A “Super High Bandwidth” Dinner With Christine Comaford

Yesterday I had the rare pleasure of meeting The author of “Rules For The Renegades” and dear friend Christene Comaford over dinner.

If you don’t know who Christine Comaford is.Here is a small introduction.

Christine is a Five time CEO and company founder. She either grew the companies to either be acquired or taken public. She has held operational high tech positions at Microsoft, Lotus, Adove and Apple. She has assisted 700 of the fortune 1000 companies and 300 small businesses in accelerating innovation and has consulted with the white house on tech and small business strategies.

Here is what Bill Gates and President Clinton say about her..

Bill Gates: “Christine is super-high bandwidth.”

President Bill Clinton: “Thank you for all your work in fostering American entrepreneurship.”

I met Christine in Feb 2008 in Florida for the first time at a live event where she was the keynote speaker. She blew everyone away with her 90 minute presentation. I have blogged about that here

Most recently a couple of weeks ago I met her again at the Blog World Expo 2008. We spent over an hour talking all aspects of small business, entrepreneurship and business development etc and luckily I recorded the conversation

Here it is: [audio:Christine_Comaford.mp3]

I was about an hour late to the dinner meeting. My excuse to Christine: Freeway 101 did not cooperate.

We just continued our discussion around Internet Marketing, Entrepreneurship. She quizzed me on Internet Marketing. I quizzed her on the Economy and the dream of entrepreneurship that seems to be drifting away for millions. Her point was, We need to create more Renegades, the only way this economy can be recovered is by fostering entrepreneurship.

Oh and the food @ Long Bar and Bistro on Fillmore Street San Francisco is excellent. Highly Recommended. Here are some pictures. Make sure you try the Vegetable Ginger soup