Twilio [http://www.twilio.com/] had a great Startup Waffles [https://www.meetup.com/thestartupwaffles/] event in San Francisco this morning.  If you're not familiar with Twilio, check them out - they're taking what have traditionally been hardware-based telecom solutions and putting them into the cloud

I attended a great Android Meetup [http://www.android-android.net/] tonight by the Silicon Valley Android Developers Meetup (which, amazingly, has over 1,800 members).  There were several presenters tonight.  The first was Siamak Ashrafi, who talked about Augmented Reality and described the differences between Augmented Reality with GPS Markers

California is a great state to own a motorcycle in.  The traffic in San Francisco makes a bike the most efficient way to get around.  But being new to the city, I don't always know where I am going.  So I took a Magellan 1412 GPS [https://www.

We just moved into SOMAcentral [http://go.danielodio.com/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 [https:

Here's how I like to moderate panels: (I might send you this link if you're a panelist on an upcoming panel I'm moderating) 1. Send me one line to share about you. I like to handle the initial intros so we can get through

Yesterday Casey Golden of A Small Act Network and I were invited by Jim Hunt to be guest lecturers at Georgetown University on entrepreneurism for an MBA class on the subject. I talk about how I got Seth Godin to agree to making an app through our startup AppMakr (it

For years, I've been tied to the native Mail.app mail client on Mac OS X.  Disappointingly, it hasn't kept up with other OSX improvements, and has felt increasingly clunky.  But the switching costs were very high, namely because of massive customization:  I've been

I was invited by the awesome connector Shai Goldman [https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaigoldman] of Silicon Valley Bank to the "Brains to Ventures [http://www.b-to-v.com/]" dinner and panel.  B-to-V is group of European entrepreneurs and investors.  The dinner was arranged while they were touring Silicon

Jerry, our marketing specialist at AppMakr [http://www.appmakr.com/], just got some great pics of our new office in San Francisco. We've recently expanded from DC out to SF as our AppMakr "do it yourself" iPhone creation platform has continued to gain phenomenal traction.  What

Being an entrepreneur means you're always on.  Here's a video that shows what I mean.