Well well, this has been a very barren blog for the past few months. Unfortunately it's very typical of my experiences with blogs throughout my life, although I can also attribute it to being frantically busy and posting my favorite links of the day to Facebook rather than here. In any case, I'll give you the update.
I've been in the heart of Silicon Valley for the past three months, originally brought out here for a job at web startup RealtyNation. I had known the founder John Kobs as a Case alum and former investment banker for a few years, came on to help as a jack-of-all-trades business employee, and 1.5 weeks into the gig decided to call it quits. Shortest tenure at a job ever, I think! =P It was a wonderfully eye-opening stint in terms of self-development: I learned something that I really should have known before, that I need to be working on a project that I have intellectual ownership of, otherwise I won't have the drive to succeed. Equally importantly, the job was highly demanding of my time, precluding me from really becoming part of the Valley's community by playing ultimate frisbee pickup, getting out to techie/entrepreneuer networking events, getting to know friends outside of work, etc.
Since then I've continued to work with social music startup CitizenGroove, but on a fairly part-time basis. The search for a suitable project since then has been interrupted by a week spent in Chicago/Cleveland, then the visits of two friends for a couple weeks. Otherwise I've been churning through ideas, some good some bad, and have a couple that I'm still holding on to.
Between the one business concept I've been diving into this past week or two and another opportunity that popped up, I may be making my way back to Cleveland soon, bringing with me some very useful knowledge that I've been sucking up from the tech/startup community here. I *promise* that I'll post a more concrete update here when things come through!
Until then, I recommend you sign up for a Fresh Fork Market CSA, follow music sharing and discovery tool CitizenGroove on Twitter, join me in fighting mediocrity by joining Derek Sivers' "HELL YEAH! or no" campaign, keep your startup safe from vulture VCs with the help of Adeo Ressi, take a peek at the life of expatriate and dear friend Alan Jones in Hyderabad, India, and get a taste of the valley by checking out the HackerDojo homepage.
Adieu!
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