You can’t hire in courtesy and managerial competence; it has to flow from company management outwards. I’m traveling to Atlanta and Boston this month, so starting to plan my logistics. Part of what Uber’s customers pay for is an easy-to-use layer across multiple cab services in multiple cities. I don’t mind too much paying them...
[Continue Reading]NY Tech Volunteers Needed – Help Out!
Hurricane Sandy has done some significant damage in NYC, and ff Venture Capital is looking for ways to help out. We currently have extra desks in our midtown office, and free wifi. If your company needs space to work during the next couple of days, we have spare desks. Please contact @ffvc for details. NY Tech Meetup and New...
[Continue Reading]Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program
HBS Angels of NY and the NAIC have named the finalist women and minority entrepreneurs of the Venture Capital Access Program; check out the press release below. If you’re from a major media outlet, please contact me to attend as a guest the pitch night in midtown Manhattan on June 27. Harvard Business School Alumni...
[Continue Reading]HBS Alumni Angels assets for investing in women and minority-led startups
Harvard Business School is featuring an article about the Venture Capital Access Program on the website of the U.S. Competitiveness project. In the article, I discuss why we think that smart early-stage investors should target women and diverse entrepreneurs, and why we think HBS Alumni Angels in particular is well positioned to be very successful....
[Continue Reading]Venture Capital Access Program launches to aid women and diverse entrepreneurs
We are in the midst of two great disruptions to American business: the internet’s ongoing disruption of most traditional industries: finance, healthcare, retail, finance, fashion, etc. the shift of America to a majority minority country by 2050. Any company that aspires to maintain a leadership position needs to position itself to exploit these two macro...
[Continue Reading]More Cash for Entrepreneurs, Crowdfunding, and Indiegogo
As Steve Case has said, it’s ridiculous that anyone can gamble and be guaranteed to lose money, but there are strict regulations around who can invest in early-stage private companies and earn (in some cases) a 27% IRR on their capital. * The Entrepreneurs Access to Capital Act helps to redress this. It allows small...
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