THE DREAM IN ACTION

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 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 [...]

No 10 mile run today. However, the weather was probably the best it’s been in the last 2 years of my life. I started the morning hopping on Yelp and finding an awesome little cafe called Caffe Capriccio in North Beach. Cafe Capriccio was the quintessential SF cafe with hipsters galore and breakfast egg wraps [...]

This weekend I got a free flight out to San Francisco from Chicago so I cam out to visit friends, meet some folks in the startup world, and soak up some California sun. I got up Saturday morning after a pretty calm evening and decided the best way to see some of the city was [...]