Geo Perdis was a busy guy last night, he was at both DemoCamp and the Future of Media events. The venerable Tom Purves was kind enough to live blog the Yossi Vardi chat at DemoCamp Toronto 22.
Yossi Vardi quoting Paul Getty, an oil man: there are three rules for success
1. rise early,
2. work hard,
3. strike oil.
I had a great time at DemoCamp last night. The event ran a little long (6:30pm start; 9:26pm finish), but I really wanted to give the audience an opportunity to arrive and I did not want to cut short Yossi. It was 37 minutes to answer the first question I asked.
- I really liked having a "guest of honour”, it’s particularly great when the guest is as engaging as Yossi.
- Mark Evans suggested that a new goal, every entrepreneur should leave the stage better from the experience and feedback
- Providing feedback and commentary is critical. I’d like to experiment have 1-3 local experts that provide feedback. I’m thinking marketing/pr; tech; finance. Or something.
- We need to have more fun. Be less serious about the feedback. Yossi reminded me how much play there can be in engaging with startups and entrepreneurs. I used to call this the “heckle”. We need to bring this element back to the events.
- The crowd and question and answer is still my favourite. Regardless of the experimenting with “experts”, there needs to always be time for open Q&A.
Do you have an opinion on the format? the venue? How can we make the experience and the event better? You feedback is always appreciated.
