People’s Software Company

Okay, this makes me laugh every time I look at it: Twitter: ANGRYROCK! AngryRock got picked for Pick of the Twitter.

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Got in at midnight, long conversation with Lisa about product, coding, roadmap,the next 10 weeks.
Asleep 2:30 am.
Awake: 6:00 am.
Walking the dog, 6:30 am, drinking coffee 7 am.
Yep, that’s my life here–up late, awake early–feels exactly like what I missed (okay, not really, but it is what I pretty much do here.)

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There’s a model of learning, which I first encountered years, when I spent time as a professional technical educator, which states that we pass through four stages of learning:

Unconscious Incompetence - we are such novices that we don’t yet know what we don’t know;
Conscious Incompetence - we know enough to recognise the limitations of our [...]

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Just for the day

Originally uploaded by lisa.williams

Print-your-own business cards have improved dramatically since the last time I took a look at them. They used to shout, “Too confused to get to a print shop!”, but now, they’re really quite nice.
So here are some very, very, very temporary business cards — not the right [...]

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It’s the thirty day mark for Peoples Software and TechStars. A month ago, we had the following:

two co-founders
a set of problems around connecting people locally and among their friends that we thought needed solving (and that were being under-addressed by people focused on local news, local *community*, and alot of what passes as citizen media)
acceptance [...]

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So, further to my previous post, I’m delighted to confirm that Intense Debate (in the form of Michael Koenig) stepped up to the plate, and hit one out of the park. As you can see, here.
So I won’t be a sour-puss tonight - promise!
Thank you, Michael, for your prompt attention. *Now* I fell all warm [...]

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Tonight, at TechStars, we have a session on “lessons learned”, with some of the founders of the companies who were here in 2007. At that session, I’d like to walk up to the founders of one of those companies (assuming they’re attending tonight, of course) and say “hey, guys - great job on the customer [...]

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I Can Haz… Eco Pass?
Originally uploaded by Catherine Taylor

Last Friday, Lisa handed me a form. “Here, you might want to get one of these.” It was an application form for an Eco Pass - the free travel pass provided to various qualifying groups, including those who work in downtown Boulder. Now, I don’t [...]

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Sarah Reed and Jason Mendelson

Originally uploaded by lisa.williams

Best:
* Don’t negotiate with yourself — negotiate with the other person.
* Don’t throw out the first number.
* It’s all about anchoring, so anchor really, really high. We did an excercise, and the person who came out the best was also someone who threw out a [...]

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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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