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Category Archives: Conferences

Boston VC community breaks with killjoy roots, will actually party
In a striking development from a long legacy of discretion and backhanded compliments, the New England VC community has decided to award itself a bunch of awards and actually, possibly, have some fun. After years of being forced into clumsy …

Get your kid coding with #CodeClub (with free viral video)
I was at #foundersforum this week and the excellent Jason Goodman and his team at Albion London ran a creative workshop. Our remit: to script a video that would go viral and compel parents to engage with CodeClub and get …
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What’s next in e-tailing – an ACK2012 panel
I threw some notes together from the e-commerce panel at this year’s Nantucket Conference, where Ben Fischman of RueLaLa and Steven Conine of Wayfair engaged in a discussion moderated by Scott Savitz (the founder of shoebuy.com). First comment: three awesome …
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Dave Balter’s framework for being a great leader
I have been thinking about teaching at Intelligent.ly as I have been mightily impressed with the concept and list of classes. So I dropped in impromptu on Dave Balter who was running a session inspired by what he learned inside …

Startup Lifecycle – Lean to Fat, Launch to Scale – Video
The video and accompanying presentation gather much of the current thinking around building startups from scratch to scale. This was my annual contribution to Seedcamp, in the form of a new Prezi and accompanying commentary on Startup Lifecycle, which I …

Startup Mixology / Techcocktail in Chicago–Insights from Travis Kalanick
Finally made it to #Techcocktail / Startup Mixology conference in Chicago First guy I see is Travis Kalanick (@KonaTBone), a co-founder of Scour and later RedSwoosh (acquired by Akamai). He’s full of fun factoid (such as influencing Parker in “getting” …
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Founders Forum 2010: from the (swanky) edge of entrepreneurship
It's a beautiful summer Thursday in the English countryside. I am at Founders Forum, surrounded by iPads and beautifully tanned entrepreneurs. The Founders have spent the last two days working together on big themes and issues facing the entrepreneurial community, …

Seedcamp in Paris
Last Friday the Seedcamp train was making its scheduled stop through Paris. Thanks to the good work of folks like Gilles B, Codor, Leafar, Jacques etc there was a good crop of startups that have been covered in detail by …

FOWA: Google mashup fest and Amazon service platforms
FOWA: in the early afternoon, an inside look at Google API’s was provided by a senior product manager who ran through some of the best API usage examples currently out there, including NASA weather mapping, 3D rendering of UK landmark …
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FOWA: The Index Session
Live at the Future of Web Apps: Ben Holmes stands in for Danny Rimer and starts by telling the audience about how great technical founders is really what the VCs are after. I am sure the FOWA audience with its …