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June 15, 2010
Posted by Ryan Graves

Using location data in service markets

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 [...]

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May 20, 2010
Posted by Ryan Graves

The Graves’ Next Chapter

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 [...]

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Posted Under Projects Travel & Adventure ubercab

May 10, 2010
Posted by Ryan Graves

The benefits of UberCab

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 [...]

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Posted Under Entrepreneurship Projects ubercab

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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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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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


  • 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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