Matt Mireles

The reason we charge a fee is because we're between a rock and a hard place. The unfortunate but accurate fact is that 90% of all companies requesting funding are simply not fundable, by anyone, anywhere...no matter how earnest the entrepreneur might be. The...

Comfortable with Uncertainty Posted on: Friday, February 26th, 2010 When do you know? I mean, really know? Slumped into my couch, pale from a lack of sleep, nose red from the cold he can’t shake, the CEO shook off my suggestion about this being the time to hire an...

UPDATE: David S. Rose, Chairman of the NY Angels, responded in the comments below and I broke it out into its own post. In the comments of my previous post, Nate Westheimer, the NY Tech organizer and former EIR at Rose Tech Ventures, wrote this as part of a long,...

There's been a lot written lately about the NYC startup scene. It's exploding. It's hot. Etc. And all that is true. But as a first-time founder trying to raise capital and achieve product-market fit, the question for me is not "Is NYC...

I wanna pitch this guy. Just, umm, yeah. My kind of dude.(Wish Vimeo's API could play nice with SpeakerText. Sadness...)

After spending a considerable amount of time scouring the scene for startup-oriented law firms in New York City, I think I've picked up some solid intel for fellow founders. There's A LOT of lawyers/firms out there marketing themselves as "startup saavy." Most of...

This post is a follow up on my previous post: A Rigged Game, which itself was a response to Jordan Cooper's Full of Potential = Full of Shit... Jordan has responded to my post and now we're locked in an epic debate re: the Meaning of Life....