Friday!

I don't have an exciting title for this blog post (as opposed to my other really creative ones :) !) Anyways, Friday was filled with three different meetings and it was really exciting.

Stop one: Citizen Space. This is a place to work for either a few hours, or you can rent a desk for a month. It is really a great idea to have a place for people owning their own businesses to work if they cannot afford their own offices. We also talked about reputation and whuffie (which is social capital) It was interesting to see the blurring of social lines to include both business and personal image into one complete image. Other things we talked about was where people fit into the world and into their jobs. Plus, we were encouraged to never say no to an opportunity because you never know where it will lead you. Plus, goals and what you love to do are always changing as you have more experiences.

Stop two: Pixar. Apparently Pixar doesn't give public tours, unless your professor meets someone who works at Pixar on a cruise.

Stop three: Mobitv. Daniel's dad's cousin works for mobitv and he gave us a great presentation about starting a company, what it means to be an entrepreuner, globalization, and life in silicon valley. This company puts tv onto phones which is really cool. Plus, it's all live tv! And...as a benefit, he was one of the founders of TiVo. We learned that because of constant innovation there is a need for constant learning to contribute to jobs in Silicon Valley. Without contribution, there is no way people can keep their jobs. Also, he gave us an interesting definition of entrepreunerialism "having a passion to do something new and novel and the ability to instill that passion in others. Some tips to starting a company are to focus on the customer and to be on top of twitter, websites, and blogging.

After all the meetings, we had a tweetup to meet with some more people in the industry for a happy hour and then headed to a nice restaurant for dinner and spent some time browsing around San Francisco.

Then exhausted, we headed back to the hotel to crash.