Tag Archives: Defrag

January 23, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

On the Ethic of Delivery – Required Watching

By Ben Kepes

Over the past few years I’ve been a kind of informal adviser to the Defrag event. The role is less than onerous, Eric Norlin totally understands what his participants (and at defrag, attendees really are participants and not simply an audience) most want to see. Defrag has always been a

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November 23, 2010 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Twitter’s Firehose, A Missed Opportunity or a Savvy Move?

By Ben Kepes

I was in the front rows last week when Twitter and Gnip co-announced at the defrag conference that Gnip would be selling 50% of all the messages posted to Twitter for $360,000 per year, or 5% of all messages for $60,000 per year. Marshall covered the new fully over on

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November 17, 2010 Posted in Business 4 Comments

On Wadhwa at defrag – Stereotypes Might be Easy, But They’re Not Robust

By Ben Kepes

Here at Defrag today, Vivek Wadhwa spoke about innovation. Despite starting off as little more than a travelogue and a list of people Wadhwa has met, he went on to talk about the barriers to entrepreneurship. He made some specific points about the funding decisions of Silicon Valley VC firms

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November 1, 2010 Posted in Business 9 Comments

Work/Life Balance Doesn’t Happen Once a Quarter

By Ben Kepes

Brad Feld, Partner at VC firm The Foundry and long time supporter of Eric Norlin’s events Glue and defrag, recently presented to TEDxBoulder about his personal strategy of taking a once-a-quarter “week off the grid”. Full video below for those with a spare 8 minutes or so. The upshot is

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