Coffee, Sun & Technology

I’m on a trip to meet present and future Wambo users in SoCal for the next 2 weeks. We’ll be sharing notes about it on Wambo’s blog. My 2 co-founders will be on this trip as well, though for shorter stays. This is an awesome opportunity to engage in conversations with people outside of Silicon Valley.

Professor Melen from Stanford offered me the opportunity to talk about my experience as an entrepreneur next Tuesday (1/16) at 10:50AM (Terman Auditorium, room 153), as part of his class “EE203 The entrepreneurial engineer”. I like how it’s described:

Most of the students are Masters and Ph.D. students.  It is a graduate level course.  Most of the students are engineering and science students with little formal business background.  This course has been taught since the late 1970’s.  Your presentation should last thirty five minutes, this allows time for questions at the end.  The material you wish to present is your choice. It should be targeted on the technical Stanford Graduate who has a burning desire to develop a “product” and go into business for himself after graduation. 

This is my second time - I was first invited to talk about Fireclick in January 2001. I looked at my old slides and one thing does strike me: we seem to have gone full circle - 2001 was great, 2006 is great again, and everything in between strikes me as dull (recession, etc).

Last night I went home from work at 9:30PM, kind of average these days. Like almost everyday, I motivated myself to go jog around home a bit - I’m a runner and I like to run 5 or 6 times a week. It’s getting harder and harder. Releases, launch plans, conf calls with India (+12H time diff), travel, and of course, life outside of work. The Californian winter is mild, but it can get chilly at night - and it’s always hard to get out after 13H at work for a run. Are entrepreneurs condemned to an unhealthy lifestyle - or am I just getting old. The only thing I’m sure of is that I am resisting!

After 4 months of name searching we finally found a great name for Perenety’s product, now “Wambo“. We are also changing our company’s name from “Perenety Inc” to “Wambo Inc”.

On the product side, we solidified the core technology a few months ago, and are now adding the last few touches to Wambo, still in pre-alpha. As a side note, it’s quite amazing to see how the slow evolution incrementally led to Wambo, from the early data storage technology days at Stanford. It was a long long year - everyone’s worked SO hard.

Now we’re all excited for 2007 - I think that the best motivator by far has been to clear uptake in “I love Wambo” emails… Always a good sign!