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Benjamin Joffe

Chief Digital Naturalist, +8* | Plus Eight Star

Every time I speak with someone about ‘Geeks on a Plane‘ (our worldwide tours to meet startups + geeks in lands afar), their first response is always “I love that name”. I’m not sure if they’re huge fans of Samuel L. Jackson (who isn’t, right?) or just fans of all things geeky, but we started [...]

Geeks on a Plane East Asia Tour 2009 officially announced

We are happy to announce the Geeks on a Plane East Asia Tour 2009! Dave McClure and Founders Fund are inviting international investors and tech entrepreneurs on a trip through Tokyo, Beijing and Shanghai to meet with some of the biggest Internet companies in East Asia as well as the hottest startups. Additionally we are [...]

Top Tech Connectors in Chile & Argentina: GOAP Organizers

Want to know how exciting Chile and Argentina are right now? Chile’s focus on entrepreneurship has strong support from the government and its Startup Chile incubator – in fact, President Sebastián Piñera, who was an entrepreneur himself, has made it a government mandate to invest in startups and embrace the future of technology. Argentina’s Palermo [...]

Top Tech Connectors In Brazil:The GOAP Organizers

Want to know how exciting Brazil is right now? Brazil’s middle class is booming, their economy is growing steadily, and the 2014 World Cup & 2016 Olympics have made it one of the most attractive emerging markets worldwide. From April 29th – May 8th, Geeks on a Plane (#GOAP) toured Brazil, Chile and Argentina [...]

Mayor Surprise

This is a guest post written by Reinaldo Normand, founder of 2Mundos, who co-resides in Brazil and San Francisco. Reinaldo is one of the organizers for the Rio de Janeiro stop of GOAP. GOAP has just confirmed that Eduardo Paes, Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, will be meeting with us during the trip. One of [...]

Brazil: The Country of the Future?

This is a guest post written by Reinaldo Normand, founder of 2Mundos, who co-resides in Brazil and San Francisco. Reinaldo is one of the organizers for the Rio de Janeiro stop of GOAP. Brazil is the country of the future! This was the mantra of most Brazilians in the late 60′s and early 70′s. The country [...]

GeeksOnaPlane East Asia 2010 (videos)

Here are four great videos from our GeeksOnaPlane tour of East Asia, 2010: Christine Lu, Shanghai Kris Krug, Beijing Francine Hardaway, Korea Dave McClure, Singapore

China: Dragon Disrupt

As many eyes in North America are turned on Techcrunch Disrupt, there is a bigger and more daunting disruption happening: It’s called China. When I thought of China, I had images of people on the road, biking to work in the morning, bamboo sticks, a country where chaos reigned, and where people were taught to [...]

GeeksOnaPlane Asia 2010 Kickoff in Shanghai

The GeeksOnaPlane East Asia 2010 tour took off from San Francisco on Friday afternoon, with 16 geeks in tow. After a brief layover in Korea at Incheon International Airport (thx Asiana Airlines for the red carpet treatment at the business lounge), we arrived in Shanghai at Pudong Airport on Saturday evening. We then quickly became [...]

GeeksOnaPlane December 2009 - Tokyo

The GoaP crew just landed in Tokyo yesterday and here are some events we will be going to for the week: GeeksOnaPlane Tokyo Winter 2009 12/16: VentureBeat Networking Event hosted by CNET 12/17: TokyoBiggestTechPartyEver.com 12/18: MyGengo.com 1-Yr Birthday Party 12/19: GoaP x Startup Weekend Tokyo 12/20: GoaP x Startup Weekend Tokyo 12/21: GeoMedia Summit Party [...]

The New Entrepreneurship (Eric Ries, The Lean Startup)

Short video clip by Eric Ries on “The New Entrepreneurship“:

Summary GeeksOnaPlane Hawaii 2009 (aka ReThink Hawaii)

GeeksOnaPlane Hawaii, aka RethinkHawaii.com (Nov 1-5, 2009: Honolulu, Hawaii) 11/1: Geeks fly from San Francisco (& elsewhere) to Hawaii 11/2: Startonomics Hawaii, Startup2Startup dinner (on a boat!) 11/3: Sustainability Hawaii (Green Tech & Clean Tech) 11/4: Social Media Business Summit, East Meets West 11/5: TEDxHonolulu 11/6: Geeks fly back to San Francisco (& other places)

Summary GeeksOnaPlane DC/Europe 2009

GeeksOnaPlane DC/Europe Fall 2009 is over; here are cities & events we visited: 9/17: Geeks fly from San Francisco (& elsewhere) to Washington DC 9/18-19: DC — Gov:Tech Meetup, Startup2Startup DC 9/21-23: London — SeedCamp Week 9/24-25: Amsterdam — Picnic Conference, Ignite Amsterdam 9/26-27: Berlin — Geek dinner, Startup2Startup brunch 9/28-29: Prague — STARTonomics, Startup2Startup [...]

Interview: Osama Bedier, PayPal + Announcing PayPal X Innovate conf (Nov 3-4, SF)

As were wrapping up the GeeksOnaPlane trip at Future of Web Apps / London, we caught up with Osama Bedier, PayPal VP Product Development. Osama gave us an overview of the new PayPal Adaptive Payments API, and talks about how web developers can use PayPal web services to create and integrate new payment applications and [...]

GeeksOnaPlane TV channel on Stupeflix!

awesome GoaP events in Paris! thanks Colette, Phil, Brady, Jacques, Damien, & Sofinnova! (also thanks to nicolas & rodrigo for the remix below Watch the Geeks On A Plane channel on Stupeflix.tv.

Deep Thoughts on the Train from Berlin to Prague

While traveling on a 4-hour journey from Berlin to Prague, we had a lot of down time to think, write, talk, read and listen to music. Inspired by my book, White Tiger and the Black Eyed Peas, The E.N.D. album, I consistently found myself thinking about how grateful I am to be healthy, happy and [...]

GOAP Berlin Brunch

The GoaP crew hosted a Startup2Startup brunch for the local startup community in West Berlin this past Sunday morning. We were thrilled to meet people from all over, including startups Toksta, Sponsorpay, susuh, and many others. We were especially lucky to have Garhard and Bernd, the CEO and CTO of modern music production software company, [...]