{"id":1123,"date":"2012-07-16T11:33:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T15:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.agilityfeat.com\/?p=243"},"modified":"2012-07-16T11:33:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T15:33:25","slug":"coding-across-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/34.200.113.64\/en\/blog\/2012\/07\/coding-across-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Coding Across America for #startups with @makaimc"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_244\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agilityfeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Screen-Shot-2012-07-13-at-2.34.58-PM.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-244\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-244\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-07-13 at 2.34.58 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/agilityfeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Screen-Shot-2012-07-13-at-2.34.58-PM-300x170.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt&#8217;s tentative route for CodingAcrossAmerica.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Combining the great American road trip with meeting a bunch of entrepreneurs and hacking code?\u00a0 Brilliant!\u00a0 Why didn\u2019t I think of that?!<\/p>\n<p>That was my reaction when talking recently with a friend and fellow startup coder Matt Makai.\u00a0 Matt and I met when we were both graduate students at the University of Virginia\u2019s McIntire School of Commerce (props to a great program BTW).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_245\" style=\"width: 125px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agilityfeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Screen-Shot-2012-07-13-at-2.42.37-PM.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-245\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-245\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-07-13 at 2.42.37 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/agilityfeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Screen-Shot-2012-07-13-at-2.42.37-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Makai, future coding travelogue extraordinaire<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Matt is a very skilled programmer and energetic guy who is going to drive around the US in 2013, stopping at small cities and major startup hubs along the way.\u00a0 As he stops in each city he\u2019ll be meeting startups, learning about the technology, and writing some code.\u00a0 And of course he\u2019ll be blogging the whole experience.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, he\u2019s already started blogging the planning experience at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codingacrossamerica.com\/\">CodingAcrossAmerica.com<\/a>. \u00a0You can also follow him on twitter at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/makaimc\">@makaimc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m also starting to do some east coast travel for business development and to talk with startups and VC\/angel groups.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be talking about AgilityFeat\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/agilityfeat.com\/about\/\">awesome team of Costa Rican Code Commandos<\/a>, as well as our <a href=\"https:\/\/agilityfeat.com\/2012\/07\/coming-soon-daretobelean\/\">upcoming DareToBeLean workshop<\/a> that we\u2019re planning.<\/p>\n<p>Matt\u2019s ideas are inspiring me to blog a little bit about my business development travels too.\u00a0 I\u2019m excited to see how his journeys go and I\u2019ll definitely be watching from afar \u2013 and probably a little bit jealous too!<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of travels to meet startups, I\u2019ll be in Boston Thursday July 26<sup>th<\/sup> and Philadelphia on Monday July 30<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 If you would like to get together and talk software development for startups, drop me a line at <a href=\"mailto:Arin@AgilityFeat.com\">Arin@AgilityFeat.com<\/a> or call me at 434 996 5226!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combining the great American road trip with meeting a bunch of entrepreneurs and hacking code?\u00a0 Brilliant!\u00a0 Why didn\u2019t I think of that?! 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