brief history of Gist, lessons and anecdotes including stories about Defrag, Brad Feld and the acquisition by RIM

1. A startup – start to finish @tamccann

2. Cool people, aligned passions and complimentary skills - #win

3. Sometimes you just need to show up

4. How you do it is as important as what you do

5. Methodical, well-communicated progress… 18 month horizon 6 month goals 3 month plan 1 month themes 2 week sprints Ship, communicate, listen, learn, repeat

6. Influence the influencers, they will make you better

11. Step 6. Gist de-dupes and merges Steve Newman entities based on merge rules.

13. Step 8. Finally, when entities are displayed, fragments are de-duped, and merged based on confidence

15. We got numbers - 200K users, 200M profiles

16. The next phase Distribution

17. Keep your eye on the prize...

18. Give thanks