Category Archives: Business

Sometimes, get a friend to review a product

By Shana | Published: August 1, 2010
So, the last big player of last months (Gasp!) New York Tech meetup just came back from San Diego, Comixology.  Interestingly, so did my friend.  He’s in the middle of selling off all of his old school stock of his (now closed *sob*) comic book store at Comic-Con San Diego!  (hence the San Diego Connection) [...]
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A study in Contrasts

By Shana | Published: July 19, 2010
From the New York Tech meetup, Jetsetter and Stuffbuff are a study in contrasts. Jetsetter is the travel emails/section of Gilt Groupe.  They tract purchases, clickthrough, types of photos, everything.  And it is an up front purchase and an experience they control.  They choose lux places, they control the prices, the photos, everything.  it looks [...]
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Some websites are actually impossible to judge

By Shana | Published: July 14, 2010
Dear All,   There is a website category  out there that is impossible to judge.  This category: Dating websites.  For someone out there, even the most craptastic dating website is perfect.  Even the worst dating website probably caused a couple or two, who are out there, happy.  For them, it was perfect, a match made [...]
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On Sam Lessin and Email

By Shana | Published: July 8, 2010
Sam Lessin, of Drop.Io fame and fortune,  has built on top of drop.io (if I had to guess) a service that allows you to charge to send emails.  Sam’s a smart guy.  One of the few in NY who I can honestly say is well thought out.  We’re in a minor disagreement over a very [...]
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Oh The Lateness for the #NYTM

By Shana | Published: July 5, 2010
And I lost the first version too.   Inexcusable.  It didn’t help that I was burnt out and sick either.   The June NYTM everyone:   SnackSquare- They track your checkins.  And then they send you the possibilities for coupons if you checkin somewhere near by.  Umm- this is SMS spam.  A very new kind [...]
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May #NYTM The Review!!!

By Shana | Published: May 11, 2010
Image by froboy via Flickr Note: after this point- we’re Moving in with NYU.  See you downtown.   GoodCrush’s RandomDorm (yes I was able to test this)- A) Still isn’t working for me.  Though I may retest, I can’t tell if this is a multi-tab eater thing.  Or it may be a University of Chicago [...]
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The New York Tech MeetUp- The March Edition

By Shana | Published: March 10, 2010
Image by ShanaLC via Flickr I know it is late.  I’ve had a humongously amazing, yet busy week. (and I don’t normally talk like that)  I feel so thankful that I am finally really starting to become less shy with people in the NY Tech Community.  Everyone I am meeting has been wonderful.  Y’all are [...]
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On Venture Capital, Aliya, And Israel

By Shana | Published: February 12, 2010
Image via Wikipedia One note about this post: Disqus allows me to keep a heavy eye on you all.  I’m not out to have a politics here or politics there talk.  This is not a YAY ISREAL or a BOOO ISRAEL post.  My politics are my politics and they are shaped by my experiences and [...]
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The IPad UI stupidity

By Shana | Published: January 27, 2010
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Even though I don’t really care one way or another about whether I’m blogging about what everyone else is blogging about, after seeing pictures and having to deal with weeks of (over)-hype: With all due respect to the Blogosphere, Mr. Steve Jobs, and Apple Inc., that IPad looks like [...]
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FailProduct: Mendeley

By Shana | Published: January 19, 2010
Image by quinn.anya via Flickr This is one of those products which makes me so sad.  It actually could be a really useful product. As soon as I saw it, I realized why college is so depressing when it comes to research.  it’s because no matter what you do, the stuff out there, sucks. Part [...]
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