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Learning from Failure is Hard, Learning from Success is Harder

Unqualified lessons are hard to wring from startups. It’s difficult to really understand something without doing it, and no two people who do it have identical experiences. That said, I’ve seen two schools of thought on how to learn from others’ startup experiences: 1) It’s best to learn from success. Stories of failures have no [ READ MORE ]

The Future of Gaming

I write a lot about where the gaming industry is headed — specifically as it relates to building game mechanics into non-game apps. Past posts have talked about serious problems in the current thinking about “gameification” and the next game mechanics to be implemented across the internet. Next week, some of these thoughts will be [ READ MORE ]

Welcome to New York, Paul Carr

If you haven’t read Paul Carr’s piece on his experience at New York Internet Week, go read it now. If don’t have time, I’ll summarize. Paul’s interaction with New York went something like this: 1. Media tool gets invited to New York by other media tools 2. Media tool goes to an internet week party [ READ MORE ]

How to Fail at Presenting to Hackers

I don’t usually like pointing out others’ failures (I prefer to focus on my own), but one particular demo by a startup at this past Tuesday’s New York Tech Meetup is particularly instructive in How to Fail at Presenting to Hackers. A brief guide to failure, courtesy this demo: Expect your connections to high profile [ READ MORE ]

NY Gaming Meetup: A Study in Iteration and Hockey Sticks

The more time I spend working with startups, the more I find useful lessons for growing companies in random places. Take my gaming (industry) meetup, for instance. I’ve been running it for over a year, but only recently has it begun to “hockey stick”, in industry parlance. The Opportunity: After running a gaming company in [ READ MORE ]

The NYC Startup Drink List

I hosted a party with Superconductor’s Matt Brimer a couple weeks back. Since I’m more or less incapable of throwing a party these days that doesn’t turn into a NYC tech mixer, we decided to embrace it and craft an appropriate drink menu. I wish I could take credit for more of this, but it’s [ READ MORE ]

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