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I'm Running for the New York Tech Meetup Board

This is going to be BIG.

I was one of the first 100 members, dating back to February 2005. I was also part of the original New York Tech Meetup board and participated on it until last year. I offered to step aside to bring a few more faces onto the board last year. I’m just as familiar with the New York Tech Meetup as anyone.

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Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform

TechCrunch

It’s a chess server, forum and networking site that launched in 2005, with premium subscription that ranges between $5 a month or $29 a year. And that helps us indirectly because chess has been recognized for centuries as a nexus for intelligence and creativity.”. The product will be available to the public by the end of month.

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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

I''m super proud of Rob, Ben and the whole Backupify team--and this is particularly special for me because Backupify was the first investment I ever made as a VC, and the first board I ever sat on. We stayed in touch and I got to know a bunch of the Louisville startup and creative crew, like Todd Earwood, Matt Winn, and Ashley Cecil.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry.

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7 Simple Reasons Your Social Posts Are Falling Flat

StartupNation

You’re not using the right creative. One of the biggest reasons that many social media posts fail is simply due to the lack of interesting content or creativity. Your community is the best sounding board for trying out different types of content. Today, the creative type that seems to dominate the most is video.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

It has the diversity and cheaper rent necessary for great creative potential and I think you're going to see a lot of development next year of Brooklyn as its own unique, but complimentary community of innovation. We're negatively focused on the problems of specific stakeholders (not enough X.)

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When Should You Allow Exclusivity in Deals?

Both Sides of the Table

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006.