Category Archives: Business

On Sam Lessin and Email

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

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!!!

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

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

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

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

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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NYTech Meetup, The January Edition

Image by Marco Arment via Flickr Alright people, the New York Tech Meetup in ~4000 Words:
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The Paper!

Paper is below.  trust me, you want it this way.  If you feel like the thesis is weak, so do I.  I also know that I went way over the 5 page limit double spaced…
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The pre paper post

Originally it came with whole lots of warnings.  No I’m not happy with it.  It’s hard to write when you are hiding yourself, and have a page limit for a difficult question.  I really wanted a lot of time to explain myself (such a me thing).  I feel like I really do need to write [...]
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