Slideshare is doing a contest to pick the top credit contest slideshow. There are a bunch of good ones. Here’s my two favorites. Creditcrisis 30slides Final View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: capitalism mortgage) Credit Crisis to Collaborative…
I wrote a post about our most recent investment, Boxee, today on the Union Square Ventures blog. Boxee founder and CEO Avner Ronen wrote a post on the Boxee blog about the investment. I encourage you to click on those…
That’s a question I used to get all of the time in the early days of this blog. I don’t get it so much anymore. Because slowly but surely people are wising up to the fact that blogging is work…
The post of the day comes from Andy Finnell who writes that iPhone app developers must abandon the $0.99 price that many apps are selling for these days. Andy calculates that a developer who wants to make a living off…
I started this discussion yesterday with my observation that Obama ended his weekly address with the point that “in this nation we rise and fall as one nation, one people.” But that doesn’t ring true to me. I think we…
Last month I attended the New Business Models For News Summit and found myself running the “revenue” breakout group. We talked quite a bit about generating revenue from local merchants. There are a bunch of companies working on this problem,…
It’s interesting to me that he starts with the recognition that the only way out of this financial mess is a coordinated global action and ends with this comment: In this country, we rise and fall as one nation, one…
The Gotham Gal and I went to see Slumdog Millionaire last night. It’s a great movie about destiny, poverty, class, survival, gumption, and above all, love. Go see it.
I have a friend Charlie who is a serial entrepreneur and he says that venture capital “values capital over people”. That’s a criticism that has a ring of truth to me (as opposed to much of what Adeo said the…
One week ago, last friday morning, I wrote that I was waiting for the fill on three “good to fill” orders I had placed weeks before. They were: $AMZN at $40 $GOOG at $320 $AAPL at $90 I got my…