Thank you to all who joined the first SL Entrepreneurs get together. We had a good discussion and nice energy. The conversation ranged from lag issues, to how to react to copycats, to how to find good help or partners. A smaller group of us had an impromptu meeting afterwards to discuss organizing a beta tester community that many in the dev community could use. Good stuff.

I’d like the next one (First Thursday - October 4th 12pm PT) to be a little more focused and productive — but without killing the energy or fun — so we’ll ponder format. Unlike a real world networking session where you can have lots of smaller conversations, we did face the challenge of how to manage a large number of people all interacting at once.

If you are interested in joining the in-world group, it is called “rockin the future” (thanks to caLLie cLine for that wonderfully optimistic group title!) and it is open enrollment.

I was fairly busy trying to keep up with the conversation, but I did snag two pictures:

The Shop OnRez kiosk is now available for free for anyone to place on their land, stores, malls, etc. This kiosk allows OnRez customers to:

• Register for OnRez
• Verify avatars
• Reset passwords
• Get an OnRez wallet
• Search and shop across the OnRez catalog

Bring OnRez to your visitors and pick up a kiosk today!

I can’t seem to log into Second Life this morning, so there won’t be any support until this afternoon, assuming I can log in then! :)

Jade

Reminder to all that we’re having the first of a series of regular get-togethers for Second Life entrepreneurs this Thursday, Sept 6th, at Noon Pacific Time. It will be hosted at the Event Center on OnRez island in Second Life (see event notice here).

The goal is to give people a chance to meet and share ideas, opportunities, frustrations, challenges, etc. There will be competitors there of course, but you never know when a competitor might turn into a business partner, or where your interests might align to try to solve a particular problem. Starting a business is hard enough, if entrepreneurs don’t support each other, no one else will.

This first gathering, running about an hour, will be experimental and we’ll see how it goes and keep the format evolving so this stays productive and useful. We’ll probably cap the meeting at 50 avatars, and sim entrance will be first come first serve. If this proves popular we can devise expansion plans for future, but one step at a time.

Right now a few of the folks who have told me they will attend include successful entrepreneurs Barnesworth Anubis, caLLie cLine, Haver Cole, hyasynth Tiramisu, Simone Stern, and even Apotheus Silverman of SLExchange.