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Sounding Board

  • Adam Keys
    Friend, Ruby developer, and funnyman about town.
  • Alex Muse
    Fellow entrepreneur and founder of Texas Startup Blog.
  • Alex Ramsey
    Communications guru; met through STARTech.
  • Amanda Schnetzer
    Former boss at DCFR and one smart cookie.
  • Amit Basu
    IT guru; one of my first contacts.
  • Avi Nangea
    Mentor, friend, and analogy genius; one of my first contacts.
  • Blake Burris
    Fellow entrepreneur and mentor; changing the way you achieve your goals
  • Brandon Cotter
    Entrepreneur friend; changing the way you search the web.
  • Caroline Brettell
    Mentor, friend, and Ph.D. of Anthropology.
  • Chris Leonard
    Technology guru for Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams.
  • Chris St. John
    Very talented veteran entrepreneurial engineer.
  • Corbin Casteel
    Campaign Manager/Communications Director for Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams
  • Dan Klein
    Friend and Director at Hunt Ventures.
  • Dan Owen
    Dallas VC with HO2 Partners and White Space Ventures; former COO of SpectraVision.
  • Daniel Miller
    Good friend and currently chief "guy who does web stuff" at Hopeshow.tv; fantastic sense of humor.
  • Darin Divinia
    Friend and founder of RadicalBuy.
  • Dave Copps
    Entrepreneur friend; changing the way information finds you.
  • David Doyle
    Mentor, friend, and Ph.D. of History.
  • David Rex
    Best darned attorney for tech startups in Dallas.
  • David Schnetzer
    Director of Global Pricing and Strategy at Match.com
  • Dennis Baldwin
    Good friend, fellow entrepreneur and soccer player; changing the way location matters.
  • Dennis Cordell
    Mentor, friend, and History professor.
  • Don Evans
    CSE PhD at SMU; teaches the fabled Senior Design course.
  • Edward Rincon
    Statistics guru and Ph.D. and one of my first contacts.
  • Ellen Allen
    Guru on operations management; friend from SBI
  • Fidel Baca
    Technology veteran; met at SBI.
  • Frank Coyle
    CSE Ph.D. and friend; one of my first contacts.
  • Frank Kryza
    Former oilman, author, and Honorary Consul of Tunisia
  • Gabriella Draney
    Entrepreneur in Residence, HP Growth Partners.
  • Gary Crockett
    Successful former entrepreneur I met at STARTech.
  • Geoff Dagley
    Friend and Ruby developer full of merriment and sense!
  • Hemang Desai
    Accounting Ph.D. and friend from SBI
  • Ian Wolfman
    The "Jerry Maguire" of digital marketing; Sr. VP of Busin. Dev. at IMC2; met thru Paula Strasser.
  • James "Pete" Laney
    Former Speaker of the Texas House of Reps.
  • James Hollifield
    Friend and Poly Sci Ph.D. at SMU.
  • James Hopkins
    Dean's Scholar mentor, friend, and History Ph.D.
  • Jeff Corkran
    Friend, mentor, and President of Innerecho.
  • Jeff Williams
    Dallas VC; Managing Director, Hunt Ventures.
  • Jerry White
    Entrepreneurship guru; one of my first contacts thru SBI.
  • Jim Moroney
    Fellow Camp Longhorner and Publisher of The Dallas Morning News.
  • Jim Young
    Entrepreneur and fellow Camp Longhorner; changing the way you find your friends.
  • John Cole
    Fellow entrepreneur from SMU; changing the way you follow your bands.
  • John Mauldin
    Investment guru and author.
  • John Nicholas
    Friend and Dir of Interactive Technology, Ackerman McQueen.
  • Leslie Lemon
    Very sharp friend of Pete Laney.
  • Maggie Dunham
    CSE PhD at SMU; all about bioinformatics and data mining.
  • Mark Floyd
    Entrepreneur friend; VoIP maven.
  • Mark Fontenot
    CSE PH.D. at SMU and one of my first contacts.
  • Mark Nicholas
    Close friend and mentor from Midland.
  • Merrie Spaeth
    Communications guru and former White House Fellow.
  • Mihaela Iridon
    CSE Ph.D.; one of my first contacts.
  • Mike Dorsey
    Entrepreneur friend; changing the way you advertise online.
  • Mike Orren
    Entrepreneur friend; changing the way we read the news.
  • Nick Orenstein
    Entrepreneur friend; changing the way you monitor your unborn baby's heartbeat.
  • Nikhil Nilakantan
    Very good friend and Pres of Social Span Media.
  • Paula Strasser
    Guru on everything leadership and friend from the Summer Business Institute at SMU.
  • Rachel Dunlap
    Very smart friend from SMU; you'll hear her on NPR before too long.
  • Robert Rasberry
    Ph.D. at SMU; Great resource on ethics and corporate responsibility.
  • Russell Crow
    Like me, doesn't like big brother AT ALL!
  • Rylan Barnes
    Friend, brilliant coder, and creator of the all famous iPhone app Shop Savvy.
  • Sarah Jane Semrad
    Very good friend, Executive Director of La Reunion TX, and white-hot center of Dallas underground arts scene.
  • Sejal Desai
    Co-founder of STARTech; now at MHT
  • Shailesh Negandhi
    Former telecom entrepreneur; Executive Director of TiE in Dallas.
  • Sharon Venable
    Friend from my time at the Chamber; knows everyone in Dallas.
  • Shaun Dawson
    Friend, iron-man, code savant; a top dawg at BellTower Technologies.
  • Simon Mak
    Entrepreneurship guru; met through SBI.
  • Simon Sinek
    Communications guru and friend; met on a flyfishing trip to Vermejo Park Ranch.
  • Stephen P. Anderson
    Friend, design genius, a poet and a painter ;)
  • Stephen Szygenda
    Former entrepreneur, CSE Ph.D., and one of my first contacts.
  • Steve Ray
    Good friend and head of design for Telligent.
  • T.R. Viswanathan
    Former entrepreneur and EE Ph.D.; has already changed the way you do everything.

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October 08, 2009

pulp startup: part 2

Pulp fiction green
Blake’s baby, my step-baby, baby Challenge. We have very high aspirations for her. We want her to grow up big and strong and beautiful and we want her to find something she’s good at, something that can be hers. She’s told us before that she wants to be a social platform for challenges among friends, but you know how kids are, always changing their minds. Right now we’ll be happy if she doesn’t bomb her first day of school, which is comin up real quick. She needs to do what we’ve taught her and play nice with Facebook and make one thousand friends so that Blake can make good on his promises. This is why I was hired.

I meet Blake at our usual lunch spot and we both order the special. They bring out meatloaf sandwiches, which means it must be Thursday. Blake starts talking about Ryan Frytus. Spelled Freitas. This is the Adaptive Path ex who will be judging my user experience skills for one hour starting at 1pm. He’s kind of a big deal according to Blake, but I could be confusing him with someone else. Blake spews names the way 8th graders spew locker room expletives, to the point where your motha’ Freitas brain throws up a motha’ Freitas blue screen of death and asks for a motha’ Freitas reboot.

I’m nearly immune at this point, but it’s still fun to watch the uninitiated as they lose cognitive cabin pressure. Which reminds me, to make a mental note, to google Ryan Freitas.

To be continued…

Posted by Tyler Fields on October 08, 2009 at 10:11 PM |

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