On Saturday, the New York Times published a very cool graphic mapping the 400+ startups in NYC that have raised money from investors in the last two years. Many of these companies are ones that my firm has invested in, and given the firm’s mission to strengthen and diversify the city’s economy, I’m excited to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'VC'
Starting Up in New York
November 21st, 2011 · View Comments · VC, tech
Tags:New York City·NYC·NYCIF·startups
PIPA and SOPA. What’s the Big Deal?
November 16th, 2011 · View Comments · VC, tech
For more details, read the posts by Bijan Sabet and Fred Wilson or watch this video on Vimeo. Take 30 seconds and click here to write your congressman.
Moving On, For Real!
August 16th, 2011 · View Comments · Personal, VC, socent, tech
Unlike a post made on this blog on April 1 of last year, this post actually does confirm I have indeed moved on from investment banking to pursue new opportunities. Specifically, I decided earlier this year to join a venture capital firm here in New York City and just had my first day on the job [...]
Tags:fintech·New York·New York City·New York City Investment Fund·NYC·NYCIF·socent·tech·VC·venture capital
Whartonite Seeks Code Monkey
May 31st, 2011 · View Comments · VC, tech
Just earlier this morning, a friend of mine Gchatted me with a question: Did I know of any developers that could help him with a start-up idea of his? I told him most of the folks I knew were either working full-time on their own start-ups or already involved in multiple side projects, but I [...]
Tags:co-founder·code monkey·consumer web·developer·founder·non-technical·Penn·programmer·start-up·startup·technical·University of Pennsylvania·web·Whartonite
Get Out and Vote!
November 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · VC, tech
I love what Foursquare’s doing here. Using tech to encourage civic engagement? Check. Attractive data visualizations? Check. Next step–using Foursquare data to develop predictions more robust than exit polls! Check-in and include #ivoted in your shout out to get your limited edition iVOTED badge and find out more info at elections.foursquare.com. (Not a huge fan [...]
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
