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The Crypto Explorers community was seeded right here on AVC . It is a community of over 200 people who are working in the crypto sector, interested in the crypto sector, and/or are invested in the crypto sector. They have [...]  Read more

On the west side of Manhattan, from the west village, where we live, to the Javits Center on 34th Street and the west side highway, runs an abandoned elevated train track called The Highline. Eleven years ago, the Gotham Gal [...]  Read more

The New York Times is reporting that Amazon has officially chosen NYC and DC as the locations for its big planned expansion , known as HQ2. This is big news for NYC, as I wrote about last week . I [...]  Read more

I keep little things that remind me of events over my career in venture capital. And I have been doing that for most of those thirty plus years. I keep them on a bookshelf I have in my office at [...]  Read more

The Gotham Gal and I are investors in Blueprint Power , a company that helps landlords turn their buildings into mini power plants. Robyn Beavers, the CEO of Blueprint, was on the Gotham Gal’s podcast this past week. They talked [...]  Read more

Malls need anchor tenants. These are the stores that bring the folks to the mall so that they can discover all of the other amazing places to shop that sit between the big tenants. Cities need the same. Particularly cities [...]  Read more

I blogged about this in the spring of 2017 but I am back with more. TYWLS stands for The Young Women’s Leadership School, which is located in Astoria Queens in NYC. A few years ago the students decides to show [...]  Read more

Today is Election Day. Polls are open in every state in the US. It is time to stop the incessant back and forth, and do the one thing that counts – voting. There is very little on my ballot here [...]  Read more