NYC vs Silicon Valley

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...

Picking a Startup Lawyer in NYC

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...

Hubris & the Meaning of Life

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...

Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. No one funded us. No one was gonna fund us. And I’m definitely a nobody. We launched in January 2010 after burning through just $4k of cash. While I’m still mostly a clueless hack,...