: “No.”
NPR.  Joe Biden’s speech. Lots of talking heads talking.
2:30 PM, rest station 40 miles east of Toledo, OH:
I see a group of Mennonite women — [...]

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I’m at BlogHer, and there’s a panel on Introverts and Blogging. My modest suggestion to my fellow introverts:

Don’t change a thing.
Up on the wall in my office, I have a bunch of quotes I wrote with a sharpie on masking tape and stuck to the wall. One is from Gandhi, and [...]

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We haz schwag!

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MAJOR COMPANY MILESTONE for People’s Software!
Yes, it’s true! We have schwag!
Just in case you needed a refresher, here’s the process:
1. Get idea
2. Get schwag
3. Release actual product
4. Huge profits!!
(#4 courtesy of the totally hilarious South Park dot-com spoof episode ‘Underpants Gnomes.”)
If you’re at BlogHer and you see [...]

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Wanna see an anvil get launched into the air with explosives? You’re in luck. I just happened to visit Jamestown, CO, (pop. 205), where they celebrate each Independence Day with music, a barbecue, games, and….hourly anvil launches, one of which I filmed for you below.

Jamestown is 15 miles north and west of [...]

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BlogHer is great for lots of reasons — it’s a conference where the speakers are just as amazing as the crowd, which is, in a word, stellar.
However, I have very personal reasons for thinking BlogHer is the best conference ever.
Today, I am one of the three cofounders of a web startup that [...]

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Performers Prepare for Neo-Kabuki Zombie Theater

Originally uploaded by lisa.williams

At TechStars we are encouraged to practice being uncomfortable. I tell you, it was pretty uncomfortable deciding to leave my family and come here, and it was pretty uncomfortable to be here without what we needed to succeed at first.
But the thing is [...]

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