I've been intrigued by the idea of a BarCamp - informal, unstructured, participant-organized conferences where people with similar interests share and learn in an open environment - since I read about them in other (mostly technology) blogs. There is an upcoming...
Spread the word! I'm proud to be co-chair of the Financial Women's Association of San Francisco 2008 Scholarship. I never cease to be amazed by the women we interview - by their ambition, drive, compassion, and enthusiasm for finance. The deadline...
It was a fantastic warm, sunny weekend in San Francisco - 80 degrees, clear and not too windy. The type of May weather we locals revel in because we know the summer fog will be with us soon. I took a lawn chair and a big floppy hat to Fort Mason and caught up on my...
My life used to be dominated by quarters. Parking tickets are an important revenue source for the City of San Francisco and we have vigilent meter monitors. In most areas meters are 25 cents for 6 minutes (yes, you read that right). I'd stockpile quarters...
Inc magazine's FreshInc blog has a post today about San Francisco and its outlook as a business center. Our future looks good - despite high cost of living and not so business-friendly politics. Why? The reason, more than anything else, is that the city continues...
In a recent post the management guru Tom Peters raves about the entrepreneur-friendly San Francisco Bay AreaWe could, as a nation, do a helluva lot worse than emulating San Francisco and the Bay Area. In fact, I fervently believe we'd have a hard time doing...
