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These are the posts from April 2010

April 30, 2010
Posted by Ryan Graves

Will Apple become the forbidden fruit?

Typically I leave this Apple fan boy banter to others. To me the “found iPhone” saga is about as interesting as an afternoon of pontificating my navel. Yawn. It was dumb (legally) for GIZMODO to pay money for a lost/stolen device (although they definitely made back the $5k they paid for it). And Apple will [...]

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Posted Under Brands & Marketing

April 23, 2010
Posted by Ryan Graves

The best web app for ADD’rs

This is as much of a post about sharing Evernote with you as it is an apology to Evernote for not giving you a chance until now. My mistake and my loss, learn from me and your gain. The simplest way to explain Evernote to those of you who don’t know is that it’s a [...]

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Posted Under Delivery & Execution Projects

April 18, 2010
Posted by Ryan Graves

My biggest challenge (in the first few months of entrepreneurship).

I figure identifying and sharing my weaknesses here on this blog are one of the best way to overcome them. Both from understanding them better myself and benefiting from your feedback and “sage wisdom”. Thank you o’ commenters of the blog, I do sincerely appreciate you wasting your life on my writings. So here it [...]

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Posted Under Delivery & Execution Mistakes & Lessons


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Mr Fix-it: Nissan Pathfinder Window fix

Everyone needs a Mr. Fix-it, fortunately mine is my father-in-law, H. He takes on the weird tasks like cutting apart an old basketball hoop pole, and small car fixes, inside and out…both of which we did Friday night. This was job #2 to cut up the basketball hoop pole so that we could hide it [...]

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Posted Under Projects

April 8, 2010
Posted by Ryan Graves

ReRead of Rework

Back in March on the plane to SXSW I read Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson’s new book called ‘Rework‘. In short, it was a phenomenal read. A very inspiring collection of lessons for entrepreneurs, but maybe more important than it’s inspiration, it was actionable. In standard 37Signals fashion it was a collection of blog posts essays [...]

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Posted Under Mistakes & Lessons People & Leadership

April 6, 2010
Posted by Ryan Graves

UberCab is hiring an entrepreneurial, rockstar engineer. Ground floor opportunity with amazing advisors & team.

Summary: UberCab is looking for our first full time engineer. This is a ground floor opportunity with salary + equity in a soon to be high profile SF startup. We have a working product, amazing angel investor list & top-tier hands on advisors such as Garrett Camp (CEO-StumbleUpon), Travis Kalanick (sold RedSwoosh), Tim Ferriss (author of [...]

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Posted Under Entrepreneurship ubercab

April 5, 2010
Posted by Ryan Graves

About UberCab

from the official UberCab.com/about page. Background: For almost a century the process to request a car service has been extremely similar to what it is today, terrible. Your options are to place a request by telephone for a car arriving the next day or you could walk to the street and hope that an available [...]

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Posted Under Projects ubercab


  • 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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