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Code Brooklyn

If Brooklyn were its own city, which it was until 1898, it would be tied with Chicago as the third largest city in the US. It is the largest borough...

The Open Facebook

I’ve had a Facebook profile since early last year, but I don’t use it very much. That’s slowly changing as my network grows and there is more stuff I can...

The Business Insider Interview

A few weeks ago Alyson Shontell came into USV to talk to me. She wanted to talk on background about the NYC tech sector. She recorded our talk which lasted...

DIY Data Science In Action

I wrote a post about DIY Data Science back in March. In that post I said that hacking on public data sets and posting about it has the potential to...

Biodigital

I am really into embed codes. I think the ability to take content and software from one app and inject it into another app is one of the coolest things...

Texting In Purchases

We were in the car this morning headed to the airport at 5:15am and surprisingly were having a coherent discussion about the new iTunes rent a movie service. My kids...

Development Is Cheap. Production Is Not.

This is a line from a blog post written by my brother in law Jerry Solomon. He is talking about film production, specifically short form videos. But the point is...

Modern Community Building

In late May, Joel Spolsky, co-founder/CEO of our portfolio company Stack Exchange, wrote a great post called Modern Community Building. Stack (as I like to call the company) is building...

Video Of The Week: The Berlin Conversation

Last month, my partner Brad and I found ourselves in Berlin at the same time. We decided to do an event for entrepreneurs in Berlin with the help of the...

In Real Life

We call it IRL “In Real Life” in the tech sector. IRL is the opposite of the virtual reality/online worlds that we have been reading about in science fiction and...