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These are the posts from March 2010

March 22, 2010
Posted by Ryan Graves

Preparing for Unidentified Opportunities

@heyamberrae recently took on a project to write a book. She’s calling it the ‘Ah-Ha Moment’ and I was honored to write an excerpt for it. I’ve decided to share my excerpt here just before her book comes out but I encourage you to do two things: Make sure the read the rest of it, [...]

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Posted Under Entrepreneurship Projects

March 20, 2010
Posted by Ryan Graves

SXSW Maiden Voyage (second half)

Above is my SXSW Foursquare scoreboard. Foursquare had a mini game within the app four SXSW participants to checking w/ as many different friends as possible, checkin at as many places as possible, had a collection of SXSW specific badges to acquire, etc. This actually made checking in really fun aside from it’s obvious utility. Another big [...]

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Posted Under Delivery & Execution Travel & Adventure

March 18, 2010
Posted by Ryan Graves

SXSW Maiden Voyage (first half)

So I just spent the wildest 4 day weekend down in Austin, TX for South by South West (SXSW), affectionately known as ‘South by’. The first 5 days of the conference are dedicated to ‘interactive’ which brings out all of the ce’web’rities. Only two weeks into running UberCab and this biz trip takes me to [...]

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Posted Under Entrepreneurship People & Leadership Travel & Adventure

March 11, 2010
Posted by Ryan Graves

Corporate vs. Startup: #2 Trust

I’ve been thinking about how my new startup adventure is going to be different than my role with GE and a few things have risen to the surface. So, I’ve decided to do a series of posts on those topics. You’ll be able to follow the series under the tag ‘corpvsstartup’ here. When I joined [...]

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Posted Under Entrepreneurship People & Leadership ubercab

March 6, 2010
Posted by Ryan Graves

Apple vs. Square, iPhone payment systems

This week I had back to back experiences with iPhone payment systems. I figured I’d document it here and show the differences between the two. Also I’ll shed some light on which, in my opinion, will win. First, above is the image I took after signing my iPhone based receipt generated by Square. I had a delicious [...]

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Posted Under Economics Technology

March 3, 2010
Posted by Ryan Graves

Me and Jeff Bezos…

…we seems to have a lot in common. In this short interview of Jeff Bezos, now CEO/Founder of Amazon.com, he talks about how he decided to leave his safe cushy job for a startup, Amazon.com. I’ve shared many of his exact thoughts in the process to leaving my safe cushy job at GE to join a [...]

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Posted Under Delivery & Execution People & Leadership


  • Hi. I'm Ryan Graves and this is my personal blog. I'm an entrepreneur living in San Francisco, but I'm from San Diego. My wife blogs too, and I love my family.

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