My 2007 in cities and celebrities

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, Palo Alto, Jelly Belly Factory)
• Beijing, China (Spring Break, Great Wall, Forbidden City)
• Shanghai, China (Incubator visit, Ex-pat panels, Pearl Tower)
• Suzhou, China (tea garden)
• Los Angeles, CA (training, bull riding, Manhattan/Venice/Huntington Beaches, Dodgers)
• Cleveland, OH (more training, more bull riding, tequila, Indians)
• Santa Fe, NM (visiting an old friend, culture)

Celebrities (they’re internet-famous)

• Noah Kagan (the reason I got to meet so many people, awesome guy)
• Ramit Sethi (finance fella, dysentery shirt)
• Penelope Trunk (not quite as crazy as her writing suggests)
• Ben Casnocha (good sushi, wiz kid)
• Andrew Hyde (startupweekend, political webmaster)
• Josh Spear (definition of cool)
• Shel Israel (almost like a grandpa, great stories)
• Tom Conrad (pandora CIO, why I bought sonos)
• Brian Breslin (world-class web guy, webpl.us, infinimedia)
• Jonathan Otto (ottobib)
• David Mandell (me.dium founder)
• Dean Steadman (me.dium community guy, gave me the shirt my girlfriend says is her fave on me)
• socialthing! team (Matt, Brian, Ben, Joel, cool guys)
• EventVue team (Rob and Josh, fun times in CA with guys from CO)
• Dave McClure (500 hats, smart guy with lots to say)
• Dave Feinleib (sharp VC, very flattering, I’ll get into PE some day because of him)
• Andrew Chen (prodigy, advertising/web guru)
• Kareen Mayan (education entrepreneur)
• Daniel Newman (webpreneur, so much going on)

…and so many more people. Some I didn’t even get to meet in person but had the opportunity to work with, talk to or cross paths (Ryan Healy and Ryan Paugh, Jeremy Wright, everyone at 9rules especially Scrivs, Tyme, Mike, seanrox, everyone from Startup Weekend (Micah, Michael, Charlie, John).

Anyway, a good year for new friendships and heres to many more!