Ideas on paper

Thoughts by José Luis Agell

Category Archives: Learnings

Technology to improve our lives

I was fortunate to attend part of the GigaOm Roadmap today. The conference gathered 20 tech leaders to analyze “what’s next”.  Tech pros and founders from companies like Square, Twitter, Dropbox, WordPress, DreamWorks… went on stage to talk about what they’re working on and where do the see they future of technology going. Speakers came [...]

I’ve failed more than I’ve succeeded

Last Monday, the FailCon took place in San Francisco. As its website preaches: FaiCon is a one-day conference for technology entrepreneurs, investors, developers and designers to study their own and others’ failures and prepare for success. Wow! I love the idea to share our failing experiences to prepare for success. Because the entrepreneurial life is [...]

Half Dome, September 2011

This was a remarkable weekend. After too much time, I reconciled with the mountains and I met the challenge of climbing the Half Dome. This granite mass of more than 2600 meters is probably one of the most emblematic mountains of California. The truth is that its more than 1400 meters above the valley floor [...]

Trying to understand startup dynamics

The startup world is chaos. Everybody knows it. If we had a way to predict the success of  technology ventures and diagnose easy solutions to their problems, entrepreneurship would die. However, many people are trying to detect and understand some of the patterns that determine startup behaviors. A first attempt was led by Younoodle  a [...]

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