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Mile High Club and In-N-Out Project Report
Well it’s official. Till this morning I was an in-flight wireless virgin. No longer. This is my first blog post from the friendly skies.
I’ve joined the Mile High Club of Internet denizens surfing from 30,000 feet above the ground. It. Is. Ridiculously. Awesome!!!
Give me enough extra batteries (sorry Apple, your battery life sucks) and GoGo and I’ll just keep flying round and round the world getting work done like a wild man.
Why am I flying? I’m headed to London for Doba meetings and then since I was close, Le Web next week in Paris. I’ll try to post anything that’s cool, they have a lot of heavy hitters coming for the conf.
Now on to more important matters. The In-N-Out Project was a smashing
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Can It Get Any Worse?
I’m in India again for business, checking on the new platform we’ve been collaborating with Impetus on building for Doba and eventually Catalog Science.
I brought Amy this time, and since on previous trips I end up pretty much worthless for a week when trying to jump right into work the day after you get here (11.5 hour time diff), we decided to take a few days to adjust to the time change, then hit work hard at the Impetus offices in Indore. So we came to Aurangabad. There’s not much to do (planned), but there are a few caves close, and mostly we’re just letting time (and ambien) get us on the right schedule.
When we got here, the Lemontree Hotel upgraded
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Base Camp: India
So I’m in Noida, India. It’s a suburb of Delhi. Dave Gray and I are here to setup an offshore development center for our 9aisle software spinoff from Doba. I’ll be here for 3 weeks, then yo-yo back to the U.S. for 10 days and then back to India for almost 3 more weeks.
We came to India about 18 months ago, and had a great trip, traveled around like crazy, visited a bunch of companies, and came away knowing if we ever where to do offshore dev, we’d use Impetus. (My report on that trip related to Travel, Culture, and Work.)
The picture above is me and Dave with with Vineet (engineering mgr), Pankaj (architect), and Piyush (team lead) from Impetus.
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2008: My Year of Travel. And 7 Reasons Why Smart Entrepreneurs Will Make 2009 Theirs
“Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor†– Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)
I feel vigorous. I traveled much more in 2008 than I’ve ever done before. Between business travel, personal JerCore adventure trips, and family vacations, I spent 85 days last year sleeping somewhere else than the bed in my bedroom. That’s 12 weeks. That’s almost 25% of the year.
Here’s how it played out: New York, Vegas, Midway, Phoenix, Bay Area, Grand Canyon, Burley, Salt Lake, Boston, New Jersey, Bay Area, Atlanta, SoCal, New Orleans, Park City, Bay Area, Chicago, Tennessee, Chicago, Tokyo, Burley, D.C., Driggs, Grand Teton, Vegas, D.C., South Dakota/Wyoming, Bay Area, Paris, Phoenix, Vegas.
I estimate I traveled 77,000 miles in 2008 (via plane, car, bus, or
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Récompense
We got home Wednesday afternoon from our trip to Paris.
I told you I’d check back on whether we had ‘rewards’ on this trip. To put it in terms of startup exits, we hit a base hit. Didn’t hit a home run, but definitely didn’t strike out either.
Paris is an amazing city. The kids did surprisingly well. We learned some travel tricks. (Rent apartments!! You’ll save 2/3 over hotels, and we ate at least 2 meals a day at the apt and saved hundreds and hundreds in meal expenses.) We ate an authentic Thanksgiving dinner at a French restaurant. We never had one run-in with ‘the rude’ French. I fit in a couple of business meetings. It was confirmed to me
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Entreprendre
I think most people would agree that any definition of entrepreneur has to involve some angle about risks and unknowns juxtaposed with rewards.
And in case you didn’t know, the French word Entreprendre, which means “to undertake”, is the root to Entrepreneur.
So in the spirit of risks and unknowns and undertaking–and in the spirit of visiting the country that provided the root to one of the words of the title of this blog–Amy and I are taking Kaitlin (4) and Alex (2) to Paris for Thanksgiving.
Risks? Check. Unknowns? Check. The French? Check. Rewards? I’ll tell you in about 8 days.
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Land of The Rising Sun
I leave this morning to head to Tokyo for the week. I’m meeting with some ecommerce companies there.
This is my first trip to Japan and I’m way excited. I might try to post from the road, or if not, until next week: Sayonara!!
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