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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'VC'
Moving On, For Real!
August 16th, 2011 · View Comments · Personal, VC, socent, tech
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
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
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 [...]
