I know – everyone else started doing this 50 years ago, but thought I’d see how it works blogging from my Treo. -Matt
Archives / June, 2006
What Kind of Entrepreneur Do You Want to Be?
What Kind of Entrepreneur Do You Want to Be? I had a great time at Princeton reunions this weekend, as always. As I was talking to random people, some of whom I knew but hadn’t seen in a long time, and others of whom I was just meeting for the first time, the topic of starting a business naturally came up. Two of the people asked me if I thought they should start a business, and what kind of person made for a good entrepreneur. As I was thinking about the question, it reminded me of something Fred once told me — that he thought there were two kinds of entrepreneurs: people who start businesses and people who run business. …
Big Apple, Little Company
Big Apple, Little Company Ed Daciuk, on of my blog subscribers, questions: What is your view on the benefits of being in NYC as a startup? Fred wrote a good posting several months ago and a related one this week on early stage investing in the NYC market from the perspective of a venture capitalist. His main points: (1) NYC is a great place to invest in early stage tech-related businesses as long as they’re not "core technology" businesses like semiconductor or hardware, because (2) core technology companies are more exciting to investors, and therefore the investors have clustered around those companies in places like Silicon Valley or Boston. He also thinks this dynamic is changing as more and more…