Peter
Corbett is the founder of DC
Tech Meetup – a monthly meeting of the local community of
techies and startups – to encourage demonstrations of latest
technology and what's up with the entrepreneurial community. It is
soundly build on open source principles - sharing and advancing good
ideas. DC Tech Meetup attracts over 1,000 people to each meeting.
This month was Social
Media Week – a week long collection of speakers, workshops,
demonstrations, and parties - anchored by the DC Tech Meetup Keynote
session.
Peter interviewed Steve
Case of Revolution
about lessons learned from leading AOL and Case's current roles of
philanthropist and investor. Two items really popped out for me.
Case said that at AOL he
learned to reinvent himself each year – shedding activities that
someone else could do better and taking on new projects to learn and
grow. Shedding the activities freed up time to take on new projects,
while delegating activities gave others an opportunity to grow.
There are three levels of
investing – each with a different purpose:
- Venture Capital Investing is to take early-stage, high potential, high risk, growth startups from prototype to market
- Speed-up Capital Investing is to take viable young organizations that can change the world to a new level of growth.
Speed-up capital investing
is what Case favors – several notable winners have resulted,
including Living
Social, Zipcar,
and AddThis.
In DC Tech Meetups, Peter
is investing - in community, self, and others. The
return is powerful – Forbes ranks DC area #1
Tech Hot Spot!
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1 comment:
Watching DC Tech grow and change is better than a soap opera. It gives a frame for entrepreneurs to dream and achieve.
Now if we could just turn off the "comment to all" bug in Meetup, Peter Corbett would have a much better life.
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