Quick heads up: tomorrow, the city of San Juan will be hosting Puerto Rico’s first TEDx event. We’ve been working behind the scenes for seven months, from picking out the venue, to holding speaker nominations and going through attendee applications. It’s kind of hard to believe that the day is already upon us. TEDx San Juan is taking place tomorrow, December 9th, 2011.

Although tickets are no longer available, we’re happy to announce that we will be streaming TEDx San Juan live, starting at 8 AM EST tomorrow morning. Please join us for just over a half day of TEDx talks and artistic performances.

Want to brew a great cup of coffee without making too much of a mess? Buy this. It’s called an Aeropress. Now buy some quality coffee beans. You got a grinder, right? I won’t judge you if you won’t. Just ask your barista to grind your beans one step above espresso grind. You want a fine grind, but not too fine to clog the paper filter.

We will be using the inverted Aeropress method. Why? I don’t know. Some people prefer this over the normal method, since it keeps the paper filter away from the coffee until its needed. Some people like to run some water over the paper filter beforehand (they say doing this will keep your coffee from having a paper-filtery-taste, which I’ve never noticed anyway), and doing this with the regular method will result in coffee leaking out prematurely. I prefer it because its less messy and its all self-contained. Lets begin.

This is hard to say, but I wish they had believed in me less. Encouraged me less. Supported me less. I wish someone, anyone, had put a stop to my foolish ideas. I’m incredibly confident and stubborn. I believe I can do anything. So additional support is kind of wasted on me. What I really needed is someone that could break through my confidence and tell me straight that I was being an idiot.

I stumbled across this post by Jason Freedman in this week’s Silicon Valley Startup Digest. Nice timing, given that I spent this past weekend advising groups of entrepreneurs who were building new products during Startup Weekend Puerto Rico. I listened to a variety of ideas, both good and bad, and I think I could have done a better job of letting them know when an idea just wasn’t good enough.

This past weekend, Puerto Rico had its first official Startup Weekend event. The premise was simple: launch a startup in 54 hours.

Welcome to Startup Weekend Puerto Rico! from Dana Montenegro on Vimeo.

Over 50 passionate designers, developers, business development and creatives met on Friday night and pitched dozens of ideas. Every one got to pick their top three ideas and quickly assembled into seven teams. Their goal: have a fully developed business model and a prototype ready by Sunday evening, where each would pitch a panel of angel investors and venture capitalists and take a chance at winning thousands of dollars in prizes and in-kind services.

If you’re in Puerto Rico for the weekend of October the 14th, be sure to check out Startup Weekend Puerto Rico. You’ll have just 54 hours to build a business by teaming up with entrepreneurial people from various backgrounds.

Startup Weekend is being organized by my friends Giovanni Collazo, José Padilla, Ramphis Castro, and Marcos Polanco. This core team is heavily involved in pushing Puerto Rico hard towards entrepreneurship. And what better place to exercise your product marketing, design and development muscle than Seriously Creative, an amazing space built specifically for nurturing ideas and helping teams rally into action.

Tickets for Startup Weekend are only $75 through today. You may also sponsor one lucky entrepreneur for $100. Sponsors can feed these hungry entrepreneurs for $500, or go big for $950. Enough talking, who can actually execute? We’ll see come October 14.