Working at LaunchSquad, I’m often compelled to express my gratitude for my great coworkers and incredible clients. This is especially true around the holidays, when we fill the office with holiday decorations and celebrate the year’s success by laughing until we can’t eat one more bite of chocolate pot de creme at the company party. [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2008
5th Graders on the Job at LaunchSquad
December 23, 2008 – 4:52 pm
A few weeks ago, LaunchSquad’s Monica Miller and I had the opportunity to spend time with two 5th graders from Monarch Academy in Oakland. Patricia and Francisco made a trip to downtown San Francisco for a job shadow to see the ins and outs of a day’s work at a technology public relations firm. Francisco [...]
2008 End of Year Meeting & Holiday Party
December 23, 2008 – 11:00 am
For LaunchSquad’s end-of-year meeting early this month, the team gathered at SF State’s downtown campus, located at the new Westfield San Francisco Centre. Inside tiered-classroom 557, Partner Jesse Odell kicked-off the presentation-packed afternoon by running circles around the classroom to the sounds of the Black Eyed Pea’s chart-toping “Let’s Get It Started.” Following Jesse’s memorable [...]
Volunteer Day at SF Homeless Connect
December 8, 2008 – 8:05 am
To paraphrase Muhammad Ali, “What you’re thinking is where you’re going.” To quote Muhammad Ali directly, “It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” Last week, a team of LaunchSquad volunteers was thinking – not about grass growing, birds flying, waves pounding or beating people up – [...]
LaunchSquad’s 4th Annual Pie Bake-Off: The Results Are In!
December 4, 2008 – 6:58 am
Just before Thanksgiving our San Francisco and New York offices hosted the Fourth Annual LaunchSquad Thanksgiving Pie Bake-Off, and it was out most advanced competition to date by far. Our San Francisco winner was the simply named pie with extraordinary taste, Zoe Vandeveer’s “Classic Pecan Pie.” (A pecan pie has now won two of the [...]