A year ago around this time, I found myself taking a big risk by going to my first conference. I had just moved to San Francisco and began networking with people in the technology and Internet industry, but I found out that this one conference would be good because I’d be able to network with [...]

In an earlier post that I wrote on Network Solutions entitled “Learning all you can through 100 interviews“, I called attention to the awesome job that three friends were doing with their own “startup project“. Basically the goal for them was to meet and talk with 100 people during the recent South by Southwest interactive [...]

Objective: To attend a tech/web conference and get noticed while having maximum exposure.
I got this latest blog post idea from soon-to-be author and owner of Duck9 (and a great networker) Larry Chiang from “What They Don’t Teach You at Stanford Business School” and you should read his earlier version of how to work a conference. In [...]

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One of the two keynotes that I attended at South by Southwest last week that I really enjoyed as given by Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh. Zappos is one of the biggest brands that I know that not only “gets it” when it comes to exploiting Internet technology, but also really understands [...]