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Pardon our appearance (moving to SquareSpace)
As you can see, things are looking quite different around here. I'm in the middle of porting my blog over to SquareSpace. I have *most* of the comments moved over with the most excellent help of Daniel Ha and fellow Regian Paolo DeDios. They would have ported fine, but SquareSpace and Typepad don't have the same URL creation syntaxes and that's the only way Disqus can tell what set of comments ...
Photo: First Round Capital’s new NYC office under construction
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Open Angel Forum and The Amazing Disappearing Funding Gap in New York City
About a year and a half ago, I wrote that New York needed more dedicated early stage capital. Let’s look back at what has happened since the beginning of August ‘08… Betaworks raises more than $10 million in September ‘08. First Growth Venture Network formed to mentor high potential seed and early stage companies. First Round Capital makes 11 new investments in NYC, hires me to be here ...
February 7, 2010
Rise of the machines (decision making when milliseconds matter)
Humans do not operate in milliseconds. For the real time web to function, the human decisions have to occur before the clock starts. We need to focus on predictive analysis and algorithms that make rule based decisions for us informed by the data ...
February 4, 2010
Linchpin - Are You Indespensable?
I'm a huge Seth Godin fan, and think he'll eventually be seen as one of the most important thinkers/writers in the digital age, right up there with the likes of Tom Peters and Peter Drucker. I've read almost all of his books, and I think his latest Linchpin is his best ever, and is probably the best book I've read in years. It's not just about how to succeed at work and what to do, it's about ...