My Mohawk and Being the SpeakerText CEO

After seeing the constant pants-jizzing on Twitter by Keith Rabois about Quora, I finally signed up and started using the service. Today I got this question…Matt Mireles, As a CEO, do you find that your mohawk has a positive, negative or no impact on how you are...

The Importance of Reputation and Personal Brand

In case you missed it, Saturday was fight night in NYC: VC-on-VC, Dixon vs. Robinson. Robinson as in Jim Robinson IV, managing partner at RRE Ventures. Dixon as in Chris Dixon, founder of Hunch and partner at Founder Collective. The sparks were...

The VC Carried-Interest Tax Debate

Today was an exciting day on Twitter. Huge debate/fight regarding the proposed "Carried Interest" tax treatment for private equity and venture capital fund managers. I mostly sat on the sidelines and retweeted the excitement (Chris Dixon told Jim Robinson IV...

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...