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Investment Type: Venture Capital
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| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.06.2020 | Funding Friday: Bail Funds | The Gotham Gal and I have been donating to bail funds for a while now. This Positively Gotham Gal podcast from April 2019 with Robin Steinberg of The Bail Project is a great education into the bail system and why it is so problematic. Now, ... |
| 06.05.2020 | AVC Comments Migration Complete | Back when we launched the new AVC (AVC 3.0) and moved away from the Disqus comment system, I heard loudly and clearly that the folks who have left comments here at AVC, via Disqus, from 2007 to early 2020, would like to have their comments ... |
| 15.12.2019 | Having Kids | Paul Graham wrote a blog post this week about having kids. I read it with interest because I have long noticed that having kids has had a profound and positive effect on Paul. So I was interested in what he had to say on the topic. I am not... |
| 13.12.2019 | Funding Friday: Current Events Crossword Puzzles | I backed this project for the Gotham Gal because she is a crossword fiend. |
| 16.10.2019 | Bearing Witness | Normally when we travel, The Gotham Gal posts about the things we do. She is a way better travel blogger than I am. But today we did something that I want to talk a bit about. We visited the Auschwitz concentration camps in southern Poland.... |
| 10.10.2019 | Heading East | The Gotham Gal and I are heading to Europe for a couple of weeks of vacation. I will not be working the next two weeks but do plan to blog about whatever is on my mind. The Gotham Gal, as is her custom, will blog about the various fun thing... |
| 12.05.2019 | Repost: The Maternal Instinct | I wrote this three years ago, on Mothers Day, and I remembered it this morning. So I am reposting it. Happy Mothers Day to all of the mothers out there. It’s Mothers Day, a time to celebrate motherhood and moms. I woke up thinking about the... |
| 17.02.2019 | The Convergence Of The Phone And Laptop | The Gotham Gal wanted to get a new laptop. Her late 2015 Macbook has started to fade on her. So yesterday we made a visit to the local Apple Store and checked out the options. We looked at the Macbooks, the Macbook Airs, and we also looked ... |
| 15.11.2018 | Welcoming Dia&Co to USV | Today, Dia&Co announced their Series C round, which we recently led out of our Opportunity Fund. The crux of USV’s Thesis 3.0 is about backing trusted brands that broaden access, and this is exactly what Dia is doing. Dia is a commerce... |
| 08.10.2018 | Retail Space Available | A friend of mine told me last weekend that he thinks the two biggest issues in NYC right now are the rise of homelessness and the proliferation of vacant retail spaces. One is about not having a space to live and the other is about a glut o... |
| 04.10.2018 | Gotham Gal Turns Fifteen | 2003 was a fertile year for both of us as I started blogging in late September and Joanne picked it up on her birthday a few weeks later. I’m not the only one in this family who blogs every day. It’s incredibly hard to do that. Trust me, I ... |
| 27.05.2018 | Commencement | I looked up the definition of the word commencement and it includes starting something and also the conferring of diplomas. Those seem like two different things. The start of something and the completion of something. But maybe they are the... |
| 17.05.2018 | What's Going On? | A lot, to be honest. It’s Crypto Week in NYC this week. The last two weeks have been a blur, with so many things happening that I can’t keep up or write about all of them. But, here are a few 1/ The Rockets ended the sweep nonsense talk goi... |
| 31.10.2017 | Reaction Commerce raises $8.5 million for a new soup-to-nuts e-commerce software | Sara Hicks and Aaron Judd, the two co-founders of Santa Monica, Calif.-based Reaction Commerce, didn’t set out to build a new e-commerce management software toolkit when they crossed paths at Science, the LA-based venture studio. Instead, t... |
| 16.10.2017 | Southeast Asia | We spent the last nine days in Southeast Asia, in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. If you want the play by play version of our trip, head on over to the Gotham Gal’s blog where she does that and has has done for every trip we’ve taken over the ... |
| 11.03.2017 | Audio Of The Week: Amanda Kludt and Eater | The Gotham Gal‘s first angel investment, back in 2007, was Curbed, a network of three lifestyle blogs; Curbed, Eater, and Racked, all of which have become “must reads” in their categories (respectively real estate, food/dining, and shopping... |
| 06.03.2017 | Code To Success | Five years ago this month, we were recruiting the first class of students to enter The Academy For Software Engineering (AFSE), NYC’s first public high school dedicated to studying software engineering. A lot has happened in those five year... |
| 03.03.2017 | Funding Friday: The Ollie Chair | The Gotham Gal is an investor and Board member of Rock Paper Robot, which designs and manufactures furniture for modern living environments. Their newest design, The Ollie Chair, is coming to market this year and they are running a Kickstar... |
| 02.03.2017 | HowGood raises $4.2 million to guide shoppers to products that match their values | Millennial consumers care about the sustainability of what they buy more than any other generation that came before them. This point is illustrated in studies from Pew Research, Clemson University and Nielsen, to name a few. Now, a New York... |
| 30.01.2017 | AVC, Gotham Gal, and Feld Thoughts Communities Rally $100,000+ For The ACLU | Reposted from Feld.com Sunday morning Fred Wilson put up the following blog post: A $20,000 Match Offer On ACLU Donations Today. Joanne Wilson put up a similar post titled A $20,000 Match Offer On ACLU Donations Today on her blog. It came a... |
| 19.11.2016 | Audio Of The Week: Positively Gotham Gal | Back in 2005 and 2006, The Gotham Gal and I did a weekly podcast called Positively 10th Street. At the time we lived in a townhouse on 10th Street in Greenwich Village and we would record it in our kitchen with our kids participating from t... |
| 06.06.2016 | Second and Third Tier Markets And Beyond | I am in Nashville for a couple days with The Gotham Gal who is giving a keynote at a startup conference today. I mostly came along for a chance to spend a couple days in Nashville. But I will also be at the conference later today to see her... |
| 08.05.2016 | The Maternal Instinct | It’s Mothers Day, a time to celebrate motherhood and moms. I woke up thinking about the maternal instinct and it’s effect on business. I was talking to a friend last night about the challenges of working on troubled or failed investments. W... |
| 24.03.2016 | Path Forward | Our portfolio company Return Path built a “returnship” program a few years ago to help stay at home moms and other men and women who have left the work force to take care of children, sick parents, etc figure out how to get back into the wo... |
| 09.02.2016 | The Crunchies | I went to the Crunchies last night for the first time. The Gotham Gal was nominated for “Angel Investor Of The Year” and she said, “If by some chance I win and I’m not there to accept, then I would be a jerk.” I agreed with that logic and s... |
| 28.01.2016 | What Women Want | When building a company, there’s a lot entrepreneurs want – capital, resources, advice. But business partners Joanne Wilson and Susan Solomon say there’s one thing female entrepreneurs want more than anything. “Women are hungry to hear the ... |
| 27.01.2016 | Meet The Competitors Vying For The Crunchie For Angel Investor Of The Year | We’re getting ready for the 9th Annual Crunchies here at TechCrunch, where some of the brightest startups, companies and leaders hope to win the coveted Crunchie award in one of the 12 categories up for grabs. Among that mix are those who w... |
| 25.12.2015 | Merry Christmas Everyone | It’s Christmas Day, a holiday in much of the world and one of the biggest religious days of the year. We are spending it with family and friends on a beach in the caribbean. I hope that all of you are spending the day with friends and famil... |
| 03.12.2015 | WE Festival 2016 | The sixth annual WE Festival will take place in NYC on April 13th and 14th 2016. The Gotham Gal has built this event into the premier networking and learning event for women entrepreneurs. After five years of doing it in partnership with NY... |
| 01.12.2015 | Daily funding roundup - December 1, 2015 | AppDynamics raised $158M; Symic secured $25M; Deskbookers announced $1.6M funding Deskbookers, an online platform for booking work and meeting spaces, today announced that it has secured $1.6 million in seed funding from Point Nine Capital ... |
| 22.06.2015 | Technology In Istanbul | The Gotham Gal and I are winding up a four day weekend in Istanbul. She likes to blog about the places we go and things we do so if you want to read about all that visit her blog. I expect the posts on her blog will be all about Istanbul fo... |
| 20.06.2015 | Video Of The Week: Gotham Gal at Columbia | Last month the Gotham Gal gave a keynote at the Columbia University’s #StartupColumbia Festival. Here it is. It’s also our 28th wedding anniversary today. We are celebrating it in Istanbul. Off to the Grand Bazaar to work on our negotiating... |
| 16.06.2015 | ‘La Ruche Qui Dit Oui’ Scores $9 Million From USV And Felix Capital For Its Local Food Marketplace | Forget about your supermarket and buy directly from your local farmers and foodmakers. French startup La Ruche qui dit oui (also known as The Food Assembly in the U.K.) has been making waves in its home country for a while now. But it seems... |
| 07.06.2015 | Convertible Notes- The Phillips Screwdriver of Startup Financing Instruments | Contrary to what you might think, convertible notes have been around for a long time in early stage tech financing. What’s different today is that Y Combinator popularized it several years ago and since then, we’ve seen seed stage funding e... |
| 18.05.2015 | Women Entrepreneurs | There is gender bias in the startup sector. Anyone who believes otherwise has their head in the sand. And yet there are vast numbers of women entrepreneurs out there. The Gotham Gal has been profiling one a week on her blog (Women Entrepren... |
| 13.05.2015 | 25 hot Los Angeles startups you need to watch | Los Angeles may be a few hundred miles south of Silicon Valley, but it’s a hub brimming with up-and-coming tech startups. We’ve compiled a list of 25 of the hottest startups in the Los Angeles area. To do so, we spoke with investors, employ... |
| 09.04.2015 | VCs as Gas Stations | I was at an event the Gotham Gal had last night for her portfolio. I was asked a number of times “when is the best time to raise money?”. In general, I believe the best time to take money is when it is being offered. To some extent, VCs are... |
| 11.03.2015 | A Comprehensive List of Women Investors Who Blog | I've recently come across an interesting list that includes women investors with awesome blogs. The list was curated by Joshua Henderson, VP of Springboard, after CB Insights released its Periodic Table of VC Bloggers where only five of the... |
| 11.01.2015 | Ethics and Morals | At the end of the Berlin talk I posted yesterday, there was a question about ethics. It was directed at startups and how they build a culture of ethical behavior. But ethics and morals is an issue that extends beyond startups. It is an issu... |
| 08.01.2015 | Startup to Watch at CES: A Chat with Captureproof’s CEO Meghan Conroy | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Medical diagnosis may get more mobile and visual through Captureproof’s app. The San Francisco-based startup is trying to reduce the need for patients to see their doctors in ... |
| 29.12.2014 | Some Thoughts On Founder Liquidity | I saw a post last week that suggested that VCs competing to win deals is leading to excess amounts of founder liquidity. We haven’t seen that sort of thing to be honest. It may happen but it is certainly not rampant. I also saw this tweet f... |
| 02.10.2014 | Lynxsy Launches A Mobile Recruitment App For Job Hunters | With planned layoffs sinking to a 14-year low and employment surging, the job market in America seems to have finally crawled back from the darkest days of the Great Recession. And as the jobs market heats up, a whole host of apps have laun... |
| 28.09.2014 | It's A Wrap | The six week break I took from work is ending. The trip through Europe is over. We landed back in the US on friday night and drove up to our kids’ college yesterday for homecoming/parents weekend. It was great to see our kids (two of them) ... |
| 07.09.2014 | Documenting A Trip | I’ve always liked the idea of documenting a trip, leaving breadcrumbs for others to follow, or at least consider as they are planning a similar trip. The Gotham Gal and I do it very differently but we both do it. She writes a blog post, cho... |
| 03.09.2014 | Reblog: How To Calculate A Return On Investment | It turns out this is one of my most viewed posts of all time. I guess that’s a good thing. So I’m reblogging it today. ————————- The Gotham Gal and I make a fair number of non-tech angel investments. Things like media, food products, restau... |
| 25.08.2014 | Dream, Girl | For the past four years, The Gotham Gal and her friend Nancy Hechinger have been running a conference called The Women’s Entrepreneur Festival. The goal of the conference is to showcase successful women entrepreneurs to other women. As Mari... |
| 13.04.2014 | A WordPress Plugin For A Books List? | The Gotham Gal moved to WordPress this week. I mentioned it in a post mid week. She maintains a book list on her blog. She’s a huge reader, at least a couple books a week, many times more than that. And she lists her favorite reads for all ... |
| 09.04.2014 | Gotham Gal 3.0 | The Gotham Gal has followed me from TypePad to WordPress and given her blog a refresh. Check it out here. We both use the same designer, Nathan Bowers, so our blogs have always had a similar look and feel. They look even more similar now, p... |
| 04.03.2014 | The Pro-Rata Participation Right | I’ve touched on this subject before. It is one the “three things you must have in a venture investment“. The “pro-rata right” is the right to continue to participate in future rounds so that you can maintain your ownership. Let’s make it co... |
| 27.01.2014 | Humans Of New York | I have a new favorite blog and I thought I’d share it with all of you. I found it via the Gotham Gal’s blog (which in and of itself is kind of embarassing. We sleep together and I found this via her blog). It’s called Humans Of New York. I ... |
| 14.01.2014 | Women Entrepreneurs Festival 2014 | The fourth annual Womens Entrepreneur Festival starts this evening and continues all day tomorrow. The Gotham Gal and her friend Nancy Hechinger, who is on the faculty at NYU’s ITP program, are the founders and festival chairs. The goal of ... |
| 03.01.2014 | My First Investment | Brad Feld told the story of his first VC investment (after making 40 angel investments) on his blog yesterday. The Gotham Gal told the story of her first angel investment on her blog today. I was involved in both stories and both investment... |
| 31.12.2013 | It's A Wrap | The Gotham Gal ends 2013 looking into the future and thinking about how her porfolio companies will grow next year. I am similarly minded as we wrap 2013. I am excited about 2014, and in particular the big opportunities that await many of o... |
| 27.12.2013 | The Purity Of Angel Investing | Though I have made a few angel investments here and there over the years, it has never been my primary approach to investing in startups. I joined a venture capital firm when I was 25 years old and have been working at a venture capital fir... |
| 23.09.2013 | Turning Ten | Ten years ago today I set up a TypePad account and started writing online. That first post was not much, other than the start of a habit that has transformed my life and my career. The early years were all over the place. I would write abou... |
| 27.08.2013 | Red Burns | Back in 2008, when I gave my talk at Web 2.0 on the recent history of the NYC tech sector, I said that Red Burns was responsible for restarting the tech sector in NYC when she created ITP at NYU in the late 70s. The entire slide show for th... |
| 15.08.2013 | Mobile Greeting Cards App Red Stamp Acquired By The Occasions Group | Minneapolis-based Red Stamp, a social commerce company best known for its mobile greeting cards app which competes with the likes of Apple’s Cards app, Sincerely, and Shutterfly’s Treat, among others, has been acquired by Taylor Corporation... |
| 12.06.2013 | AR Drone - The Maiden Voyage | I wrote about drones a while back and as part of my exploration of them, I bought an AR Drone on Amazon. It was shipped to my office for some reason and sat there for about a month as I normally cycle or scooter home. But yesterday I decide... |
| 22.11.2012 | Giving Thanks | As is my tradition on this day every year, I just want to say thanks to everyone who makes my life what it is. – My family led by the incredible Gotham Gal, who as JLM would say, "never met a to do list she couldn't master". – My ... |
| 01.11.2012 | Status Update | The Gotham Gal and I have received countless messages from many of you wishing us well and volunteering all sorts of things. We even were offered use of a 3400 sf apartment on the upper west side! It is very gratifying to know that so many ... |
| 29.10.2012 | Gotham Gal pushes next wave of female entrepreneurs forward | Joanne Wilson puts a distinctly feminine spin on angel investing. A majority of her investments are in female-founded companies, and she picks businesses that appeal to a female market. Joanne and her husband, Fred, a partner at Union Squar... |
| 29.10.2012 | Gotham Gal pushes next wave of female entrepreneurs forward | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Joanne Wilson puts a distinctly feminine spin on ... |
| 13.09.2012 | Wireless Charging | The Gotham Gal wrote a post on monday in her Woman Entrepreneur Mondays series on Elizabeth Ormesher who is building a startup called Everpurse. She is starting with a Kickstarter project and attempting to raise $100,000. Here's the video e... |
| 08.09.2012 | Convertible Debt | Back in the summer of 2010, I wrote a post outlining why I don't like convertible debt investments. USV does a fair bit of seed investing and we have never done a convertible debt deal (although we have done bridge loans for our existing po... |
| 30.07.2012 | Videolicious Relaunches Its App For Mobile Video Editing, Raises $1.4 Million From Amazon And Others | Last year, we wrote about an app called Videolicious designed to quickly let users create videos without having any editing expertise. The startup has been refining its app since then, and just released a new version to improve automatic vi... |
| 30.07.2012 | Videolicious Raises $1.4M to Give Everyone The Power to Pitch | Just about everything online these days, be it products or services, comes with a video either explaining, selling or showcasing. All those videos have to get made somehow, and there’s no way, both in terms of budget and in terms of availab... |
| 15.06.2012 | Fun Friday: The AVC Book Club | We talked about books last December on AVC. It was a good one. RichardF suggested in wednesday's disqussion that we talk about books again. He's going on vacation and so am I and we both need some good books to read. I will kick this off. I... |
| 29.05.2012 | Gawk.it | AVC community member Kevin Marshall is the consummate hacker. I can’t count all the stuff Kevin has hacked on since I’ve known of him over the years. And I’ve tried many of them. A few weeks ago, Kevin emailed me with his latest, gawk.it. K... |
| 12.04.2012 | Finding Your Voice | Everyone has something to say, something to contribute, everyone can make a difference. And I believe the Internet is making it easier for all of us to find that voice, use it, and make that difference. I am supporting evidence item number ... |
| 03.04.2012 | The littleBits Ted Talk | The Gotham Gal is an investor in littleBits, which means that our entire family is an investor in littleBits, which means that this is a disclosure. It's not surprising that the Gotham Gal is an investor in littleBits. When you meet Ayah Bd... |
| 16.03.2012 | Fun Friday: Startup Creation Stories | I absolutely love Paul Graham's story of how Y Combinator started. It has all the makings of a great startup story. Paul and Jessica came up with the idea on the way home from dinner walking through Cambridge. The sand in the oyster was the... |
| 15.03.2012 | Budgets | I am a huge fan of budgets. I find them essential to syncing up on monetary issues. But not just in business. The Gotham Gal and I use them in our personal life to avoid conflicts about money. For a long time, probably the first fifteen yea... |
| 19.02.2012 | Fun Sunday: Powder Skiing | I am in Park City with the Gotham Gal and our son and two of his friends. We woke up to fresh snow and its supposed to come down all day. So I'm taking the day off and going powder skiing off the Dreamscape lift where this video below was f... |
| 05.02.2012 | Women Entrepreneurs | A few weeks ago, I spent the day at NYU ITP at the Womens Entrepreneurs Festival. This is a one day event put on by The Gotham Gal and her friend Nancy Hechinger who is on the faculty at NYU ITP. In its second year, the WE Festival features... |
| 20.01.2012 | Fun Friday - Diet & Nutrition | In our last fun friday we talked about exercise routines. The discussion in the comments was terrific and many connected exercise to diet and nutrition, which is totally logical. So I thought we'd just move on to diet & nutrition as our... |
| 31.12.2011 | A 2011 Retrospective On The AVC Community | This isn't really my blog anymore. I still get to decide what the topic of the day is. But the conversation here at AVC is what makes this place special. So, here are the highlights of 2011 (based on disqus and google analytics from Jan 1 t... |
| 16.12.2011 | Fun Friday: What I'm Reading Now | Two weeks ago, we used Fun Friday to talk about movies to see. It was fun. And I got a list of movies to watch that will last me months and months. In the same vein, we are going to talk about books today. Not the best books of all time (ma... |
| 02.12.2011 | Fun Friday: Movie Recommendations | We've been going back and forth between Feature Friday and Fun Friday the past few weeks. I like them both. So we'll continue to go back and forth between the two on fridays. Today is Fun Friday and I thought we'd trade movie recommendation... |
| 18.11.2011 | Fun Friday: little Bits | I came home on thursday evening to find some leave behinds from a board meeting the Gotham Gal had been at earlier that day. She's an angel investor in little Bits. I ripped the box open, sat down at the dining room table, and started havin... |
| 28.10.2011 | Feature Friday: The Multi Photo Checkin | I'm a huge fan of the photo checkin on Foursquare. When I see a friend checkin somewhere interesting to me, I always leave a comment on that checkin saying "photo checkin pls" and I usually get one back. The checkins with the phot... |
| 04.10.2011 | Day Off | I'm taking the day off today to celebrate the Gotham Gal's birthday with her. The AVC community should feel free to talk about whatever you want. Things on my mind include Occupying Wall Street and the unfortunate news that Chris Christie w... |
| 11.09.2011 | Remembering 9/11 | Every year I write about 9/11 on the anniversary. It's my way of remembering that day. I like what Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan University, has to say about the value of remembering: But on this 10th anniversary of 9/11 let us also s... |
| 20.08.2011 | Fifty | The Gotham Gal asked me this morning "how does it feel to be 50?" I said "it feels good. another accomplishment." It's only a few waking hours into my 50s but so far it feels great. I've never been more content with my p... |
| 01.08.2011 | Fifty For Fifty | It's August, the month I was born, fifty years ago. To celebrate this milestone, The Gotham Gal (who turns fifty six weeks after I do) and I are going to raise $50,000 for classroom projects focused on family via Donors Choose. I've just ki... |
| 31.07.2011 | A Word From Your Sponsor | Many of you know this but I thought it was worth addressing again since I get tweets like this one a lot. @fredwilson – I'm just curious why someone as financial successful as you has advertising on their blog? Extra cash? Does it go to an ... |
| 30.06.2011 | Founder Labs (Continued) | Redeem now Roughly three months ago, I wrote a post noting that Founder Labs was coming to NYC. Last night the first Founder Labs program in NYC wrapped up wtih the final presentations in USV's event space. I have liked the idea of Founder ... |
| 30.06.2011 | Founder Labs (continued) | Roughly three months ago, I wrote a post noting that Founder Labs was coming to NYC. Last night the first Founder Labs program in NYC wrapped up wtih the final presentations in USV's event space. I have liked the idea of Founder Labs from t... |
| 08.05.2011 | Motherhood and Entrepreneurship | The Gotham Gal wrote a post last week about motherhood and work. In it she argued that motherhood is a given for many/most women and that it hasn't gotten in the way of many great accomplishments by women over the years and we should not pe... |
| 16.04.2011 | Mark Suster Interviews The Gotham Gal | joanne wilson, mark suster, the gotham gal I talk a lot about the Gotham Gal on this blog but most members of this community haven't had the opportunity to see her in action. She spent last week in LA and dropped in on This Week In Venture ... |
| 22.03.2011 | Founder Labs NYC | One of the best things to happen to startupland in the past five years is the emergence of the startup accelerator. Programs like Y Combinator, Techstars, and many others have made the difficult phase of going from a founding team and an id... |
| 22.03.2011 | Women 2.0 Spins Out, Expands Founder Labs Program To New York | An organization that aims to diversify and strengthen the pool of successful startup founders in tech, Women 2.0, today announced that it will spin out its mobile focused Founder Labs pre-incubator program as a standalone entity, and expand... |
| 22.03.2011 | Founder Labs NYC | Redeem now One of the best things to happen to startupland in the past five years is the emergence of the startup accelerator. Programs like Y Combinator, Techstars, and many others have made the difficult phase of going from a founding tea... |
| 22.03.2011 | Women 2.0’s Founder Labs Expands to New York City | Women 2.0 announced today that, thanks to its success, its Founder Labs pre-incubator program will become its own, separate organization. Moreover, the program will expand from its current San Francisco location to New York City, with the f... |
| 31.12.2010 | Twelve Days In The Middle East | We are flying back to NYC today, we’ll be in the air all day. I’m wishing we would have chosen to take the overnight flight last night and skipped the last dinner/evening in Tel Aviv, but that’s not the call we made six months ago. It has b... |
| 18.12.2010 | Out Of Office Away Message | I just turned on my vacation message on gmail. The Gotham Gal and I are off to the middle east with our kids for the next week and a half. I love blogging when I am on vacation. I get up earlier than everyone else in my family so it's a tim... |
| 25.11.2010 | Thanks For Entrepreneurs | It's Thanksgiving. And I woke up thinking about entrepreneurs. It was probably this awesome Steve Blank blog post that caused that. Steve says: I believe that we will look back at this decade as the beginning of an economic revolution as im... |
| 20.11.2010 | The Women Entrepreneur Festival | The Gotham Gal is involved in an event in late January called The Women Entrepreneur Festival. They are doing it with and at NYU's ITP program. I love the idea of calling it a "festival." This is a celebration of women entrepreneu... |
| 08.08.2010 | Some Thoughts On London On Our Way Home | We are heading back to NYC today. The Gotham Gal has been in Europe since July 4th. Our kids have been here for parts of that stay. I have been here for most of it with one trip back to the states in the middle of the month. The Gotham Gal ... |
| 23.07.2010 | Sony Dash | A couple months ago, my friends at Sony sent me a new device called the Sony Dash. I brought it home and gave it to the Gotham Gal. She is using it as a bedside clock radio and not taking advantage of very many of its features. But my son e... |
| 16.07.2010 | XX Combinator | Tereza, an AVC regular and active community member, wrote a blog post yesterday proposing that someone start XX Combinator, a Y Combinator style startup accelerator focused on women in their 40s. Here’s the basic argument: Y Combinator part... |
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