One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. What areas are going to change? What areas need to…
With all of this news about Brooklyn’s tech scene, I’ve been thinking a lot about what made the NYC innovation community grow so quickly. Talk of buildings and incubators reminded me of…
Seemingly to save face, Stanford pulled out of NYC’s Applied Sciences initiative to build a world-class engineering school last week. At the same time, Cornell got an anonymous $350 million…
I’m sure science knows a lot more about how the brain works than I do. I’ve read quite a number of books about how we learn and how we make mistakes, but the inner workings of the chemicals and…
I’m just as familiar with the New York Tech Meetup as anyone. I was one of the first 100 members, dating back to February 2005. I was also part of the original New York Tech Meetup board and…
Jennie Baird left a comment on Monday’s post about learning from each job and I think that is of the most critical importance. If you’re not considering how this next job will make you a better…
This is the first of a series of posts this week on careers in innovation and startups—sort of a thought exercise for me on the topic for my talk at General Assembly at 8PM on 12/15.
With any company I work with, I inevitably play the role or recruiter—mostly because I often play the role of career counselor to friends and other folks in the community. I’ve been thinking about career paths for a long time. I even
Over two years ago, I suggested to Yelp that they should pay attention to Foursquare. While that post resulted in term sheets for Dennis and Naveen from VCs, the original intention was actually to…
There are a lot of reasons not to like the space that Publicstuff is in. The company sells to local governments, real estate management companies, educational institutions—anyone…
Just as an additional disclosure, these are my thoughts, not that of First Round Capital, my employer.
The other day, Adeo Ressi wrote in TechCrunch about how we need more venture…
