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April 16, '10

Presented the H.K. Douglas Cotton Memorial Lecture at Gilman School, Baltimore, MD.

February 10, '10

Speaking at Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leader's Seminar Series.

November 3, '09

Speaking on the Enabling Innovation panel at SAP in Palo Alto.

September 3, '09

Presenting at DartBoston's Pokin' Holes at Vintage Lounge in Boston.

May 13, '09

Speaking at the SDForum Tech Titans of Tomorrow: Teens Plugged In conference at Hewlett Packard.

April 25, '09

Speaking at the I Don't Know to CEO conference at Stanford.

April 7, '09

Speaking at the ASES Summit at Stanford on the Young Entrepreneurs panel.

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Apr 29

Two weeks ago I had the honor of speaking to my highschool about entrepreneurship as part of an annual lecture series on business - a humbling experience given the long and successful career of the day’s other presenter (the Director of the Maryland Spine Center) and the fact that I vividly remember sitting in the audience and listening to this same annual lecture 6 years ago.

My goal was to encourage the students to seriously consider entrepreneurship as a career and hopefully give them a sense of the excitement I derive from the startup world on a daily basis. 

Hope you enjoy the video (sorry it skips a few times!) and I would love feedback on what I could have done better…

Requisite thanks to the Cotton family:

The H.K. Douglas Cotton Memorial Lecture, established by Baltimore businessman Henry Kyd Douglas Cotton, annually features business and career lectures for students at Gilman School. The program was created by an endowment established by Mr. Cotton shortly before his death in 1979 and reflects Mr. Cotton’s strong belief in education and business.

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Apr 02

Setting your $PATH on Ubuntu (everywhere!)

Really for my own future reference, here is a quick summary of how to set the $PATH variable everywhere on the system (for Ubuntu).

As an example, let’s say you have ruby installed in /usr/bin and REE installed in /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin and you’d like to use REE system-wide.

  1. Your account: Add this line to your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc file:
    export PATH=/opt/ruby-enterprise/bin:$PATH;
  2. Sudo access: Ubuntu is, ummmm, unique, in that sudo does not inherit the path of the current user “for security reasons.” However, this really isn’t that much more secure, and furthermore is particularly obnoxious. To revert this behavior, add the following to your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc file:
    alias sudo='sudo env PATH=$PATH'
  3. System wide: For everyone else and other applications, adjust the PATH line in /etc/environment so it is prefixed with ‘/opt/ruby-enterprise/bin:’
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Feb 19
"Firing the customers you can’t possibly please gives you the bandwidth and resources to coddle the ones that truly deserve your attention and repay you with referrals, applause and loyalty."
— Seth’s Blog: more, More, MORE! (via hiten) Permalink
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Feb 09
Apart from the nonstandard button spacing, this is brilliant. hiten: szymon: I think one of the best WWF campaigns

Apart from the nonstandard button spacing, this is brilliant.

hiten:

szymon:

I think one of the best WWF campaigns

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Jan 29
"iPad is an incredible opportunity for developers to re-imagine every single category of desktop and web software there is. Seriously, if you’re a developer and you’re not thinking about how your app could work better on the iPad and its descendants, you deserve to get left behind."
— Joe Hewitt (via hiten) Permalink
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Jan 21

Box.net Launches Flash-Based Universal File Viewer, Saves You Some Headaches

Last year, Box.net acquired a small company called Increo without giving much insight as to what they’d be doing with the technology. Today, we’re seeing the fruits of that acquisition: Box.net is launching a new integrated Flash file viewer, allowing users to immediately view over 20 file types from their browser, including most common document formats, images (including Photoshop), audio, and video.

Read full article on TechCrunch…

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Jan 13
"

Remember about, oh, a decade ago? Before 9/11? After the Battle of Seattle, when everyone was talking about multinational corporations taking over the world, about corporate states and all of that?

Yesterday, we officially tripped over this point in history.

Take a step back and consider the situation: Google is threatening to embargo a superpower, in retaliation for an espionage campaign.

"
— Public Address | OnPoint Permalink
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Jan 09
hiten: itchycosmicpocket: softerpassions: (via cardinalfire)

hiten:

itchycosmicpocket:

softerpassions:

(via cardinalfire)

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The Lottery Lady

“Take the typical state lotto. If you knew all of the variables in the machine that draws the numbers, you can solve for which numbers will land in the winning numbers area.”

Ummmm….yeah…I’m gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you there. Most of those machines blow ping-pong balls around with air, which is most likely turbulent, and they are blown up into the slots when the lottery lady pulls the lever for the slot. Since, at a minimum, you can’t solve for the state of the lottery lady, you can’t “solve for which numbers will land in the winning numbers area.”

(Never mind the outrageous accuracy of initial conditions and precision of the calculations you’d need to solve for the movement of ~4 dozen ping-pong balls being blown around by turbulent air.)

From Slashdot comments, of course. And this doesn’t even breach the topic of Heisenberg Uncertainty…

[Re:Looking for god’s finger prints? Here it is.]

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Dec 22
"When Evan was at Pyra Labs they ran out of money. He laid off the team (actually just stopped paying them). Everybody hated him. He worked alone for a year in what I can imagine were far from optimal conditions. And what happened next? He sold his product (a little thing called Blogger) to a hot start-up (a little company called Google). The rest is history. And I’m pretty confident there would be no Twitter today if Evan hadn’t persevered back in the day."
— Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up. | JonBischke.com (via hiten) Permalink
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about jeff

Jeff Seibert

Jeff Seibert co-founded Increo Solutions, Inc. in 2007 and served as its President and COO until its acquisition by Box.net, Inc. in August of 2009. He currently works for Box as a Software Engineer where he manages the integration of Increo's document preview and annotation technologies into the company's online document management platform.

Seibert gained experience at Apple, Inc. in both marketing and engineering capacities and served as Co-Coordinator of Stanford University's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders seminar series. He was selected as a Mayfield Fellow in 2007 and received a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2008.

Seibert discovered his passion for entrepreneurship at a young age, founding Arios Software and developing and selling Macintosh desktop software during high school at Gilman in Baltimore, MD. Outside of work, he tries to spend as much time away from the computer as possible, whether it be surfing, snowboarding, or playing tennis.

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