Web Strategy Micksup

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Originally uploaded by Bryan Thatcher

Great dinner last night in San Francisco with some good tech people. Great wine, great Thai (Basil on Folsom) and great talk.

Dan Kaplan was there (in real life for the first time) and gave some to-the-point insights. I get the feeling that he’s cooking up something interesting.

Chris Saad was waxing lyrical about Particls adventures, Engagd launches and data portability possible (near term) futures.

Stowe Boyd was offering dish after dish of wisdom, as hoped. He’s been doing some work that is pretty similar to some of the work that Pollenizer is doing, so it was interesting to hear what he’d learned.

The primary challenge of any startup?

* Great people?
* Enough money?
* Brilliant idea?
* Enough time?
* The right timing?
* Persistently impressive execution?
* A bit of luck?

In reality, it needs all of these things at different doses, at different times. Stowe highlighted that being seriously involved in doing something like this required a full on commitment over an extended period of time. Otherwise your just a supporting actor. And that’s OK, but you’re can’t mistake yourself for a lead actor, otherwise you’ll suck worse than Kevin Costner in Water World (sorry, it’s on the background on cable TV….)

Of course, non of this is conclusive or absolute, but we all know what it feels like, building a new business, so it feels right.

On the menu tomorrow? More wisdom!

Thanks to Bryan and Mike for the photos and Alisdair for turning up tres tres late - but big effort maaate.

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