Alberto (Left) & Manolo (right), Co-founders of Yogome.

I met my co-founder Alberto when I hired him for another educational project in Mexico, but I wasn’t happy with the approach that the project was taking so I quit and began working on Yogome.  Alberto decided to leave a 20+ team and a good salary to join me on the Yogome project. We started working secretly on Saturdays in an office from another business I had. It was really exciting.

The coolest part it was when we came to Silicon Valley on a 1-way plane ticket. We didn’t buy a ticket to go back to Mexico because we wanted to see where the adventure takes us. Finally  we convinced Dave during a demo day from a previous incubator in Mexico to bring us into the 500 family.  It was a great week, we got into the top 10 of educational games in the US app store and we got accepted to 500 too, so cool!

Alexa & Ted fundraising for Foodspotting.

I first came up with the idea for Foodspotting over 3 years ago. I was a designer at Adaptive Path, but I couldn’t actually build things. I set out to find a cofounder by sharing my idea with anyone who would listen. I soon realized that I didn’t even know what to look for in a developer. Luckily, one afternoon at an Adaptive Path happy hour, I overheard this guy Ted talking about a food app he was working on. I jumped in to share my idea. He liked the idea and agreed to help me figure out what to look for in a technical co-founder. A few months later, I thought, “Hmm, it sounds like YOU would be the perfect cofounder!” Over pizza at Flour + Water, I popped the question, and a few weeks later, Ted said yes!