THE DREAM IN ACTION

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 [...]

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 [...]

Quick background on the last 10 years of my life… At the end of high school in 2001 I wanted to stay in Southern CA and attend USC. I didn’t get in. That turned out to be the best thing that would happen to me. I headed out to the midwest to go to Miami [...]

For Clients Our goal for all UberCab users, called clients, is for you to feel like a baller every time you use UberCab. We want you to not only arrive at your destination safely, simply, and efficiently, but we want you to arrive in STYLE. UberCab clients typically use their iPhone application (also works via [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

@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, [...]

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. The first that [...]

With a lifetime of knowing that entrepreneurship is at my core and now 4 years of studying the web startup world, I’ve finally made the jump from ‘Office Space’ corporate America into the infinite abyss of the startup adventure. I’ve had a great taste of the startup world, but this is something entirely different. In [...]

The number of brands that are jumping on the Foursquare train is awesome. We’ve been talking about the no-brainer that is engaging with your customers and it’s very satisfying to see it happen with such strong companies and brands. Zagat Mashable reports: Zagat is calling the partnership “Foodie Love,” and there’s even a new accompanying [...]

Foursquare‘s first direct relationship of note was with the Brooklyn Museum. The museum saw the obvious value of visibility into who checked-in and decided to embrace the opportunity to directly provide it’s visitors with tips and tricks around the museum. The created an interactive experience and essentially a personally guided tour! Awesome. Other institutions saw [...]

Why raise $30 million to hire an enormous, nationwide sales force if you could use the power of existing sales teams for a fraction of the cost? Recently, I’ve been thinking about how startups can leverage other, larger, companies to build out their model. After all, a startups purpose for existence is to test their [...]

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Back in October I wrote a post about wanting more feedback on this blog. I vowed that if you gave me feedback, I’d listen and sculpt the content of this blog in such a way that it was valuable for you, the reader. I’ve often struggled with the question, should I write for the audience? [...]