I have been thinking about cable tv and the future of video for what seems like forever. Much has been written here about tv in general, boxee, and the future of television (remember Joost?). Tonight I finished watching Homeland from Showtime – and tweeted about it (really great show by the way!) To my surprise it set [...]
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hello Homeland and the #screwcable problem
Posted by Eric Friedman on January 9, 2012
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2012/01/09/hello-homeland-and-the-screwcable-problem/
12 years of ebay
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 [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on September 21, 2011
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2011/09/21/12-years-of-ebay/
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/
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/
Following Up
Following up is one of those things that is really easy and really hard at the same time. Let me explain. Everybody is busy. Everybody wishes they had more time. Following up correctly takes time and is not always the easiest thing to remember. However to the person on the other end of the email [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on February 7, 2011
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2011/02/07/following-up/
Rate Limiting as a business model
I think the idea of Rate Limiting usage as a business model is very interesting. I recently read that Google is going to begin charging for using their Prediction API for a fee monthly plus usage. Another popular example is Twilio, which charges based on usage of their API. I could be using this [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on January 14, 2011
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2011/01/14/rate-limiting-as-a-business-model/
Foodspotting has acquired Eat.ly
I am very excited to announce that Foodspotting has acquired Eat.ly I am extremely proud of this sandbox project created by my co-founders and friends Mike Singleton, Sam Huleatt, and Sam Brown Below is the final goodbye page we posted on Eat.ly notifying our users on 12/17/2010 We began working on Eat.ly in the fall of 2009 as [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on December 17, 2010
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2010/12/17/foodspotting-has-acquired-eat-ly/
All web services are in the hospitality business
Last year I had the pleasure to listen to Danny Meyer speak at the USV Portfolio Summit. Oncer per year USV asks the CEO’s from portfolio companies and other executive management to come for a day of information exchange, reflection, updates, and introductions. Over a great lunch Danny Meyer, author of Setting The Table and [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on December 13, 2010
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2010/12/13/all-web-services-are-in-the-hospitality-business/
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