Persistance

My wife jooked an article on BusinessWeek yesterday about the IBM CEO Palmisano getting a Second Life. Its funny how life works. Now everyone is on the bandwagon joining Second Life. Just wanted to give some encouragement to entrepreneurs out there who are hacking away on the next killer app. Not to give up! To give a little background on Second Life. I went to a talk given by Mitch Kapor last week at EMP in Seattle. And he said from the beginning he believed in Philip Rosedale's vision of virtual worlds but what most people don't know is that Philip Rosedale's was turned down by 42 VC's. He pitch 42 VC's and not one believed his idea would work. So Mitch Kapor continued to fund him as an angel investor for 5 years and look what Second Life has become. A place where the CEO of IBM and others are boasting that they've got an avatar in a virtual world. If Philip didn't believe in his dream Second Life would not exist. So for all you entrepreneur's out there, don't stop believing.

-k