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“Meet Me for Coffee” – Informal Interviews with the Go-Between
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 inte...
Disruptive
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 normaliz...
Techies Give Back: Ice Skating Event
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 ...
Speed of connectivity and thought
I had the unfortunate experience last Wednesday of out of the office but with a laptop and a tethered blackberry and limited connectivity. Super slow, choppy, not-always-on connectivity. I wanted to post about this for a few reasons: 1. It is good t...
The Boxee Beta Event & Boxee Box
Last night I attended the Boxee beta launch party event at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. I have been using Boxee for some time since it became a portfolio company of Union Square Ventures and written about it a few times on this blog. T...
Startup Analogies: Putting the wood behind one arrow
This is one I have heard at the BOD level a few times; putting the wood behind one arrow. Here is a favorite example of putting all the wood behind one arrow from the Sun CEO back in 2007. It basically boils down to concentrating on one area and focu...

