I met with Donald Alden Smith yesterday at Yellow Wood Coffee & Tea in Alamo, CA. Yellow Wood is a freat little coffee shop that I was unaware of. It is located in the Alamo Plaza along with Safeway on Danville Boulevard.

Unfortunately, YellowWood’s website does not do justice to their ambience. Yellow Wood is much more comfortable than any Starbucks or Peet’s that I have visited.

Don is a member of the Keiretsu Forum, an angel investment group. I was kicking a few ideas around with Don, one of which might have qualified for some angel investing – but now, I think not.

I met Don last Friday at Barnes & Noble in Walnut Creek. I was having a cup of coffee there and he was at the next table with a huge stack of books. The books were all focused on marketing, one of my favorite subjects – so, I struck up a conversation which led to yesterday’s meeting at Yellow Wood Coffee.

I’ll be going back to Yellow Wood. Since I have a Sprint AirCard, I did not check to see if they had WiFi. They do however, have live music and wine on most Fridays and Saturdays.