Matt Mireles

Ahh, the ironies of life. When I started talking to investors in New York about SpeakerText––not even trying to raise money at that point, mind you––I offered a grand vision of how the company was going to "change the internet" and revolutionize how...

Pitching your startup to investors is a deeply personal matter.  More often than not, they––politely or not––call your baby ugly. And that hurts. Good founders, I think, learn to not take the criticism too personally. But in the end, it is personal. They...

Why we should be thankful that we live in a world in which VCs exist, even if they yell at us during board meetings, assuming they'll fund our companies at all: Imagine living in a world in which professional venture capital didn't exist. There's no...

My prayers have been answered! There is now an official NYC Startup Job Fair scheduled for Friday, April 9th, from 1-5p. The event will take place at the AOL Headquarters in Grenwich Village (770 Broadway) in the Village.This is an awesome development! I expect a lot...

Stowe Boyd of True/Slant has a new blog on the NYC Startup Scene called Hotbed. This is an awesome development. Cody Brown asked, I seconded, Chris Dixon approved, and now it seems we have all received. Awesome. Welcome Stowe!  Now that you're here,...

Funny thing happened last week.The post I wrote, NYC vs Silicon Valley, kinda blew up and set off wave of dicussion in the blogosphere. Silicon Alley Insider republished it and Chris Dixon, Caterina Fake, Roger Ehrenberg, and now ReadWriteWeb all responded. Some folks...

Last night, Cody Brown wrote: I can say that personally, I learn about NYC tech news almost purely from a collection of blogs I find through Twitter. There is Silicon Alley and Tech Crunch articles about NYC startups but most of the time, I’m leaning about NYC Tech...