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Gary Vaynerchuk on Passion and Personal Branding

Dave Onkels — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:46:01 +0000

We just caught Gary Vaynerchuk’s keynote speech from the Web 2.0 Expo and it’s incredible. For those of you who don’t know him, Gary Vaynerchuk is best described as someone who acts like he’s experienced a near-death encounter…although to my knowledge, this has never occurred. He lives his life with such incredible passion and vigor that you can’t help but be drawn into his energy. In this 15 minute video, Gary shares his beliefs around success in life and business and how to connect to your audience through personal branding.

Rob Cuesta On Personal Branding

Brett Tilford — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:53:01 +0000

Rob Cuesta is an expert on personal branding. In his video he has some great insights into what exactly personal branding is, how personal branding helps you focus on your strengths, and the relationship between the personal and corporate brands. You can also check out Rob’s Blog.

While you were sleeping…we solved your personal branding problems

Dave Onkels — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:14:59 +0000

Well not really, but we got off to a great start. After nearly two weeks of planning, our talented team of six took the initial steps towards launching Nectar. We locked ourselves at Brett’s house for an intense and highly productive weekend “hackathon” session. As a result of our efforts, we completed the design and coding for our first Nectar “Taste” — a technically complex, yet elegant site design called “Miniml”. Additionally, we programmed the back-end components which will power the purchase process, domain registration, and lifestream components. Finally, we designed several of the front-end sales & customer information pages, and launched the blog you are reading now.

If you’ve never worked virtually non-stop for 72 hours, you really don’t know what you’re missing. To get a taste of the experience, you can watch our time-lapse video which condenses the entire ordeal down to a palatable six minutes of entertainment. Enjoy.

Nectar Hackathon Time-Lapse Video from Dave Onkels on Vimeo.

NECTAR HACKATHON RANDOM FACTS:

6 guys locked in the same room (only 3 of which decided to shower)
8 computers (7 Macs + 1 PC to confirm how badly Internet Explorer 6.0 fails)
432 total man hours of design and development
Over 4.2 billion lines of code
32 gigahertz of combined processing power
Nearly 2 pounds of raw coffee injected into our veins
384 ounces of Monster Energy consumed
Countless hours of mindless rambling and bad jokes
Preferred sleep method: fetal position with lower body tucked inside a knapsack for warmth