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Phone2Food envelopes on the FearLess Cottage porch. Come and get 'em.

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Phone2Food.org has partnered with buymytronics.com an an effort to raise money for famine releif in Africa. You can read more about the effort here and on their site. Right now we have a couple hundred envelopes on the Fearless Cottage porch so come by and pick up a few. Many of us have old phones lying around and they can easily be converted to food with these postage paid envelopes. It costs you nothing but a little time and the money raised is really significant. You mail in a phone. Somebody doesn't starve. It's that simple.

FearLess Cottage,
645 Walnut St, Boulder, CO

Hanging out with Zimride Co-founder and COO John Zimmer

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I met john Zimmer a couple years ago and I've been a big fan of Zimride.com and Zimmer ever since. You may be surprised to know that Zimmer did not name Zimride after himself. In fact, although he had created a very similar service in college it turned out that Zimride was a competing service that Logan Green had started. The two eventually joined forces and Zimmer became part of Zimride. I'm a big fan of Logan too.

Today these guys gave me a chance to look under the hood an see what makes Zimride the leader in ride share. Car share, as you probably realize, has been popularized by services like Zipcar and in the peer to peer space by services like Getaround. Zimride and ride share as a category is about sharing seats not vehicles. So as a user you post the routes you normally drive or where you would like to get a ride to and then you get matched. It's digital age hitchhiking all vetted through Facebook so you know lots about your potential commuting partner.

Recently, Zimride which was focused on creating programs for closed communities like universities has begun to open their service to the general public and they've begun opening routes. One of the first routes, SF to LA is already generating a hundred ride matches a day. When you consider that is just a single route you quickly realize the enormous potential of this platform. If you've done the math already you would not be alone. John recently closed their A round with a 6 million dollar

raise as investors scramble to make their mark on this collaborative consumption space that has created mega hits like Airbnb.

John and my wife Ana and my daughter Nadia and I popped over with John to check out the new ride he treated himself to after closing the latest round. But instead of pulling into a Porsche dealer we pulled into Mission Bikes and John threw a leg over his sweet new single speed townie. He's going to use it to commute to work. When he's not using Zimride of course.

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The occupation needs supplies

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Like any occupation, #occupywallstreet needs food and other provisions. You can go to their site to see what they need most. Yesterday we sent 50 FearLessLoveMore t-shirts, a whole lot of delicious and nutritious Justin's Nut Butter and our FearLess Cottage megaphone.

Put on a shirt, have a PB&J for energy and speak into the megaphone. It takes important ideas and makes them louder. And it has brought us good luck in the past.

Although a lot of us can't be there in the flesh it feels good to get connected in some small way. We wish the occupation a safe and productive day. Hang in there. Keep being FearLess and let us know how we can help.

Love,
The FearLess Crew