Power of the Wingman

When I left Philadelphia two and a half months ago for South Florida, it was for all the correct reasons. In an economy when my closest friends are stuck in neutral at work, losing benefits or becoming unemployed altogether, I had an opportunity to advance my career. And moving to a perpetually warm climate was an added bonus. But I’ve found that rebuilding a network of friends in my new home is more time consuming than expected. To be honest, having my core group of friends throwing distance from my front porch for the past four years spoiled me. A quick text and we’d be off to dinner or the local pub within minutes. But in South Florida, all that’s within walking distance is the mailbox and my car. My efforts have yielded favorable results, but I quickly learned building and maintaining relationships here would be a grueling task.
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Mahalo (Part I)

Jason McCabe Calacanis: I want your attention!

With my blatently transparent plea out of the way, I considered bombarding you with e-mails, tweets and phone calls. However, mine would barely distinguish themselves from the herd of messages aimed in your direction on any given day producing a limited return on my efforts. Instead, I am telling Mahalo’s story in two parts: objectively with information I’ve compiled from TechCrunch (60%), various tech blogs (30%) and other websites (10%); and skewed based on a conversation with yourself. In addition, I am not trying to linkbait - a simple DM to my twitter account (@economist) would be appreciated to start a dialogue.

And now, on to the featured presentation.
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