HQs visited: 11
Google (Mountain View “Googleplex“)
Microsoft (Mountain View and Redmond)
Pixar
Flickr
Cheezburger
Survey Monkey
Klout
Airbnb
Chomp
Whrrl
Events attended: 16
Geo-Loco Conference
SF Startup Weekend – Mobile
Women 2.0 Founder Friday
Hacks and Hackers – Facebook and the news: Making journalism social
VLAB & DFJ: How I Pivoted to Success Through Effective Iteration and Innovation
Cerebrate Silicon Valley
Girls Gotta Do Business: The Rising Force of Women Entrepreneurs
Women 2.0 Summer Lab Pitches
Mobile Monday New York
NYC Internet Marketing Meetup
Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp 2010
SF/SV Social Media Club tweetup with David Meerman Scott
140 Character Conf
Kate Kendell at Commonwealth Club
Hops & Chops Seattle
San Francisco Nightowls Meetup
Founders met: 17
Chum.ly
Cheezburger
CoTweet
Y Combinator
Open Culture
Social Media Club
101in365
StartupDigest
Precision Polling
Plurchase
Women 2.0
Happy About
Memetales
Meylah
iCharts
Origany
Foodably
And everyone else who I knew already!
Fan-struck status upon meeting: 3
Marissa Mayer
Paul Graham
Robert Scoble
Coworking spaces checked out: 6
Kicklabs
Citizen Space
Dogpatch Labs
True Ventures
Noisebridge
pariSoma Innovation Loft
Photos taken: 441
Cities visited: 3
San Francisco
New York
Seattle
High tea venues reviewed: 5
The Plaza
The Russian Tea Room
The Palace
Crown & Crumpet
Lovejoy’s Tea Room
Flights boarded: 9
Vintage dresses purchased: 9
Live sports watched: 2
Universities visited: 3
Stanford
UC Berkeley
California College of the Arts
Cinema visits: 2
Eat, Pray, Love (first movie by myself!)
Exit Through The Gift Shop – A Banksy Film
Apple Store visits: 6
San Francisco
Fifth Avenue, New York
Palo Alto (Steve’s local)
Mission burritos consumed: too many
Amazing new friendships: uncountable (but includes)
Jenn
Maya
Lindsey
Jessica
Amelia
Heather
Tim and Trudy
Lindsay
Kate
Nancy
A great two months well spent. :-)
I love getting tea at Tal-Y-Tara Tea & Polo Shoppe — you should definitely try them next time.
It’s The United Stats of America!
Welcome back!
Wow!
What an amazing trip.
Proud of you Kate.
Best…Stan x
yay!! totally cheating on SWmobile!! lol
Also: you forgot one:
Days til return: too many to count?? :P