My friend Darren Herman has issued a very interesting challenge on his website.
The challenge to entrepreneurs is to solve this problem:
I’d like to pose a challenge to all entrepreneurs or established companies who are looking to increase their distribution (and business) in the digital media world. I’m friendly advising someone/company that has legal access to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Web Startup'
What would you do with 750,000 users?
July 10th, 2008 ·
Tags: Entrepreneurship · Web Startup
Personality of an Entrepreneur
July 10th, 2008 ·
A few days ago, Path 101 announced the alpha of their site. Congrats, fellas!
One of the first features out of the bag is their free personality test section.
Now, this is no ordinary personality test… this is a career-oriented personality test. So, as a newly minted “Entrepreneur in Residence” I was curious to see what what [...]
Tags: Entrepreneurship · Web Startup
Welcome to Silicon Alley
July 9th, 2008 ·
A lot of people reach out to me when they move to New York City and ask about the New York tech community. In the past, I’ve sent them a nice long email of information. But I’m getting tired of that, so in the future, I’m just going to send them a link to this [...]
Tags: Web Startup · nextNY
SparkSpace featured on Tech Confidential
July 9th, 2008 ·
One of the greatest benefits of my new job as EIR for Rose Tech Ventures is working in the soon-to-open “startup coworking” space called “SparkSpace.”
It’s a great place to work and colllaborate with other entrepreneurs.
Recently, Mary Kathleen Flynn, of TheDeal.com’s Tech Confidential, came by our space, took a tour, and interviewed David Rose about the [...]
Tags: New York City · Web Startup · nextNY
Get Instinctiv
June 26th, 2008 ·
If you have a jailbroken iPhone, go download the Instinctiv app today (found in the Multimedia folder of Installer.app).
Instinctiv is an “instinctive shuffle” application, which changes forever the way you look at the shuffle button on your iPhone or iPod touch.
Before, you’d press shuffle and spend more time skipping through songs you don’t want to [...]
Tags: Web Startup
BricaBox: Goodbye World!
June 19th, 2008 ·
“Was she being supremely Machiavellian? Or had she simply lost her mind?”
– John Hielemann, on Hillary Clinton’s final weeks campaigning
Today, I’m announcing my plans to close BricaBox, LLC.
This decision, which has taken place over the last few weeks, was as complicated as are my feelings about it. Nonetheless, I can tell you most of this [...]
Tags: Entrepreneurship · Web Startup · nextNY
GaryVee-Day - The Definitive Guide
May 13th, 2008 ·
Today is GaryVee-Day — the day his book officially comes out. This post is to be your guide to news, media and events surrounding his book’s release.
Events:
Last night, we celebrated the book release along with Gary’s appearance on Conan, at bounce. Here’s the Conan footage and a video from the event.
Today he signs his book [...]
Tags: Web Startup · Web-trends · video
Veracity: The Future of New Journalism
April 15th, 2008 · 9 Comments
It may be cliche to point out that New Media is going to beat out Old Media in the long-term, but it seems there’s a element of this truism which has not been discussed enough:
The importance of veracity.
Earlier today, the biggest story on TechMeme and beyond was that Twitter had begun testing, at long last, [...]
Tags: Web Startup
URLrURL Launches!
April 1st, 2008 ·
Everyone should check out URLrURL — an awesome new small URL service. Some buddies of mine in NYC made it. They developed a cool way of tracking memes through Twitter.
Please Digg it here!
Tags: Web Startup · Web-trends
DropBox - Unlimited Invites
March 23rd, 2008 · 23 Comments
NO MORE INVITES!
Folks,
DropBox is blowing me away. Rarely do I find an app I must tell you about. Even more rarely do I find an app which I can tell you has done everything right.
Seriously, if any service wants to go into this space, they just need to copy what DropBox has done. There may [...]
Tags: Web Startup · Web-trends

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