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Startups to Customers: "I Wanna FIGHT Your Father." (Father = Incumbent Solution)

Passion is what being a startup entrepreneur is all about.

Great entrepreneurs are passionate about customers and solving their problems -- so passionate sometimes, that they will take on ridiculous odds to have a shot at fighting Goliath.

This video by The Rubberbandits captures it perfectly:

(Hey Startups: "I Wanna Fight Your Father!")

GeeksOnaPlane East Asia 2010: Startups Are Global. You Should Be Too.

TechCrunch just posted the fourth and final GoaP video (see below) from our GeeksOnaPlane Asia 2010 trip (Shanghai, Beijing, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo), produced by the awesome Ben Henretig at Micro-Documentaries.com, and Kris Krug also included an incredible photo essay of our trip as well.

As we wrapup our social media tour of China, South Korea, Singapore, and Japan, i'd also like to announce 500 Startups just made our first investment in China, in ChinaNetCloud.  Congrats Steve & James, and welcome to the family.

Startups & Entrepreneurship are a global phenomenon. Start something already.

GeeksOnaPlane Shanghai!

Geeks On A Plane Shanghai
Originally uploaded by kk+

awesome kickoff to GeeksOnaPlane Asia 2010:

- spontaneous StartupVisa mtg with Sec. State Hillary Clinton
- "East Meets West" blogger meetup @ Shanghai World Expo
- *fabulous* dinner Table No.1, The Waterhouse Hotel

Farewell Tokyo! J-Geek Dinner Shibuya Off the Hook :)

J-Geek Dinner #goap #tokyo
Originally uploaded by Tokyo Social Events

To everyone in tokyo: thanks for an AWESOME visit... the last 3 weeks have been terrific!

i gotta run to the airport so can't post everything i want to say / everyone i got to see, but look forward to seeing you all again later in May/June for GeeksOnaPlane Asia trip :)

#goap #swtokyo #japan

Startup Weekend Tokyo & GeeksOnaPlane Japan (Dec 2009)

Startup Weekend Tokyoo (Dec 2009)
Originally uploaded by fumi

thanks to KDDI, Jonny Li, & everyone involved with this past wknd's most awesome Startup Weekend Tokyo. & props to Mona & Chris McCann for helping me slap together a last-minute mini-GoaP Japan trip... no way could have done it w/o you guys.

big OMEDETOO! & congrats to Startup Weekend winners Wubble and Wishcovery for putting together some terrific ideas & apps!

if you can read Japanese, you can also see Serkan Toto's preview of the event on TechCrunch Japan here... you can also read Fumi's awesome summary post here.

for a few pix from the event look for the #swtokyo tag or checkout the sets from Fumi here & Derek here. 

You can also watch the [no longer live] Ustream below:

Live TV : Ustream

RethinkHawaii.com (Nov 1-5): Come Get Your Geek On.

Sometimes we all need a little time to Think. Time to get in touch with our Inner Geek.

Time to get in touch with Water, Land, & things Blue-Green.

Time to meet friends across the Pacific in the Middle.

It's time to...

RethinkHawaii.com

Come join us Nov 1-5 in Oahu for tech, green, clean, and mean social media... register now using code REDPILL, and save over $600 off the normal conference fee.

RethinkHawaii will feature a conference of mini-conferences around:

• Startups & Startonomics
• Sustainability & Clean, Green Tech
• Social Media & Business
• East Meets West (Internet Asia)
• Hawaii Unconference

Check out who's coming... including Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay and the Omidyar Network.

hope you can be there with us, to think about what's coming next :)

Join GeeksOnaPlane for DC (9/18-19) & Europe (9/21-10/2)

Want to meet geeks, startups, VCs, and other folks in DC and/or Europe?

Come with us in September for the next GeeksOnaPlane.com trip!

Here's our current travel plans & agenda (note you can join us for just one city, or for the entire trip):

• 9/18-19: Washington, DC — Tech & Govt Meetup, Startup2Startup dinner
• 9/21-23: London — SeedCamp Week
• 9/24-25: Amsterdam — Picnic Conference
• 9/26-27: Berlin — Ignite, Startonomics, Startup2Startup
• 9/28-29: Prague — Ignite, Startonomics, Startup2Startup
• 9/29-30: Paris — Ignite, Startonomics, Startup2Startup
• 10/01-02: London — Future of Web Apps

Costs vary based # of cities/events; estimates as follows:

• Full Trip (4-6 cities): $1250 all events + travel/hotel = ~$3000-5000
• Partial Trip (2-3 cities): $750 events pass + travel/hotel = ~$2000-4000
• Single City (DC or other): $500 events pass + travel/hotel = ~$1000-1500

Want to come along?  Great, just request an invite:

Here are some of the fun & awesome geeks that will be joining us...

Hosts + Travelers:

Dave McClure	Brady Forrest	Adriana Gascoigne	Frank Gruber
Founders Fund 500 Hats	O'Reilly Media Ignite	SGN Girls in Tech	AIM/AOL Somewhat Frank
Eric Ries	Vanessa Fox	Wen-Wen Lam	Sean Ellis
Kleiner Perkins The Lean Startup	Ignition Partners NineByBlue	Slingshot Labs	12in6 Startup Marketing
Ben Rattray	Evan Cooke	Mark Hendrickson	Rashmi Sinha
Change.org	Twilio	Worldly Developments	SlideShare

Lucky Josh on a Wall

Lucky Josh on a Wall
Originally uploaded by davemc500hats

what are the chances -- running into a music video shoot on the Great Wall of China? yes, indeed... josh is feeling lucky today :)

Geeks On A Wall

Geeks On A Wall
Originally uploaded by davemc500hats

Exciting day in Beijing: we climbed The Great Wall of China, stormed The Forbidden City, and conquered Tiananmen Square.

GeeksOnaPlane were pretty active today. And the Chinese people were very nervous.

Baka Gaijin.

Baka Gaijin.
Originally uploaded by davemc500hats

GeeksOnaPlane climb Mori Tower in Roppongi Hills (Tokyo) to make crazy photos.