It's that time of year again when all the geeks in the web tech community converge upon Austin Texas and form insanely long lines for blocks to get into Facebook, Mashable, Digg and Foursquare parties to get free tshirts, tech gear and free drinkage and hopefully get to meet "internet stars"… Something like that.
I got over that year one – but SXSW Interactive is a great time, good to hang out with all those you talk to online from around the world and build better relationships, meet other entrepreneurs and gather insight on their positives and failures in the startup world and more.
Austin itself is a really cool town, great downtown area and awesome music scene. The conference is beyond huge and offers a lot of information packed into a week.
I found this post on rww about a TEDx Speech by motivational speaker and author Simon Sinek entitled, "Entrepreneurs: It's Not What You Do, It's Why You Do It". He talks about his concept "The Golden Circle" (3 circles representing the different ways we think about a product/goal (watch the video)), goes into the Diffusion of Innovations theory and explains it all quite well.
It's a philosophy I have always felt and more recently started following myself for a while and, among other things, explains why past business partnerships I've made eventually failed and why I've decided to be solo for good. This whole talk refers to and explains (MUCH better than I could) why I say "old school" all the time; this is what I mean, people I say are old school are working for the paycheck, not for what they believe. Living in the top 10% and trying to do business with somebody in the last 16%… lets just say you don't quite see eye-to-eye.
Anyways it's good and I thought it needed to be here for you.
Quote from Speech:
"There are leaders and there are those that lead. Leaders hold a position of power or authority, but those who lead – inspire us. We follow those who lead not because we have to but because we want to, we follow those who lead not for them but for ourselves."
In the last couple of years we've done a good job in Phoenix of making things happen and getting good conferences with good turn out happen here in the valley and a couple of the annual big events have been making a home in November. This grouping has been dubbed Geek Week Az and there are a LOT of things happening and some big names and I wanted to organize that information and list what's going on in one location. It's not pretty but here's what we've got coming for you in Phoenix in November.
There are also some pretty interesting after parties to attend but currently we haven't planned anything, YET… I'll see you all there! (map removed as events are over now – next year!)
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It's that time of year again when all the geeks in the web tech community converge upon Austin Texas and form insanely long lines for blocks to get into Facebook, Mashable, Digg and Foursquare parties to get free tshirts, tech gear and free drinkage and hopefully get to meet "internet stars"… Something like that.
rYnoweb.com is the blog of web architect, seo and consultant, Chuck Reynolds. The articles on this site try to focus on web development, design, security and my life in general on the internet.
