Identity Zeitgeist
Question: How do you know you've been in the identity industry too long?
Answer: When all of a sudden, you see everything as a parody. I just entered year 6.
We've written like 17 zillion whitepapers over here at Ping Identity. All of them serious.
About a month ago I thought, why not explore the lighter side of identity. Life is short. Let's have some fun. So I enlisted the help of someone (whom I'm dying to name but can't at the moment). This guy is an absolute riot, and total creative genius. He came up with the above and together, we're having a blast putting together some homemade videos and other little fun snippets about our industry.
We don't have an agenda, we're pretty much just having fun, after all, life is short... hmm, did I say that already? So, while I have no intension of offending anyone, I'm a bit tormented, because sometimes, some of the raw material we're working with is just too, well, real.
Did I mention life is short yet? Let's have some fun.
Web2.0 Meets Entrepreneur. Entrepreneur meets Fund Reputation
The Funded (www.thefunded.com) is a site Eric Norlin just turned me onto. It's a venture fund reputational system whereby entrepreneurs rate VC's on deal terms, competence, execution assistance etc. It even has a private, member only area where CEO's and other entrepreneurs can lend advice to other entrepreneurs looking to do business with the funds in question.
I've been lucky here at Ping, we have some very smart and supportive backers. Thus far, two of our VC's are listed in the top 5 (Draper and Fidelity Ventures).
What a great resource to entrepreneurs.
