John Saddington - Entrepreneur

The next big thing is happening right now.

It’s being developed in basements, at night, and on the weekends.

It’s being coded on lunch breaks, written in a carpool, or designed on a subway ride.

It’s being concepted in sketchbooks, wireframed on mobile devices, and hacked on a flight from NYC to ATL.

It’s being designed by full-time moms, edited by full time stock brokers who want to do something else with their lives, and even put together, piece by piece, by middle school students who decided that sports wasn’t their thing.

Posted on May 5, 2013 In Startups

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There’s something about Soundcloud that really intrigues me. I think it’s a technology and community that could end up being vastly more disruptive than what the founders had anticipated or set out to do.

With over 38M users and about 5% of them “Pro” subscribers ($38 per year USD) it could be a $72M a year business (although Forbes cite it’s a third of that, with around $20M in sales last year). Profitability isn’t my point though because I’m sure it’ll continue to scale quite nicely.

Posted on May 4, 2013 In Tools

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Some day I’d love to speak at a TEDx (or even TED) event one day.

We’ve got one here in Atlanta, just announced for this year on November 8th, 2013. The theme this year is Catalyze:

Our theme this year is “Catalyze” and we have begun curating our speaker roster for 2013. We are looking for inspirational talks about catalysts in action as well as initiatives/projects/programs that have been unexpectedly accelerated or changed by catalysts.

If you’d love for me to speak at this even then you should consider nominating me (*wink* *wink*).

Posted on May 3, 2013 In Community

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Imogen Heap is amazing. This blew my mind. If you have 20 minutes to spare you must watch this. I was literally enthralled by not only her performance but her description of the technology and how she came about it and developed it.

Posted on May 2, 2013 In Tools

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I find the timing of this particular issue very interesting and perhaps even fortuitous for my little app, Pressgram. It’s important and it matters. If it can happen there then it can happen here, in the US.

Time to wake up. Your resignation is pitiful.

Posted on May 1, 2013 In Tools

Goodbye Vimeo

May 1, 2013 — 10 Comments

I went ahead and deleted my entire Vimeo account as I was unable to find a mass or bulk-delete function – boo on you Vimeo as you promised that you’d build it but never did.

It’s hard to imagine that I’ve been a part of that network for over 5 years – I raved about the service when it first came online and continued to do so until it began to really atrophy as a technological solution. Something happened with the service and it stopped innovating.

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There’s something powerful about a great story and Redwall is one of them. I have read nearly all of Brian Jacques‘ series, only missing a few at the end.

The story of brave mice fighting all sorts of anthropomorphic characters gripped me as a young child and I can still remember the haunting (yet comforting) appearance of such characters (or ghost) as Martin the Warrior.

Posted on April 30, 2013 In Community

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