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	<title>Comments on: It&#8217;s nice to see openness and transparency</title>
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	<description>Organizing events that DON&#039;T SUCK</description>
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		<title>By: Tom Ortega</title>
		<link>http://www.360conferences.com/blog/2008/08/its-nice-to-see-openness-and-transparency/comment-page-1#comment-41</link>
		<dc:creator>Tom Ortega</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Deron&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Yeah, it&#039;s a tough line.  Money has a strange effect on people.  I&#039;m fortunate enough to have been on both sides of the spectrum. I had little to no money (growing up and when just starting on my own) and too much money (who didn&#039;t have too much during the dot-com bubble).  Therefore, money doesn&#039;t really &quot;do it&quot; for me.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;However, like John and a good mentor of ours said, some people will plain just get jealous of success.  Whether hard earned or not, some people don&#039;t like to see other people succeed.  I&#039;d hate to have a vocal minority ruin it for the masses of our customers.  We&#039;ll see.  Hopefully, we won&#039;t have to cross that bridge anytime soon.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Deron</p>
<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s a tough line.  Money has a strange effect on people.  I&#8217;m fortunate enough to have been on both sides of the spectrum. I had little to no money (growing up and when just starting on my own) and too much money (who didn&#8217;t have too much during the dot-com bubble).  Therefore, money doesn&#8217;t really &#8220;do it&#8221; for me.</p>
<p>However, like John and a good mentor of ours said, some people will plain just get jealous of success.  Whether hard earned or not, some people don&#8217;t like to see other people succeed.  I&#8217;d hate to have a vocal minority ruin it for the masses of our customers.  We&#8217;ll see.  Hopefully, we won&#8217;t have to cross that bridge anytime soon.</p>
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		<title>By: John Wilker</title>
		<link>http://www.360conferences.com/blog/2008/08/its-nice-to-see-openness-and-transparency/comment-page-1#comment-31</link>
		<dc:creator>John Wilker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Deron,&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;We&#039;ve actually had that conversation. We&#039;ll probably at some point, tone down some of the openness, if it starts having the counter effect we want. When people start challenging what we pay ourselves, and such, we&#039;ll probly clam up a bit, not sure.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;We do currently tell everyone what we pay ourselves (Up until now, it&#039;s been nothing, LOL) in our Wednesday keynote.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Business agreements, we actually do tend to keep a bit closer to the vest, mainly to keep from jynxing the deal or spoiling the announcement. Not always, but most of the time, in that particular area.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Deron,</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve actually had that conversation. We&#8217;ll probably at some point, tone down some of the openness, if it starts having the counter effect we want. When people start challenging what we pay ourselves, and such, we&#8217;ll probly clam up a bit, not sure.</p>
<p>We do currently tell everyone what we pay ourselves (Up until now, it&#8217;s been nothing, LOL) in our Wednesday keynote.</p>
<p>Business agreements, we actually do tend to keep a bit closer to the vest, mainly to keep from jynxing the deal or spoiling the announcement. Not always, but most of the time, in that particular area.</p>
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		<title>By: DeronDilger</title>
		<link>http://www.360conferences.com/blog/2008/08/its-nice-to-see-openness-and-transparency/comment-page-1#comment-30</link>
		<dc:creator>DeronDilger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m curious how far you and Tom would/will/do carry that &quot;openness and transparency&quot; mindset.  E.g. would you announce business opportunities you were pursuing before a contract had been signed with the potential customer?  Would you post your business budget (e.g. how much you paid yourself and any staff, how much went to R&amp;D, investment amounts and types)?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I consider myself and advocate of what I call the open-source mindset, but I&#039;m thinking you make me look like Mr. Proprietary.  So I&#039;m trying to get an understanding of how deep the water you stand in is before I step further away from the shore of seemingly solid secrecy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#39;m curious how far you and Tom would/will/do carry that &quot;openness and transparency&quot; mindset.  E.g. would you announce business opportunities you were pursuing before a contract had been signed with the potential customer?  Would you post your business budget (e.g. how much you paid yourself and any staff, how much went to R&amp;D, investment amounts and types)?</p>
<p>I consider myself and advocate of what I call the open-source mindset, but I&#39;m thinking you make me look like Mr. Proprietary.  So I&#39;m trying to get an understanding of how deep the water you stand in is before I step further away from the shore of seemingly solid secrecy.</p>
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