Posts from — August 2009

The internet travel world is on fire with people chattering about Jet Blue’s amazing promotion: Unlimited Flights for a month for $599. When I heard the news (via Twitter), I jumped out of my chair and started pacing around frantically while making hurried phone calls. I was sure they’d cancel the promotion in a day due to overwhelming response, and wanted to make sure my ducks were in a row before I bought it.

Then three hours later - I bought it.

Could this be the best flight deal the US has ever seen?

If you live in Boston or New York City (and to a lesser extent Long Beach or Orlando) - then the answer is yes. However, if you fly out of many other cities (like Denver), it’s somewhat less awesome because you must always fly through one of the hubs first, and then onwards from there. Well guess what? I’m doing it anyway. (And I know of at least 3 others also doing it from Denver).

Another great use case is if you want to do a clockwise or counter-clockwise loop around the country. (Use Jet Blue’s fantastic interactive map that shows where they fly to from each city)

Here is my proposed itinerary: http://www.everlater.com/ryanwanger/jetblue-all-you-can-jet-month

Other people have been documenting their proposed JetBlue itineraries on Everlater as well. Here are the best ones so far:
http://www.everlater.com/andrew/jet-blue-jetting-trip (Andrew Hyde)
http://www.everlater.com/audrey/all-you-can-jet-sept-oct-2009

If you are lucky enough to be able to take advantage of this deal (do read the terms first), use Everlater to document your JetBlue All You Can Jet experience. We’ll be compiling the info and sharing the experiences (and probably ending up on each others flights!)

This is an amazing chance for an action-packed month of traveling around the US (and lots of destinations in the Carribean, as well as Costa Rica, and Columbia…though for those flights you need to fork over additional taxes - which are most around $30-$100 per flight). Personally, I’m using it primarily to visit friends that I otherwise wouldn’t be flying to go see - and I’ll be doing a lot of work in airports and on planes!

Will I see you in the skies from Sept 8th - October 8th?

Today, all 10 companies in the Boulder Techstars program this summer presented in front of a few hundred investors, well wishers, family members, and others in the Boulder community. The energy was amazing, and the teams did a great job. We had the good fortune of presenting second, and Nate was for sure the most energetic person in the room. Pretty sure he didn’t need that mic!

The surprise twist in our presentation was the Everlater Makeover we did for Fred Wilson, who was in attendance (and didn’t know what we were up to). We took all of his content from blog posts, photo feeds, and tweets from his recent trip and combined it into a great travel experience to showcase Everlater.

Check out his trip to Europe: http://bit.ly/everlatermakeover

Within just a few hours, both TechCrunch and RockyRadar have posted coverage of the event.

Sadly, Twitter was down all morning and didn’t come back online till after our presentation. But, there has been some good chatter about Everlater since then.

We met a ton of great people after the event who are really excited about Everlater. Thanks to all for your support, advice, and encouragement. We owe a lot to Techstars and the Boulder community and can’t wait to show you all how far we can take this…