Corsair

"It isn't just about being a programmer."  A quote that relates to the technology business of today's market.  That just because a company is a tech company it doesn't mean that everyone there is a programmer and that all they do all day is program.  It is still a machine and needs to be well kept.  Meaning that the company is meaningless if it 1. doesn't generate revenue and 2. doesn't have a way to actually compete with other businesses or if their product is worse than their competitors.  Other than that little ramble, the guest speaker was actually pretty cool and was very interesting to hear what he had to say.  Starting with the fact that he has a G.E.D. and a two-year degree from a technical college, and has still started 4 businesses and at least two of which are strong and have employed several people besides himself.  His most recent business Airlift is very interesting, that the way his company works is that it's all done offsite, he doesn&

Startup.com a very interesting documentary for sure, it follows two primary founders of a website called govworks.com.  Although there were three founders, the third founder was barely introduced and had very little screen time and was bought out at a very early time of the company for something around $400,000.  Which is insane to me, although he did put in equal amount of time, effort, and money at the beginning of the company.  Interestingly it seemed that he knew what his shares were worth when he was getting bought out, which was a very smart idea on his part, even though he couldn't even sell his shares or stock even if he wanted to because the company wasn't on the public market just yet and was still getting funding from VC's.  Moving on the documentary itself was interesting, it was a good look into what the dot-com bubble was and how so many companies were trying to move into this multibillion-dollar market, in as little time as possible, and how everyone was try