So I wanted to do something productive to celebrate my birthday this year, I thought that it’d be great to use this opportunity to support a great organization doing meaningful work. The fundraising campaign I’m participating in for my birthday is called “Brick by Brick,” and the funds raised will go towards an organization called [...]
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$2,400 for my 24th!
August 25th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, socent, tech
Tags:birthday·Brick by Brick·fundraising·Restore NYC·sex trafficking·Trinity Grace
Foursquare Visualizations, Redux
August 10th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, tech
Towards the end of July, I wrote a post about how you can visualize Foursquare checkins and also about my hope for developers to continue building tools that can use /display Foursquare’s user-generated content more effectively. This weekend, the folks from Movity.com did just that, building a little application called Weeplaces. You can visualize your [...]
Tags:Foursquare·LBS·location-based service·Movity·visualization·Weeplaces
Critical Mass and New York City
August 5th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, nextNY, tech
Over the past few days, I’ve been at home in Alabama, which as you may imagine, is quite different from New York City. Other than the grossly uncomfortable heat index (100+ every day) and noticeably shorter skyscrapers here, I’ve also noticed that some of the mobile tools that I used in New York are no [...]
Tags:Foursquare·Giving Pledge·Gowalla·New York·nextNY·Sweet Home Alabama·tech·VC·venture capital
Your Foursquare Check-ins… on Google Maps!
July 21st, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, tech
Today, Fred Wilson wrote a short but fascinating blog post on visual representation of Foursquare check-ins via Google Maps, and the potential uses for this user-generated contend. Below are my last ~150 check-ins in New York City. Want to see your own map? Foursquare has a page devoted to private feeds of your check-ins, available [...]
Tags:Foursquare·Fred Wilson·Google Maps·New York City·user-generated content
VC Fundraising Nears 7-Year Low
July 13th, 2010 · View Comments · VC, tech
Yesterday, the National Venture Capital Association released VC fundraising figures for Q2 2010. The $1.9 billion raised in this past quarter represents a 56% drop from the $4.4 billion raised in the same period in 2009, and is the weakest fundraising experienced by the VC industry since Q3 2003. Dealbook reports on some commentary from [...]
Lessons from Netflix
June 14th, 2010 · View Comments · tech
Over the past couple of weeks, people across the web have been raving about the internal deck from Netflix that details the company’s view on its strategic direction for the future. In my opinion, this is not only because of Netflix’s incredible openness in sharing its strategy but also because it also tells a great [...]
Anonymity on the Web
June 7th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, tech
This past week, I’ve run across a couple of blog posts talking about anonymity on the web, especially as it pertains to the expression of opinions (whether through comments, message board posts, or mediums of online expression). James D. Robinson III of RRE Ventures linked to a post (including a video) entitled “Are the Trolls [...]
Tags:anonymity·anonymous·Chris Dixon·Formspring·GRP·James D. Robinson III·Mark Suster·RRE·troll
