A pair of Sacramento entrepreneurs are building a business centered around what they say adults are missing in their lives – play. Jeff Louie and Chris Chu, both 30, founded Asobuyo in April as a way for like-minded locals to get together, play games, sample food from local businesses and get to know one another. “We’re all about using play as a mechanism for life change,” Chu said. “When people play, they have better quality of life and less stress.” Asobuyo is a Japanese word that roughly translates as “let’s play,” Chu said, adding that weekly meetings of Asobuyo members are centered around playing games in groups of four in a fun way to get to know people. The first event was held

For self-employed Sacramentans who want to keep work and home separate, the ThinkHouse Collective provides an office space without any of the drudgery of a cubicle forest. “We’re a co-working community,” said co-founder Janna Santoro. “It’s a membership community for Sacramento’s creative class.” Santoro said the ThinkHouse Collective, located at 1726 11th St., offers all the social aspects of a traditional office, where members can bounce ideas off each other, while freeing workers from the typical distractions of working from home such as pets, kids and chores. Co-founder Jeremy Maron said the collective is essentially a community of freelancers including writers, photographers and ot

Global Entrepreneurship Week debuted in Sacramento on Monday. Former Kings player Bobby Jackson was among nearly 50 entrepreneurs at ARCO Arena for "Mentoring Equals Millions," featuring a panel of owners of multimillion-dollar businesses each telling how a mentor helped him reach success. After the event, speakers and GEW organizers gathered at Capsity Offices, 2957 3rd Ave., for a networking lunch. GEW will feature 10 more speakers in Sacramento throughout the week, said Ricardo Robles, Capsity Offices co-founder, and regional coordinator for GEW. Robles also mentioned that more than 87 countries around the world will participate in the event, which was begun last year by the Ewing Mar

Recently, the owners of Midtown businesses on J Street facing Marshall Park renamed their area The Bloc. Downtown, the owners of the businesses on 11th and H streets renamed their establishments The Retrolodge. Now a group of Curtis Park businesses will rename themselves. This Saturday, Gunther's Ice Cream, Pangaea Cafe and Capsity Offices will reintroduce the corner of 3rd and Franklin streets as "The Parks." They want to call it "The Parks" because the area is located near Curtis Park, William Land Park, Tahoe Park and Oak Park, says Ricardo Robles, co-founder of Capsity Offices. From 1 to 3 p.m., the neighborhood will celebrate the one-year anniversary of Capsity Offices and Pangaea

 Photos taken at The Sacramento Press and Entreprini Tweetup.

Photos taken at The Sacramento Press and Entreprini Tweetup.  

Last night at Pangaea Cafe, a local hip coffee house owned by Rob Archie, hosted the first ever SacTweetUp, an amazing gathering of Sacramentan tweeples.  If you don't know what tweeples are then you are probably not tweeting. Tweeples are people using twitter. Twitter is a popular social networking and micro-blogging service used for staying connected in real time and used by more than 1 million people worldwide. It seems that everybody is tweeting.  Even Lance Armstrong twittered about his bike being stolen to his thousands of followers right after he learned about it. Last night’s SacTweetUp was a complete success.  There were about 25 to 30 people present.  I was so happy to be ther

Last night, the Bikeramento founders ride over to Bicyle Chef's new digs on 33rd and N St off Folsom Boulevard.   It's after hours and Ed Cox presents the documentary, Return of the Scorcher, which inspired the term "critical mass." Christopher Davis-Murai, owner of Bicycle Chef, tosses the keys to the Sac Cycle Chic to close up.   There's a free tasting of Two Rivers Cider.  They whip out the screen and the youngest member of the crew, Violet queries, "What's that, papa?" Once upon a time in the 1890's, bicycles are seen as the fastest mode of travel, scorchers.  "What is progress?" asks Ed Cox, the city's alternative transportation coordinator.  It's the Return of the Scorcher. "Is th

SACRAMENTO, Cal. - FEBRUARY 9, 2009 - A local group of bicycle advocates launch the 1st Annual Bikeramento Week from Feb. 9-14, culminating on Valentine’s Day with a race day watch party at 18th and L on the patio of the Buckhorn Grill during the Amgen Tour of California, the largest bicycle race in the United States. Each day this week, the team offers a different bicycle-friendly event to highlight Sacramento’s potential as a bikeable community to both visitors and locals alike. By attending events, participants can win a pair of tickets to the Bikeramento Patio during the Amgen prologue on Saturday. The group wishes to raise awareness of bicycles as a transportation norm. “This is a g