February 20, 2009
Posted by: Stefan
Category: Product Update, Updates
Tags: Chicago, contact, demo, entrepreneur, Event, Startup, team, TechCocktail, zoom
The TECH Cocktail 10 event in Chicago at John Barleycorn’s was a huge success. The event drew several hundred people and the Dosensio team was busy all night long.
The first public demo of DOSENSIO Zoom attracted a lot of interest and enabled us to network with the Chicago entrepreneurial community. We also made the demo available on our web site. Feel free to contact us if you have any follow-up questions.
The event resulted in valuable outside feedback and validated our innovative approach to simplifying content management. We’d like to thank all the folks that contributed.
We had a great time. Thanks to the organizers – in particular to Frank Gruber and Eric Olson – for making this possible!
Larry Page advises entrepreneurs to pursue a really good idea that is good regardless of the funding situation. He further stresses the importance to building a great team and being an expert in what you are doing.
A healthy disregard for the impossible or, in other words, the push for aggressive goals is another advice Larry has for entrepreneurs. Part of his argument is that aggressive goals tend to get more assigned resources. A large pool of resources, however, might not necessarily resemble the common situation in new companies thus challenge the generality of this advice.
According to Jerry Kaplan, the best time to start a company is when nobody thinks it’s possible. Usually, it takes one to three years from the founding of a company to a serious venture capital round, so less consideration should be given to the current business conditions. Jerry backs his argument with anecdotal evidence from his own experience with an Internet auction company. Due to the lack of interest, they were forced to put their own money at work in their new venture, which eventually led to a big positive impact on their reward.
