THE DREAM IN ACTION

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 [...]

Here in Chicago we’ve been building a really solid group of users who are excited enough about Foursquare to tell their friends and the venues that they frequent. Last night we all met up at Lincoln Station in Lincoln Park and chatted about our experiences sharing foursquare and some of the challenges we’ve faced in [...]

What I’d like to see more of in Chicago is… 1) VC’s and Angels who blog – so that they communicate what is interesting to them and so that they are more accessible or even appear more accessible to the areas entrepreneurs. 2) An increase in the understanding that failure won’t kill you – in [...]

Below is a guest post from Daniel X. O’Neil (co-founder of Everyblock) This is one of the best non-technical descriptions (from Daniel) of a pretty technical process (by Harper), that I’ve ever seen. Daniel explains how Harper reverse engineered the CTA Bus Tracking mashup. As a founder of a web software startup who isn’t a [...]