Blog Archives

On the Ethic of Delivery – Required Watching

January 23, 2013

Business

Abhinav Keswani, Business, Defrag, Eric, Eric Norlin, Programming, Technology, trineo

Over the past few years I’ve been a kind of informal adviser to the Defrag event. The role is less than onerous, Eric Norlin totally understands what his participants (and at defrag, attendees really are participants and not simply…

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Twitter’s Firehose, A Missed Opportunity or a Savvy Move?

November 23, 2010

Business

Application programming interface, Data stream, Defrag, Gnip, twitter

I was in the front rows last week when Twitter and Gnip co-announced at the defrag conference that Gnip would be selling 50% of all the messages posted to Twitter for $360,000 per year, or 5% of all messages…

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On Wadhwa at defrag – Stereotypes Might be Easy, But They’re Not Robust

November 17, 2010

Business

Defrag, Entrepreneur, Innovation, Silicon Valley, Vivek Wadhwa

Here at Defrag today, Vivek Wadhwa spoke about innovation. Despite starting off as little more than a travelogue and a list of people Wadhwa has met, he went on to talk about the barriers to entrepreneurship. He made some…

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Work/Life Balance Doesn’t Happen Once a Quarter

November 1, 2010

Business

Brad Feld, Defrag, Glue, Work–life balance

Brad Feld, Partner at VC firm The Foundry and long time supporter of Eric Norlin’s events Glue and defrag, recently presented to TEDxBoulder about his personal strategy of taking a once-a-quarter “week off the grid”. Full video below for…

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Blog Archives

On the Ethic of Delivery – Required Watching

Twitter’s Firehose, A Missed Opportunity or a Savvy Move?

On Wadhwa at defrag – Stereotypes Might be Easy, But They’re Not Robust

Work/Life Balance Doesn’t Happen Once a Quarter