Code Camp Day 2

10/07/13 | On the ground

I started the second day of Code Camp attending Seemant Kulleen’s session on Who are your customers?

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Code Camp Day 1

10/06/13 | On the ground

The Silicon Valley Code Camp conference is being held this weekend at Foothill College. This conference is free to attend and has over 200 sessions over two days with all kinds of topics from technology to business models.

The first session I went to was with Les Hazelwood on Beautiful REST + JSON APIs. He gave tips on what an API should support. It is important to include the media type in request and response headers so that each party understands the payload being sent.

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Bay Area Capital Connections Conference

10/04/13 | Manos, On the ground

Sleek-geek was invited to pitch at the Bay Area Capital Connections Conference with four other startups. The conference was held in the Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland. Co-chairman Mike Gunning, of the Alliance for Community Development Board, kicked the event off.

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A serial entrepreneur

10/03/13 | Manos, On the ground

Today Jose Florido came in to talk to us. He is a UX designer and entrepreneur from Spain. He started his first company, a web design studio, in 2002, worked with a Cuban friend on Loquo.com, a craigslist clone for Spain in 2004 and sold in 2005, and started Panoramio.com, which was sold to Google in 2007.

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Stomping around Oakland

10/02/13 | Manos, On the ground

Steve Cadigan came to give us advice on HR. He is a coach, speaker and adviser with over 25 years of leadership and executive experience in the field of HR. He has practiced HR across Asia, Canada and the US, including over ten years of experience living and working overseas.

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Choo-chooing around the mall

10/01/13 | On the ground

Today’s mentor couldn’t come in so we had another day to focus on building our products and making connections.

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Glazed Hackathon

09/30/13 | Hackathons, On the ground

What’s a weekend without a hackathon. I went up to San Francisco to the Glazed Hackathon held at Pivotal Labs on Howard St.

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A Fog-less Festival

09/29/13 | Manos, On the ground

The Fog Fest festival in Pacifica is this weekend. Usually too busy to attend, today I managed to find a parking spot blocks away and braved the crowds. The weather was not foggy at all, but rather sunny and cool.

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Spotlights and VC tips

09/28/13 | Manos, On the ground

Sebastian Cabrera stopped by today to talk with us. Sebastian is from Bogotá, Colombia and is driven by the dream of creating a lasting positive impact in the Hispanic community. He is an active volunteer for the Hispanic Foundation of the Silicon Valley, the Economic Empowerment Fund and a mentor for the Peninsula college fund. In 2012, he started Optimumtempus.co, a company which features frames by independent designers and fits them to order with prescription lenses.

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