{"id":588,"date":"2007-04-11T04:56:39","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T04:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newblog.odedsharon.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2007-04-11T04:56:39","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T04:56:39","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"TWS2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oy vey !<\/p>\n<p>start up founders are NOT performance artists.<br \/>\nthey aren&#8217;t very good stand up comedian.<br \/>\nThey don&#8217;t know to write script or pretend to be someone else.<Br><br \/>\n<br \/>\nRule number one of fiction writing, directing or acting : Maintain suspension of disbelief over your audience.<\/p>\n<p>There wasn&#8217;t any. I couldn&#8217;t believe any of the CEOs or the marketing people with their silly show about &#8220;wow ! this <\/p>\n<p>product\/service is so good ! where can i get it ?&#8221; bullshit.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re the fucking FOUNDER ! didn&#8217;t you hear about you OWN product ?<\/p>\n<p>I sat through 10 presentations. most of them had a &#8220;show&#8221; worse then a high school finishing play.<br \/>\nOH MY GOD ! why do they do it ?<br \/>\nTalk straight, talk forward.<\/p>\n<p>Just don&#8217;t pretend. You&#8217;re not good at it. You might be good at lying to your investors, but you&#8217;re not actor.<br \/>\nDOn&#8217;t write your funny text. Don&#8217;t try to be one on stage. Just like you don&#8217;t let your secretary design and program <\/p>\n<p>your MySql database.<\/p>\n<p>I will commend Hingi, <a href=\"http:\/\/clicktale.com\">clicktale<\/a>  and g.ho.st for not putting a dumb show but actually talking to the point.<br \/>\nG.Ho.St actually had a VERY nice flash animation as presentation ! KUDOS !!<\/p>\n<p>\nAnother point for the organizers:<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re running late in your time schedule, and want to speed things up, giving up the break &#8211; not a good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oy vey ! start up founders are NOT performance artists. they aren&#8217;t very good stand up comedian. They don&#8217;t know to write script or pretend to be someone else. Rule number one of fiction writing, directing or acting : Maintain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/?p=588\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newerblog.odedsharon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}