January 2011
Businesses Must Grow // And a book recommendation
Over the last few weeks I’ve had the chance to speak with entrepreneurs running smaller, non venture backed, mostly service companies. I’ve had a bit of experience in this space runningRenliv LLC doing social media marketing consulting (I can’t even say that today with a straight face anymore), and doing website design… back in 2008. What I found then, and what I’ve...
Jan 22nd
Coffee Shop Reviews: Mercury Cafe
About a month ago I set out to review SF coffee shops. Today I have 2 reviews to post, and both shops are awesome. Thoroughly enjoying this review process. If you recall, I’m rating on people, latte, & internet. Here goes…Coffee Bar - Coffee Bar’s dual level layout makes for a seriously awesome vibe. Some of the Uber team worked from Coffee Shop yesterday and overall it was...
Jan 20th
Classic tweets about Uber
So, I’ve been saving up some of my favorite tweets about Uber. After this one came in yesterday about the luxury of Uber being secondary to our ability to avoid the fear of death on a ride, I decide to post a few. Every time I see a tweet like this it reaffirms that we’re building a safer, more efficient travel alternative (to those yellow cars). And frankly, it feels damn good to know...
Jan 16th
Why Simple is better.
This answer on the Quora thread titled, “Why is Dropbox more popular than other tools with similar functionality?” is the best example of why simple product are better, ever. I pasted the answer below, but you should check out the rest of the thread here… <link> http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-more-popular-than-other-tools-with-similar-functionality ###Well,...
Jan 14th
“Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula ...”
–  Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jan 10th
Got my check from @Cardpool, the awesome gift card...
Jan 5th