Weeding Notes For Partner

second Day, Sunday, 24 February

As expected, I was already awake by 5 clock (14 clock chill afternoon) and was able to start the day with a long bath and the views of the e-mails and other things.

against 10 clock Marco and I were picked up by Joe Buerba, also a former colleague from Los Angeles McCue of me was because of my visit here, even with his wife two days in San Francisco. We went to brunch and extensively discussed many networking and personal items. In the afternoon we did a tour and a stroll through San Francisco so that we on time clock by 17 m from the brewery were, where we were invited to the Xing-Regional Meeting San Francisco.

We were 6 students and have many Xing, LinkedIn, said American and German characteristics. Here are some highlights:
smoking ban in the U.S. almost everywhere.
property prices almost four times as high as in Germany, because rapidly in San Francisco's population is growing and soon there is no room.
cost of living is slightly above those in Germany.
10,000 German living in the Bay, almost 50 percent of the population are "foreigners", most of them Indians. VIP's at a conference, simply to learn to know each other -
It takes a lot of IT.
There are many networking events, such as the Web Monday. De
Americans in itself is rather unprepared for meetings, A detailed preparation, such as working through a list of participants is rather uncommon in advance.


After we had traded down a cab 120 to $ 50, went against 20 Clock it back to the hotel where we ride for about 45 minutes then arrived

third Day, Monday, 26 February

pickup at 9:45 at the Clock Hotel, the taxi driver got the rounds of Kate LinkedIn - but he could not find the address, the road went completely in the wrong direction. Instead of 5 minutes we had about 20 minutes on the road.

on LinkedIn, it was with intense discussions following meetings:

Liz O'Donnell, VP International
Lucian Beebe, product manager
Brandon Duncan, Engineering Manager
Dan Nye, CEO
Orly Keren, marketing
Allen Blue, VP Products

4th Day, Tuesday, 27 February

interview with David M. Hornik, a partner at August Capital

http://www.augustcap.com/

conversation with Konstantin Guericke
Founder of LinedIN and now founder of http://www.jaxtr . com /

conversation with John Lilly, COO of Mozilla Corporation

http://www.mozilla.com/

conversation with Ellen Levey
board member of several reputable companies in Silicon Valley
http:// www.linkedin.com / in / create levy