We just moved into SOMAcentral, which is a hot startup space in SoMa for 40 startups, most with private offices.  The fine folks over there offered us a sweet way to lock & unlock our office door – a new YCombinator-funded startup called Lockitron (no info on their public website yet). They have an alpha product that connects an iPhone app up to the door lock, allowing us to lock & unlock our office door from anywhere in...

Great event the other evening at Kicklabs, a startup incubator (personally I prefer SOMAcentral because of its private offices, but then again, Kicklabs has a kick-ass big blue slide you can ride from 2nd floor down to 1st!).  The event also had some of the best food I’ve seen at a networking event, rock on. The event was sponsored by the MIT Club of Northern California. Presenting were: Steve Lee,  Group...

Another awesome event at the Mountain View Microsoft campus (the last one was the FounderShowcase event) called FounderConference.  This was a seven hour marathon event geared towards tech founders, and it featured industry heavyweights Dave McClure and Adeo Ressi, as well as the founder & CEO of Dropbox, Drew Houston and reporters Anthony Ha from VentureBeat, Ryan Singel from WIRED, Chris O’Brien from SJ Mercury News and...

Just attended my first iPhone and iPad developer night event (here’s the Meetup website) put on by @timburke.  It was a great event because the room was full of iPhone / iPad developers, and not business people (like me!).  I almost hate to spread the word because I’m sure it’ll get more commercialized by doing so, but it’s such a great event I just had to get the word out there. Here’s the video of the...

Just got back from attending FounderShowcase , an awesome event put on by Adeo Ressi of TheFunded.  It showcased a number of Silicon Valley-based startups pitching judges which included George Zachary of Charles River Ventures (who is awesome, by the way), Sarah Lacy and other VCs. Before the startups pitched, Adeo interviewed Jason Calacanis, a very controversial Silicon Valley figure.  And let me tell you, he really let it all loose...

PointAbout just signed a lease for office space in San Francisco. We’re just getting one office to start, so we have a presence out here. The place we picked is SOMAcentral, a brand new startup-friendly space right next to the AT&T Ballpark, in the SoMa district of San Francisco. I was so impressed with the space and the concept that I wanted to share it with other entrepreneurs. Here are some pictures of the space, and I even made...

Just got my FoundersCard today.  FoundersCard is a new program that gives entrepreneurs some love via discounts from lots of brands.  (If you’re a founder and you want to apply, you can use my charter member discount code “FCVIP” to cut the $495/yr membership fee down to $100 in the first year, through the end of July.  Click here for deets.) Having come from the corporate world 10 years ago, where everyone is telling you what a...

I’m a huge Hacker News fan, in fact so much so that I created a Hacker News iPhone app using AppMakr, a tool that lets anyone quickly make an iPhone app for free. Click Here to Download The app from iTunes Here’s a bit more about the app, and about the tool I used to make the app.  I’d love your feedback via email or in comments below on what else you’d like to see in the app. The Hacker News app uses...

Most everyone uses a computer.  But a few of us, well, we play a computer like an instrument. If you’re on a computer for 10+ hours per day, this blog is for you. By “instrument” I mean we know the in’s & out’s of the device.  We know how to eek out maximum performance from it.  We’re the people who others just look at in wonder when our keys fly across the keyboard. If you’ve ever found it excruciatingly painful...

My wife and I were walking along the pier in San Francisco when suddenly, two motorcycle stuntmen started doing tricks in the empty lot next to us, right along the Pier. I later found out one of the guys, Jason Pullen, is a professional.  This is all he does.  He has sponsors.  And he’s truly amazing.  The things he does with a 650 pound Harley are unbelievable. And it just made me think of my post about 80/20 vs. 1000/100, where I...