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December 15, 2005
Entrepreneur of the Year
Venture Voice has announced its "1st Annual Entrepreneur of the Year Award". Of those currently on the ballot I'd really like to see Joel Spolsky win. Although several excellent choices have been nominated, I like Joel for two reasons:
1) By all appearances he has built a successful software company on his own terms, and
2) He has opened his mind to the world with Joel on Software, providing unprecedented transparency into his recipe for success.
This second point is interesting for yet two more reasons:
2.1) The content Joel has produced has significantly helped large numbers of people be better developers and/or business savvy technologists, and
2.2) I am 100% sure that any and all competitors to Fog Creek Software read his material voraciously. Nonetheless Joel can still sleep peacefully at night knowing that completely duplicating what he has done is sufficiently difficult, even with an open manual, that he can maintain an advantage.
It'll be interesting to see who wins. Maybe next year I'll vote for Mr. Fried. The year after that I am going to try to win it!!! :-) LOL... I guess I need to get started building a company!! Soon.
Posted by harris at December 15, 2005 08:59 PM
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Hey Harris,
Long time no talk my friend. I think the Venture Voice is killer! Looks like you and I have the same thoughts in mind. ;)
Toni and I miss you guys. Saw pics of Hannah...she's awesome. Makes Toni want one now.
Hope you are well my brotha.
Later,
B
Posted by: Bryan Engram at December 18, 2005 06:47 AM