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Behavior Generated Content

9. March 2010

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Behavior generated content is the by product, or data exhaust(as I like to call it), or using a product or service the way you normally would only now some data is collected in the background. As my friend Mike Singleton’s article points out this activity is being captured by services like Foursquare (USV is [...]

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Advice from SXSW Pros

8. March 2010

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I have never been to SXSW, but excited to head down this year for SXSW 2010. In preparation for my time in Austin I polled a few friends to get their advice and thought I would share it here. Thanks for taking the time to write your thoughts – and hope this is helpful to [...]

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Working in the Cloud

3. March 2010

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For the past few months I have been looking into how to best migrate off of Microsoft Exchange and onto Google Apps. The first step in that process was to determine the needs of everyone that would be using the new mail system and how they differed from doing things before. The second [...]

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Social Network URLs – the future of advertising?

23. February 2010

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I have been watching a lot of the Olympics and loving it. One thing I have noticed as I watch in real time is a growing trend of brands using social network URLs instead of their own. Below are examples from Uniball and Toyota. I remember seeing another for an upcoming movie [...]

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NY Clothing Drive

1. February 2010

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Everyone has extra stuff to clean out of their closet, but no easy way to donate the bags of clothes. For that reason my friend David Fraga and I organized the New York Clothing Drive, where we come pick up your old items for free in the NY metro area. It is a simple idea [...]

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Start Today

30. December 2009

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A lot of folks are providing top ten lists for the year and even the decade. I am skipping those on my blog and ending off the year a simple statement; start today. You don’t need a resolution, a mission statement, or the perfect set of people to accomplish what you want to do. [...]

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The Business Breakfast

22. December 2009

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This post is definitely a joke, but it hit such a chord with my friends I thought I would open up the dialogue here – what to eat at the business breakfast?. To be honest, I have never given this much thought. To my surprise a group of friends I was recently with had this [...]

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“Meet Me for Coffee” – Informal Interviews with the Go-Between

18. December 2009

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This is a guest post from my friend David Schaffer It’s a familiar mantra of job hunters: it’s not what you know, but who you know. So often, searching for a new job involves contacting everyone you know in your field, alerting them to your interest in a new position, and arranging to meet over [...]

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Disruptive

15. December 2009

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I got into an interesting 100,000 ft level conversation recently that got me thinking about the companies and people I try to meet with on a regular basis. Instead of using the normal categorizations, genres, descriptions, or wordy answers I normalized everything as disruptive. It might be overused at this point but it boils everything down to [...]

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Techies Give Back: Ice Skating Event

14. December 2009

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Yesterday a group of folks from the NY tech community called Techies Give Back got together with Camp Interactive for a day of skating and fun at Chelsea Piers. Tickets were sold to benefit the kids, but the day was also a success due to a promotion between Pepsi and Foursquare using social check ins as [...]

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