April 2010
6 posts
the future of fitting
Sitting in a cafe on orchard street, old heart of the city’s shmata business has me thinking, again, about the issues around custom fit retail, and retail in general. Custom, or even piece custom clothing, or, in any case, individualized tailored clothing for all people shouldnt be that far off. At this point, it is limited by a few things:
1) access to accurate measuring
2) rapid and...
twitter as crowdsourced rss feed?
My brother, who does not use twitter, and thinks it’s a bit silly, and I a were having a conversation about why I see utility in it. As we were talking, I described the way I see and use it: as a smart, crowdsourced, learning rss feed for me. We developed that idea a bit more, and there is a business in there. There are twitter groups, but if you could create smart aggregations for people to...
twitball
People I’ve never met, never seen, never heard of have started following me on Twitter for no real reason that I can figure. While I can conclude that number of them have, perhaps, seen various posts of mine on blogs and subsequently decided to follow me, I wonder: does that make sense?
I view my twitter use as a mostly limited network through which I can keep on top of what people I find...
through rosier glasses
My friend sean and I were just talking about the disjointed reality presented by facebook relative to the real world, an the dangers therein. As I think about it, I realize how right that is. I find myself needing to hold back from looking at facebook profiles of people I am going to meet because it will present a skewed picture of them, and prevent me from forming a concrete opinion based in...
On Network Networks
I keep getting surprised by who I know, and who those people know that end up being helpful to me in this search. It turns out Fred Wilson is a donor to a charity for which I volunteer, founded by a very close family friend. A board member of that charity is a principal at Spark Capital, and knows Fred, and my siblings. A few emails later, and we’re going to get coffee. Admittedly, that does...
Measuring success
Coming from the highly quantified and benchmarked world of finance, I find that the experience of networking in a new industry is a very tricky one in which to gauge success. Is a meeting with a CEO of a startup good if he doesn’t offer me a concrete next step? Is having Fred Wilson respond to one of my posts a success?
I think the answer is yes, in the sense that each is an accomplishment,...
