Yesterday I worked from two legendary Silicon Valley coffee shops: Red Rock Coffee and Coupa Cafe.
Founders, engineers, designers, investors.
Startups don’t start in offices. They start over coffee.
@CoupaCafe@redrockcoffee#startup#productdesign
These are important questions. Real deals get done at places like @CoupaCafe in Palo Alto, Café Borrone in Menlo Park, and Buck’s in Woodside.
I once was working on a term sheet in Coupa, and the guy at the next table was on his phone yakking about the market practice for the very same sticking point that had been plaguing my project.
Does Austin have an equivalent to these places?
@adamrshields@Dropbox Same issue over here. Helloworks (Dropbox Forms) gets killed (EOL) and Form View gets continuously delayed due to bugs. Any help from support would be appreciated.
@dropbox@DropboxSupport
@Dropbox Your dropbox form system has shut down (not allowing me to send out new forms) 27 days before you have been advertising that it would.
We have been planning for months for a Sept 30 shut down. But I can't send new forms as of this morning.
Arugula avocado salad w/ chicken
Coupa Cafe
Palo Alto
Coupa’s amazing. Everyone (except me) is either writing code on their laptop, or discussing their startup with someone.
I ordered using the Coupa app. When it asked for feedback, I described 2 new problems I hadn’t seen before.
Within 3 minutes I got a response from the developer, saying he’s aware of these 2 problems, they’re new problems (started 8/25), and they’ll be fixed within 2 weeks. 🔥
@CoupaCafe
Baristas know your order & give great recs—why can't a coffee app? ☕✨
For my CS 147L project, I redesigned Coupa Cafe's app to feel personal & human, inspired by real coffee shop rituals.
Stanford loved it—it’s now the model project for the course!
#Design