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Talk on making an impact by Seth Godin at Business of Software last year

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Are you afraid to truly make an impact? The opportunity for linchpin organizations and the people who run them.

Seth Godin's ratio of actual stuff made to buzzwords invented is staggering.

nevertheless he's great. i've learned to be critic with the things i'm learning from the others and one thing is true: no one is going to be 100% wrong nor correct.

there's something to learn from everyone.

Is the past founding and sale of a successful internet media company to Yahoo!, and the founding and current running of a top ~100 quantcast media website not suitably impressive? I believe he has walked the walk, and earned the right to talk the talk.

Hiring other people to do the actual work while you just do sales and negotiation isn't that impressive.

Tell that to Steve Jobs.

My comment was far too flippant and unfair. It's not like I've been doing something better. I gotta learn to keep stupid statements like that in check.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important."

Thanks. I hadn't really thought about it that way but have changed the title. Mea culpa.

No worries - I'm a relative newcomer to HN but I remember reading the guidelines and thinking, "hey, that makes sense".

I hate to say this, I really do...because I am a MAJOR fan of Seth Godin's work.

But I got NOTHING actionable from this talk.

Am I missing something ?

How does a major fan of Seth Godin go to a talk of Seth Godin and expect any actionable work?

Seth is inspiring but don't look to him to tell you what to do.

How do I access to other talks at BOSS last year ? This website doesn't have a central place for them...it seems.

In past years, the talks have gone up slowly during the year after the conference.

Ugghh...how annoying.

The only one currently available from last year is Peldi's. http://businessofsoftware.org/video_10_peldi.aspx

So who's going to this year's conference?

I will be going, and will probably deliver one of the keynote (hour-long) speeches.

It would be great to see you give a keynote.

About €3,000 total registration and travel costs - I'll have to mull it over some more (not related to your keynote, just on a general note of costs!).

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