Status is a powerful motivator in social systems. People go crazy over their follower counts on Twitter, or number of friends or business contacts in Facebook and LinkedIn. So it makes sense that social status can be leveraged for social... Full story...
We are starting work on a redesign of AVC. The current design has been in place for a year or two and we'd like to update it a bit.
Ben Horowitz has a post called The Case For The Fat Startup on the All Things D blog. I don't agree with Ben's take on this issue but I have enormous respect for Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen.
I've been thinking a lot about the NYC subway system. It was built in the latter part of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century.
I went down to Washington, DC yesterday to participate in an event that celebrated the 25th anniversary of .
Yesterday's WSJ had an interesting piece about Alacra's new Pulse Pro offering. For those that don't know, I invested in Alacra in 1999 via Flatiron Partners and have been on its board ever since.
We're getting ready to move and it's time to figure out the phone thing again. This will be the fourth phone decision our family is making in the past eleven years.
Today on MBA Mondays we are going to talk about one of the most important things in business, the profit and loss statement (also known as the P&L).
I cringed when I used the "2.0" term in the headline of this post, but I think it's useful. In the past year, when people ask me what I think is interesting in web technology, I often talk about emerging.
The Gotham Gal and I don't normally keep much cash in the bank. We like a portfolio of tax free municipal bonds for our cash that is not invested in venture deals, private companies, real estate, and the like.
Our portfolio company Foursquare turned one year old yesterday. They posted about their birthday on the company blog.