Author: Angelo Luciani

Nutanix is doing something very special this year (..full disclosure, I am employed by Nutanix), they have offered to make a non-profits dream come true, with the Web-Scale Wish Project.  As the Nutanix website stats;

The Web-Scale Wish Project will donate up to $500,000 of products and services to worthy causes selected by the community, with the goal of furthering the organizations’ missions by backing them with the power of web-scale technology.

This is a great opportunity for you to nominate your favourite non-profit and have a real impact on their service to the community.  Nominations must be completed/submitted by November 21, 2014. Non-profits can also nominate themselves, so you can reach out to non-profits in your community and encourage them to participate.

The winner – as well as the two runners-up – will get donations of Nutanix products and services to overcome challenges in their IT environments and enable their organizations to affect more positive change.

When will it happen

Mark your calendar December 10, 2014. Watch the virtual event on December 10th to hear from the three finalists and cast your vote to determine the winner! Voting will be open to the public for 24 hours.

Let the power of your nomination impact the lives of many today, nominate a non-profit!

There is a great podcast that I found on iTunes called How to Start a Startup. For those of you who are more visual, they also have a YouTube channel (…This is my preferred method). This podcast, is loaded with leaders from Silicon Valley, sharing insights and advice on how to build your startup and how to navigate the waters. There is a wealth of information in the videos, slides and supporting documentation.

There are some big names here

Some of the speakers are Ben Horowitz, founder of Andreessen Horowitz, Aaron Levie, Co-Founder of Box, Marc Andreessen, Founder of Andreessen Horowitz, Ron Conway, Founder of SV Angel, Parker Conrad, Founder of Zenefits and many more.

These recording take place at Stanford University and give you an inside look at what’s its like to start a startup.  Presentation slides are available, as well as transcripts for each presentation – so you don’t miss anything.  I hope you enjoy the recording and think about following the series.

If you look through the description of each recording, you will find links to the slides. Check out the playlist below.

Do you run a startup? Do the topics and ideas here resonate with you? Let me know on Twitter and thanks for reading!

I use Evernote, as I’m sure many of you do as well.  Its a great piece of software, its on all my mobile devices and its my go to app for collecting data, BTW – there are so many ways to collect information with this app – its an embarrassment of riches.  Oh, and once you have all that data in Evernote, you will need a very powerful way to find that note from three weeks ago, enter the crazy good search function.

In the last couple of weeks, I noticed the iPhone app got an update and one of the new features that they pushed out was the Work Chat. Work Chat, is a feature that allows Evernote users to chat about items they are working on directly in the Evernote client (this is pretty cool), whats also cool about it is, you can collaborate on notebooks and notes with the app.

Once you are connected with the other person within the app, you can pass along documents and they can be edited in real time.  I did a test with Eric Wright and connected with him over the chat, sent him a doc to review and modify and when he was done, I was informed the document was updated.  The other cool thing is you can collaborate with as many people as you like, think of it as a virtual meeting.

As well, Evernote recently held their 2014 EC4 Conference, and if you interested to see whats happening with Evernote – check out the videos here on YouTube.

During the Keynote, Phil Libin gave a demo of work chat – If you want to speed up to the demo, it starts at 1:05:00

Have you tired work chat? What is your go to note taking app of choice? Let me know on Twitter and thanks for reading!

Just a quick note, that Cisco is holding a Unified Computing System Launch Event on September 4, 2014 – this is going to be good!  The Keynote Address  & UCS Innovation Product Announcements will be delivered by Padmasree Warrior.

Its being billed as the most powerful array of new computing  solutions since Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) first entered the market in 2009.

You can register for the event here, and I would love to hear your feedback on the event and announcements.

• Blog from Todd Brannon – The Bases are Loaded for a Cisco UCS Grand Slam

Oh, BTW, Our very own Discoposse will be in attendance along with Chris Wahl and the Tech Field Day crew – follow Twitter hashtag #CUCS14

Let me know on Twitter if you plan on attending and thanks for reading.