Well, it's been a while since my last post and thats primarily due to be kept flat out busy at my new gig as CTO at open source database company EnterpriseDB where we are making strong progress in the market as an alternative to Oracle and other open source DBMS systems.
Friday night, I had a chance to hang out for a while at the TechCrunch Boston Meetup held in downtown Boston. The event was quite busy. At around 8:30 PM, one of the security folks told me that there were about 450 folks there. It was quite packed. With an open bar, good discussions and a bunch of emerging startups, venture capitalist along with industry vetrans, which sounds strange as I probably fall into that category, I found the event quite good. The spirit of innovation and experimentation was certainly alive and kicking, even though you get this feeling that some of the startups are just that, an experiment. The good news is that we can spin up businesses faster than ever before by using open source, remote workers, and creative thinkers, all collaborating over the internet using everything from low cost SaaS based project manager, BaseCamp to instant messengers. I suspect that this TechCrunch event probably served as a catalyst for generating some new ideas just thru the networking that took place at the event. It was great running into some folks I haven't seen for a while like Reed Sturtevant who is now running Microsofts product development center in Boston. I also had a chance to chat with another local Microsoft friend, Don Dodge and some of my former colleagues at Powersoft as well as executives, entrepreneurs and venture professionals from the Boston area.
IDG Ventures also with the other sponsors did a terrific job and I hope to attend more of these events in the future. The Tech Cocktail that was held in Boston, near Fenway Park this past Fall was another great networking event with emphasis on Web 2.0. Finally, we seem to be aligning with the types of events that happen out west.
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