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Startup Camp London

I have spent the entire day, yesterday, at the Startup Camp in London. Today I am in for the second day of the unconference. There have been some very interesting session, and my desire for kick-starting my own business is growing bigger and bigger.

It has been extremely clear to me that nothing I want to do is as easy as it seems, and some of my ideas have been strengthen by the conferences I have follow.

I believe even stronger in total commitment to an idea. Referring to Pig and Chicken, the joke written few days ago, I believe that only the Pigs can archive something interesting. If you want to create a startup, you need to be Committed. Nothing less than total commitment to your idea.

In these days I have also noted some of my weakness. I am no great in creating a Network with people I do not know. I have to improve this point, because it is something too important for a Startup. I think that I need someone with the skills I do not have, something with the right commitment to an idea in order to create a solid Team. I need someone to split the responsibilities with. It is extremely hard, indeed, but I am stubborn enough.

In these days I have come up with something interesting. Differently from other times, when I have waited for my (so called) “partners”, this one I will start I will talk about my idea, I will ask for critics. I want everyone to point out the flaws… but I will START.

Yesterday there has been a very interesting conference from Steve Garnett, chairman at SalesForce.com. In one of his slides the title was:

Going far take a partner, going fast go alone…

Well, right now I will go fast, and I will look forward to meeting my partner on the road. I do not fear changes, I do not fear having another point of view.

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4 Comments

who won the prizes ?

Posted by JD on 8 March 2008 @ 8pm

Hi JD,
fav.or.it won the first prize with 11 coins, then there was a little bit of misunderstanding between WebCanvas and Mapness. The second place was for WebCanvas and the third for Mapness (I voted for Mapness because I liked the idea)!

Cheerio

Posted by Carlo on 8 March 2008 @ 11pm

Thanks for being one of the few people who blogged about this event.

Posted by Mike Butcher on 10 March 2008 @ 12am

Hi Mike!
I have to admit that very few people wrote about StartupCamp. The unconference was interesting, and it seemed to me that people felt very interested in it…
I have also to admit that the number of photos uploaded on flickr have been in very limited number (as far as I am aware, only two people did it).

Posted by Carlo on 10 March 2008 @ 9am

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