Entrepreneur Exchange.

Ross Mayfield has put up a new wiki for startups entitled Entrepreneur Exchange:

Entrepreneurship is the discipline of starting a company in absence of resources. Today the Entrepreneur Exchange opened, a renewable resource (wiki) for entrepreneurs.

It's all over.

Chapter 3 is history. With hope, the roughly 350 attendees heard something useful, got to ask some questions, and network with folks who've done the entrepreneur thing successfully.

If you were there then let us know what you thought.

Today's the day!

We're just a few hours away from Chapter 3, which happens later today. This post was originally going to be titled "Tomorrow", but Blogger was down.

I've got the startup bug too though, so I've been working on something that lets me post even when Blogger is down it seems. Unfortunately it wasn't really in a working state tonight.

Anyway, we'll see you all in a little while.

Tony Perkins founder of Red Herring and AlwaysOn, spoke at the opening of Entrepreneur Week. The man who predicted the burst of the dotcom bubble believes that "the greatest Internet companies have yet to arrive."

Tony believes that blogs, and the "blogosphere" are part of an open media revolution - the "open web", or Web 2.0. Hey, you're soaking in one now.

From Canada.com:

"Every great industry -- airlines, television, automobiles, railroads, you name it -- was built on the back of a financial mania during which the average investment generated a negative return," Mr. Perkins said yesterday in a keynote speech at the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation's Venture and Technology Summit.

"But the real action happened after the blowout," said Mr. Perkins, 46, who is based in Silicon Valley.

He believes that stronger companies are emerging as they reap the benefits of lower startup costs and ongoing Internet penetration. He predicts that 70 per cent of the best firms will end up being founded between 2002 and 2007.

In other words, it's time to get started.

The Singularity is Near.

The Boston Globe reviews Ray Kurzweil's new book, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology:

We'll eat whatever we want but never get fat. Real estate will be virtual. Cheap, tiny computers will be smarter than we are. Energy demands will be met by nanoscale renewable technologies. We'll choose when, and if, we'll die. Many organs will be irrelevant, we'll be able to select from alternate personalities, and those among us who are ''software-based" will be a decade or two away from being ''able to expand [our] thinking without limit."

Is this utopia? A new science fiction movie? An optimistic scenario for human life in the year 2500?

Try 2030. It is a prediction evangelized in intense detail by Ray Kurzweil in his staggering new 650-plus-page treatise, ''The Singularity Is Near." Kurzweil, a renowned computer scientist and inventor of, among other things, the flatbed scanner, argues that our society is facing an imminent and overwhelming transformation called the Singularity.

The Singularity is, in Kurzweil's words, ''a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed." Another way to put it is to say that pretty soon biological evolution will be transcended by technological evolution.

The ideas Ray presents aren't really so farfetched, and he should know. He lives and breathes entrepreneurship, having created scanners, optical character recognition and speech recognition tools, and some amazing electronic musical instruments.

People like Ray Kurzweil think of the ideas that drive technology forward. But for most of you, all you need is that one decent idea coupled with good execution to be successful. Though we can't help much with the idea, by the end of Chapter 3 you'll be ready to execute, and you'll be more than just good.