When I was starting out as a designer all I wanted to do was sit at my Mac and do design all day and ignore everything else about the messy world of business. In a way I’m still a little like that, but somehow I got to this point in my career where I’m building my second company and spending more of my time, energy and passion on the mechanics of business than I ever have before. And it’s been incredibly fun.
This coming Thursday I’m going to be talking about that journey as well as sharing some thoughts about design entrepreneurship in general. I’ll be doing this as part of Tech@NYU’s Startup Week here in New York City, and I’ll be appearing onstage with the amazing Ben Pieratt, designer extraordinaire and founder of Svpply. The event was announced this past week but it was sold out before I could even blog about it. Thankfully, the folks at Tech@NYU found a bigger venue, so they’ve just opened up a whole new set of seats. You can get your ticket here.
(By the way, people have been asking if the talk will be recorded or streamed. Currently there are no plans to do that, sadly.)
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