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Got this via the AngelSoft Blog:
David Rose was recently featured on Presentation Zen.
Many folks know him for his business accomplishments or for founding and chairing the New York Angels. What many DON’T know about him is that he’s a presentation/pitch expert, and is often hauled into huge corporations to teach their execs how to [...]

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… I’d totally apply for the analyst position open at Union Square Ventures.
Last time they made this call, I had no idea I’d be doing what I’m doing today. I actually “came to” in the tech scene right as my buddy, Andrew Parker, got the job. The whole thing turned me on to the power [...]

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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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With that headline, some of you would think we were replacing Kyle. Rest easy — we’re totally not doing that.
But I do want my technologically inclined readers, as well as any business folks interested in film and new media distribution, to take a look at these job posting for one of my friends’ new eFilm [...]

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One of the things I did to ring in the New Year was compile a list of 12 people I want to meet in 2008 (one for each month, duh). By meet, I don’t mean “shake hands” and move on (even though my awesome Microsoft Word clipart above makes it seem that way). These are [...]

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Darren Herman, a friend of mine, long-time nextNY member, head of Digital Media at Media Kitchen, former co-founder of IGA Worldwide, and former member of Silicon Alley’s official sports team, Dodgeball 2.0, has just announced that he is soon-to-publish a book about “entrepreneurship and digital media.”
The book, according to his blog, will be available in [...]

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Startupers, if you haven’t read Evan Williams’ “Will it Fly” article today, go do it.
Basically, Evan came up with a chart with which to judge the validity of new product/business ideas.
In the chart, he examines an app’s:

Tractability
Obviousness
Deepness
Wideness
Discoverability
Monetizability

He then examines several of the web’s most successful apps over the past several years. See chart:

How does BricaBox [...]

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Last week, as many are aware, the Silicon Alley Insider released the much awaited Alley 100 list.
I say much “awaited” because (I feel no shame in pointing out) leading up to the release of the official list there was a large amount of activity on, and buzz around, a site I put up (using BricaBox) [...]

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After my interview in nextNYers came out on Monday, I posted an “interview” with my pal and partner, BricaBox CTO Kyle Bragger.
In the “PS” of the post, I said,
I really do think we need to feature the “I write code” guys more. I know it’s “my job” to be a front man, but I think [...]

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Charlie went and poked the bear, so I’m going to have to add some fire to this furnace and poke back.
Charlie says he’s tired of the self-promoters packing the Silicon Alley 100: People’s Choice ballot box with votes. He singles out Richie Hecker and Hilary Rowland because, well, they’re on top.
But let’s list everyone else [...]

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