Columbia

Two Ideas for the NY Startup Scene

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Tonight, I attended the second meeting of the Columbia Venture Community. As I wrote in my original post about the group, CVC is exactly the type of group that Columbia needs. In fact, it’s actually only part of what Columbia and the greater New York City startup scene needs. Now, I’ve never lived or worked [...]

Keys To Success: The Team and the Talent

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Even the most well designed concept would go nowhere without a team to execute. Sometimes the right choice is no team at all — but this is not the sustainable or scalable option for most operations. How does an entrepreneur, and a starving one at that, build a team of like-minded, competent, individuals who will [...]

Columbia Venture Community

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Last night I attended the first ever interdisciplinary meetup for the Columbia Venture Community. I’ve written before about how the Columbia entrepreneur community has some maturing to do so I was certainly excited to be a part of this event. My initial impression is that Mark Davis has addressed many of my concerns about the [...]

Columbia Entrepreneur Organization’s PitchFest

Friday, April 25th, 2008

I know I said my next post would be my Modus Operandi, but I lied. This PitchFest event required talking about. Note to self: the ability to disown what I say in my blog should be part of my M.O In my warmup post, I talked about the the issues facing the Columbia entrepreneurial community [...]