Events

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 [...]

Muhammud Yunus, A Real Entrepreneur

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

This post was largely written months ago before Enter Venture was launched. While this post is a bit removed from the event it tries to represent, I decided to post this piece anyways. Muhammad Yunus is an amazing entrepreneur. On January 23rd, I was fortunate enough to listen to a talk by Muhammad Yunus, one [...]

Wisdom of Choice – A speech by Kai-Fu Lee

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

On Thursday, May 1st, I attended a presentation by Kai-Fu Lee of Google China on the Wisdom of Choice. Lee is probably best known for his legal battle with his former employer, Microsoft, but what should be better known is that he’s brilliant. Palpably brilliant. There are few people that can speak as thoughtfully as [...]

Web Analytics Wednesday at Avenue A | Razorfish

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

One of the best ways for entrepreneurs to get going is to simply get out there. Before I started looking, I knew little of the vibrant community in Silicon Alley. Given the community and population density of New York, once you start looking, it’s hard to find a day when there isn’t something cool to [...]

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 [...]