I spoke at a San Diego TiE event at the end of January. It was a panel of Software Entrepreneurs fielding questions about what the start-up life is like in software these days. Steve Bjorg from MindTouch was there. The two other panelists were Thomas Carter, Founder & CEO, Capital Window  and David Desch, Vice President of Engineering and IT, Digital Force Technologies (he helped Sony launch their HDTV division). For me, the chance to speak at the event was well worth it. I had not a little bit of fun too. In every way, I was the anomaly up there. No success to speak of (in the monetary sense), no “team” and no inhibitions.

Aside from being fun, the event also helped me frame some thoughts I’ve been having. I thought it would be a good idea to get them down on paper while they are fresh and share wit you. Let me know what you think, yeah? [...]