The 360idev was an excellent event with a total crowd near 300 strong. I spent time trying to talk to as many people as I could just to learn what is really taking place in the industry of apple. Right now I am sitting in a code optimization session that is mostly boring to me, but I end up having an understanding of coding a little bit better.
The iphone industry is shifting as a whole. The hacker community that unleashed all these wonderful abilities for the iphone is upset b/c their special features are going live in os4.0 . More Microsoft guys are jumping ship to bring enterprise capabilities to the iphone. The crowd was probably split 50/50 in terms of game devs and enterprise guys. I was expecting the enterprise guys to be 20% tops.
I think I only went to 2 sessions that had about 5 mins of relative value, but the majority were excellent.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Communication and Street Fights
Today was intense considering the work load I am capable of handling in the past. I am responsible for the majority of the press release for a new product (which or business is built around) we have been developing since July 09. It has been extremely helpful having a lot of the team available to help me put together the pieces but I feel it takes a lot of effort to organze what I need done and to review it. I did a test to figure out which tasks I should take care of and which should be delegated.
This is difficult when so much is on the line and I am the head figure, but it is important to allow trust in your co workers and give them tasks to help them grow. I think our intern Anthony has been learning a lot regarding marketing and launches. I am trying to figure out what interest Tyler the most. I can count on him to tackle nearly any task, but I am uncertain how to demonstrate a learning/fun moment. I know I just need to spend more time communicating with him to learn more about his goals.
I was involved in the video shoot for our new bitFlip add on. We also recorded some footage for the secret product. I am really excited to get the footage and edit it for the press release. We had a friend of the teams, Dorian, shoot the videos. He was really good and constructive in the actions and shots he wanted.
Sticking within the theme of communication...
On the epic walk to the train their was a group of really loud guys. A guy much like myself walked by and must have muttered something bc he was then aggressively approached and pushed by one of the men. What to do, what should I do?
I decided to not touch either of them but stand near the guy being attacked waiting for a fist to fly to help defend him. Thank God nothing happened but it is troubling. Do you need to be loud enough to be heard a city bock away to communicate your point? Sometimes I guess!
This is difficult when so much is on the line and I am the head figure, but it is important to allow trust in your co workers and give them tasks to help them grow. I think our intern Anthony has been learning a lot regarding marketing and launches. I am trying to figure out what interest Tyler the most. I can count on him to tackle nearly any task, but I am uncertain how to demonstrate a learning/fun moment. I know I just need to spend more time communicating with him to learn more about his goals.
I was involved in the video shoot for our new bitFlip add on. We also recorded some footage for the secret product. I am really excited to get the footage and edit it for the press release. We had a friend of the teams, Dorian, shoot the videos. He was really good and constructive in the actions and shots he wanted.
Sticking within the theme of communication...
On the epic walk to the train their was a group of really loud guys. A guy much like myself walked by and must have muttered something bc he was then aggressively approached and pushed by one of the men. What to do, what should I do?
I decided to not touch either of them but stand near the guy being attacked waiting for a fist to fly to help defend him. Thank God nothing happened but it is troubling. Do you need to be loud enough to be heard a city bock away to communicate your point? Sometimes I guess!
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Start-ups: the toils and personality
Entrepreneurship is something the runs in the blood of any human. When something is necessary and depending on the resources available a person can typically generate a good or service to fill that need. It is basically the caveman situation: need food, need weapon, need strategy to acquire food.
We all have needs, but some of us are better than others at figuring out the niche of a need not met by the current solutions; this is when things start to get interesting. The path can go 1 of 3 ways.
-fill the need silently and for themselves; selfish
-fill the need but share it freely with the world; selfless, and someone else will probably capitilize on it
-fill the need and learn to capitalize on it; libertarian or capitalistic
If the capitalistic route is the forte, a whole can of worms is unleashed! Who can help, where's the financing, what's my strategy for launch, can I sell one of kdneys to keep my dream alive. Ect ect.
Each one of these is just a cog in the system of bringing an idea to market. Some of us get lucky and find something very simple and necessary to a large market that takes only an infomercial to explain. Most of us will discover something only a small portion of people need. So is it even worth pursuing if it is the small portion? That is a difficult question that I presume can only be answer by luck, fate, and most of all personality.
Not everyone is cut out to pull a 180 in their life. Some of us have prior commitments like family or a large debt like a house. Some of us just aren't a "go getter" or "self starter". It really makes me wonder where their ideas go. A good portion of people have a precieved idea of how they want to grow up or be like thier peers at a 9-5. I happen to have been born with a strange set of screws.
My family on both sides were from farm families, a blessing in disguise of a set of dirty jeans and boots. Farmers are naturals at the early traits of an entrepreneur. Something breaks you either buy a new part which could take over an hour of down time to run and get, or you engineer a fix to continue out the day. At my dads farm it was a bit 50/50. Alot of out of the box solutions didn't fit the niche we needed so we spent time engineering the exact solution we needed. It was often exciting to hear my dad show me something he built from scratch or existing parts. My mom's side was much the same way. Farmers where also very quiet and modest bc their was a decent amount of rivalry between nearby farmers for land and just for fun. *lost my train of thought bc ben crossbones just called me*
We all have needs, but some of us are better than others at figuring out the niche of a need not met by the current solutions; this is when things start to get interesting. The path can go 1 of 3 ways.
-fill the need silently and for themselves; selfish
-fill the need but share it freely with the world; selfless, and someone else will probably capitilize on it
-fill the need and learn to capitalize on it; libertarian or capitalistic
If the capitalistic route is the forte, a whole can of worms is unleashed! Who can help, where's the financing, what's my strategy for launch, can I sell one of kdneys to keep my dream alive. Ect ect.
Each one of these is just a cog in the system of bringing an idea to market. Some of us get lucky and find something very simple and necessary to a large market that takes only an infomercial to explain. Most of us will discover something only a small portion of people need. So is it even worth pursuing if it is the small portion? That is a difficult question that I presume can only be answer by luck, fate, and most of all personality.
Not everyone is cut out to pull a 180 in their life. Some of us have prior commitments like family or a large debt like a house. Some of us just aren't a "go getter" or "self starter". It really makes me wonder where their ideas go. A good portion of people have a precieved idea of how they want to grow up or be like thier peers at a 9-5. I happen to have been born with a strange set of screws.
My family on both sides were from farm families, a blessing in disguise of a set of dirty jeans and boots. Farmers are naturals at the early traits of an entrepreneur. Something breaks you either buy a new part which could take over an hour of down time to run and get, or you engineer a fix to continue out the day. At my dads farm it was a bit 50/50. Alot of out of the box solutions didn't fit the niche we needed so we spent time engineering the exact solution we needed. It was often exciting to hear my dad show me something he built from scratch or existing parts. My mom's side was much the same way. Farmers where also very quiet and modest bc their was a decent amount of rivalry between nearby farmers for land and just for fun. *lost my train of thought bc ben crossbones just called me*
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