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- Trendsta office- woohoo!
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- RightSide Capital Announces New Seed Fund; Will Make 100-200 Investments Per Year
RightSide Capital Management is about to shatter the funding landscape. Led by David Lambert, Kevin Dick and John Lee, RightSide Capital believes that seed-stage capital needs a complete overhaul. RightSide will make 100-200 investments per year, and literally manufacture companies in a way that no firm has ever done. The fund, announced at TheFunded.com%u2019s Future [...]
- Further proof of drug use at NASA?
As much as I wanted to, I never did get to go off to Space Camp when I was 12. I had to make do reading and re-reading the Time Life book series on the various planets.
It brought me right back to those days longing to be in a spacesuit as I read the tripped [...]
- The NYC hamster wheel vs. the hamster wheel of the Valley
Reading about the endless hamster wheel of Silicon Valley made me reflect on this effect in NYC.
New York has the same effect espoused in this article- to endlessly drive you to ever higher echelons of wealth. But the effect is less-pronounced due to other factors, at least from my experience.
While the very wealthy are always [...]
- A few pics from NextNY Rooftop 2.0 Happy Hour last night
The NextNY crew got together to give a bon voyage to Charlie O’Donnell who is heading out on a cross country adventure while he reflects on where his life will take him next.
With the Empire State building looking down upon us we talked tech, NYC & of course, tomorrow’s release of the iPhone.It was a [...]
- Barry Diller interview on 20/20
I watched the Barry Diller interview on 20/20 last night. I often get a kick out of the mainstream press covering the latest fad of tech- but this was a good interview, and I actually enjoyed all of the backstory about Barry’s lifelong romance with Diane Von Furstenberg. Barry talked a fair amount about building [...]
- Great NYC Quote
This is a great NYC quote from the excellent NYMag Profit Calculator Article..
“Like all older, colder cities, New York City suffered greatly in the seventies when declining transport costs made it possible for manufacturing to relocate to cheaper places. New York’s resurgence since then has been based on innovations in financial service…The flow of innovations [...]
- DFJ Gotham East Coast Venture Competition
So I attended the DFJ Gotham East Coast Venture Competition today. Unfortunately Penn’s two teams got knocked out in the first round this morning, so I didn’t get to see them.
The highlight was of course the end of the day, when not only did they hand out two prize checks, but Time Draper, of Draper [...]
- Supernova Mixer
Last night I stopped by the hip Gallery bar in the LES for the Supernova mixer. Everyone was excited to find that it was open-bar, which helped facilitate pretty good mingling. There was a high number of left coast peeps, the ones I talked to were Oren Michaels of Mashery and of course Kevin Werbach [...]
- Kayaking the Hudson
So I stopped by and visited Charlie O’Donnel, local font of knowledge in the tech community, and unofficial head of NextNY. He was volunteering as he does many weekends at the Downtown Boathouse at Pier 40 on the Hudson- they offer free public walkup kayaking.
We talked shop a little but it was mostly just leisurely [...]
