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Charlie O'Donnell

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2026 44

  1. Venture Capital is So Fucking Simple: What I Learned from Lunch with David Tisch
  2. The Emperor has no GTM
  3. Knowing You Can Raise Versus Guessing
  4. Writing Investor Updates or a Fork in the Eye?
  5. The Bike Arguments Aren’t About Bikes
  6. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence: How Much Due Diligence is Right?
  7. No, I Can't Keep You in Mind for a Job, and Here's Why
  8. More Human Than Human: Using AI to Connect to Actual People
  9. Would You Invest All Your Money at This Price?
  10. Why I Haven’t Written Anything This Year
  11. The Idiot’s Guide to Raising Venture Capital
  12. Potentially Pregnant? Try Sheep’s Blood: A Real Future Unicorn Pitch a VC Might Have Gotten in 1976
  13. If You Don't Take the Wheel, Your Board Will
  14. Revenue and Talent: The Cure for Itchy VC Trigger Fingers
  15. How to Prompt Engineer A VC
  16. Are you Better at Running the Company Or Running Your Board Meeting?
  17. Climbing the Wrong Mountain: When Founders Build Around Familiar Problems
  18. Should I stay or should I go now? A field guide for discouraged founders
  19. VCs Don’t Care About Your Product
  20. Sourcing Versus Thinking: Should We Put the Deal Flow Sharing Call to Bed?
  21. What is this Financial Model for Anyway?
  22. What Do Your Startup Advisors Say About You?
  23. Public Stealth Leaves Opportunity on the Table. Working in Secret is Even Worse.
  24. How a Routine Reference Check Got Me Booked on a Podcast (Or, Not All Thought Leadership is an Ego Trip)
  25. Your Own Customers Will Disrupt You With AI
  26. Why Bother Writing a Book?
  27. Raising Capital for Consumer Products: How to Get the Green If You’re Not a Bear
  28. Venture Capital Has a Starting Line Problem
  29. Don’t Just Link Me, Bro: A Guide for Students and Early Career Professionals to Network Up the Ladder
  30. Investors: What Have You Built for Me Lately?
  31. Probable Versus Possible: Managing Expectations as a Startup CFO
  32. My Social Graph is Broken So I Have No Idea Who My Friends Are
  33. What to Do About the Downside Questions Asked of Female Founders
  34. Do you Experience Rejection as a Roadmap or a Flash Flood?
  35. Your Cap Table Didn't Kill Your Round
  36. The Life of “Little P’s” and Non-Partners: How to Make the Most of the Opportunity
  37. Are They Still Teaching Air Guitar? Thinking About University Entrepreneurship in the Age of AI
  38. Fractional Isn’t a Concession
  39. Sell, Mortimer! Sell! Why Early Founder and Employee Liquidity Creates Better Alignment
  40. Top Resume, Top Deal Flow: What You Can Learn from OpenAI’s First Sales Leader Moving to VC
  41. Time is More Valuable Than Money
  42. My Favorite New Social Network
  43. Illegitimi non carborundum: Don’t Let Investors Control Your Meeting
  44. Switching Venture Firms Is Not a Job Search

2025 21

  1. Does Your Calendar Reflect Your Strategy?
  2. What’s Next After You Lose Someone’s Money
  3. How to Ask for Help and Actually Get It
  4. Will VCs Lose Their Jobs to AI?
  5. The Tech Community Reality Pyramid (As Sponsors Should See It)
  6. Lack of Connection isn’t Your Issue
  7. Your Chances of Getting a Venture Job
  8. When the Music’s Over: Founder Life Immediately After Failure
  9. Our Venture Unfriendly Immigration Policy
  10. America, we have to talk
  11. Everything you need to know about pitching you can learn from Inception
  12. This is not Fine: How to work in Chaotic TImes
  13. What could Siri do for you--if Apple ever got it right?
  14. The Five "Ups" of Getting Early Stage VC Deal Flow
  15. Tadpoles, Frogs and What You Need for a Series A
  16. Let's Talk About Anxiety, Fear of Failure, and Why I Didn't Go to The Dentist for 27 Years
  17. Partnership Judo: Don't work against people when vying for a partnership position
  18. Why Interviewing Others is Awesome for Building Your Brand
  19. How to Launch Your Startup Without a Launch
  20. VCs Don't Owe You a Response or a Follow Up
  21. Fundraising is Biased and Broken. It Also Works Pretty Well and Isn't Going to Change

2024 13

  1. The Nicest Place on the Internet
  2. What I Learned Coaching VCs for the Last Year and What’s Next
  3. Thinking About Proximity and Optimization in a Job Search
  4. The Tech Industry and VC Case for Kamala Harris for President
  5. How to Objectively Measure the "Fundability" of Your Fund
  6. How to Objectively Measure the "Fundability" of Your Startup
  7. Learning When Leaving
  8. Themes vs Verticals: How to Stand Out as a VC Building a Thesis
  9. Why Should a Founder Meet With You?
  10. Appropriate Accessibility: Announcing nextNYC Open Office Hours
  11. We Should Have Real Primaries Every Election and Support the Winner
  12. But There's So Much Content Out There!
  13. The Pros and Cons of Rando Rich People Investing in Your Startup

2023 21

  1. Why It's Good to Be Transactional
  2. It's time to leave Twitter.
  3. Level Setting and Career Goals for VCs: What level are Midas List VCs actually performing on?
  4. The Advantage of Having Venture Backed Friends
  5. Questioning War
  6. What Plinko Can Tell Us About Where to Post
  7. How to Ask for Advice and Get People to Commit the Time to Answer
  8. The BSList: You're Raising the Wrong Amount (No. 93)
  9. The BSList: You Need a Co-Founder (No. 93)
  10. The BS List - We Don't Like This Space (No. 52)
  11. The BSList - Busted Cap Table (No. 104)
  12. How to Fill Your VC Fundraising Pipeline
  13. I asked why more VCs aren’t using coaches
  14. This is Going to Be... Not on Substack
  15. Why Most Startup Events Suck for Both Investors and Founders
  16. The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
  17. Why AI Won't Be the Investment Opportunity Everyone Thinks It Is
  18. Americans are Better Off Without TikTok But Banning It is Bad Policy
  19. The Unbundling of Twitter
  20. Grow Fast, Breakeven, or Die: How Moderate Cuts Will Kill Startups in 2023
  21. NYC Public Schools' Move to Ban ChatGPT Exposes Adults' Failures to Teach Healthy and Responsible Technology Usage

2022 18

  1. How Generative AI is Going to Change Your Life and Mess Everything Up in the Process
  2. I'll Fund a Startup n00b But Here's How Not to Look Like One
  3. Pro-Choice is a Fiduciary Responsibility
  4. Want to Recruit Top Talent? Start Thinking of Work as a Product That You Sell.
  5. An Early Investor's Postmortem of The Wing
  6. You're Not Taking Recruiting Seriously
  7. The Pre-Board Board: How to Create Accountability Before You Give Away a Board Seat
  8. The Philosophy that Underpins the Right: It's Not What You Think
  9. Can Your Portfolio Company Cut Your Bad Cholesterol by More Than Half? It Can When It's Culina Health.
  10. Every Founder that Hates "Personal Branding" Should Write a Book
  11. The Legs of the Stool and Why It's Tough to Compare Two Startups Raising
  12. The Stock Dive: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Market
  13. Should You Take Money from Investors Who Don't Share Your Values?
  14. The Founder and Investor Trust Problem: It's not what you think.
  15. How to Get a VC's Attention at an IRL Event
  16. What do your VCs care about and does it matter?
  17. Do Web3 Companies Need Web3 VCs?
  18. VCs with Ignorant Views on Race Have No Place in Venture Capital

2021 26

  1. Playing Startup Versus Building a Company
  2. Tough hiring market? Make it easier to be a parent at your company.
  3. Assembling a Tulip: Can you engineer thriving Web3 communities of humans (DAOs) using code?
  4. Why Founders Have No Clue How They Raised (Or Failed To)
  5. Why Becoming a Dad Makes Me Want to Invest in More Startups
  6. How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community
  7. What will they take with them? How building a product is like raising a kid.
  8. Forget the Politics. It's in the Private Sector's Best Interest to Mandate Vaccines on the Job and for Customers, too.
  9. Getting Over Imposter Syndrome When Building Your Public Profile
  10. Eric Adams Shows His Lack of Ethics Over the Question of Where He Lives
  11. The Hard Thing About a Hard City: Why I Support Kathryn Garcia for Mayor of NYC
  12. Out There Bets and Insider Games: The Social Barriers to Funding Big Ideas
  13. Scott Stringer and the Wrong Question
  14. The Three Lanes of NYC Mayoral Election Traffic
  15. Remote Work, Not Taxes, Threatens Cities: Why That Threat has Peaked but Others Remain
  16. Founder Ownership Math, Rainy Days, and Bigger Pies
  17. Dismantling Hate
  18. Smoke and Fire
  19. Summer in the City: Why there's no other place I'd rather be than New York
  20. Both Things Can Be True: Bias and Bad Fundraising Advice
  21. Why Colleges and Universities Should be Scared of the On Deck Fellowship
  22. $GME, Robinhood and r/WallStreetBets: What did we learn, Palmer?
  23. Don't Hate the Raise. Hate the Game.
  24. Contenting is Hard
  25. Seed Investments in Insurrection
  26. How to Get More Efficient with Time Management Using Time Blocking (Part 1)

2020 29

  1. How to Leverage Micro VC Funds to Build an Angel Portfolio
  2. How to Talk About the Arc of Your Career
  3. Five Tips for Giving a Professional or Technical Talk
  4. The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things
  5. What's next? How not to fail after the fanfare.
  6. I've Got 14 Billion Problems with Politics and This Ain't One
  7. Bootstrapping vs Raising Out of the Gate: The Six Questions to Ask Yourself
  8. Real talk on fundraising for a small fund
  9. Pitch like you expect to be funded. Expect to be funded after you've done your homework.
  10. It Depends: Why the right fundraising strategy for your startup is never a straight answer.
  11. Where have you gone, Bill de Blasio?
  12. Introducing Circulate: Creating Better Networks for Future Founders from Black and Other Underrepresented Communities
  13. Thriving or Surviving or Diving in Quarantine?
  14. 10 Ways close the Coronavirus budget gap in New York
  15. What do you need for a VC to properly evaluate a pitch?
  16. Money... show me! If you want to change Venture Capital, focus on LPs. #openlp
  17. Underrepresented Founders and The Discouraging Pass
  18. Moving Fast, Breaking Things, and the Support of Disruption
  19. How Not to Get Your Time Wasted by VCs
  20. 10 Post-Coronavirus Trends for Life After Quarantine
  21. Marketing During a Pandemic
  22. Things Will Be Different
  23. Ample Hills Bankruptcy and Recovery: What Happened and What's Next for a Beloved Brand
  24. How much can you pay yourself as a founder?
  25. Backing Fatma Collins and Julie Rogers at Ten Little--the 8th Brooklyn Bridge Ventures Company Founded by Moms
  26. Should you be working on this startup?
  27. Too Early is Never the Real Reason
  28. Five Reasons Why We Need a More Progressive Economy for Growth
  29. The Easiest Way to Bring Diversity to Venture Capital: Raise the SEC's LP Count Limit

2019 23

  1. Will WeWork finally put our image of a "backable" founder to rest?
  2. What's the best time of the year to raise venture capital?
  3. Why You Don't Get Real Feedback from VCs--and a Solution
  4. How to Change Jobs
  5. Accessibility as an Advantage in Venture Capital: Why Creating Value for Everyone in the Community Wins
  6. Thoughts on WeWork
  7. Make All the Asks
  8. Social Media and Thought Leadership for Founders
  9. Thoughts on my Wedding Day
  10. Tiny Checks
  11. The Uber that Never Was
  12. The Terribleness of On Demand: Why I Backed Journey Meditation
  13. Certainty on Demand: How Labor Platforms are Moving to Higher Order Work
  14. The Smartest Most Unsympathetic Guys in the Room: Tech's Responsibility Going Forward
  15. The Achilles Heel of Startup Ecosystems
  16. Three Exercises Every First Time Venture Fund Needs to Work Through
  17. Some Thoughts and Models Around Ownership Targets
  18. Why Investor Titles are Important
  19. Five Questions for Vetting an Investment in a New or Emerging VC Fund
  20. The Tech Issue that Matters Most in NYC
  21. Lessons from a Diverse Venture Capital Portfolio
  22. The Potential for Fraud Caused by the Unnecessary Mystery of the Family Office World
  23. Sevens Don't Get Funded

2018 18

  1. Preparing to Start a Company
  2. Startups Need to Diversify Away from Paying Facebook
  3. There are Right and Wrong Ways to Add Amazon to NYC
  4. How to Run a Tech Conference in NYC
  5. Shut Up and Invest? Investors Weighing in on Politics
  6. The Moments that Define Investor and Founder Relationships
  7. The Willingness to Learn and the Pressure to Be Confident
  8. Do you have to bankrupt yourself to start a company? How all in is all in?
  9. How to Break into a Senior Business Position at a Growing Startup
  10. How to Rock a Short "Office Hours" Meeting
  11. What I Want NYC to Do About Uber
  12. Ask Founders What They Really Need: The Quick Story Behind Clare's $2 Million Raise
  13. How the Need for Growth Failed Our Social Network Experience
  14. Why VC Feedback is Often Bad Data
  15. Give Me Discipline Over Talent Everyday
  16. How to Build a Relationship with a Venture Capital Investor
  17. Backing Radformation: How Many Physicists Does it Take to Build a SaaS Company?
  18. One Reason Why Your Technical Recruiting Isn't Working

2017 11

  1. You Want on That List and Here's How
  2. Five Lessons Learned from the Ample Hills $8 Million Raise
  3. Don't Be Dismissive
  4. Finding Community in NYC Tech Again
  5. Rethinking Our Heroes
  6. The Foolproof Way to Tell if Your Employees Have Issues
  7. Five Lessons to Learn from the Success of The Wing
  8. Why You Shouldn't Put VCs on a Pedestal
  9. I Can Be Difficult
  10. The Cold E-mail and the Crazy Big Idea: Industrial Organic Announces Seed Round
  11. My Least Favorite Part of Venture Capital

2016 12

  1. 50 Deals In
  2. Being in the Minority
  3. How to Perform Inception on a VC
  4. Five Lessons Founders Can Learn from Donald Trump
  5. "About Last Night..." The note I just sent to my portfolio.
  6. Did Facebook and Twitter Make Us Better or Worse in 2016?
  7. Proudly Investing in Businesses that *Get Better* as People Actually Use Them, Not Worse
  8. The Bad Advice Diverse Founders are Given Around Fundraising
  9. This Article About Andy Dunn and Bonobos is the Blueprint for Founder Storytelling
  10. Do Androids Get Songs Stuck in Their Heads? My investment in Amper Music.
  11. Excited to be an Investor in The Wing
  12. How come VCs are... jerks?

2015 11

  1. What it was like to own a gun: Confessions of a white kid. #tamirrice
  2. Warm Intros Waste Everyone's Time... Just E-mail Me
  3. All Investing Has Impact
  4. Disappointed Billions are the Best Thing Ever
  5. The Fantastical, Stupendous, Wonkariffic Tale of How Ample Hills Creamery Raised a $4 Million Venture Capital Round
  6. Why do you win?
  7. Subway Thumbing
  8. RegulatoryKings: Thoughts on the Duel Between Government and Fans
  9. An Investment Fund for NYC Foodies
  10. Winning is the Best Revenge
  11. How to Build a Successful and Diverse Venture Capital Portfolio Without Really Trying

2014 16

  1. How Not to Let the Crazy In
  2. Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed
  3. Ten Good Reasons to Take Venture Capital Money
  4. Ten Realities of Taking Venture Capital Money
  5. Because the Domain Makes it Really Real
  6. Some Rules for Marketplaces and Distributed Workforce Platforms
  7. What Salary Means
  8. If I was an Uber investor... (besides the obvious fact that I'd be rich.)
  9. Valuing My Own Time and Saying No
  10. There are No Gatekeepers
  11. The Thin Skin of the Venture Capital Market
  12. Not All Startup and Venture Experience is Equal #getoffmylawn
  13. Startup Culture Rot
  14. Seed Round Pricing (Actual data warning!)
  15. How I learned to change the oil in my car and found a new office because of Shake Shack and a hackathon
  16. Faulty Logic in the Venture Capital and Female Founder Discussion

2013 20

  1. Paul Graham and The World Out There
  2. Why Floored is Awesome, and Not Just for the Real Estate Industry
  3. Disrupting the Whole Damn Thing
  4. Helping Big Get Small - Why I invested in Orchard's effort to help institutions participate in online lending
  5. Thinking About the Next Chief Digital Officer of New York City
  6. The Return of Play
  7. Tough Questions
  8. Don't Change User Behavior: What Coin Gets Right
  9. Off the Shelf is Dead: Hello Makr
  10. Getting into the hot deals before they're hot
  11. What Bill DeBlasio can do for NYC Tech: It's not what you think
  12. When New York City comes together for the Marathon #ingnycm
  13. Don't Send the Deck
  14. Retailers: Don't Track Me, Bro
  15. How fast could you run if you weren't pacing yourself?
  16. Small tip for breaking the young white male hacker mold
  17. Personal Brand is Company Brand
  18. Three Weeks to Money: How long a seed investment should really take
  19. What the End of Coworking at General Assembly Means for New York
  20. Creating a Thought Leading Company

2012 25

  1. Making a list, checking it twice: Prepping for 2013
  2. Being Too Early and VC Self Improvement
  3. Data and Action in Times of Tragedy
  4. The Unified Theory of Food Investing for Tech VCs
  5. Be the Startup I Want to Fund
  6. Tips on Approaching a VC
  7. Don't blame the game, blame the playas
  8. Give
  9. Glass, Cars, Fiber: Is Google a Generation Ahead?
  10. The Collaborative Web: Github is the New Flickr
  11. The Future of Brick and Mortar
  12. Decisions and Outcomes
  13. The Leadership Opportunity in the NYC Innovation Community: Quantitatively Proven
  14. Illegitimi non carborundum
  15. 10 Things for Barack Obama's Second Term To Do List
  16. Subway Thumbing
  17. The NYC Marathon: Feasible, Beneficial, but not Advisable
  18. Skin and Incentives
  19. Questions you and your co-founder need to have answered before you start (or ASAP)
  20. Let's play 200 questions for charity
  21. How come ability to hire isn't a criteria for investment?
  22. What's your hero story?
  23. Problems Deep in the Stack: Top 10 Issues You're not Hearing at the Debate
  24. Ending the Toll Roads to LP Fundraising
  25. Iced Green Tea: Open Your Eyes and See What You Have

2011 27

  1. Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012
  2. Lessons for Brooklyn: Information Spillover at the Roots of NYC Tech
  3. Don't Forget Brooklyn: NYU's plan for the old MTA headquarters needs to happen
  4. Playing in the Street
  5. Brain Training and Grudges
  6. I'm Running for the New York Tech Meetup Board
  7. Design is not a bolt-on
  8. Reverse Engineering a Career
  9. Careers in Tech Startups & Innovation: What will I learn?
  10. Tradeoffs in Innovative Careers
  11. 60 in 60: Bike to Brewster Saturday
  12. Foursquare: The Second Inning
  13. Learn to code? How about learn to sell!
  14. On being late
  15. The end or the beginning? Thoughts on the current startup environment
  16. If you've ever overpaid for a legal document, sign up for Docracy, First Round's newest investment
  17. Findings is GitHub for Ideas
  18. First Round staying fashion forward with Refinery29
  19. Making Time: The Standing Appointment
  20. People who don't run your company
  21. The Best Community Manager I know
  22. People First
  23. 10 Misperceptions About Venture Capital
  24. Airplane Thumbing
  25. Optimize for authentic relationships, not bluster
  26. We are the greed we protest against #occupywallst
  27. Do you have a plan for the success of your team?

2010 35

  1. Flash Artisanal Markets! The New York Times Discovers Brooklyn
  2. Proposing a Solution to NYC Snow Removal Problems: SnowApps Contest
  3. Three hours from Brooklyn to Brooklyn, including two miles of running in the snow: My Blizzard Trek Home
  4. Tips on Pitching in Person
  5. Delicious Closing Leaves a Bad Taste in My Mouth
  6. My calendar knows where I am and with who: The Biggest Location Based Social Network
  7. Five to focus on
  8. Building a company that people want to work for
  9. I Recommend You Read This Post
  10. BnterDroid
  11. The Science of Creating a Sales Machine
  12. Pattern Recognition
  13. Pay Attention to What the Market is Telling You
  14. Workout Routine Hack
  15. ZOMG Castlevania Jam
  16. Up-Up Down-Down Left-Right Left-Right B-A Start: Contra Jam
  17. It's Just the Principal of It
  18. Follow-up #fail
  19. Facebook’s Messaging Platform: Color me skeptical
  20. Anything is Possible (in a Startup)
  21. Getting high on your own Svpply: When who’s using the service is part of the product
  22. A Dinevore list that can get you funded: Where do New York VCs eat?
  23. The Value of Getting Knocked Around
  24. Creating an Awesome Conference: Brooklyn Beta
  25. Sympathy Racketeering: Why harassing people on the street is a bad strategy for a non-profit
  26. Open Web vs. Network Effects
  27. On Features, Experiences, and Love
  28. Need a Technical Co-founder? Hire a Product Design Lead First
  29. @Shakeshack 3 Recap
  30. Business plan competitions are the air guitar championships of the startup world.
  31. This Week in the New York Innovation Community - March 1st, 2010
  32. This Week in NYC Innovation - February 22, 2010
  33. This Week in the New York Innovation Community – February 1st, 2010
  34. This Week in the NYC Innovation Community – January 25, 2010
  35. This Week in the NYC Innovation Community – January 4, 2010

2009 59

  1. Five ways to generate momentum in your venture or angel round
  2. Great advice on tenacity from Mark Suster (@msuster)
  3. High use is expensive: We are the problem in the healthcare system
  4. Getting caught mid-pivot (not what it sounds like)
  5. Noise in the data: Why the NYC government will struggle to be an innovation catalyst (and why it probably doesn’t matter)
  6. Want to help NYC become a center of innovation? Got space?
  7. This is why I teach (must click) #awesomeness
  8. View from The Open Planning Project at Arts & Tech Meetup
  9. So what does an EIR (at First Round… in New York City…) do?
  10. This Week in the New York Innovation Community
  11. Tanoreen opening at new location on 76th and 3rd in Bay Ridge on Tuesday
  12. These are the new leads: The best sales minds in NYC share their wisdom next week
  13. Is Plancast Foursquare in the future or just Dopplr? Perhaps it’s the event tipping point we’ve all been waiting for.
  14. To Poach or Not to Poach: Hiring and Retaining within the Startup Community
  15. First Round Fridays – Deck your ecommerce halls with Monetate to drive sales
  16. Will the Ace Hotel embrace the innovation community?
  17. The $5 hot chocolate... no vodka in that or nuthin?
  18. This Week in New York Tech - November 23rd
  19. So happy to be riding around to my meetings today!
  20. Startup Weekend NYC FTW!
  21. Is more business getting done on Twitter than on LinkedIn? One reason why…
  22. Congratulations to the future Mr. & Mrs. Cuthbert
  23. First Round Fridays: BigDeal.com launches competitive shopping site
  24. Shakeshackville in the Fall
  25. Thinking about going from Employee #23515 to Employee #5? nextNY MatchupCamp
  26. Launching my weekly e-mail notes on the New York innovation community
  27. First Round Fridays: Pimping out your friends with Thread
  28. I don’t know who I just helped, but it made me feel good: Plugoo Randomness
  29. Chasing Innovation and Steak in New York City
  30. Where’s your head at? A good example of an entrepreneur thinking about the right stuff
  31. Who’s Your Who’s Who? Getting the right people involved in your startup
  32. Why is the Kindle so anti-social?
  33. Runners at 77th and 4th in Bay Ridge
  34. Top 5 things missing from most entrepreneur pitches
  35. FRC biz cards FTW!
  36. Young minds at work at the Ace Hotel
  37. Never Enough Competition
  38. Fuck Yeah Apple Pie!
  39. Filming "The Other Guy" on 25th
  40. Is your own dog food good for you? Building apps where you are the user
  41. Bay Ridge’s Rustica Cafe and the plight of the local small business
  42. Never Too Early (To Talk)
  43. The problem with not hitting your seed round milestones
  44. Startup Lessons - Having industry momentum at your back
  45. First one is here.
  46. Startup Lessons – Figuring out the details of the product roadmap ahead before you start
  47. Where are all the NY tech and small business reporters?
  48. Happy to participate in the Donor’s Choose Social Media Challenge again
  49. Unintentional Benefits and a Test for NYC Seed
  50. my recent announcement that I'm taking a full time job at First Round Capital
  51. First Round Capital, NYC, and Our “Born Again” Startup
  52. “Free Business Plan” on how to start a VC firm in NYC
  53. little learning Python experiment
  54. interviewed in the paper and on the news about this weekend's helicopter/plane crash
  55. in my original post about it
  56. three types of deals VCs do
  57. my expectations coming in
  58. .406's investment in EnergyHub
  59. The other day, I wrote about how something seemed, well, gray at SXSW

2008 94

  1. My del.icio.us links
  2. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  3. My del.icio.us links
  4. My del.icio.us links
  5. Two Hilarious CollegeHumor Videos
  6. We are the water cooler we want to see: 2009 will be the end of the echo chamber.
  7. Elmo pounding the pavement on Christmas Day
  8. My del.icio.us links
  9. Shrimp, tomato, and portobello pasta with orange tuna, and broccoli rabe.
  10. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  11. Conspiracy Theory: The real story behind Plenty of Fish
  12. My del.icio.us links
  13. What happens when colleges live in walled gardens? Social network plagues get loose outside the castle walls among the villagers, alumni, and students.
  14. #nycsnowball
  15. Snow
  16. Check me out this Thursday 12/18 at 2PM ET on our own Path 101 BlogTalkRadio show
  17. Sometimes, I mess with my random Plugoo chat people.
  18. SkateFAIL: AMNH and the amazing unskatable plastic "rink"
  19. Betting on Relationships
  20. Announcing the $5 million Twitter Data App Seed Fund
  21. Sunk Mental Cost and The Drawing Board
  22. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  23. We are the mashups we want to see (Plz RT, Digg)
  24. (Poking the bear) An idea for the NY Tech Meetup: Disband it
  25. My del.icio.us links
  26. TeachStreet and the untapped potential education market
  27. I cannot get enough of Schrodinger's Cat Humor
  28. Subway Thumbing
  29. AOL makes me sad
  30. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  31. Wasn't this guy in Men In Black?
  32. The need for an open library of semantic terms
  33. Aiming for 30 Under 30
  34. My del.icio.us links
  35. I did say I'd shave my head if the Jets won
  36. I swear I did not photoshop this.
  37. I live for this: The challenge of entrepreneurship
  38. My del.icio.us links
  39. My Socially Speaking Interview
  40. Lost your job? Laid off? Worried about the economy? Introducing the first Path 101 Career Event on Job Strategies for a Bad Economy
  41. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  42. Check me out on Blog Talk Radio's Socially Speaking
  43. Defending Vices
  44. Nate '08 and the Future of the NY Tech Meetup
  45. Unpaid internships are a ripoff
  46. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  47. Big mounds of dirt: A key step in the dorm construction process at Rose Hill
  48. Actually, he didn't say that at all... Anahad O'Connor totally mischaracterizes Rahm Emmanuel on Obama's auto industry stand
  49. '61 Caddy for Candice
  50. A reason for women to be happy about the election outcome...
  51. Howard Stern has a new daddy, and KILL IT is what he does. Gary Vee is coming for you.
  52. SocialMinder
  53. Revenue Snobs
  54. The Science of Election Estimation
  55. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  56. Best Obama pin ever!
  57. +1 for Barack Obama and Joe Biden
  58. Interview and story in The Deal...and another defense of the New York tech community
  59. Don't stop when Obama wins...
  60. From Crooks and Liars: FL GOP Chair Sends Out Racist E-mail: Beware Of The Car Loads Of Blacks
  61. Why LinkedIn is going to make a bundle of cash with their platform, but will never replace Facebook (And probably shouldn't worry about trying to)
  62. London style taxi - TXII
  63. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  64. My Testimony to the NYC City Council
  65. Why real companies aren't really that cheap to build and why we'll always need VCs
  66. Return of the Opentards
  67. My del.icio.us links
  68. Adjusting McCain's sign
  69. Heavy duty work at Rose Hill dorm construction site
  70. Mullet Chat
  71. My del.icio.us links
  72. Case for taking the All-Star Game seriously...
  73. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  74. Every Company Needs An Asshole
  75. Why a Man Shaves His Head
  76. Uncertainty and the Election
  77. Colin Powell endorses Obama
  78. My del.icio.us links
  79. WTF? Why does Facebook think I'm spam? Says I failed this captcha... and all of 'em. What do you think?
  80. Willy's thoughts on having my blog become a means of finding a mate...
  81. Homethinking Neighborhoods helps you move from there to here or from here to there
  82. I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle
  83. People Markets
  84. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  85. Sunset by Christopher Street
  86. Seesmic as a Bellweather? Not really, but a good example of NYC vs. the Valley and ability to weather a storm when compared with Paltalk
  87. In 2008, I said...
  88. Totebags
  89. Why LP defaults isn't an issue for good VC firms
  90. Buy buy buy... Five year lows have been hit 28 times since 1928. Here's the data:
  91. Olbermann comments on Palin
  92. Maserati in Grand Central
  93. as I’ve said before
  94. putting cash behind their best blog posts to gain exposure

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  1. In 2007, I said...

2006 1

  1. Here's a post about getting started on LinkedIn

2005 2

  1. This is what I wrote about the "Web 2.0 bubble" on October 22, 2005
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  1. Failure is Always an Option
  2. And then they came for our startups... [ACTION REQUIRED] on Startup Visa changes
  3. No Excuses not to Travel: Noken is the First Digital Native Tour Operator and Here's Why I Backed It
  4. To Fundraise While You're Not Fundraising or to Not Fundraise While You're Not Fundraising? That is the Question.
  5. You're the CEO.
  6. The NYC Council's Ill-Advised Attempt to Legislate Work-Life Balance Should Be Voted Down
  7. An Exercise in Startup Ambition: What's your ask of Obama?
  8. Find Success by Helping a Mom Find Success in Your Company
  9. What I Say When a Founder Asks for Feedback
  10. A Story About Fear, Shame, Expectations and Money: My Investment in The Financial Gym
  11. The Atomic Element of Your Marketing
  12. How VC Fundraising Favors White Men
  13. The Scariest Thing About Working at a Growing Startup
  14. What Should I Include in a Pitch Deck? [VIDEO]
  15. What Valuation Should I Expect in My Seed Round?
  16. Not Just Any Given Sunday #takeaknee
  17. Work Like You Mean It: Why I backed Wethos to change the future of work.
  18. Introducing Petal, Providing Access to Credit to Thin File Consumers
  19. Not Interested: How to know whether you've actually got an investor on the hook.
  20. On No Sides...
  21. Turns Out I Wasn't Crazy: Tinkergarten Raises $5.4 million
  22. Some Rules for Fundraising
  23. There's Always Other Money
  24. Why hasn't anyone else funded this?
  25. A Call to Brains: Can We Mobilize Education Like Manufacturing in WWII?
  26. You Can Hear the Desperation When They Pull the Trigger: Gun Control or Empathy
  27. The Rainy Day Fund of Reputation
  28. The Five Questions You Need to Answer to Succeed at Startup Recruiting
  29. The Madness of the King
  30. Qualify Your Investor
  31. Is there a right time of year to raise a seed round?
  32. Guys
  33. Prove to Yourself that it isn't True
  34. Thinking of Community as Marketing When You're Not Marketing Anything
  35. What You Heard About VCs is Usually Wrong and Why You Can Blame VCs for It
  36. Establishing Trust as a VC
  37. Who is the Best Wrong Person for the Job?
  38. Trump is everyone's problem now.
  39. The Feminine Will Save Us
  40. Five Pitfalls of Seed Round Hiring
  41. The Only Thing an Investor Can Give You that Matters
  42. In Hardware, You're Only as Good as Your Next Product: See goTenna
  43. This is Not the Trump You are Looking For
  44. Ahmad Khan Rahami's Grandmother
  45. From Platform to Partner: How Helping Startups is the New MBA Track to VC
  46. Freedom Means Hearing and Seeing Things You Don't Like
  47. Why Kayaks Belong on NYC's Waterways and Why You Should Care
  48. Why Founders are Wrong, Even When They're Right
  49. Five Lessons Learned Getting to a Second Fund
  50. How to Run Startup PR Like an Election Campaign
  51. How to Make Time
  52. Punching Above Your Weight as a Founder: Why I invested in Bizly
  53. I love Donald Trump voters.
  54. The Myth of the Top Investor
  55. The Thing About the Best Pitches
  56. Confessions of a Privileged White Male and Former Conservative
  57. Are those people idiots? How to think about competition.
  58. Writing Checks Doesn't Make You an Investor
  59. Are you FOR or AGAINST hate in all forms?
  60. Be Honest on VC Reference Calls
  61. You Don't Need a Co-Founder
  62. Winning and Losing
  63. You tell me!
  64. Turning the Phone Down the Street into the Feet in the Store: My Investment in Radius8
  65. The Trouble with Venture Capital Data
  66. Know Thyself, Venture Capitalist: Thoughts on feeling open or closed.
  67. Water and Data Make Plants Grow: Excited to Lead Agrilyst's Seed Round #tcdisrupt
  68. How do you get a check from this firm? The Process page.
  69. No Leading, No Guts, No Glory
  70. Why #imwithher and voting for Hillary Clinton
  71. Leave Your White Guy Behind
  72. Selling a Vision or Blowing Smoke?
  73. Brother, can you spare a rockstar? How else to get that next hire.
  74. How to Fill a Building Full of Tech and Startup People
  75. The Experience of Being a Limited Partner in Venture Capital
  76. Proud to Lead an Investment in SeedCX
  77. The Other Kind of Traction You Need to Get Funded
  78. Things I believe...
  79. What is actually happening during a VC slowdown?
  80. That Time I Passed on Datadog Because I Didn't Understand the Market
  81. How to Stand Tall While Being Human
  82. Tips for Investing in Startups if You're a Celebrity
  83. Leave Money on the Table
  84. The Nature of Greatness
  85. Be Someone that People Want to Work With
  86. The Idea Stage is Broken and a Tool to Fix It
  87. 10 Surefire Ways to Increase Your Chance of Startup Failure
  88. What to Expect When You're Expecting Venture Capital Returns
  89. Backing someone pre-pitch: The story of how I backed Clubhouse
  90. When doing the right thing by people is also the better business model: Why I backed Homer Logistics
  91. Bill DeBlasio's Uber targeting is in danger of making NYC a tech joke
  92. What Scales?
  93. Doing some good with the people who want your time
  94. Do you know what you do and who else knows?
  95. Six Reasons Not to Invest in a Venture Capital Fund
  96. A Month with No Funding Announcements
  97. The Tedium of Being a Founder
  98. Disrupting the Screen: Backing Tinkergarten to Get Kids Out to Play
  99. My Investment in Hungryroot: A Tasty Lesson in Products vs. Services
  100. What the heck does a VC do all week anyway?
  101. The Quality You Never Hear Pitched When People Want in to Venture Capital
  102. Questions a Potential Venture Fund Limited Partner Should Ask
  103. Community Rot
  104. Following on in a hot market
  105. VC Value add: Why it probably doesn't matter, but I try anyway.
  106. The 99: How the SEC protects you from venture capital returns.
  107. Questions from Hunter #MondayMailbag
  108. Announcing a new strategic investor and partner at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
  109. The Coming Zombie Startup Apocalypse
  110. No Comment
  111. Why the New Seed Might Be a Bad Seed
  112. The Gift of the Ask
  113. Some thoughts on #Meerkat
  114. Pitch me!
  115. Why You Need to Stop Hating Self Promotion
  116. The #vcbcc List
  117. The Board Before the Board
  118. What happens when you find the right journalist for the story
  119. A result. Faster.
  120. Excited to be the Least Stylish Investor in the Most Stylish Company: Backing Bradford and Bezar
  121. Turns at Albuquerque: How I Measure My Career
  122. There is No Such Thing as a Great Team, Only Great Habits
  123. The Things that Will Break in My Lifetime
  124. 25 Pieces of Bullshit You Hear About Startups
  125. Setting Kids Up to Fail
  126. Five Tips for Getting PR for Your Startup
  127. Never ask for "Just 5 Minutes!"
  128. Invest in Karma for Above Market Returns
  129. How Technical Advisors can Help Non-Technical Founders
  130. The Things that Fall Down
  131. Piers, Parks and Why White People Suck
  132. Step Up
  133. Growth is a Commodity
  134. Towercutting with goTenna
  135. My Role as a VC: What I am and what I am not.
  136. Reservationhate
  137. The Strong Rejection
  138. The Business of Who Makes is Changing
  139. How early should you connect to a VC? Here's some data.
  140. Brooklyn Bridge Ventures invested in Ringly because being present is fashionable
  141. A Sign of the Times: Why Saving the Kentile Sign is Important #savekentile
  142. Founders. Run. Amok. It Starts With a Term Sheet.
  143. Tinybop and Crafting a Brand
  144. What Something Isn't Worth
  145. The Economics of a Small VC Fund
  146. Beer and Startups: The Alcohol Culture of the Tech World
  147. What to do when things aren't working at your startup
  148. Connecting the Sellers of NYC's Salesperson Community
  149. Female Founders: What the numbers mean and what they don't
  150. Where's the seed?
  151. Why I applied to the Union Square Ventures analyst position
  152. How to Choose Your First VC
  153. Creating Better VCs: An Accelerator for the Dark Side
  154. A Tale of Two Fundraising Stories
  155. Conference Neighborhoods
  156. How to Get into Venture Capital - An Update
  157. Who's any good?
  158. The Carrot and Stick
  159. Small Groups and the Long Game at #SXSW
  160. When Products People Love Die in the Cloud
  161. PR for Startups: Avoiding crickets after the Ta-Da!
  162. 10 Things I've Learned in 10 years of Blogging
  163. The Rules of Inclusion
  164. Fundraising Done...and Now for the Real Work
  165. Disconnected Home
  166. Will Professionals Confide in an Secure Messaging App?
  167. Don't be undressed on the internet
  168. Chris Christie Should Own the Cone #trafficgate
  169. Local Schwag Bearers
  170. Don't Read the Manual, Write the Manual
  171. Get Off My Lawn! Crazy Kids and Their Sex, Drugs and Startup Advice!
  172. Changing my mind about blogging
  173. How do others hear your story?
  174. Resolve to Be
  175. Your Startup Already Started
  176. Derisking
  177. Path to Profit
  178. Stop
  179. Honesty and Relationship Building with Investors
  180. A Conference, a Dad, an Idea, a Team, Funding, and a Launch: Brooklyn's Own Tinybop is Live on the App Store!
  181. Clutter
  182. The Underwhelmingness of Facebook
  183. The Forwardable Intro
  184. Why I support Chris Quinn
  185. Daily Basics
  186. How to make the most of an accelerator Office Hours
  187. NYC continuing upward trend in PWC Moneytree report while most other regions are down
  188. The Hook: The most important part of a pitch.
  189. The Glue that Makes a Community Stick
  190. Why being a VC sucks. Advice to anyone who wants to get into venture capital.
  191. Moving the Runners Over (On Crunched's Exit to Clearslide)
  192. Having Conviction
  193. Who is winning the NYC tech community vote for mayor? [Poll Results]
  194. For anyone who thought Makerbot exited too soon...
  195. Makerbot: The First "Real" Brooklyn Exit
  196. Making the NYC Community Smaller
  197. When a sales oriented founder's job isn't to sell, but to build a sales team
  198. No Phone with Food
  199. NYC: Regulatory nightmare for tech startups trying to conduct consumer friendly businesses
  200. What Playing Dots Can Teach You About Startups
  201. Teach 'Em to Tinker
  202. The Billion Dollar Aqui-hire of David Karp
  203. Get Your Money for Nothing and Your Bitcoins for Free
  204. Why Communication with Investors is Important
  205. The Best Leftovers Ever
  206. Taking Responsibility for the No
  207. No more "I" in NYC: How the city is changing whether you like it or not
  208. Just Say No
  209. My Career Regret - The Money and Interestingness Trade
  210. The Battle for Indoors
  211. Nothing: Accomplished
  212. Introducing New Yorkers to the Water
  213. What ever happened to Print Shop?
  214. New Brooklyn Bridge Ventures Investment: Five Takeaways from the ElectNext Funding News
  215. Time for VCs to Get Their Act Together
  216. Do you have an underwater blowtorch?
  217. Hack Project to Help a Non-Profit: Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse Volunteer Coordination Tool
  218. 10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community
  219. Tip for Keith and Dennis: Focus on the best uses of your time. cc @dens @rabois
  220. Tips for the Kiddie Table: What to do when you didn't make that list or get that invite
  221. #SXSW is all grown up
  222. Company Culture: The Difference Between Values and Style
  223. Five Tips for #sxsw
  224. The Role of Angel Groups Going Forward
  225. The Big Invisible
  226. There's a Special Place in Hell for Panel Prep Calls
  227. Disclosure and Brain Pickings
  228. Excited that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures is an Investor in Editorially
  229. How will Facebook compete?
  230. How to Run Faster (as an Entrepreneur)
  231. Do you really know how to learn?
  232. How to get over 100 developers in a room, when you're not a developer
  233. When it was a game: Hoping Foursquare returns to its roots
  234. When Men Start Pitching to Women
  235. Life is hard... Go help someone (or ask for help)
  236. A Template for Updating Your Investors
  237. Why Every Entrepreneur Needs to Blog
  238. Feel free to borrow these New Year's resolutions
  239. Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize... there is no fork
  240. The Most Critical Startup Talent Crunch: Great Leaders at Growing Companies
  241. Indeed.com's Exit: A billion reasons to focus on one thing early and do it ridiculously well
  242. The Perception of Exclusivity
  243. What I did on my summer vacation: The First LP Close ($3.5mm) of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
  244. Experienced Heads and Cheap Legs: How to Leverage Mentoring and Advisers at a Startup
  245. Why Docracy is the Most Revolutionary Company of Our Time
  246. Canned: My new response to blogger pitches.
  247. Build Your Own World
  248. To Follow On or Not to Follow On
  249. My Routine
  250. Minimum Viable Team
  251. Admitting that you have no idea what you're doing
  252. Quantum of Social
  253. Good way to measure your success: Are you scaling what you love?
  254. The Last Coder
  255. Jack be Nimble
  256. Why Blog?
  257. Curiosity: A six wheeled hero we can all get behind #msl
  258. The Amazing Disappearing VC
  259. Can a web service come back from the dead?
  260. Empty Streets
  261. Quick to fire or leave no employee behind?
  262. Hire today or gone tomorrow: How your startup is getting lapped by companies who know how to hire
  263. Fall in love with the problem, not the product
  264. Business Model is a Design Consideration
  265. The Art of NYC Cycling for Entrepreneurs #bikenyc
  266. How to Be a VC: Being Open
  267. It's not between you and them
  268. From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media
  269. Why is NYC failing to disrupt the enterprise?
  270. Biking home in 2019
  271. When good things happen to good people: SinglePlatform acquired by Constant Contact
  272. Subway Thumbing
  273. Quick thoughts on the New Foursquare
  274. On Patterns
  275. On Soda and Mayoral Parenting
  276. In Which We Pay Attention to Something Else
  277. 5 Tips for New Angel Investors
  278. What the Facebook IPO means: 10 things
  279. A framework to think about pricing seed, angel, and venture capital rounds
  280. How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities
  281. The Screwy Logic of Crowdfunding and Venture Fund Regulation
  282. First Round Capital is a Firm with No Principals
  283. Thinking About Berlin: Unleashing a Creative Opportunity
  284. What to blog about when you have nothing to say
  285. Tough. Cold. Wet. Awesome. #toughmudder and #toughstartup
  286. Why do panels suck and how can we make them better?
  287. The Robert Moses Effect
  288. The Problem with Startup Advice
  289. When should I raise my seed round?
  290. Doing your best doesn't always get you the best outcome
  291. Would you attend a conference featuring your network?
  292. End of the Android Road: Why I got an iPhone
  293. Five Thoughts About the Instagram Acquisition
  294. NYC's Innovation Community: What Came Before and What Comes nextNY
  295. Reading what was written and the VC age question
  296. Tattoos and YCombinator Demo Day
  297. Massaging the Octopus: Jiro Dreams of Startups
  298. Don't ask "Why Brooklyn?" Ask "How?"
  299. Why the NYC startup scene needs Sean Parker
  300. The Single Biggest Lesson of a Venture Backed CEO (or come see my recruiting talk at #sxsw)
  301. The Leader of the Freemium World
  302. How not to miss the next Kickstarter: My VC lesson learned
  303. Want to get in front of a VC? Be a little creative--human even.
  304. Knowing your startup like the back of your...napkin.
  305. 10 Questions for Brooklyn's Innovation Community
  306. Jeremy Lin is Asian
  307. Be the last team standing
  308. Anatomy of an Innovation-friendly School
  309. Why being an early stage VC is like being a college football coach
  310. Ten Tips for Pitching Your Company
  311. SOPA's Jane Jacobs Moment
  312. A Seed Fund Grows in Brooklyn: Announcing Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
  313. If NYC is going to be a real innovation hub, we can't have our own senators supporting SOPA/PIPA
  314. Speed Kills: Bootstrapping Activity in Your Network
  315. The Race is Long
  316. Not everyone is a hero. Some people just bat .337. #mets
  317. You can't win them all... but you can learn why you failed and be better for next time
  318. Thoughts on #occupywallst
  319. The Excitement of Possibility
  320. The Future of Publishing and an Opportunity to Work with CNN/Money
  321. Kayaks and Startups: Signalling direction on the open water by making a hard turn
  322. Pick a graph, any graph: Thinking about Facebook connect vs creating a new graph
  323. Entrepreneur Social Media FAIL: I don't have time to blog because I need to hire, get customers, get PR and raise money
  324. Paywalls and Kettlebells
  325. Tracking the Hiring Funnel
  326. And now for something a little different: First Round portfolio company chloe + isabel launches [#frc]
  327. Irene brings rain, flooding and end of news as we know it [#irene]
  328. 10 Things for Startups to Do in August While Everyone Else is on Vacation
  329. Time is Money: There is a multi-billion dollar business to be built around time
  330. GroupMe + Skype #frc
  331. Audiences, Fanbases and Communities: Why I probably wouldn't sublet a room to a fellow blog commenter
  332. Happy Birthday Pop: 10 things I remember about my grandfather
  333. Be like the duck: SinglePlatform raises money for paddling #frc
  334. Who the hell is this guy? Thoughts on being a career VC
  335. #S&Pfail
  336. "You can get ransacked from AirBnB" is this year's "You can get fired from blogging"
  337. Who can build the marketing machine?
  338. Love and Startups: What I learned from my best friend's wedding
  339. The Four Hour Charlie #4hb
  340. Live in the problem, not in the solution: How customer development has gone awry
  341. Be a team player, but strive to be the best
  342. School of Self Promotion for Awesome People who Don't Self Promote
  343. Branding and social spaces: Why Google+ misses the mark
  344. Seven Ways to Rock Your Current Job
  345. Productize Yourself
  346. Remake NYC, one app at a time
  347. Why is everyone talking about Turntable.fm?
  348. Why does Gmail hate newsletters? cc @gmail @danprimack @mailchimp
  349. Dinner with Werner Vogels - CTO of the World's Largest Lean Startup
  350. Ignore startup history at your peril
  351. 7 Tips for Building a Strong, Vibrant Network
  352. 25 Things that make hiring technical talent much easier
  353. How to approach an investor at a conference like #tcdisrupt
  354. A Summer Plan for Unemployed New Grads
  355. The Parent Trap: A Response to Bill Keller (@nytkeller) on Twitter and Social Media
  356. Hobbies and Entrepreneurship
  357. Respecting the Craft
  358. The Five Advisors You Meet in the Deadpool
  359. Post Mortem… literally.
  360. How to approach and make an introduction to a VC
  361. How the New York City innovation community can still lose (and what you can do about it)
  362. Raising Money: What are you optimizing for?
  363. Techstars NYC Killed It
  364. Meet Waldo, Head of Corp Dev
  365. Liberal Peanut Butter
  366. Yes People
  367. How to get an exciting job at an awesome startup in less than a month
  368. GroupMe just killed the one way mobile alert: Brands and the mobile conversation
  369. You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger
  370. The Problem with Reinvention
  371. Five reasons why the job space is a bad neighborhood
  372. I'll take "Sticking it to United" for $49. cc @unitedairlines
  373. The Myth of SXSW: Why the conference was, is and always will be about people, not about the next big thing
  374. The bar is higher
  375. Business cards are dead: Send me your card via Hashable at #SXSW
  376. First Round killed it in the press this week
  377. Excited about hackNY’s funding and growth
  378. Oh shit, it’s working: How not to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
  379. Hilarious and awful at the same time
  380. Selling the Future: Create your sales pitch ahead of time
  381. Don't bite the hook
  382. Having the wrong map versus no map at all
  383. Southern Innovation: I’ll be in Miami and Atlanta in the next few weeks
  384. Setting Expectations at Funding
  385. Seven Years in this League
  386. Sun Peeking Through in Vermont
  387. What was I doing at Strata? Are investors really this one dimensional? #strataconf
  388. $30,191
  389. The Last SMS
  390. Startup Recruiting Hacks
  391. NYC Timelapse
  392. My Thoughts on the iPad
  393. Why I’m excited about First Round’s investment in Salescrunch
  394. Will an API propel Quora into the mainstream... and will that suck?
  395. Announcing nextNY Fellows: An Innovation Community Leadership Initiative
  396. Socioeconomic Differences in Talking to Strangers
  397. Looking to buy a new road bike
  398. The Adjacent Possible
  399. 250 Developers
  400. The year ahead: 2011
  401. First Round Capital invests in SinglePlatform
  402. Business Development for Early Stage Startups
  403. Solve Media: Advertising that Makes Sense
  404. Small World
  405. When do you work?
  406. Making the city we want to live in
  407. danah boyd on Craigslist Censorship and Lighting Dark Places
  408. Convertible? Equity? What kind of coin should you use to scratch off a lottery ticket?
  409. Overused Startup Term of the Day: Smart Team
  410. Announcing First Round’s Investment in GroupMe
  411. The Importance of Being Native
  412. Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem
  413. Maximum Impact
  414. Changing the Wrong Ratio
  415. How not to dress like a VC
  416. Startups are Personal
  417. Should every startup get funded?
  418. The best VC networking opportunity ever
  419. Most impressive thing about the Old Spice Guy ads
  420. Daniel Leary on 37Signals, Pricing Business Services vs. Consumption Services, and Getting the customer to invest
  421. Yes, they will meet with you… Just ask
  422. Customer Acquisition is Oxygen to a Startup
  423. Excellent Sheep
  424. Subway Thumbing
  425. The Theory of Foursquare Mayoral Equilibrium
  426. Anthony Casalena: The best web entrepreneur you've never heard of
  427. Give it away! Give it away! Give it away now! Why e-mail newsletters are cool, but not if they’re paid.
  428. Fast Company’s Influence Project and Reputation Racketeering
  429. Multiple passes at the target
  430. Five people that I wish I had something more interesting to say to
  431. Outflanked, Not Outspent: The Real Story of Recruiting for Tech vs Wall St in NYC
  432. The Importance of Boredom
  433. Paul Carr’s Ironic Take on New York
  434. How can we build a culture of responsibility?
  435. Women Need to Loosen Up (Their Networks!)
  436. The Amazing Disappearing Angel Round—and why it’s worth preserving
  437. Introducing Online Marketing School
  438. Logic of the Lemmings: Making sense of the VC pile-ons
  439. You can lead a city government to social media water, but you can’t make it drink: Thoughts on the new Chief Digital Officer position
  440. Disproportionate Risk
  441. VCs pivot, too… First Round Key Hire Wire becomes the Key People Wire and some thoughts on startup hiring
  442. Is Mark Zuckerberg the Howard Roark of the web?
  443. What Diaspora Should Do with their Newfound Fuckyoufacebook Money
  444. How to Hire a Hacker in NYC
  445. Why Product Management is More Like Baking than Cooking
  446. Resigning my Mayorship of the Ace Hotel New York (cc: @theacehotel)
  447. Got the parking spot right in front of the office #frc
  448. Must read startup postmortem from @keithbnowak
  449. No wonder people hate developing for Blackberry
  450. Canned Food Drives, Women, and Tech
  451. Please Welcome Dave Winer (back) to New York
  452. Rethinking Unvarnished
  453. Open Angel Forum NYC Recap
  454. Job Opening: Innovation Community Leaders
  455. Why the Foursquare Acquisition Story Makes No Sense
  456. Rainy Day at the Ace
  457. e(verywhere)-Commerce
  458. Draft Results for the Jesuit Ultimatum
  459. Looking at the World Through Plan-colored Glasses
  460. How to make the best out of an investor meeting (and how to see my free times with Tungle.me)
  461. Don’t Build a Content Ghost Town
  462. Five applications that should be platforms—Dropbox, Eventbrite, Backupify, Tweetdeck, and Squarespace
  463. Everything I didn’t learn about startups as a VC (…or why VCs don’t make good entrepreneurs)
  464. People Recommendation vs. Content Recommendation
  465. Perhaps a slight oversimplification of my job, but I'll take the compliment
  466. A practical guide to a first board meeting: Advice from the pros
  467. Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City
  468. Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – COO, VP of Business Development, Online Marketing Director
  469. The Sleeper Agents of Innovation
  470. Anecdote from an actual turndown note I wrote today
  471. Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering
  472. A tale of two cities: Bewildered by the city government's continued cluelessness on NYC's innovation scene
  473. In Cloud We Trust: First Round invests in Backupify
  474. Pardon our appearance (moving to SquareSpace)
  475. Photo: First Round Capital's new NYC office under construction
  476. Open Angel Forum and The Amazing Disappearing Funding Gap in New York City
  477. Dear MBAs who want to work at startups
  478. BREAKING: iTablet product warnings leaked
  479. Op-Ed Columnist - More (Steve) Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs - NYTimes.com
  480. Entrepreneur-product fit
  481. Why Yelp should pay attention to not shooting itself in the face (and what ripping off Foursquare and taking big money from Elevation mean)
  482. This Week in the NYC Innovation Community – January 18th
  483. The 5 things that startups can learn from Lady Gaga (cc @ladygaga)
  484. This Week in New York Tech - January 11th
  485. Op-Ed Columnist - Who’s Sleeping Now? - NYTimes.com
  486. When do we get item level purchase data on tap?
  487. The Hidden Benefits of Exercise - WSJ.com
  488. What I learned on the First Round Startup Trek
  489. Another VC “things I’d like to fund” list
  490. Twitter Spitter: The problem of autotweets from 3rd party apps and how to solve it
  491. Retraining Wall Street: What you should really be turning bankers into… and how
  492. Any programming n00bs want to learn Python with me and Julie?
  493. Poking the bear - Dear VCs and Angels: Please stop participating in events where people have to pay to meet you
  494. Yay for Platinum Sponsors and Step and Repeats for #shakeshack2
  495. Free Business Plan: How to start a venture capital fund in New York City
  496. Fred on VC Anti-Stealth
  497. Do your people participate?
  498. Rise and Shine: Waking up to the NYC Tech Community
  499. My SXSW 2010 Panel Recommendations
  500. Poking the Bear: The "Misreporting Tech Trends" Drinking Game, brought to you by the NY Times Twitter Coverage
  501. Counterintuitive: We stream because we don't think anyone really cares
  502. Is Gilt for me if I can't dress myself?
  503. LinkedIn doesn't just get smarter, it helps me be a better connector
  504. Pitch me your SXSW panel
  505. Facebook Acquires Friendfeed and Jumps the Shark: Why real time is a Red Herring
  506. Witnessing the Hudson River Crash Live from a Kayak Just Across the River
  507. Triathlon Recap
  508. Coffee Shop Owners Kicking out Laptop Nation is Short-sighted
  509. Whiny WashPost Reporter Needs to Google Better
  510. Bizarro Fundraising: Aim Lower, Raise Less, and Lower Your Valuation
  511. Come see my first triathlon this Sunday!
  512. [Smacks head]
  513. Behind the Scenes Mentoring in Startup Communities
  514. Economic Stimulus for the Worthless Resume
  515. McEnroe Serving World Team Tennis
  516. Why Yelp (...and Every Single Retail Establishment) Should Support Foursquare
  517. 1965 Eldorado
  518. The three types of deals that VCs invest in
  519. The Case for Public Replies on Twitter (... or at least the .@ convention)
  520. Trending down: Popularity lists without filters and reputation are a Twitter cesspool
  521. When will we see the last paid job post?
  522. The Startup Revenue Experiment - Go sell it
  523. Beantown VCs shorting Boston and going long NYC?
  524. Who are all these people?? The human capital locked up in your fans and followers and the potential for recruiting on Twitter and Facebook
  525. Subway Thumbing
  526. The end of the social media consultant?
  527. Why more channels equals more relevance
  528. Big media: You suck at Google
  529. Internet Week NY: Celebrating NYC’s Tech Scene, One Social Media Seminar at a Time (from Amanda Peyton/Save Me From B-School)
  530. No more JAS Mart on 23rd
  531. She dreams in digital: Dating on and off the grid
  532. Venture Realities: Startup financing news from the frontlines
  533. Facebook's latest raise to cash out employees is disgusting
  534. Stop Pitching
  535. Why do I have to be Mr. Pink?
  536. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  537. Brazenly wrong about generations and networking
  538. Be an asskicker
  539. My del.icio.us links
  540. Reblog: The Upsider - Tumblarity goes against the whole reason I started blogging.
  541. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  542. Traceable evidence of your experience... reblogged comment
  543. Why aren't you striving to be a leader in your field?
  544. Jobfail: Why current offerings are failing both the jobseeker and the recruiter
  545. My del.icio.us links
  546. Any guess whose kid has the next unwanted pregnancy in North Carolina?
  547. Accident outside my apartment window
  548. Free breakfast from Transportation Alternatives every Friday in May
  549. Foggy GWB
  550. Mayday! Mayday! Is your career is going down (or sideways...) Take part in Path 101's "Career Mayday" and get help from experts and professionals
  551. Design or accident: How did Tumblr become Tumblr?
  552. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  553. Path 101 acquisitions
  554. Path 101: Mint.com for your career
  555. Why is does the black guy have a giraffe neck?
  556. I'm thinking she died for a reason...
  557. My del.icio.us links
  558. When did your investors start using your service?
  559. Slanket Zealotry
  560. 5 things I learned at Social Foo
  561. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  562. My del.icio.us links
  563. In and Out
  564. Spectrum of Online Friendship
  565. San Fran Marina
  566. My del.icio.us links
  567. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  568. Campbell Hall rising above Martyrs at Rose Hill
  569. New School Protesters: Your Occupation of Fail is Complete
  570. Holiday hangover
  571. 50's Vette
  572. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  573. Thoughts on the 2010 Taurus
  574. Live at Ford Taurus Roundtable Dinner to see the 2010
  575. Path 101 is hiring a developer: What we want out of both the person and the resume...and who we are.
  576. EnergyHub: The coolest NYC company you've probably never heard of raises money
  577. My Twitter BFFs
  578. a lifetime burning in every moment
  579. The speech the NAA should hear « BuzzMachine
  580. Does anyone on this train speak jive?
  581. Capitalization aside, a really thoughtful comment from Jeremy on utility
  582. Is the American Dream of home ownership all wrong for us?
  583. My Fantasy Draft Results
  584. Trading software for the PR exchange: How to get pitches out of the dark ages
  585. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  586. SlideFail: Making fun of yourself: Ok. Getting your users to embarrass themselves in front of their own networks: Not cool.
  587. My del.icio.us links
  588. My del.icio.us links
  589. Who is teaching young entrepreneurs in NYC? Getting NYC educators interested in entrepreneurship together.
  590. Recession Job hunting: Michael Spafferty's Video Resume | Unemploymentality
  591. My del.icio.us links
  592. My del.icio.us links
  593. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  594. My del.icio.us links
  595. The most trivial thing I am world class at...
  596. Fifty People, One Question: Brooklyn
  597. Why cover letters don't matter
  598. My del.icio.us links
  599. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  600. My del.icio.us links
  601. How to fix the economy: Media manipulation and a misinformation campaign
  602. How the Tumblr party and Gary Vee got SXSW's its groove back
  603. My del.icio.us links
  604. Launchcakes
  605. The gray cloud that ate Austin: Where's the amazing at SXSW '09?
  606. My del.icio.us links
  607. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  608. Attracting a CTO to your startup
  609. My del.icio.us links
  610. And people say that Twitter has meaningless crap... what about TechMeme?
  611. 10 Ways to Improve Your Startup Pitch
  612. My del.icio.us links
  613. My del.icio.us links
  614. Is school worth it? Is your school worth it?
  615. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  616. Dear Mayor Bloomberg, NYCEDC, Department of Small Business Services, City Council, etc...
  617. My del.icio.us links
  618. The Pastore-Suh Wedding at Ceiba Del Mar in Puerto Morelos, Mexico
  619. Good idea/bad idea from Reid Hoffman
  620. Skittles.com is the worst thing to ever happen to social media branding
  621. My del.icio.us links
  622. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  623. The greatest trick Web 2.0 ever pulled was convincing the world it ever existed
  624. My del.icio.us links
  625. My del.icio.us links
  626. Mission Accomplished? I guess George Kliavkoff was wrong about NBC
  627. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  628. Tech people can't sell
  629. Subway Thumbing
  630. Ted talk: Barry Schwartz: The real crisis? We stopped being wise
  631. Facebook owns me. Yawn.
  632. Viagra.
  633. '64 Land Rover
  634. Please make sure your cookies are enabled
  635. A Spec for the Social Feed Reader
  636. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  637. Bad Guys, Good Conversation
  638. 5 years and counting...
  639. My del.icio.us links
  640. My Appearance on Brian Lehrer's Show on CUNY TV 75
  641. When I started using the Internet - Prodigy
  642. My del.icio.us links
  643. What does the self organization of nextNY mean for professional societies?
  644. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  645. My del.icio.us links
  646. My del.icio.us links
  647. 1970 Chevy Monte Carlo
  648. Why no Kindle ad platform?
  649. Why Be a Nation of Mortgage Slaves? - WSJ.com
  650. My del.icio.us links
  651. Music sales down? Gee... I wonder why?
  652. My del.icio.us links
  653. Good riddance to Arrington: Mike, you will not be missed.
  654. Your own body: An entrepreneur's most valuable asset
  655. My del.icio.us links
  656. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  657. Snuggie, Slanket, Freedom Blanket? Why marketing is so important
  658. My del.icio.us links
  659. The Watchmen Trailer
  660. My del.icio.us links
  661. In this economy, we're all entrepreneurs
  662. Heath Bell: "I'd hate to have to wear a coat and tie."
  663. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  664. Umair is wrong: Entrepreneurs are the problem, not VCs
  665. Will NYC be Pittsburgh or be Detroit?
  666. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  667. My del.icio.us links
  668. Social Tolerance and the Pursuit of Quality Time
  669. Anyone seen a daddy?
  670. My del.icio.us links
  671. I ran 4 miles today and biked almost 10... and I'm paying your medical bills. You're welcome.
  672. Pink Skull Hat
  673. Securing and backing up my online bits
  674. I want my face on my next cake
  675. My del.icio.us links
  676. My del.icio.us links
  677. My del.icio.us links
  678. My recent tracks on Last.fm
  679. My del.icio.us links
  680. Salesforce Professional: Not so "full-powered"
  681. My del.icio.us links
  682. Op-Ed Columnist - A President Forgotten but Not Gone - NYTimes.com
  683. Daniel Tosh... This guy is hilarious... and pure evil.
  684. How to get a job in 2009
  685. My del.icio.us links
  686. My del.icio.us links
  687. Crowdsourced 2009 Predictions
  688. Spinach Pie