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Archive for March, 2007

Three Social Networking Startups: RevCat, YourLocal, CollectorsQuest

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

I was a judge tonight at an event sponsored by the MIT Enterprise Forum-NY, presentations by three social networking companies. (Sponsor: Fish & Richardson P.C.) The other judges:
- Steve Brotman, Managing Director, Greenhill SAVP
- Jim Coleman, President & Certified Facilitator -The Alternative Board - Chelsea New York
- Russ Fein, Managing Director, Corporate Fuel Partners
- Lori [...]

Collaborative investing

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Via the Nitron Circle of Experts blog:
The team from AQ Research (at whose conference I”ll be speaking tomorrow in London) has written a blog post about an idea I”ve chewed on for a while: ‘A Marketplace for Research’.
There are a number of gross inefficiencies in the current research business, and inefficiencies are usually [...]

Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

If you”re having trouble understanding why and how it’’s become normative for the broadband generation (12-24) to document their lives online, I recommend Emily Nussbaum‘’s Say Everything in New York magazine.
My favorite section is from Clay Shirky of NYU, who has an amazing gift for metaphor:
Shirky describes this generational shift in terms [...]