Another awesome event at the Mountain View Microsoft campus (the last one was the FounderShowcase event [http://go.danielodio.com/foundershowcase]) 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 &

Just attended my first iPhone and iPad developer night event (here's the Meetup website [https://www.meetup.com/sviphone/]) put on by @timburke [https://twitter.com/timburke].  It was a great event because the room was full of iPhone / iPad developers, and not business people (like me!).  I

Being on the board of the DC chapter of Mobile Mondays, and a recent transplant to Silicon Valley, I decided to attend a Mobile Monday [http://www.mobilemonday.us/] event out here, which had a panel discussing mobile web apps vs. native apps. The number of people attending was staggering

Just got back from attending FounderShowcase [http://www.foundershowcase.com/] , an awesome event put on by Adeo Ressi of TheFunded [http://www.thefunded.com/].  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

UPDATE:As of March 1, 2013, SOMACentral is moving to a new space (and we are too).Here's a first look [http://go.danielodio.com/somacentral]. ================= PointAbout just signed a lease for office space in San Francisco. We're just getting one office to start, so we

2014 UPDATE: Lots of new benefits, including airline tickets -- up to: 25% off Qantas, 25% Cathay, 20% off Virgin Atlantic, 15% off Emirates, 10% off British Airways, 5% off AmericanAirlines, 5% off JetBlue. Other benefits like 15% off Hertz, 6 months free of CLEAR membership, a free year of

I'm a huge Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/] fan, in fact so much so that I created a Hacker News iPhone app using AppMakr [http://www.appmakr.com/], a tool that lets anyone quickly make an iPhone app for free. Click Here to Download The app from

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'

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 [http://www.jasonpullenstunts.com/], is a professional.  This is

I'm here this week at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) [https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/], at the Miscone Center in San Francisco, CA. The conference sold out in 8 days, and this is the first time PointAbout has been able to send a representative. This morning,

In 1990 I was a Freshman at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology [http://www.tjhsst.edu/]. 20 years later, this past week, I came back to give a talk about the past, current and future impact of mobile in our lives. It was a fun event. We

Great event by The Wall Street Journal on social media.  Especially good was Harry Gold's presentation from Ovrdrv (the first presentation I captured in the video below).  Ovrdrv won "2009 Best Use of Social Media" for their Harley Davidson Mosaic [http://www.h-d-mosaic.com/].  Try typing

My PointAbout co-founder Isaac just shared with me a truly inspiring TED session [https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html] by Simon Sinek on why the Wright Brothers were successful, and how that secret is shared by all great leaders:  Start with the Why,

The Princeton Entrepreneurs Network [http://princetonendc.org/] will be hosting a panel on entrepreneurism on May 11th at the Cooley Godward Kronish offices in Chinatown. Come join us, it'll be a great event.  I'll have video of the panel posted here afterwards.  Here are event details:

Kudos to Pete Erickson for a spectacular Disruptathon [http://www.disruptathon.com/] event at Teqcorner in McLean, VA today.PointAbout [http://www.pointabout.com/] was a sponsor of the event. The thing I love about Disruptathon is the voting power it gives the audience through iPod Touch devices.  Attendees can

Congrats to the folks at SocialMatchbox [http://socialmatchbox.com/wp/] for putting on a great DC startup competition. My favorite presentation was by Ben Slavin of HelioGraph [http://helio.gr/].  A truly simple, "why didn't I think of that" business concept that he's already

I just got back from the annual NFTE "Dare to Dream [http://www.daretodreamdc.org/]" gala, an event put on by the Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship [http://www.nfte.com/], my favorite non-profit, as it consistently produces tangible results by teaching kids how to run profitable businesses.Here&

I was invited by the 2010 Politics Online Conference [http://polc2010.com/] held this week in Washington, DC to participate on a panel titled "Can I Order That Website To Go? The Parameters of Mobile Websites and How They are Being Integrated into Politics." The participants were: 1.

Another stellar event by The Web Manager's Roundtable [https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1776650&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr] in DC: Here's the setup: The Art of Enterprise Web Analytics with renowned industry expert Andrew Edwards.  Edwards will lead a discussion that will help you

Today I checked in to a Delta flight using my mobile phone and was surprised to see a QR code [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code] pop up (this one specifically was an Aztec-type [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_Code] QR code). Typically I never have a printer

George Washington University invited the PointAbout [http://www.pointabout.com/] co-founders to speak as a part of its MBA class lecture series.  We spoke about a wide range of topics including how & why we started the company, what it's like to have four co-founders, what some of

When I started this blog in 2006, my first post [http://www.danielodio.com/2006/07/02/the-8020-rule/] was about my belief in the 80/20 principle, also known as the Pareto principle [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle]. I've lived my entire entrepreneurial career with the

Guy Vidra, who just left The Washington Post as the head of new media and mobile, spoke before a standing-room only crowd at 1410Q [http://www.1410q.com/] to share his learning and thoughts on The Mobile Pyramid [http://link.pointabout.com/pyramid] over his time at the Post. Guy

I was a panelist at the Potomac Tech Wire's [http://www.potomactechwire.com/] annual Mobile Outlook 2010 event.  It was an excellent event. Here are details; video is below. From the Potomac Tech Wire Event Description: Mobile Outlook 2010 is part of the Potomac Tech Wire breakfast series