THE DREAM IN ACTION

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Last night I wrote my first app in Python. It’s dead simple, maybe 1 or 2 steps up from “Hello world.” but I’m pretty excited about it. The game, asks you to guess how old Santa is, you have to guess from 1-60 until you find the ride number. I’ll embed the game here once [...]

TechCrunch breaks down whats uber about Uber CNN highlights the efficiencies of getting around in Uber CBS covers the recent news about Uber’s C&D’s

Super excited to have the chance to come down to New Orleans (even in the midst of quite the crazy week at Uber) to talk at TribeCon. This is my maiden voyage as far as conference speaking gigs goes so, yes I’m a bit nervous that I can entertain, but I’m pumped to make people [...]

Last week TechCrunch ran an article leaking the news that UberCab had closed our Seed round of funding. Our initial hope was to hold that news off until we could launch a new site (coming soon) along with the funding announcement. We had hoped to completely own the telling of that story, but as we [...]

At first I thought it best to completely stay away from this story, then I realized after a conversation in our office tonight that there are some interesting details in this story that may make sense for me to collect and reflect on. This is a collection of the posts on the AngelGate drama going [...]

I’d like to start using one blog for all of my posts. I’d like the videos and pictures from http://ryangraves.org to go to the same blog that I write more thoughtful posts, like yesterdays on Job titles and recruiting. I see no reason to split them up. Because I have friends at Posterous and it [...]

This is going to be a short post, because the reality is that I don’t know a ton about this topic. But I’m right down in the mix of it and I’ve got a few first lessons that I think might be valuable for the folks who are as fresh as I am. I don’t [...]

There are many beneficial factors I could write about when it comes to why Silicon Valley (or more specifically, San Francisco) is awesome for starting a company. The reality is that there are very specific business benefits that I’ve experienced over the past 5 months in launching a business and seemingly popular product in SF. [...]

The importance of being represented well online is as high today as it has ever been. With the potential of being hired (or not) riding on a Google search, or a look through your Twitter feed, the name you make (or break) for yourself on the internet is critical. With social media going from nerd [...]

Two years ago today my good friend Blake Samic and I set out to be the Angels of Interviewers. This meant we wanted to interview entrepreneurs who were just on the verge of doing something classic, something disruptive. We called our video blog ActionsTalk because these were the people who were just diving off the [...]

Day 1: Wheaton – St. Louis Day 2: St. Louis, MO – Denver, CO Day 3: Denver, CO – Salt Lake City, UT Day 4: Salt Lake City, UT – Lake Tahoe/Truckee, CA Day 5: Lake Tahoe/Truckee, CA – San Francisco, CA We started  our day 2 journey bright and early Saturday morning with Denver [...]

This series of blog posts are officially co-written, by yours truly and the well known author of Mollstar.com. We’re going to be blogging our road trip, so follow along to the excitement that is central Kansas, the delectable joy of gas station coffee & donuts, or the relief of arriving safely to Hayes Valley, SF, CA. Here’s [...]

The image above contains some of the most interesting data a business could have on an individual. This is heat map of my foursquare checkin’s in San Francisco. It’s powerful data, and it’s only static. Here in lies the info to make assumptions & predictions about my behavior that will changes services I use and [...]

So a few weeks ago Zappos sent me a couple books for free :) … Then on the flight back from SF last week, where/when I do most of my reading, I wrapped up ‘Delivering Happiness‘ by Tony Hsieh of @Zappos. I got the books as a part of their blogger out reach campaign. As [...]