New York City

Narrow your idea, widen your experience

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

When it comes to startups, you’re always told to narrow your idea. Focus on a niche community, rather than take on the whole world. Refine.
When it comes to experience, though, early entrepreneurs should broaden themselves. When you’re starting out, participate in a wide swath of activities to better understand each part of a business. […]

Enter Venture Visitors

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Yesterday, no one visited this site.
I had actually been waiting for that as a type of milestone. The last time no one visited the site for an entire day was May 10th. I kept writing and watching my visitor statistics in order to keep myself out of the red. I wanted to […]

NY Video 2.0

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

On Tuesday I stopped into the NY Video 2.0 event hosted by Yaron Samid. I had been meaning to check out this meetup group for awhile and was glad to squeeze in an hour or so simply watching the presentations.
Visible Measures - Matt Cutler, VP Marketing & Analytics
Visible Measures analyzes the effectiveness of […]

Getting Real by 37signals gave me chills

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

It’s true. Getting Real by 37signals gave me the chills.
Several months ago I asked my friend Laks to recommend a good book that would really help me better understand how software should be done. For the past two years, I’ve worked in two completely different environments and seen two completely different ways of […]

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 […]