Tomasz, my fellow co-founder and CTO, represents Tablefinder at The Internet Marketing Conference in Stockholm November 29-30th. He will be on a panel about Taking a Business from 0–100 km/h in No Time with other Swedish internetentrepreneurs like Jonas Hombert from JayCut.
Read more at: http://www.webanalysts.info/
One of the TechCrunch40 companies, .dockstoc, just launched and I got an opportunity to take a first look. What they provide is something I have been looking for for a very long time. Bye bye to all companies trying to charge for their "professional" document templates.
I havn't played around much with it, but just the first look when I logged in was brilliant - all of the documents I have been looking for in one place, for free (for now anyways):
I strongly recommend anyone who is doing any sorts of business planning to take a look at the site.
Here is a screencast of some of the stuff you can do.
We just announced the public beta of Tablefinder.com and of course there are some people still using some weird version of Internet Explorer 6, which, again of course, is causing some weird problems.
I wish they would just force everyone to update to IE7. So if you are reading this: Update your browser, or use a real browser like Firefox 
If you are a IE6-bug-master, let me know!
Last week I was at Catapult in London - a conference about launching your business in the US - and it was a very good networking experience.
Talking about networking, social networking, which of course is very hot these days, it is starting to turn into something so much more than just playing around on the internet. On one of the panels at the conference a panelist said that
"Social networking is turning into Business networking"
And I couldn't agree more. Not only online, but social networking IRL is one of the best ways to do business.
We would not be where we are today without doing serious business networking. I think that how it is done is one of the main differences when comparing European entrepreneurs to US ditto. In Sweden when people do business networking it is almost always about making money or connections to people that will help you make money. What I have experienced these last few trips to London, but also going to conferences with great entrepreneurs is that, there, the focus of business networking is helping each other.
People are much more happy to help you and give you advice, rather than focusing on how they can make money off of you. This difference might seem marginal, but is an essential detail in the "new" Business networking that is starting to occur. I guess one could say that the sharing trends of social networking and open source are finally coming to business networking. By helping each other I believe we are creating a collective wisdom of business.
So, I believe that by surrounding yourself with great entrepreneurs that are willing to share their knowledge is a key to success in doing business in the future. But it is important that you are as willing to help them, as you are eager to get advice. With this said, I'm happy to give advice, for free, to anyone who would want some.
This is a couple of days late... but we won at SeedCamp!
The week was really exciting and I think I will write a longer post on what it gave me personally.
Wow! What a fantastic week at SeedCamp! Me and Tomasz managed to do a pretty good presentation today. At least in my opinion.
During this week, we have been able to change the way we describe our idea in a better way than what we have been able to do for over 16 months of trying. I'll swallow my pride of not being able to figure it out myself, and say thank you very much!
Tonight we are going to the TechCrunch Party at a really nice and big private flat somewhere in London.
YUIBlog at Yahoo have a nice video on Joseph Smarr from Plaxo talking about javascript best practices. I have been saying for a long time that it is not always good to code javascript in a strictly OO fashion, but instead use namespaces for protection. In some places it is good, but the mindset with javascript should be that "How can I solve this with the fewest lines of code" and not "How can I solve this the most 'beautiful' way".
Don't get me wrong, I really like beautiful solutions, but just not when they are done with 100 lines of code to be OO, when it could be done with 10 lines.
Joseph Smarr has some other good points where he argues in a similar fashion as Yoda, "You must unlearn what you have learned", meaning that regular coding best practices sometimes does not apply to javascript.
//Anders
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