the Tsunami week and the Point of the Janitor's Blog ...
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Chris Lyman is the CEO and Founder of Fonality. Fonality creates innovative and affordable phone systems for small and medium businesses. Our products include PBXtra, trixbox Pro, and trixbox CE.

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the Tsunami week and the Point of the Janitor's Blog ...

The rantings of a serial entrepreneur as he wins, loses, and doesn't pull any punches in describing both...

the Tsunami week and the Point of the Janitor's Blog ...

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(Desperately trying to leave office on Friday before sun goes down)

I am intending for this blog to be more about startups and my experience as a successful entrepreneur in the tech space than about VoIP, open source, or my own company specifically.

As a 33-year "old" serial entrepreneur (I hate that term, makes me feel like I store body parts in my freezer), I have come to find a lot of repeatable lessons in building businesses. See, Fonality is my third startup and third round of playing a CEO/Janitor on TV, and things are starting make more sense now ...

Really, my favorite thing to do (besides try to kill myself in high speed fossil-fuel machines) is to breed entrepreneurialism. So, I want to dedicate this blog more to that then I do forward-leaning statements about VoIP, Open Source, or the tech industry.

That being said, it has been a crazy week since the launch of trixbox Pro. The flames have died down and most people that were hating on me for killing the open sourciness of trixbox, now realize that trixbox has not changed and is not going anywhere. The others...well...will probably always hate me. The funny thing is most of them are also trying to make businesses out of open source, and they just don't like the way *I* am trying to do it too.

Peeps have been asking me about my vision of hybrid-hosted, what I mean by "Janitor" and where the market is headed. So, today, I got a chance to do a fun podcast with Rich Tehrani, one of the godfathers of VoIP, and Prez of TMC. It's an interesting listen!

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Chris Lyman
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Inspiration

One of the best ways I know to inspire entrepreneurialism is to be a successful entrepreneur. You have done this and as a result will continue to inspire with or without words.

Subtle Way of Saying

Jax - is that your subtle way of saying "stop blogging"? ;)

../chris

No Don't Stop!

NO, I have just found your blog, don't stop.

I love you suggesstions, they're great for beginning business people like me, I've added your page to the bookmark toolbar :)

Thank You

Michael - thank you for the kind words. I will keep blogging with the hope it helps, or at at its peak: inspires!

../chris

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