Howdy Dogateers! (Sorry that was just silly. Feeling a bit Goofy over here … or should I have said Pluto, yuk yuk)

Steven, John and I are all going speaking about community, customer augmentations and business in March. We hope you can catch any of these events.

SXSW Interactive
March 7th - 11th, Austin, TX

Steven and John are leading a Core Conversation titled: “Start-up Management 2.0 - Keeping Teams Motivated, Productive, Happy.” This is a topic also very dear to our heart inconveniently at the same time. Saturday 11:30am - 12:30pm

Ted is speaking on a panel titled: Startup Metrics for Pirates: AARRR! A simple 5-step model you can use to make better decisions for your startup in product and marketing.” This should be really great. Dave McClure has been teaching coursework on this and Dogster/Catster, RockYou, and CrazyEgg have all been living it in the front line of web start-ups. Monday 11:30am - 12:30pm

CommunityNext: Next Generation Media & The Web
March 29th, Los Angeles CA

Ted will be giving a talk on turning your web service from a personal income generation project to a sustainable long-term business. He’s told me confidentially it’s going to RAWK!

Also, we’re *very* happy to share that this year there will be EIGHT team members going to SXSW, and we’re throwing a party. Look for any of us and say hi!