Here's an example of SpeakerText in action. The that's great thing about it. Look at what we're doing…I sat down with Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week to talk about his...

Nurturing the Entrepreneur DNA

I've been thinking a lot lately about how we improve some of the structural issues with NYC as an entrepreneurial center/startup hub. It got me thinking of the debate around Nature vs Nurture regarding entrepreneurship. Here's some thoughts… Some people...

Entrepreneur and Investor Alignment

In the matrix, the green represents good alignment, the yellow represents ok but keep watch, and the red represents where I see some of the larger disagreements. The matrix explains the basic situation for all 4 combinations so I’ll just focus on the yellow and red...

The City of Founders Without Hackers

Every startup in NYC is looking for developers. Literally: Every. Single. One. And this is a problem. New York City has a shortage of entrepreneurially minded technical talent. It’s not that there’s not enough engineers. Hardly. Columbia, NYU and the rest...