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Anniversaries and birthdays are nothing more than a chance to reflect and collect one’s thoughts. This past week the little experiment called GigaOm turned seven years old. It has been seven years of lessons learned, embracing failure and challenging preconceived notions. The past seven years have allowed me to figure out that in life if we are … Continue reading Seven
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 — Om. Continue reading “Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned”
This week we at GigaOM host our annual company strategy meeting. The best part about the two-day fest (apart from all the food, drinks and bowling) is the fact that it is a chance to bringe together the senior team members with fresh faces. The young’uns come to us as a result of a direct-from-college … Continue reading BabyOmers
I have published GigaOM a lot longer before it was a blog. It was a website where all the links went to articles from Forbes, Red Herring and other publications I used to write for. It was an archive for all my email newsletters. It was home to my resume. But in December 2001, MovableType’s Ben Trott installed the MovableType software for me and with that GigaOm, the blog was born.
This year, I celebrated its eleventh birthday by taking a quiet walk down embarcadero on a very rainy day, musing about how the world (and blogging has) changed since then. I thought about how blogging changed me, my view of the world, and how I practice the art of writing. It helped me discover my voice and myself. Continue reading “Eleven (years of blogging)”
Today we are hosting our first international conference, GigaOm Structure Europe. One of the questions I keep getting asked is why did you pick Amsterdam? Apart from the fact that I don’t want to deal with the craziness at the Heathrow Airport, here are five reasons why we are hosting a conference in what is clearly my favorite European city…
Finally! Finally! if someone could my face right now, it would look like a kid who just got a cake all to himself. I have been waiting, patiently to share this news with my readers: we have have launched GigaOM Europe, our first (and for now the only) international foray. It is spearheaded by Bobbie … Continue reading Oh hello there, GigaOM Europe
Earlier this weekend, someone used the Alexa web stats service and compared the daily reach of GigaOM with that of my friends at Techcrunch and that on Mashable, and wondered if I was sad. Now I could have easily answered this question over on GigaOM, but instead I am leaving that for what it is … Continue reading Why I am not sad. Because I have no reason to be!
