January 2012
4 posts
How to Get an Investor (Or, More Specifically,...
Dave Tisch is the managing director of TechStars NYC, the elite startup accelerator that was born in Boulder, CO. He spoke at NYU’s Stern School of Management last night about best practices for communicating with potential investors, and I wanted to share the highlights. Tisch dresses like a skater, swears like a sailor, and talks a blue streak. It’s clear that he processes an...
Lessons from The Lean Startup: The...
(In a series of posts I’m going to go over the core concepts from Eric Ries’ “The Lean Startup.”)
Eric Ries’s book, The Lean Startup, has been highly anticipated. Those who have followed his blog and talks have been eager to see these ideas expanded and assembled in one place. When my pre-ordered copy arrived in the mail, it cut right to the top of my reading list. Now, more than ever, when...
Burning quotes with lasers!
I used a laser cutter to etch this Jorge Luis Borges quote onto a piece of hardwood at TechShop in Menlo Park this summer. It was a gift I bestowed on a fire-loving comrade at Burning Man in August.
It reads:
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but...