Jun. 15th, 2012

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Learn to love your own company.

Well, not exclusively your own company.  While stuck in the bar at Calgary I chatted to an oil company executive escaping from a company golf day in somewhere I've never heard of.  I spoke to a EMT manager on route to a piss up, ahem, Canadian National Emergency Services meeting in Vancouver.  I tried not to get between the woman making outrageous moves on a guy who kept telling her he was not interested.  Bill, the not interested guy, insisted on buying us all drinks.  I chatted, at length, to one of the 4 pilots on our flight being repositioned because of the shitty weather.

But they were vignettes, not real connections nor conversations, they were what you do when you're stuck together in a bar at an airport which seemed to be about 500 miles from anywhere else on Earth (this is true btw).

Yesterday I spent most of the day speaking, giving two 45 minute presentations on APIs and Social - as exciting as it sounds.  Then I got to sit in the hotel bar working on the stuff that I didn't get done during the day.

So, today, up and doing more email, breakfast with another attendee, off to the morning sessions and then, home.

Before that, however, I need to grab an hour on the phone with my lawyer to discuss the terms of an upcoming investment, and I need to write a couple of pitch emails to other potential investors who want to chat to each other about giving us money.

Just another day in Start Ups, every deal a whale, every meeting a pitch(*)

(*) - with sincere(ish) apologies to Sgt Apone from Aliens.

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