THE DREAM IN ACTION

There is a new trend on the web and both startups and investors are taking note. Fred Wilson has called this trend, “taking the web offline”. Others call it the challenge of “local”. Companies like Loopt and Foursquare are taking this problem head on. As the only web nerd amongst my group of friends I [...]

What I’d like to see more of in Chicago is… 1) VC’s and Angels who blog – so that they communicate what is interesting to them and so that they are more accessible or even appear more accessible to the areas entrepreneurs. 2) An increase in the understanding that failure won’t kill you – in [...]

Fred Wilson recently posted about the value of sharing on the web, which he called extroversion. Fred, and I, are both fairly open with our identities on the web and by doing that we’re taking a bet that the value of sharing is larger than the small chance that some web stalker will do something [...]

I’ve been listening to a lot more music than normal since I’ve been working from home for the past few weeks. I’ve really enjoyed diving into the lesser known songs on some of my favorite albums. I decided to see how some of my new found favorites racked and stacked against one another, luckily, there [...]

A few days ago I read a post about document storage from Fred Wilson. His post talked about how his personal document saving practices have saved him on numerous occasions. This along with a few other horror stories I’ve heard recently cause me to purchase an external drive. He went on to talk about how [...]

Great interview with Fred Wilson by Nicole Simon for the pre LeWeb podcasts series. Click here for the interview.

Image by Cia de Foto via FlickrWhen I worked at my consulting job in Chicago about 2 years ago I had a conversation with my boss about how Gen Y will affect the workforce and how our attitudes towards career will affect growing businesses. I’ve had my opinion about it for quite sometime but it [...]

Today was awesome. I had a productive day at work, I started early (about 6:50am), got to work on some video editing which was fun, got news about a potential stint in Paris, and left a hair before 5 (always nice). Then when I came home I realized that it was an awesome “social media [...]

As I watched my Feedjit widget and keep a close eye on those who show up in MyBlogLog, I saw an significant increase in readers from outside the US. Which is awesome! I love when I got to the blog of someone who’s avatar shows up in MyBlogLog and their blog is in a different [...]

This is the keynote at the Web2.0 Expo in New York this week given by Fred Wilson. It is extremely cumulative and shows super potential for NYC going forward. Fred – great work on this presentation and Jeremy great work on the slides!

This is a letter from A VC on TheFunded.com. TheFunded.com is traditionally a place that does not welcome VC’s, it is a sight for entrepreneurs to anonymously rank, comment, and bash (if necessary) VC’s and Angels. This letter was written humbly and very well toward entrepreneurs just asking for good o’l fashion feedback on the [...]

Recently I’ve become some what of an evangelist for “most” thing tech. I find value in the technologies that I use (that’s why I use them) and I try and share that value with the people around me. Blogs for example: My Dad was a journalism major and is a phenomenal writer and I’ve encouraged [...]

Venture capital is all about finding the right combination of profit potential in a business and the correct individuals to take that business down the right road. There have been businesses out there with incredible profit potential and a phenomenal idea but the people in place either weren’t the right people or didn’t make the [...]

This is my first of many blog post about venture capital and topics there within that my thoughts stumble upon. I hope that my journey of learning VC will be as exciting for you as I anticipate it will be for me. The first resource that really attracted me on this journey was the blog [...]