After finally coming out of my post-grad shell and seeing what’s out there in the working world, I found out about, and subsequently signed registered for, Barcamp DC. Barcamps are un-conferences, a concept where, instead of attendees shelling out a ton of cash to listen to a few highly paid people at a conference organized by a couple people, everyone helps out a little bit, as seen by the...
When I was on a technology and entrepreneurship-geared trip to Israel in late 2005, I was struck by one thing in particular. Besides Israel being one of the hotbeds for technology and entrepreneurship (and the country with the most stocks in the US stock market – after the US), the majority of entrepreneurs, in all industries, come from the Israeli army. Now, every Israeli has to serve in...
DCist: Metro Considering Nixing Late Night Service
Living here for six years, I had never seen any kind of entrepreneurial community. After graduating, I kept up that assumption. And wow. I was so wrong. So very wrong. So unbelievably wrong. I’m an idiot. Too bad I found out about this too late so I’m on the waiting list, and for this I’ll be at this. It’ll be nice finding a group of like-minded people, and hopefully this...