Has anyone seen the movie EdTV? Well if you haven’t, it’s about a video store clerk named Ed that agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network. In the spirit of EdTV, I decided this week to throw up a live 24/7 web cam with the help of Ustream in the marketing bullpen at the Tatango office. Within a few hours of going live, I started to get investors, friends and even family members calling and emailing me, seeing if I’d gone crazy. I’m pretty sure I haven’t gone crazy, even though some may disagree. I think by allowing people to view what is going on within our company, both gives them a sense of insight into the culture and more importantly, is another chance for people to connect a face with our website. This is why we have already started to undertake a project to outfit the entire office with cameras connected 24/7 to the internet. Welcome to TatangoTV!
Re-Post from Eric Koester @ My High Tech Startup (definitely worth checking out)
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One of the biggest challenges for any individual thinking about starting a new business is taking that first step. There are a hundred reasons not to start a business (many of which have been written about a hundred times over in numerous articles, interviews and books).
But what about your age — is that a reason not to start a business? I spoke to someone recently who said he was considering starting a business, but thought it was just too old to do it. “I don’t know what I’d do — I’m not really familiar with software coding or Web 2.0. I’m probably just too old to be a high-tech entrepreneur.”
Business schools across the country and around the world now offer a full range of entrepreneurship courses and programs of instructions.Undergraduates from technical backgrounds and business-entrepreneurship backgrounds are now graduating with the goal of starting their own business and leveraging their training.Likewise, lifelong employees of major corporations or researchers from government or academia are leaving their professions at a later stage in life looking to leverage on their experience and expertise.With these young and older entrepreneurs looking to start their own ventures, the question must be asked: is there really is room for these new entrants?Could you be too old or too young to build a high tech startup?
A number of researchers and industry trend watchers have examined the respective ages of the founders of successful startups to find the best age to create the proper mix of entrepreneurial “magic.”Nick Denton of Valleywag, a Silicon Valley blog, postured that twenty-six was the age that had produced the most spectacular recent successes (citing founders at the ages of 25-27 at the time they formed companies such as Yahoo!, Skype, Google, YouTube, and MySpace). Read More →
This weekend I was at the Teens In Tech Conference giving a talk about young entrepreneurship. Everyone that was speaking used PowerPoint, and a good amount of them had technical problems that could have easily been avoided. If you are going to do a PowerPoint presentation, do yourself and everyone else a favor by saving the PowerPoint file in .PPS (PowerPoint Show) format. This will help you avoid the common headaches that are associated when you transfer a PowerPoint file from a Mac to PC or use different versions of the software. Hopefully this helps!
