September 2010
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boy meets cool and interesting person, and then it...
Old paradigm: boy meets new cool and interesting person (CAP). Boy and CAP exchange cards. Card put in rolodex with a note. Boy and CAP grab beer or coffee as appropriate, play a round of golf, etc.
New paradigm: boy meets CAP. Boy and CAP exchange cards. Boy goes home and researches CAP on twitter, fb, blogosphere, linkedin, angel list, etc, etc. Boy follows CAP, friends CAP, adds CAP’s...
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screw you, New York Times or: life outside the...
The New York Times is undoubtedly one of my favorite websites. Say what you will about the widely available content on the web, the Times is my paper of record for news, culture, and opinion. It’s been that way for a long time. It’s the first paper I check in the morning, and it’s my first favorite in the chrome launch window.
Which is why what the Times has started to do is so...
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tell 'em why, not what
Entrepreneurs get really excited about their ideas. We want to talk about all the cool things we’re doing, and we want to talk about it all the time. That’s great. That’s the enthusiasm that drives us, but it also leads to one of the worst ideas in sales: telling everyone what you’re doing.
Now, before you think I’m going to start advocating stealthiness, hear me...
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the emotional bankruptcy of the constant checkin
My mother generally gets upset if I don’t call her every day. The thing is, if I do call her every day, I don’t have much to say to her. In contrast, if I go a week or more, I have plenty to say to my parents.
I’ll let you draw your own conclusions between that and the 4sq/twitter/fb world where we post every single thing that we do as it happens. I know that I’m starting...
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the illiquidity premium?
Yesterday, I went to panel discussion hosted by PwC and Cooley called Shaking the Money Tree, which is the name of a report PwC prepares every quarter on the venture financing market.
During the panel portion, Fred Wilson brought up a really interesting point on one of the major influences on the venture world and the apparent resurgence of large private companies: sovereign wealth funds. These...
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can Con Ed help me save the world?
Con Ed invited customers to join a project called JumpStart which would help me track my own energy usage with the assistance of an electricity meter, and lower costs with tips and advice. I’ve always been a fan of more data (well, really, of synthesized information, but you need to start somewhere), and this seems like just the kind of thing that could help me save some bank and maybe help...
