I find that since Google Plus launched a few weeks ago, I’ve been using ALL social media lot less. Twittering less, using Facebook less (I don’t use Facebook much anyway), even posting to this blog less. I find this happens whenever a new social media option comes into my life. When there are no newRead… Read more »
Yesterdays’ coffee meetup at Vbar that I announced with little or no warning was a big success. Several people stopped by and had coffee, and we talked about our projects, our startups, the opportunities and challenges we’ve got in front of us right now. People made connections, email addresses were traded. And best of all,Read… Read more »
I was at an entrepreneurs event last night where three separate people told me they were in the process of rebranding their already-launched startup. One told me that since they’ve started using their new name in conversations, they’ve been making more deals and are getting better reactions from investors. Nobody at the entire event mentionedRead… Read more »
There are over a thousand people a month reading this blog right now, and I have almost no idea who any of them are. I’m pretty sure Nick Grossman reads it, and Adam Greenfield from time to time, and my friend Natasha from college (who just told me she reads it every week – totalRead… Read more »
There’s a lot that’s great about the U.S. political system. So much that I wont bother to go into it here. But there’s also a LOT that’s bad about it, and that bad part isn’t getting any better. That’s not controversial to say – it’s actually the one thing that everyone in the country agreesRead… Read more »
I’m out here in SF this week, working from pariSoma, and totally loving everything about it. And as I spend my week working, I’ve been thinking about the difference between the NYC startup scene (where I work) and the one here. This morning, riding the ferry back from a meeting, I came up with thisRead… Read more »
I’m here in the middle of my second day working from pariSoma, the “innovation loft” in San Francisco (and headquarters for the San Francisco arm of faberNovel) and thought I’d take a minute to check in on the blog. pariSoma is a very cool space. A huge, split-level building with plants and what looks likeRead… Read more »
Just a quick note here to say that I’m working from SF this week, synching up with the faberNovel team here. I’ll be working today and tomorrow at their pariSoma work space at 169 11th st (which I just noticed gets glowing reviews on Google). If anyone reading this is in the area and wantsRead… Read more »
I had a thought this morning about the idea of a car’s gears as a way of thinking about getting companies off the ground, and how nicely that works. Just like driving a car, you really need to start your company in first gear. The problem is that might not seem like a really excitingRead… Read more »
In these days of million-dollar A rounds for crazy ideas and $9 billion web IPOs, the term “disrupt” gets thrown around a lot. An awful lot. Like every other word out of some people’s mouths. But what do we mean when we say it? Usually we — all of us, myself included — mean somethingRead… Read more »