This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

It’s really difficult for me not to get into the thick of discussions about whether or not you can and/or should build a company in New York City. I’m extremely passionate about the topic and so when my city gets picked on, I tend to respond confidently and with the same (and sometimes greater) force than I perceive the complaint to have.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

I’ve always believed in small, private groups—dating back to when I first started blogging. I acknowledged that most blogs were private and only read by a handful people—like on Live Journal and MySpace. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 15, 2010

He wrote an excellent blog post on this topic. Jason plans to set up Open Angel chapters in many US cities and eventually internationally. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Pitching VCs Start-up Advice Startup Advice VC Industry. As a former entrepreneur, I’m a big supporter of Jason’s goals. They deserve more credit.

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JULY 11, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post about why I believe that startup teams in close proximity perform better. I don’t think having a few facilities in a city is competitive – hopefully we’ll find a way to make it collaborative. Do tell … Tags: Start-up Advice Tech Market Analysis.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

Welcome to Social Media Week --the one week out of the year where we get to tweet and blog about social media! Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Hopefully, you can find a way in to some of these events as most are sold out. Try the waitlists. I think you'll have a good shot at getting in. RSVP: [link].

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

When you’re exploring a city — whether one you’re visiting on your travels or your own — there are a number of tools that can help you find out where to go, what to see, and what to do, like Google Maps, Yelp, TripAdvisor and others. Image Credits: Welcome. ” he recalls. Image Credits: Welcome.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Justyn Howard, founder of Sprout Social has a blog post that he’s written about his experiences of migrating from scrappy tools to more efficient ones (i.e. I frequently travelled to Frankfurt, Germany but found it much cheaper to stay 20 minutes south of the city in Neu Isenberg. Tags: Startup Advice.

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MAY 23, 2010

So the New York City government has decided it needs a little social media savvy—you now, since that newfangled Twitter thing came out, they feel like they need to be jumping on board with technology as an early adopter. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Hopefully, after they find that person, they won’t muzzle them.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Keeping a blog has been great because so many entrepreneurs have written me with questions about their companies and I’ve gotten to know many of you personally through the process. Tags: Start-up Advice. I write this post as a warning to pick your VC’s carefully. If you pick the wrong spouse at least you can get divorced.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 8, 2022

Starting as a 14-year-old, I would pore over sports blogs to find out who the future stars of my favorite college football programs would be. Between managing my rag-tag team of part-time software developers, attempting to keep customers happy, and trying to sell new ones, I’d been just trying to survive each day.

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JULY 9, 2010

to create paid e-mail newsletters—effectively nailing the coffin on what were sometimes sparsely updated blogs. I get why people like Jason Calacanis wanted to stop blogging (even though he really can’t). My suspicion, though, is that it’s not the blogging that’s hard, it’s the writing. It’s not the medium that’s the issue.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2010

My wife reads a blog every day that she loves (and highly recommends to everybody) called The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. She loves it and always has such great stories to tell me about the blog in the evenings when we talk about life. We had to move out of New York City because we just couldn’t afford to live in the city.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2011

He was turning 5 and my elder son Jacob is 7 so I decided to tack on a trip to New York City this year. And a guy that I had seen several times comment to me on Twitter & my blog, Brian Sierakowski (from the Greater Baltimore Tech Council) had sent me a Tweet asking if I’d come to meet entrepreneurs in Baltimore.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 1, 2016

wake-up calls, long walks with heavy backpacks, weekend stair-climbing (we were effectively climbing the Birj Khalifa every Sunday), Friday yoga sessions and my constant badgering to get the appropriate gear did not make me the most popular person in the city. The post Thriving through Teamwork appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh? Basic search engine research can give many clues and if people do keep a blog and you want to meet the person then many clues are obviously there. The hyper connected people in Silicon Valley or big cities might push for convertible debt (see my post here if you haven’t).

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OCTOBER 21, 2010

If you live in New York City, one of the skills you hone over time is avoiding people who approach you on the street trying to hand you a flyer, distract you for a bump and run pickpocket scheme, or tell you their life story for some change. I raised $3k last year through my blog via Donor’s Choose. I give to my schools.

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JULY 20, 2010

I promise not to turn this blog into a personal self-help blog! And thus the reason for today’s blog. It was a majestic hotel in the city of lights and we strolled for hours and hours sucking in every building facade, every cafe and every bistro. Tags: Startup Advice. More later in the post.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. I got to see more of the cities and not from a taxi cab. We set up a development center in India and I had to be there for three weeks to tour all of the prospective cities.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 8, 2022

The company has contracts with a number of major carmakers, city grid operators and EV charging operators. Consumer interest in buying sustainable, lab-grown meat and seafood is growing, but the price tag can be a deal-breaker. Its technology is deployed in 17 locations in Europe. Sign NDA and Learn More.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

See the captured moments on Facebook and make sure to tag yourselves! See our blog post about the trends here. CTalk: Toyota Is Scouting for Smart Cities Startups, Says Toyota Ventures Exec. See what others are saying , watch what you missed, relive what inspired you at the 2020 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit! Watch : With 2.4M

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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. If you share a link to someone else's blog post with your audience, for example, you won't know much about how many people—and who—click through; all that data will be in the other person's analytics account.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2010

Before he’s had a chance to rub the morning ink off of his thumbs I’ve read op-eds from the NY Times and Washington Post as well as scanned Techmeme and read a few blogs. The day I met him Josh had rented a convertible Mercedes, smoked a cigar incessantly and was this flashy “big city&# guy.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The company plans to deploy its fleet of safe LINK e-scooters in 25 more cities in the US and Europe this year. Sprout is investing $1M in Protag, whose smart ear tag for cows allows farmers to continuously monitor the animal’s health, location, grazing and breeding habits. Superpedestrian raises $125M to expand safe e-scooter fleet.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2010

Everyday, lots of people fall in love and get married—even in big, unfriendly cities like New York. It sure seems easier for other couples or other cities, but you’re not seeing a lot of what goes on behind closed doors—literally. 5 Spread the search outside of your city, even if you want to hire here. They hire hackers, too.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

We gathered 30 invaluable strategies from SEO Analysts, Founders, and other experts, ranging from optimizing content with targeted keywords to crafting blog posts that answer key questions. The advantage of Web Stories is that you can condense existing blog content or other content for easy sharing on various social media platforms.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Those were different times and it was a different city. I know that I make grammar and spelling errors in this blog but I promise it’s through speed of writing, typing and publishing and not through a lack of knowledge. From a young age I loved writing, which fueled my interests in reading, in politics and one day in blogging.

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