Start-up City

24Jun10

NYC is a very exciting place for Internet start-ups right now. FourSquare, MeetUp, Tumblr, Etsy, StickyBits, Hunch, Knewton… there’s a long and growing list of interesting companies that join ad infrastructure plays aiming for the success of a DoubleClick. I don’t see the NYC scene as competitive to Silicon Valley — more as a logical [...]

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Enough with the Disruption

03Jun10

I would like to disrupt the use of the word “disrupt.” The Internet start-up eco-system has adopted the Clayton Christiensen concept of disruptive innovation as its current battle cry. It seems that everyone is claiming disruption as their goal. VC’s fund disruptive innovation. Engineers pursue disruptive technologies. Entrepreneurs launch disruptive businesses. Tech Crunch just hosted [...]

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