Christmas day can be depressing. It seems like the entire world is decorating trees, opening presents and feasting with family. Meanwhile, we Jews are lonely, bored and hungry. We’re left to scour the town looking for entertainment and food. And we always end up at a chinese restaurant and a movie theater. Well, my fellow [...]

“If it has 80 percent of the features and it costs 10 percent of the money, I’ll take it”- MTA Chairman Jay Walder In June, the MTA hired a bunch of interns (grad students) to explore cheap ways to bring cellphone service in the subway system. The entire project only cost $30,000.  This shift is [...]

New Work City (NWC) is one of the most important hubs of the NYC technology scene. Why?  New Work City houses ~50 amazing tech freelancers and entrepreneurs running a dozen or so fledgling startups such as Perpetually, Loosecubes, Urban Pregame, Homingcloud and TouchGraph.  Creating a home for independent workers and early stage entrepreneurs creates the [...]

When a VC friend asked which young NYC startups I find exciting, I sent him a list of pre-funded companies that I’ve been watching. Afterwards I started writing them into a blog post. Well, I should have pressed publish sooner because as the post sat unfinished for the last week, several have since been funded! [...]

Every week the New York Times seems to run an article about Foursquare, the redhot mobile game. Most has been technology press, but one NY/Region piece stood out as especially interesting. Beyond Twitter: An App That Lets You Truly See City is written by a non-technology columnist and describes how the ‘tips’ feature of foursquare opened the writer’s [...]