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This Week in the New York Innovation Community – February 1st, 2010
Welcome to Social Media Week--the one week out of the year where we get to tweet and blog about social media! Hopefully, you can find a way in to some of these events as most are sold out. Try the waitlists... I think you'll have a good shot at getting in. If not, just try to slip the dude at the front door a few Twitter followers. Monday, February 1st 10:30AM Branding the Future with Social ...
January 29, 2010
The Venture Advantage Revealed
This post is a bit of a commercial and I have no intention of apologizing for it. In fact, I’m incredibly proud of it. Many venture capital funds will tell prospective entrepreneurs, “If you take funding from us, you won’t just have one person working on your behalf, you’ll have our entire team pushing for you [...]
Dear MBAs who want to work at startups
So you just finished up the year at Harvard/Wharton/Stanford/NYU, etc. and since your lifelong dream of being a banker doesn’t seem like a viable route anymore, you’re thinking that a startup might be the place for you. (You’d much rather be a VC, but you’re smart enough to know that there are like 8 junior VC positions open a year, so you’re looking for a backup.) Well, let me break ...
January 28, 2010
Yesterday was one of my favorite days of the year. Not because Steve Jobs unveiled an iPod with a 9 inch screen. Not because it was Obama’s First State of the Union Address. Not because of any earth-shaking pronouncement ...
BREAKING: iTablet product warnings leaked
I can’t tell you how I got this, but I hear that the iTablet user manual comes with a whole host of unexpected disclosures: Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to The Apple iTablet. Caution: The Apple iTablet may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds. The Apple iTablet contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture, should ...
January 27, 2010
Before you sign a termsheet, take your VC to the Chiropractor
When you are fund-raising, your job becomes getting cash into your company. However, the best entrepreneurs understand that success is not just getting funded, but finding alignment with their investors in terms of values, vision and approach. You can achieve alignment by asking questions -- going to the ...
January 22, 2010
2010: the year of game mechanics
Just like viral and social before it, GAMES ARE HARD TO BUILD and cannot be a marketing strategy. When i designed the fitness game I focused on three things: on-boarding, capture and deep ...
January 22, 2010
2010: the year of “game mechanics”
Just like “viral” and “social” before it, GAMES ARE HARD TO BUILD and cannot be a marketing strategy. When i designed the fitness game I focused on three things: on-boarding, capture and deep ...
January 21, 2010
Rixty connects kids and their cash with online games
We're pleased to announce our investment in Rixty. You can read more here, but it's a very clever solution to a real problem. Kids don't have credit cards, but they do have cash, and there's no easy way to get that into their favorite online games. So with Rixty, kids can take some change out of the piggy bank, head over to any Coinstar or one of 20,000 other retail locations, and walk out with a ...
January 16, 2010
I woke up this morning and found my son playing his favorite game Roblox, a kids virtual world and one of our portfolio companies, where one of the unique things is that the kids/users create all the worlds. Nothing unusual in the fact that he was playing, but today my son was playing one that seemed a little different - and it turns out that some user had created a virtual word of Haiti inside ...