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“Will my Money Market fund be there tomorrow?”
“Is my savings account safe?”
As this financial crisis progresses, we’re hearing phrases like these whispered more and more.
What we once thought were risk-free investment vehicles now carry disproportionate risk, leaving people to consider making a run on their banks.
What times are these?!
However, in the early stage investing world, [...]

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Our Future

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Photo: Jason Calacanis’ black SUV escort. Julia Allison and David Karp deciding where we’ll go next.
Last night, it seems as though I was the only person who got any work done in Silicon Alley.
No, it’s not that I wasn’t out enjoying the much reported festivities of Jason Calacanis being in town — I was there [...]

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Just got this in an email from a second cousin:
Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands [...]

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(photo credit: Dave Parmet)
A few weeks back, Charlie O’Donnell asked, in a blog post, an important question: “Why aren’t you working for a startup?“
Now it’s my turn to ask: “Developers of New York, why aren’t you working for BricaBox?”
Two weeks ago, Kyle and I posted a job opening at BricaBox on the nextNY job board, [...]

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Folks should check out this video (embedded below). It’s a wonderful explanation of the subprime mortgage crisis, forwarded on to me by my cousin.

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Do you feel like pondering what the future of hardware looks like? (I think most readers of this blog spend a lot more time gushing over software.)
Check out Darren Herman’s post pronouncing that “Screen Devices Should be Subsidized.”
His thesis:
As hardware companies become more like content companies, or content companies begin to pump out more hardware, [...]

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There are some things in life and business you can only learn by doing… or at least planning for.
So, it’s not a surprise that the latest web “revelation” I’ve had, which are oft-inspired by the process of building BricaBox, has come as Kyle and I have started to architect our premium features and billing system; [...]

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I rarely use this blog to talk about my work in the online advertising world. Here’s a short post which goes into a bit of detail regarding what I’m learning about the industry, what makes eMediaRep and NPB such great organizations, and how I think Blip.tv is “getting it”
UPDATE: It appears that Blip pulled their [...]

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I especially like this analysis of Hulu by SAI’s Henry Blodget.I have a long, long video post waiting for me to finish… this inspires me to do it.For the record, I think they are screwed only because they haven’t told us why they’re going to be any good.No good news is bad news.

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