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Nextburgh: A Community for Innovators and Entrepreneurs in Pittsburgh
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle

Why Paying to Pitch is Necessarily a Scam
Posted 4 months ago (Oct 29, 2009)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Rants | Things that bother me | Venture Capital

Entrepreneurship, Ambiguity and Risk
Posted 11 months ago (Apr 07, 2009)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Startup | Business

The Barnacle and The Boat
Posted about 1 years ago (Feb 25, 2009)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Startup | NextNY | Business | Notches

Dissecting Yammer: A Revenue Stream is not necessarily a Business Model
Posted 1 year and 4 months ago (Nov 03, 2008)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Rants | Business | Twitter | Innovation | Venture Capital

The Innovation Bubble: Copycats and “me too” startups
Posted 1 year and 6 months ago (Sep 23, 2008)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Startup | Business | Innovation | Venture Capital

You don’t change the world with a marginally better mousetrap
Posted 1 year and 7 months ago (Jul 30, 2008)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Startup | Facebook | Rants | Business | Google | Microsoft | Venture Capital

Why you SHOULDN’T start a tech company in Silicon Valley
Posted 1 year and 8 months ago (Jul 08, 2008)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Startup | Business | NYC | Notches | Venture Capital | Rants | NextNY

We are looking to hire good developers
Posted 1 year and 9 months ago (Jun 12, 2008)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Software Development | Startup | C# | Programming | Web 2.0 | Personal | .NET | Notches

Serial Entrepreneurs and High Valuations
Posted 1 year and 9 months ago (Jun 09, 2008)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Startup | Venture Capital | NextNY | Web 2.0 | Business

Simultaneous Discovery and its impact on stealth mode
Posted 1 year and 9 months ago (Jun 08, 2008)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Startup | Rants | NextNY | Business | Notches | Innovation | Patent | Intellectual Property | Social Behavior

Finding structure when you have no boss
Posted about 2 years ago (Apr 12, 2008)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Productivity | Startup

Innovation, Disruption and The Economics of Free
Posted about 2 years ago (Apr 08, 2008)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Startup | Rants | NextNY | Business | Notches | Innovation | Venture Capital

TheFunded brings more transparency to raising venture capital
Posted 2 years and 1 month ago (Jan 27, 2008)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Startup | Business | Law | Venture Capital

Taking the Plunge and Rediscovering Passion
Posted 2 years and 1 month ago (Jan 27, 2008)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Startup | Personal | Notches

Passion and its role in evaluating new product ideas
Posted 2 years and 3 months ago (Dec 26, 2007)

Filed under: Technology | Entrepreneurship | Software Development | Startup | Personal | Business | Notches | NextNY

Why Notches isn't "Anti-Stealth"
Posted 2 years and 4 months ago (Nov 26, 2007)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Startup | NextNY | Intellectual Property | Business | NYC | Notches

Interested in working at a startup? Come to MatchupCamp
Posted 2 years and 4 months ago (Nov 21, 2007)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Startup | Events | Notches | NextNY | NYC

How do you get started raising venture capital?
Posted 2 years and 6 months ago (Sep 13, 2007)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Startup | Business | Venture Capital

More about raising too much venture capital
Posted 2 years and 7 months ago (Aug 24, 2007)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Startup | Venture Capital | Business | Law

Distinguishing between a platform and a destination
Posted 2 years and 7 months ago (Aug 21, 2007)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Software Development | Blogging | Notches | Startup | NextNY | Web 2.0 | Business

What's the best state to incorporate in? Probably Delaware
Posted 2 years and 8 months ago (Jul 23, 2007)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Law | Venture Capital | Web 2.0 | Business | NextNY | Startup

Valuation: Sometimes you *can* take too much money
Posted 2 years and 8 months ago (Jul 10, 2007)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Startup | Business | Law | Venture Capital

There's no such thing as Web 2.0
Posted 2 years and 9 months ago (Jun 11, 2007)

Filed under: Technology | Entrepreneurship | Software Development | Startup | Web 2.0 | Innovation | Venture Capital

Aloha, Mahalo.com
Posted 2 years and 10 months ago (May 31, 2007)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Startup | Google | Innovation | NextNY | Web 2.0 | Social Behavior

Getting the first penny
Posted about 3 years ago (Apr 05, 2007)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Startup | Business | Innovation

Choosing a corporate entity for your startup
Posted about 3 years ago (Mar 06, 2007)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Startup | NextNY | Business | Law | Venture Capital

The Dark Side of Drag-Along/Tag-Along Rights
Posted about 3 years ago (Mar 02, 2007)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Startup | Business | Law | Venture Capital

Exploring the Startup Culture in NYC
Posted about 3 years ago (Feb 28, 2007)

Filed under: Technology | Entrepreneurship | Startup | Events | NextNY | NYC | Notches

Outsourcing and Startups
Posted about 3 years ago (Feb 21, 2007)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Software Development | Startup | NextNY | Web 2.0 | Notches

Why do VCs only invest in C-Corps?
Posted about 3 years ago (Feb 19, 2007)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Startup | Business | Law | Venture Capital

How is IP split between separating founders?
Posted about 3 years ago (Feb 12, 2007)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Copyright | Startup | NextNY | Patent | Web 2.0 | Intellectual Property | Business | Law

An Anthropologist's Take on Web 2.0
Posted 3 years and 1 month ago (Feb 09, 2007)

Filed under: Technology | Entrepreneurship | Software Development | Blogging | YouTube | Web 2.0 | Video | Innovation

Equity-Based Compensation
Posted 3 years and 1 month ago (Jan 30, 2007)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Startup | Business | Law | Venture Capital

Understanding the Option Backdating scandals
Posted 3 years and 2 months ago (Jan 26, 2007)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Business | Law

Ask the VC
Posted 3 years and 2 months ago (Jan 23, 2007)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Business

Dave Winer Meetup in NYC [update 1]
Posted 3 years and 3 months ago (Dec 21, 2006)

Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Events | NYC