Occasional Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
As far as I know, this is a first. Major corporations don’t give back the original domains they acquired back to their founders, and Yahoo should be commended for it. It’d be nice to see this right-of-first-refusal become part of standard shutdown procedures. This. And the history (so far?) of upcoming.org, over on Medium.
And then, finally, yesterday, almost three years after we originally registered the domain, we were flooded by a very sudden and very certain torrent of texts and Facebook messages, emails and Twitter replies. She is dead, they all said. In a panic, I forgot the site’s password, and then put up the wrong page for a few seconds, by accident. Jared did the same. It lived, it burned, it died. What now? It’s a monument, a story, a mad idea seen through to competition. It’ll be imitated, but never bettered. In their own words, this is how Jared and Antonio
Om Malik on his life as an Entrepreneur with GigaOm. Fascinating. Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding – possibly all within the space of a nanosecond. And yet, it is like a high none other. I have experienced it in others. And quietly, I have lived it for over six years. Here are some lessons I learned from my journey. They may not be universal, but these lessons learned have changed me both as a person and as a founder.
