Sigh.

First off, I note that the 2007 web­site was until yes­ter­day titled “Entrepalooza 2006″. Because why, exactly?

Also:

• In what sense is it a good thing that there are 320 unclaimed badges at the table, most of which say “Ross School of Busi­ness”, and at least three of which have “speaker” pen­nants dan­gling from them?
• Sam Zell stands up there and describes the struc­ture of a use­ful and inter­est­ing sale of his com­pany, and there are no com­ments or ques­tions from the audi­ence at all?
• There are mul­ti­ple break­out ses­sions, and the place is jammed with sup­posed entre­pre­neurs, and the whole thing is free. Chairs in the hall­way are fuck­ing empty dur­ing the ses­sions?! What does that say: that the speak­ers are really absolutely kick-​​ass? Or maybe some­thing about the cul­ture of busi­ness at Michigan?

  I’m reminded of the four or five Writ­ers’ mag­a­zines you see on the news­stand, still. “You can do it! Keep at it! Buy our mag­a­zine: sub­scribe now!”

• That same one again: Where were the con­ver­sa­tions?! They were sched­uled at 7:30am and after the speak­ers were done. That’s not how it works: you—young entre­pre­neur you—have some­thing impor­tant to tell peo­ple. Find them, and tell them right fuck­ing now. Or they will leave early.
• I will not deign to men­tion that cof­fee and cake are not what all of us want. No fruit, no Coke, no me. Woops, I did.

Please stand by. Expect to see three addi­tional sites with blogs: one for Coscience​.org–related non­profit science-​​for-​​free mate­r­ial, and one for Vague Inno­va­tion, LLC–related for-​​profit agalmic con­sult­ing work, and one at What­MightHap­pen for futur­ist inter­views and monographs.

But today it’s a trip to the hos­pi­tal for my Mom for a “sim­ple” pro­ce­dure, and some basic errands. Soon.

–ish.