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Re: What’s The Cornerstone of Any Great Relationship?

Fred Brunel — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:44:34 -0000

You're right about the trust you have in your friends is different from the one you need in business.

I had hard experiments working with friends. Because of this friendship they were lacking commitments and I end up being very disappointed.

It's not easy to find the people with the will and discipline to start a business with you.

I'm glad you found out. :)

Re: Moving to San Francisco

Fred Brunel — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:13:23 -0000

Ben, I believed you and though you were actually leaving... and I was not that surprised.

The Valley looks so great from the outside. One of our famous blogger in France (Loic le Meur) is going to move there; he tried hard to build a strong startup community in France but the voice of sirens were obviously too strong.

Like you, I believe we can succeed outside the valley but this it is a very hard work and it looks so easy in the Valley that it's sometime frustrating.

Re: Moving to San Francisco

Fred Brunel — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:08:41 -0000

I've never met Loic but I do like its entrepreneurship spirit, something French people hate and I guess he left France for that.

The number of hate comments he received on his blog when he announced he was about to leave was just disgusting and unacceptable.

That's also a part of why I left and I wanted meet more creative and willing people. In that regard, the Valley is an heaven, so much gatherings, so many conferences, so many pationate people.

Anyway, being in Montreal is already a big step! :)

Re: Bloggers: Are You Ready For Writer’s Block?

Fred Brunel — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:53:19 -0000

Thanks Ben for links, very good advices.

I've been experiencing writer's block several time, probably because I focus too much on "deep" posts instead of informative posts. Unfortunately, this kind of post requires a lot of energy of analysis; sometime the task is just too big and I end up procrastinating.

I should break my thoughts and post small but more often. :)

Re: In Palm Springs and Preparing for DEMO 08

Fred Brunel — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:03:27 -0000

Good luck with the presentation Ben, I'm sure you'll do great.

Re: Standout Jobs Goes Live!

Fred Brunel — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:29:01 -0000

Congratulations Ben and to your team, the website is gorgeous.

Re: Google Shared Stuff: First Impressions

Fred Brunel — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:34:27 -0000

I don't get the point with these kind of software. Google should rather have bought Delicious (now part of Yahoo!).

Re: 2007/07/16/twittercal/

Fred Brunel — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:28:39 -0000

Hi Kristen,

Thank you for your review.

Best.

Re: 2008/05/17/indiana-jones-goes-seesmic/

Fred Brunel — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:47:42 -0000

That's awesome and that's a big win for the Seesmic team. Congrats to all of them.

Re: Yahoo Should Buy Twitter- Yes or No

Fred Brunel — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:22:32 -0000

Twitter is lucky — even with all its outage, it is still loved by its community — but its too bad to have it down during events like DEMO. Having conversations with people back there is amazing.

I don't know exactly what's their problem with their infrastructure but they definitely need help.

If they need money, why don't they request donations? I'll be happy to give them some bucks.

Re: Killer Vista app demoed

Fred Brunel — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:02:29 -0000

I have to admit that the application looks great, it slides and fades smoothly, but I'm a bit dissapointed that it also looks so Mac-ish! Is it really the only thing Vista developers will produce? A copy of Apple and Mac apps?

If we think about it, iTunes was one of the first modern RIA with the Music Store.

Bah.

Re: Pownce is Powncing…

Fred Brunel — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:10:44 -0000

You should automate the process :) I guess that accepting all these invitations takes some time and pollute all your email.

Re: Twitter now reliable?

Fred Brunel — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:48:07 -0000

Well, Twitter has definitely improved but it still went down during the iPhone SDK announcement.

Re: My 2,500-word-post on Twitter

Fred Brunel — Mon, 26 May 2008 00:05:26 -0000

Excellent! :)

Re: 12 non technical tips to design kick ass software architectures

Fred Brunel — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:27:08 -0000

You learned a lot, young Jedi. :)

Re: Scrum and XP from the trenches

Fred Brunel — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:36:47 -0000

Excellent review, Cecil.

Re: So you wanna be a Management Star – Introducing Scott Berkun

Fred Brunel — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:12:26 -0000

Thanks Cecil for pointing out these articles. That's very interesting reading.

Management is harder than we imagine especially because you'll have to deal with the human nature while keeping a team together.

Most people are really not prepared.