Laura is a super star Director of [something important] (she recently got promoted from Community Manager, and her new title is escaping me) at Ning.com. I originally met Laura bouldering at Mission Cliffs, which seems to be where all the cool kids in SF go! She noticed I was going to Mission Cliffs and urged [...]

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Marcus and Emily run a wonderful start-up called UserVoice.com. Norman Rockwell (a.k.a. Rocky the Dog) hangs out and chew-tests new releases before they get rolled live.
I have crashed on the Nelsons’ couch quite a few times, but last night was the first night since I launched this blog! Maybe in later visits I’ll do a [...]

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Andrew is an awesome developer, and a multilingual one at that. I met him at SXSW in 2008. At the time, he was the CTO of Carrot Creative, which led to my introduction to Mike Germano.
It’s hard to say exactly how he’s going to hit it big, but it’s just a matter of time before [...]

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Mike is an awesome designer and an audiophile (he has an awesome collection of LPs!). I met him for the first time when I arrived to crash on his futon. He and Lyssa were playing some rock band, which is actually a nice alternative to being in Times Square watching the New Year’s ball drop [...]

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