2. A little about me Got into BC Learned a ton & met amazing people* Rejection Found my passion Startups Venture Capitalist Back at BC *especially my wife, lauren, BC ‘91
9. “Creation Generation” And I think that’s an important characteristic of his generation: They take the tools available and make things, whether that’s a blog or a video or a web page or an application. The more tools there are, the more things they’ll make. There is no end to it. They don’t consume. They make. This is the creation generation. -Jeff Jarvis, Buzzmachine, http://bit.ly/rXJcC, May 2007
21. Starting a company Then Capital intensive Propriety applications Waterfall development Large teams Servers Channel Bloatware Now Capital efficient Open source Agile development Small teams Cloud Direct to consumer Constraints & simplicity
22. Data Twitter: side project (3 people) Tumblr: side project (2 people) Boxee: open source (3 people) OMGPOP: funded with $12k (2 people)
24. Advice from another alum* *Bill is the founder of WePay (funded by Y combinator) and a BC grad
25. Some more advice http://bijansabet.com/post/183120815/some-thoughts-for-students-new-grads
Editor's Notes
Summary about spark: history of spark, what we do at spark, etc.
What we look for at spark.
How do you innovate? You create and capitalize on change.
Open web ingredients.
Power to the people !
Broadband and wireless infrastructure isn’t suitable for our needs. Example: iphone & ATT = nightmare. We need speed but we also need concurrency & capacity. We don’t’ have that now.
