#experiencelocal

Each year, I lead my team on a retreat over a few days to have fun, plan the future and collaborate (particularly since we often work remotely in various cities). Last year, we went to the Bay Area and ate great food, visited Pixar’s headquarters and more. The year previous we visited Washington, D.C. where we went on a local scavenger hunt, hosted a party with locals and hiked Great Falls Park. This year, we traveled to Denver for some high-altitude thinking. Through it all, we made our way around town with car2go, where we snagged a two-day package for less than $190 and found convenient parking all over the city and even at Red Rocks where we took in nature, as the locals do.

From left: Larry (brand and partnerships), Cate (content), Joah (CEO), Matt (UX design), Chase (engineering)

Our Senior UX Designer Matt gazes out at Downtown Denver from Red Rocks.

Our Director of Content Cate was happy about the close parking at Red Rocks.

Larry, usually behind the camera, reflected on finishing his first year at Localeur.

Next time, we’ll have to catch a show at Red Rocks, too! Definitely.

Cate and I did manage to get in a quality run though. The other guys watched.

Marcos Coal-Fired Pizza was an excellent first meal in the city. A couple of us earned the calories.

Tacos, Tequila and Whiskey is the actual name of this spot. Delicious.

While everyone immediately thinks of Snooze and jumps into an hour-long wait, we used Localeur to find Syrup and it’s an equally awesome, local brunch spot.

We had some fairly cold weather, but we had a sweet ride keeping us warm.

We hit up 1Up for some classic arcade games, from Pac-Man to NBA Jam.

That’s right, the time has finally come to introduce our new and improved Android app. Download the app for free today on Google Play and please make sure to leave us a review sharing your experience and any feedback! We hope you enjoy using our app to #experiencelocal in 60+ cities around the world. Here’s a preview of what you can expect!

OK, so a couple weeks ago, I wrote about choosing to live carlessly in Austin. On a recent trip to Toronto, I got many of the same perks I get from being a car2go user in another one of the best cities in North America (if not the world). From pizza and pasta at Terroni on Price Street to beers at Bandit Brewery, the city and the recommendations from our locals in Toronto did not disappoint. Here are a few pics I was able to snag while hopping from one Localeur-recommended spot to another (with an assist from this car2go Mercedes-Benz CLA coupe).

This is me trying to be artsy in the Royal Museum of Ontario. How’d I do?

The aforementioned Mercedes-Benz CLA coupe. I could def get used to this.

Took the car2go for a spin to catch some views (Drake reference) at Scarborough Bluffs. Shout out to Jac-lyn. 

Also checked out the sights at Edwards Garden (above and below). This place was super chill and I could see it being a good date spot.

Then, of course, I figured why the hell not drive down to Niagara Falls (below). Sure, it’s touristy, but it’s still mighty impressive.

Launched March 1, 2013, with 15 of my friends in Austin, Texas, contributing recommendations on where to find breakfast tacos and see shows during SXSW and now expanded globally to 60+ cities and counting including Australia, Canada, Spain, London, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Amsterdam and 50 major US cities. We didn’t even have an app when we launched!

Still, we've done this without a single institutional VC firm, with just one full-time engineer, one full-time UX designer, a 5-person team, a stellar group of angel investors, some great partners like JetBlue, and a community of locals who truly know where to eat, drink and play, and they're willing to share it with you all not because you're tourists who will overrun their favorite local spots but because our community is authentic, curated, credible and high quality. There is trust.

Please take a moment to download our new iPhone app today (it's free). Email me directly at [email protected] with any feedback or feel free to leave a review in the App Store! - Joah

P.S. We are adding more functionality to “Nearby” very soon, then will launch Android within a couple weeks followed by major updates on Profiles and Trips so stay tuned!

From the diverse, highly-skilled team whom I have the privilege of working with everyday to this impressive group of advisers (pictured above) who came together in Austin (from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and the Bay Area) this past weekend to inform our next steps as a business, what we at Localeur are focused on is not doing what's been done before us, but taking what's known (tourism) and taking it to a new level to truly allow travelers to #experiencelocal.  

I know, based on what I see everyday with other, better-funded Silicon Valley startups, that you would be extremely hard pressed to find a group of advisers this diverse, and, yes, it's very much intentional just as my diverse collection of investors is intentional.

We recently celebrated our 4th birthday so I wanted to share a few milestones we’ve experienced since 2013. We couldn’t have done any of this without our passionate and loyal community of locals, our supportive investors and all the travelers out there who want to #experiencelocal! Thank you!