And I’m kind of fired up to do something. Especially given the recent unpleasantness at work.
The best speakers were Joe Krauss of Excite/JotSpot fame, who gave a really snappy and fun “lessons learned” kind of thing, Tim O’Reilly on trend spotting, Paul Graham – who isn’t the best presenter but has great pithy bits of wisdom, and Joshua Schachter – the accidental entrepreneur.
I wanted to like Caterina Fake (Flickr) but she lacked focus and rambled way too much. Om Malik was entertaining but I didn’t find a lot of useful advice there. The VC’s Ann Winblad and Page Mailliard were good in demystifying what they do. I met a few people but wish I had found a good post conf mixer/networking op.
Now I’m wanting to do something – the catch being that the VC’s were clear that they fund two or more people ventures only. So I need a partner – interested it pursuing something? email me.