I’ve found out this post from O’Reilly Radar that had a bunch of proverbs on Entrepreneurship (is that the word?).

As more and more web startups are popping out everyday due in part to the somewhat low costs of technology nowadays and lots of web 2.0 hype going around it’s always good to feel a little confidence boost and inspiration for the mind.

So, read the Entrepreneurial Proverbs and browse the handy advices too, who knows maybe you’ll use them in the (near) future.

Some of my favorites are:

“Momentum builds on itself — just start. Do whatever you can. Draw a user interface. Write a spec. Make something, anything, that people can see and touch and try. A prototype is worth ten thousand words. Once you start moving, you will find that people start to carry you along.”

“Your ideas will get better the more you know about business — engineers hate to hear this, but you can generalize up quite far from here: the more you know about everything, the better all of your ideas will get!”

“Great things are made by people who share a passion, not by those who have been talked into one — a corollary of the last; you can spark a passion in someone, but you can’t do it without some fuel to catch. Better to wait, and find the person who is already inclined to believe in your cause. You may talk someone into co-founding a company with you, but will they stick with it through ups and downs if they had to be persuaded that hard?”

And finally the number one in my book of golden rules:

“Build the simplest thing possible — engineers have the hardest time with this, with not over designing for the need they’re addressing. Make the simplest possible product that makes a significant dent in that need, and you’ll do far better than you would addressing two or three needs at once. Simplicity leads to clarity in everything you do.”

TheFairest.info is a project to try to find the prettiest image in the world, using voting and some (hopefully clever) algorithms.
All images are user-submitted and so far it’s looking quite good.
I recommend taking a look because some of these images are breath taking and also make beautifully desktops.

So check out the images here.

Meanwhile, these are my two favourite images.

So much events going around the world, I thought I should round up a few of them for easely distracted people (like me). :P

First off, if you’re interested in Ruby on Rails then take a look at the Rails Hispana Conference which is going to take place on the 24 and 25th of November in Madrid, a very nice town to go site seeing too. Or why not visit Paris? There’s also a Ruby on Rails conference on the 17th November with support from IBM and Telecom Italica and you could also check the Eifel Tower in the weekend, both these conferences cost 60 euros so that’s pretty cheap.

Not related to Rails directly but if you’re interested in web development then you can’t miss the Future of Web Apps 2007 in London, it’s on the 20 to 22nd of February but registrations are now open and will problably sell out fast because there’s alot of great speakers in the lineup coming from companies like Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Digg, Moo, you name it.

Did I miss anything coming in the next months? Which events are you hoping forward to go?