Category: Media & Technology
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Lean Vetting
I’ve been spending a lot of time reading Eric Ries lately. If you haven’t read The Lean Startup, you should get it and check it out. Working in early-stage consumer-facing products, this book is as close to a bible as I’ve ever read and it helped me reframe the way I think about business-building. In…
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Retail is Dead, Long Live Retail
There’s a pretty good read in the Economist this week on ‘making it click‘ that convincingly makes the point that the Internet presents little opportunity for retailers. This is an over-simplification of the point of the article. The author also discusses opportunities to for traditional retailers to use the Internet and mobile in innovative ways…
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Joining the team at K2
I’m very excited to announce that I’ll be joining the team at K2 Media Labs on a full-time basis in the coming weeks. K2 is an early stage private equity fund that invests in startups focused on the connected consumer. The Company is a bit of a hybrid, in that it makes early-stage investments and also…
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Learning Processing….and So Much More
When you finish up at Stern you’re allowed to take a ‘free’ class (I hesitate to say it’s free because you’ve already made a tremendous investment in the MBA, but you don’t pay specifically for the credits to one class). I took advantage of our ability to go outside of Stern and I signed up…
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Connecting the Dots
A couple weeks ago when Steve Jobs announced his retirement, I did a little research to try to sum up my takeaways from his success. One of his stories was about taking a calligraphy class in college, and how that class gave him enough knowledge in the subject to create font sets in the first Apple…
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Five Things I Learned From Steve Jobs
On the heels of Steve Jobs’ announcement that he’s retiring from Apple (okay, I’m a little late for the heels, but there was a pseudo-hurricane), I thought I’d reflect on the top five things I take from the single greatest entrepreneur in the history of consumer technology. 1. Know Your Customer: When you start a…
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Building A Thesis
Investing in startups is a phenomenally risky business. True, when compared to the current machine-driven equities market the asset class may not seem as crazy as it did last Thursday, but it’s risky nonetheless. At the early stage there are very few corporate finance tools that will work for potential investments, which is why the…
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