THE DREAM IN ACTION

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 high five to Dens, Tristan, Harry, Nate, Mike, Mari, Naveen, Tim, & Paul. I am more bullish on foursquare’s potential now than I’ve ever been.

So, back to what went down at ‘south by’. On Sunday night…

Gary’s hotel room

On Sunday night I had the incredible opportunity to hang for an entrepreneurs jam session in Gary V’s hotel room (until 7am). It was literally a group of the web entrepreneurs and investors that I respect the most, including Dave McClure, Travis Kalanick, AJ V, Micah Baldwin, Ryan Sarver, Galpert & others. The conversation rolled from where the power houses are going (Google vs. Facebook), to what sites are underrated (Alice.com & Formspring.me) and what mobile approaches will win (Apple vs. Android). There was some incredibly eye opening and inspiring conversation, and not something I’ll forget anytime soon. I was honored to be included.

In fact, this prank call actually came in (at 5am) when we were all in the room. Notice how Gary fakes asleep, then comes right awake. Hilarious!

VIPitch

On Monday, my last day in Austin I had an opportunity to hang at a happy hour that included another set of bad ass web folk. I got to share UberCab withChris Sacca, the guys from EverLater, Laura Fitton from OneForty.com, and Trammell from Twitter among others. It was again an awesome chance to go into pitch mode and share UberCab with some of the folks that see tons of pitches everyday. And again it was inspiring to get such positive feedback on what we’re building and got me even more excited to launch in June.

Exhausted

So after 4 days of hanging out with some of the most exciting entrepreneurs on the web I was pooped. My average time to bed, and by bed I mean the floor and a sleeping bag, was 5:15am. I had the chance to meet tons of people and share what we’re building at UberCab. I lined up some people for our Alpha in San Francisco and got valuable feedback from potential customers. All around phenomenal trip and an event that I won’t miss next year! Definitely want to thank Travis for hooking me up with some of these opportunities. As far as advisers go, I can’t recommend anyone stronger than I can recommend him, and it’s only been 3 weeks.