I recently watched a 60 Minutes episode about "The 99ers" [https://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6987699n] -- those who have been unemployed for 99 weeks or more. If you're a 99er, this blog post is aimed squarely at you.  I'm going to

AngelList is a platform that connects entrepreneurs to angel investors to raise seed stage capital. Out of the $1.5 million dollars in angel funding we've raised for Socialize, over $1 million came from introductions made on AngelList.  We were very early AngelList users under our AppMakr brand,

I got to catch up with some friends this week while I was in Toronto for a mobile panel [http://go.danielodio.com/fantastic-tablet-panel], and we started talking about the topic of personal branding.  One of my friends is a real estate agent, and the other is an aspiring actor

I recently did a panel at Canadian Music Week on Tablets & Media [http://go.danielodio.com/fantastic-tablet-panel], and during the event, a member of the audience tweeted this [https://twitter.com/#!/lcapone77/status/182899018484027392]. I love taking cool & unique pics with my iPhone like my killer panos [http:

As posted on the Socialize blog [http://blog.getsocialize.com/2012/fantastic-tablet-and-media-panel-at-canadian-music-week] : Socialize CEO Daniel Odio participated on a fantastic panel at Canadian Music Week [http://www.cmw.net/] titled "Media on Tablets & Mobile Devices [http://www.cmw.net/panel-details/?panel_id=134&cat=2]," moderated

This weekend, Telsa held an exclusive Model X [http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx] preview for reservation holders. As the CEO of a mobile startup [http://www.getsocialize.com/], I have mad respect for Elon Musk [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk], the founder of Tesla. Here's a

Based on the recommendation of one of our engineers (thanks Nick!) I'm trying out this Seagate hybrid Solid State + 7200 RPM drive ($175 at Amazon: Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 32 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Solid State Hybrid Drive ST750LX003 [https://www.amazon.

A colleague of mine had to pay me via check, but he was 2,000 miles away. What to do? My bank, USAA [http://www.usaa.com/], doesn't have any physical branches, so he couldn't just walk in and deposit the check in my account. He

I recently wrote a post about how the US really needs college students to be entrepreneurial [http://www.danielodio.com/2012/03/09/student-entrepreneur/]. I should've addressed it to high school students instead. I've challenged Georgetown MBAs [http://www.danielodio.com/2010/01/22/my-lecture-to-mbas-who-dont-get-it-but-want-to-at-georgetown-university/] and

Philipp Stauffer of the Wharton Club of Northern California [http://www.whartonclub.com/] hosted an incredibly intimate evening with Jacob Jaber [http://www.whartonclub.com/article.html?aid=1511], the CEO of Philz Coffee [http://www.philzcoffee.com/], at the new Philz Palo Alto location (picture above is of Jacob

Stats from Facebook's S1 Registration We've all grown up with computers.  Well, if you're my generation -- X -- your  first experience with them was probably as a kid under 10 years old, which isn't quite the same as thinking a magazine

A group of 16 U.Va. McIntire School of Commerce [http://www.commerce.virginia.edu/] students (my alma mater) came to San Francisco for a week during their spring break to learn about life as an entrepreneur in the mecca of geekdom.  I had to be in Cincinnati giving a

The problem with humans is that we make lots of decisions without having data to back us up. And to compound the problem, unlike the movie Sliding Doors [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120148/], where the main character gets to see how a different decision plays out in her life,

I was recently at the MobileX conference [http://go.danielodio.com/mobileX] in Cincinnati and in preparation for the conference I told the organizers to check out Twitterfall [http://www.twitterfall.com/], which they did in a big way, putting it up on a side screen in the auditorium.  It

Today I gave a keynote at the sold-out MobileX conference [http://danielodio.com/mobilexconference.com/cincinnati2012/] in Cincinnati.  I can't tell you how impressed I am by this group.   Brian, Therese, Evan and the entire crew did an amazing job scheduling and executing on this event, and it&

We've been using scrum [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cts=1330905542609&ved=0CC0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FScrum_(development)&ei=vwFUT_-nB9DyggesmfDiDQ&usg=

CloudApp [http://go.danielodio.com/cloudapp] is the single most important productivity and efficiency tool I use each day.  And if you've read my blogs, you know I use a lot of tools [http://go.danielodio.com/instrument] to make my time act as a force multiplier.  But

Ira Glass, the creator of This American Life [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/] and one of our generation's most prolific storytellers, has some great advice for artists that applies equally well to entrepreneurs:  There's a time in your life when you are making stuff that you know

View of the Ferry Building from OneMarket space I've written about other cool SF-based startup spaces before, including SOMAcentral [http://go.danielodio.com/somacentral] and StartupHouse [http://go.danielodio.com/startuphouse]. OneMarket Atrium There's another cool new space in downtown SF called OneMarket.  It's

Packed House at our What's App Session Sue Ko, AppMakr's product manager and I did a panel in front of a 500 person audience over two days at the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association's annual conference in San Diego, CA. The panel was titled "

Socialize [http://www.socialize.com/] is well known for the robust infrastructure of its drop-in social platform [http://go.getsocialize.com/key-benefits], which handles over 20 requests per second -- over 1.5 million requests in the past 24 hours across thousands of mobile apps and millions of end users.

Those of you who know me well know I call myself a "lifehacker" which basically means I hack & use technology to be as efficient as possible.  For example, I strongly recommend that those who are in front of computers all day learn to play them like instruments

I'm a big fan of my iPad, and I've found that I can take it to meetings instead of a laptop.  But typing is still a pain and really slows me down.  Even though I'm pretty good at touch typing on the iPad, it&

Thanks to the folks at CES and the Department of Homeland Security for inviting me to participate on a panel focused on mobile security titled Tale of the Tablet. The panel focused on hardware, software and social security on mobile devices.   If you're curious about the challenges the