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Piola DC

  • July 13, 2022July 13, 2022
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Jason Morenz was working in the kitchen in Piola located on the northern border of U St by Florida Ave NW. The restaurant was popular on Sunday for their bottomless…

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The Tower

  • July 10, 2022September 3, 2022
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In October 1984, I enlisted in the Navy straight out of high school in a small town in Southeast Georgia.  After serving aboard the USS Francis Hammond (FF-1067) in Yokosuka,…

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President’s Bar Comics

  • June 24, 2022February 2, 2024
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Nicole Foster was the wet behind the ears Marketing Manager trying to drum up new clientele for the President’s Sports Bar at the Renaissance Hotel in the Penn Quarter. So…

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Prayers for Nepal

  • June 15, 2022July 12, 2022
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May 12, 2015 The views at the Georgetown waterfront were busy with paddle boarders launching from the Key Bridge Boathouse and lunchers enjoying the open patio seating at Sequoia and…

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RUNIN — the Theme

  • June 13, 2022July 14, 2022
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RUNIN is not exactly about the joys (or pain) of running.  It’s not about running out of food either. Did you realize that RUNIN is actually a back acronym? Huh?…

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Ben’s Upstairs

  • June 12, 2022July 15, 2022
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August, 2016. I was driving back from Front Royal, VA, the gateway to the Shenandoah National Park, when I got an unexpected call from a long-time restaurateur friend. “Manuel, it’s…

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Best of DC

  • June 2, 2022July 12, 2022
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We applied for the GWU Business Plan competition three times, hoping that indeed the third and last time was the charm.  Unfortunately, all the leprechauns in the world could not…

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A Site is Born

  • June 2, 2022July 12, 2022
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During the spring of 2010, I enrolled in Professor Richard Donnelly’s New Ventures Class at the George Washington University (GWU) School of Business.  Students had to create ideas for a…

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The Tower

  • June 1, 2022July 11, 2022
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I enrolled in the Executive MBA program, and before the semester started, our cohort of 20 eager students embarked on a five-day retreat at the Homestead Resort in Hot Springs,…

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Startup Weekend

  • May 29, 2022July 11, 2022
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That next big tech event was Baltimore’s first-ever Startup Weekend held on April 17-19, 2011. On Friday afternoon, I arrived at the Emerging Technology Center, Baltimore’s Technology Incubator, at 8 pm,…

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