Kills Zones And Venture Funding
There is a debate going on about the impact of Facebook, Google, and Amazon’s growing dominance on the consumer internet on the supply of venture capital to entrepreneurs. Facebook funded this report that was published back in July and concluded [...] Read more
Bluetooth Everywhere
We checked into a hotel today and next to the desk in our room was a block of USB ports to charge our phones with and a Bluetooth button. I pushed the button and my phone paired with the room. [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: Nadia Boujarwah on Positively Gotham Gal
Nadia Boujarwah is the co-founder and CEO of our portfolio company Dia & Co . She dropped by the Gotham Gal’s offices last week and they recorded a conversation about starting an apparel business in the competitive online commerce sector. Here [...] Read more
TxTenna Is Live
I wrote about something called TxTenna back in May. It is a way to move Bitcoin from one wallet to another without needing to be connected to the Internet. Well TxTenna is now live and if you want to see [...] Read more
Pixelated
Google had its big event yesterday and announced two new Pixel phones, the Pixel 3 and the Pixel 3XL. I’ve been using Google phones for quite a while now, first the Nexus phones and now the Pixel phones. I love [...] Read more
CSforAll Summit
There has been a movement growing in K12 public education around the US over the last decade to get computer science into the K12 curriculum and into all schools and in front of all students. The name this movement has [...] Read more
Retail Space Available
A friend of mine told me last weekend that he thinks the two biggest issues in NYC right now are the rise of homelessness and the proliferation of vacant retail spaces. One is about not having a space to live [...] Read more
Fully Diluted Market Value
When someone asks you how much of a company you own, the answer could be two very different numbers. You might own 10,000 shares and there might be 1mm shares issued and outstanding. That would suggest you own 1% of [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: Rebecca Kaden on Twenty Minute VC
My partner Rebecca Kaden was on the Twenty Minute VC podcast last week. Once you get past the 3:20 mins of audio ad readouts (I advise to fast forward through them), she talks about areas in e-commerce that are possibly [...] Read more