{"id":454,"date":"2008-01-08T02:50:38","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T07:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/08\/my-2007-in-cities-and-celebrities\/"},"modified":"2008-01-08T02:50:38","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T07:50:38","slug":"my-2007-in-cities-and-celebrities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"My 2007 in cities and celebrities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to reflect on a few of those fun things, places, people and memories that entered my life this year this year. With no hesitation I present my year in cities and celebrities:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cities<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boulder, CO (moved from here)<\/li>\n<li>Denver, CO (to here)<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco, CA (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.communitynext.com\/\">CommunityNext<\/a>, birthday)<\/li>\n<li>Bay Area, CA (San Jose, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/devdev\/402951660\/\">Jelly Belly Factory<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Beijing, <a href=\"http:\/\/china.devinreams.com\/\">China<\/a> (Spring Break, Great Wall, Forbidden City)<\/li>\n<li>Shanghai, <a href=\"http:\/\/china.devinreams.com\/\">China<\/a> (Incubator visit, Ex-pat panels, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/devdev\/444503173\/in\/set-72157600044719182\/\">Pearl Tower)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Suzhou, <a href=\"http:\/\/china.devinreams.com\">China<\/a> (tea garden)<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles, CA (training, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video\/video.php?v=513637678913&#038;subj=10200068\">bull riding<\/a>, Manhattan\/Venice\/Huntington Beaches, Dodgers)<\/li>\n<li>Cleveland, OH (more training, more bull riding, tequila, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?pid=40257725&#038;op=2&#038;o=all&#038;view=all&#038;subj=10200068&#038;id=6800561\">Indians<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Santa Fe, NM (visiting an old friend, culture)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Celebrities<\/strong> (they&#8217;re internet-famous)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/okdork.com\/\">Noah Kagan<\/a> (the reason I got to meet so many people, awesome guy)<\/li>\n<li>Ramit Sethi (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com\/\">finance fella<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bustedtees.com\/shirt\/dysentery\">dysentery shirt<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.penelopetrunk.com\">Penelope Trunk<\/a> (not quite as crazy as her writing suggests)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ben.casnocha.com\/\">Ben Casnocha<\/a> (good sushi, wiz kid)<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Hyde (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startupweekend.com\">startupweekend<\/a>, political webmaster)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshspear.com\">Josh Spear<\/a> (definition of cool)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/redcouch.typepad.com\/\">Shel Israel<\/a> (almost like a grandpa, great stories)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tomconrad.net\/\">Tom Conrad<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandora.com\">pandora<\/a> CIO, why I bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonos.com\">sonos<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brbreslin.com\">Brian Breslin<\/a> (world-class web guy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpl.us\">webpl.us<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/infinimedia.com\/\">infinimedia<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanotto.com\/\">Jonathan Otto<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottobib.com\/\">ottobib<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/me.dium.com\/\">David Mandell (me.dium founder)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/steadman.blog.com\/\">Dean Steadman<\/a> (me.dium community guy, gave me the shirt my girlfriend says is her fave on me)\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/socialthing.com\/\">socialthing! team<\/a> (Matt, Brian, Ben, Joel, cool guys)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventvue.com\">EventVue team<\/a> (Rob and Josh, fun times in CA with guys from CO)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/500hats.typepad.com\/500blogs\">Dave McClure<\/a> (500 hats, smart guy with lots to say)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcdave.com\/\">Dave Feinleib<\/a> (sharp VC, very flattering, I&#8217;ll get into PE some day because of him)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewchen.typepad.com\/\">Andrew Chen<\/a> (prodigy, advertising\/web guru)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reemer.com\/\">Kareen Mayan<\/a> (education entrepreneur)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dannynewman.com\">Daniel Newman<\/a> (webpreneur, so much going on)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and so many more people. Some I didn&#8217;t even get to meet in person but had the opportunity to work with, talk to or cross paths (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.employeeevolution.com\/\">Ryan Healy and Ryan Paugh<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.b5media.com\">Jeremy Wright<\/a>, everyone at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9rules.com\">9rules<\/a> especially Scrivs, Tyme, Mike, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idunzo.com\/\">seanrox<\/a>, everyone from Startup Weekend (Micah, Michael, Charlie, John).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, a good year for new friendships and heres to many more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to reflect on a few of those fun things, places, people and memories that entered my life this year this year. With no hesitation I present my year in cities and celebrities: Cities Boulder, CO (moved from here) Denver, CO (to here) San Francisco, CA (CommunityNext, birthday) Bay Area, CA (San Jose, Sunnyvale, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[585,577],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-personal","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}