For many people, myself included, Snapchat has become their primary camera app. The decorations, captions, filters, lenses, drawing etc are incredibly powerful…
Mint, Thrive, Cake, Yodlee, Quicken Online, Buxfer, Geezeo, Wesabe, and Moneytrackin’.
These are just a few of the many companies in the crowded field of web apps for personal finance…
As a recent graduate of the first TechStars NYC class, I thought I’d take a moment to share some of my thoughts. This blog post isn’t going to sing the praises of TechStars — Eli (Thinknear), Kevin (Red Rover), Matt (Nestio) and Vin (not even part of…
(This post was also published on Business Insider)
There are three types of programmers.
Nope, this isn’t the beginning of a joke about binary numbers, I promise! Instead it’s the conclusion I reached after a great…
(this piece also appeared on Silicon Alley Insider)
As you may know, Benny and I have killed off Friendslist and refocused our efforts on 4SquareAnd7yearsAgo/Timehop. The Friendslist product was live for about 6 months. In that time we disproved our core hypothesis: that we can compel people to…
(This blog post was featured in Silicon Alley Insider’s 10 Things Investors Need To Know Before OpenTable’s IPO)
[continued from chapter 7]
Our next shot is a product called OpportunityInbox and it’s essentially twitter for opportunities.
We invite about 20 people to try it, but most just don’t have anything to post. One of the funded TechStars teams…
A friend recently pitched me on an airbnb-for-meals concept As I listened to him list reason after reason why the business would work (“You save money by sharing food…You get to eat home cooked meals more often…You make new friends”), I couldn’t help but feel he was missing the…
[continued from chapter 1] …so we had a concept for a ‘build your own craigslist’ that would take over the world. After talking through the concept in detail with a few trusted friends and advisors, there was only one thing left to do: actually build something.
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