I was recently thinking about the sheer number of services I have signed up for, certainly increasing in the past 5 years, and thinking back on some of the old services I don’t use anymore. I would ventures to say that my time on the VC side of things yielded probably 10 signups a week [...]
12 years of ebay
Posted by Eric Friedman on September 21, 2011
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2011/09/21/12-years-of-ebay/
NYClothingDrive.org 2011
The idea behind NYClothingdrive.org is simple enough to be summarized by the lead sentence on its the homepage “Everyone has extra stuff to give away but no time to get it to charity. Let us do the hard work for you!” This is the second year in a row that I am a part of [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on September 20, 2011
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2011/09/20/nyclothingdrive-org-2011/
Foursquare Global Hackathon September 2011
Foursquare held a global hackathon this weekend that spanned the world with events happening in Tokyo, Paris, NY, SF and many other cities. With a combination of technologies and resources, people came together and built some amazing tools, utilities, and interesting hacks – it was quite an event. You can find a full list of [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on September 19, 2011
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2011/09/19/foursquare-global-hackathon-september-2011/
Continued Disruption: Amazon’s Kindle Tablet
Ever since I ready Bill Gurley’s post Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model I have been thinking about the power Google wields as it relates to Android and its features. His point is that by providing and owning their own data they can give turn by turn directions in a free app, and [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on September 16, 2011
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2011/09/16/continued-disruption-amazons-kindle-tablet/
Bankless
I don’t have a bank anymore. Well thats not exactly true, but I don’t have a physical bank I can go into anymore. I now bank with Ally (Formerly GMAC) and have been happily with them for the past year. They don’t have any locations or branches that I can physically walk into. I do [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on August 15, 2011
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2011/08/15/bankless/
How to get a job at a startup
I am teaching a SkillShare class this week with Christina Cacioppo called how to get a job at a startup. I am excited to dive into this topic as I have sorted through a ton of resumes and had a number of people reach out about this question. I have been speaking to a number of people recently [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on August 2, 2011
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2011/08/02/how-to-get-a-job-at-a-startup/
Google+ photos and automatic uploading
I have been playing with Google+ since its debut last week. Its amazing how much folks are discussing a new social network, myself included. There have been many reviews on the web, including my own, but none have mentioned what I think is a very bold photos related feature. Google+ apps users are automatically having [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on July 5, 2011
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2011/07/05/google-photos-and-automatic-uploading/
Social Discovery and the Implicit Graph (explicit too!)
Recently I co-hosted an event with Ro Gupta from Disqus, Marc Leibowitz from StumbleUpon, Shaival Shah from Hunch, and Mark Coatney from Tumblr called Social Discovery and the Implicit Graph. We hosted the event at the new Union Square Ventures office as part of an ad-hoc Internet Week event in NYC. All the proceeds went to HackNY. We [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on June 9, 2011
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2011/06/09/social-discovery-and-the-implicit-graph-explicit-too/
What to ask yourself before launching a startup
I am teaching a SkillShare class on what to ask yourself before launching a startup. SkillShare is a distributed learning platform that pairs people who are passionate about topics with those eager to learn. Its run by my good friend Mike Karnjanaprakorn and recently launched to allow more learning to happen. I recently asked the [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on May 18, 2011
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2011/05/18/what-to-ask-yourself-before-launching-a-startup/
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