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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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...