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[prog]

Felt kinda bad after my very first in-person shootdown from an angel group rep (I know, get used to it, kid) but overall this conference was a net-positive experience. Looking forward to doing more soon.

Lots of thinking to do in the meantime, and talking, and reading and rewriting.

And hacking, and playing.

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The thing I feel worst about, actually, is the realization that when people saw our company name and asked us what we did, at least some of them were expecting us to be VC, and O how their hopeful smiles would melt when they got hit with YA-tech startup pitch. One person finally made this clear, and suggested we take the word "Ventures" out of our name. Doh. Well, this is what DBAs are for.

Comments

[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

this is all good. this is why there are such things as pitches, focus groups, reps, and red pen wielding pals. feedback, good and bad, is all really valuable as you are too close to the subject to objectively find places to improve and objectively celebrate things achieved.

[radiotelescope.livejournal.com]

I bet I can objectively celebrate when we achieve something. I foresee a lot of seriously objective sushi.

[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

our corporate mandates, coming from the UK office, totally encourage us to "celebrate achievement" and other such jargony catchphrases which we in the US office define as "drink margaritas when crap actually gets done." same principal as the sushi.