Blog Profile / A VC
| URL : | http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Business & Finance / Venture Capital | |
| Posts on Regator: | 2090 | |
| Posts / Week: | 7.8 | |
| Archived Since: | April 5, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Video Of The Week: My Talk With Arrington
I talked to Mike Arrington this past week at TechCrunch Disrupt. We covered some fun topics, most of which will be well known to the AVC community. It's just shy of 30mins.
Feature Friday: Hack Your Home Screen
I was hanging with Gabriel Weinberg, founder and CEO of our portfolio company DuckDuckGo yesterday. I was lamenting that I could not replace the Google search widget at the top of my android home screen with the DuckDuckGo search widget....
Good Things Come to Those Who Code Campaign Wrapup
The widget came down on Tuesday night at midnight. The DonorsChoose campaign I called Good Things Come To Those Who Code is over. Here are some stats: Total Raised: $25,172 Donors: 162 Students Helped: 8,551 I really appreciate the generosity...
Mentoring At AFSE
When I've written posts about the stuff I and others are working on to bring more computer science into the K-12 school system, I often hear "let me know how I can help." This post is about how you can...
We Didn't Know What We Had
I sat next to Jim Cramer last night at a dinner put on by some mutual friends. I hadn't seen Jim in a while so it was a great opportunity to take a trip down memory lane. In 1996 or...
Because It's Standard
Case studies are true stories that teach lessons. And one of the great lessons I got in my career was care of a lawyer named Morty. This is a reblog of a post I wrote in Feb 2007. I thought...
From DonorsChoose To Kickstarter
In the wake of my Return and Ridicule post, I was asked how one goes about finding these services that are ignored and/or ridiculed. And the answer I gave was "if you use them you might realize how powerful they...
Video Of The Week: Parrot AR Drone
I bought one of these on amazon at the suggestion of Laurent Eschenauer in yesterday's comment thread. I can feel my 14 year old self re-emerging. I can't wait to play with it. If you want to skip the unboxing...
Fun Friday: What Would You Use A Drone For?
In my talk yesterday at Princeton, we got to discussing drones. A young woman asked me what I would use a drone for. My answer was dry cleaning runs. I want to hand my drone the week's dry cleaning, have...
Return and Ridicule
I am going down to Princeton today to talk to Ed Zschau's class on entrepreneurship today. Ed asked me what I wanted to talk about. I told him "return and ridicule". I have found that return and ridicule are highly...
TEALS Update
Regular readers will recall this great program called TEALS that I've blogged about a few times that brings software engineers into schools to teach CS classes before they go to work. We have hosted two information sessions that have attracted...
Immigration Reform
For those who watched the talk I did with Paul Smalera, some of this will be redundant. Paul asked me why we haven't gotten all of these "no brainer" immigration reform proposals like the startup visa (funded entrepreneurs get to...
You Are Working Too Hard And Not Getting Anywhere
Continuing the case method on MBA Mondays, I am going to tell a story about a business model pivot that was not a full business pivot. In the lull between Flatiron and Union Square Ventures, I made a few angel...
Online Learning and Higher Ed
Clayton Christensen's views on this topic were on display yesterday in the video of the week. For a different take on this topic, read AJ Jacobs' tale of a semester of online learning in todays' NY Times. I laid out...
Video Of The Week: Mark Suster Interview of Clayton Christensen
Great interview by Mark of one of my favorite thinkers.
Where Do You Go For Breaking News?
I am not calling this fun friday, because what is going on in Boston right now is dead serious. I am hanging out on Twitter, following a few people who are tweeting out the latest news coming out of Boston....
Evidence On Our Smartphones
This line in the New York Times this morning is interesting: investigators scrutinized scores of videos and photographs from surveillance cameras from nearby businesses, as well as from marathon spectators’ smartphones and television crews that were filming the Boston Marathon...
Bluetooth
I have written about Bluetooth before. I am very bullish on Bluetooth even though its an old protocol that has its challenges. It may not be as potent as Airplay and DLNA but I feel like its ubiquity and familiarity...
The Boston Marathon Bombing
I don't have a lot to say about what happened in Boston yesterday. But I do want to acknowledge it. I agree that we should keep calm and carry on. After 9/11, the Gotham Gal made our family get on...
Tenacity And Persistence Pays Off
Continuing the theme of case studies for MBA Mondays, I want to use a milestone that was passed last night to make a bigger point about startups. I have known Scott Heiferman since the late 90s. He was one of...