Restaurants
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Foreign-Born Uber Drivers Recommend their Favorite Home Cuisines (in the Bay Area)
Armenian, Bay Area, Brazilian, Cantonese, Cuisine, Curry Without Worry, Drivers, Ethiopian, Food, Food Trucks, Foreign Born, Immigration, Indian, International Cuisine, Japanese, Korean, Moroccan, Nepalese, Nicaraguan, Oakland, Pakistani, Palestinian, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, Recommendations, Restaurants, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, Scandinavian, Tibetan, Turkish, Uber, YemeneseIf you love travel and food, as I do, you would have spent nearly every Uber ride in the last year talking with drivers about where they come from (an overwhelming number of them are immigrants) and, amongst other things, where they go to get a taste of home when they’re away from home. What…
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I have been relatively silent recently regarding ReservationHop. We have been doing a lot of exploration (or in startup lingo, “customer discovery”) as we try to find a good niche for innovation in restaurants that benefits consumers and optimizes some part of the dining experience. Consequently, in the last couple of months, we have built and…
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The idea was simple: why isn’t there a good system for hourly workers (60% of the US workforce) to swap their shifts out via text message? Enter OK Shift, a text message-only based system that allows hourly workers to swap their shifts via text message, and get those swaps approved by managers. The system allows…
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It has been a crazy holiday weekend. In three days we went from relative obscurity to being the punching bag of the entire tech industry. I suppose some might envy me for all the media attention I’ve received for a side project I built in my underwear one night after waiting in line for a…
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This morning I put the finishing touches on, and launched, ReservationHop.com, a site where I’m selling reservations I booked up at hot SF restaurants this Fourth of July weekend and beyond. I built it over the weekend after waiting at Off the Grid for 30 minutes for a burrito from Señor Sisig, and realized that there’s…
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