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	<title>Jens Ode &#187; Inspiration</title>
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		<title>Find inspiration beyond the coffeetalk</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jens Ode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that gives me inspiration is people with a passion for an idea. I&#8217;ll tell you a short story. A year ago I was introduced to a web site in a part of a benchmarking process. We were evaluating different approaches to design user signup flows and this site came up. It [...]

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the things that gives me inspiration is people with a passion for an idea. I&#8217;ll tell you a short story. A year ago I was introduced to a web site in a part of a benchmarking process. We were evaluating different approaches to design user signup flows and this site came up. It was a very well designed site and I returned to it a couple of times reviewing how they solved different issues. In the same time I started to look at Twitter and one of the first persons I added was the founder of this site. Big mistake.</p>
<p>Why was this such a big mistake? Well, the first ten posts from this person dealt with the need for a cup of coffee!! C&#8217;mon! After a stream of posts on the same type of subject I shut down Twitter. Foor good, I figured. Why waste precious time in my life listening to someone I don&#8217;t know and never will meet describing what to have for lunch etc etc. Incredibly boring.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t return to Twitter until a couple of months later. I realized that I needed to take another look at this channel. And there the tweets were. &#8221;Coffee&#8230;jada&#8230;jada..coffeeeeeeeee&#8230;.&#8221;. Repeated almost endlessly. Oh. My.God. This time I ignored those posts and starting to use Twitter anyway. Kind of someone poking you with a stick all the time, but I decided to deal with it like a man - I ignored it.</p>
<p>After I while the endless coffe monolouges started to transform into a story about a vision and a great passion for an idea. The tweets lived and breathed the idea - that web site and the users. I knew I liked the web site and I find inspiration in great entrepreneurs, and here was someone displaying that great, great passion for an idea. I couldn&#8217;t see it first because I was blinded by the total coffee/brunch/chocolate information overload. At least I believed so. Now I have realized that the coffee-bjabbering is a part of the story. It&#8217;s the story of the passion and how an entrepreneur wakes up, eat, live and go to sleep with their ideas (yup, I know what it&#8217;s like).</p>
<p>So, Melanie Notkin, founder of SavvyAuntie.com, you are a great inspiration! I will never ever become a Savvy Auntie &#8211; for obvious reasons &#8211; I can only aspire to become a Savvy Uncle. You live your idea and you share your passion and that&#8217;s worth a hell of a lot. Thank you Melanie for being an inspiration. Every day.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.savvyauntie.com/">http://www.savvyauntie.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.twitter.com/savvyauntie">http://www.twitter.com/savvyauntie</a></p>


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