launch lounge

The BarCamp is comming back to Palo Alto or more precisely back to the birth place. This time it will not only be hosted by Socialtext but will be held on the whole block including neighbors like IDEO, Edgeio and so on.

And here some impressions from Michael Arrington on the first BarCamp Party held in Palo Alto.

Add yourself to the participant list and start with the pre-networking social network on Crowdvine.

BarCampBlock details:
When: August 18-19th, 2007, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM.
Where: 655 High Street (and surrounding blocks), Palo Alto, California (37° 26′ 34 N, 122° 9′ 40 W)

Just a quick link to a very good coverage of Paul Grahams speach on April 11th at the Stanford University about handling investors, enjoy:

Paul Graham: Handling Investors

by  Matt Jaynes of http://blog.nanobeepers.com

Unfortunately I missed the Startup School 2007 event held at Stanford University. The only way to get some interesting content out of the event is by watching and reading the coverages posted on the web.

Very humoristic presentation of Paul Graham of YCombinator why to not not start a startup (Posted by Larry Kubin).
Startup School Presentation by Paul Graham of YCombinator

A post by Matt Mullenweg founding developer of Wordpress.
Kapor vs Zuckerberg

Some very good notes from Kent Bye.
2007 Startup School Notes

Venture Beat review.
Start-up advice for entrepreneurs, from Y Combinator Startup School

Some review by Olexandr Prokhorenko.
The Startup School review

And here some Video’s of the 2006 Startup School.

Just got the confirmation mail for the Netvibes Universe Launch Party! This is a great opportunity for me to do some networking and find out more about new startups in the valley.

 Also make sure to check out Netvibes. This is an idea of the old days redone with the new possebilities of web 2.0. I was never a fan of portal pages with the role or user based information. I always thought that this is just another way to save links and this possebility is available since the existence of an internet browser. But I agree Netvibes did a really good job and setting up pages is a snap. The functionality available is just great!