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Category: Speaking appearances

Lessons learned: How I founded, bootstrapped, grew and sold my web startup

On April 6, 2009, I gave a presentation at MeshU in Toronto, Canada. I was surprised to see how much buzz it generated on Twitter and in the blogosphere. If you missed it, here’s your chance to judge by yourself… HD Video on iTunes (missing the last 20-25 mins unfortunately): A quick recap of what [...]

Speaking at SXSW and MySQL Conf

I’m happy to announce that I’ll be presenting at 2 great conferences in the upcoming months. In March, I’ll be in Austin, Texas to present at South by Southwest. I’m on an expert panel with a bunch of great people: Leah Culver (founder of Pownce), Avi Bryant (co-founder of DabbleDB) and Ari Steinberg (engineer at [...]