Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

These things are right up my alley because it’s what I love doing and align with my goal to be the best advisor to early-stage founders. If I have learned anything , it’s that the people you surround yourself with are everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

This facilitates technology growth and innovation for startups in Silicon Alley, as well as positioning IBM for future growth. A partnership was announced a while back with the City of New York, to connect and grow NYC's startup ecosystem.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

As a founder, if you have a power alley in a specific functional role or the startup itself will strike a chord with people in that functional specialty, look to add prominent thinkers (especially local ones) in that space to the affinity list. Affinity by function. Marketing people love to swim with other marketing gurus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Business Insider, Silicon Alley Insider , founder Henry Blodget. This popular site has an outstanding group of writers and contributors for profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 15, 2021

So it falls right down the VA’s alley. This article will examine one vital activity and see how trained VAs can help your company improve sales. Contacting new leads. Keeping in touch with new leads is a task that requires a lot of attention, time, and dedication.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

Bookkeeping is right up their alley and you’ll save a lot of time. Even if there’s no offense committed, well-kept accounting books will save your business from expensive and tedious audits. An excellent way to maintain clean books is to hire an accountant if you’re overwhelmed with work and need assistance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

This facilitates technology growth and innovation for startups in Silicon Alley, as well as positioning IBM for growth down the road. A partnership was announced with the City of New York, to connect and grow NYC's startup ecosystem.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

From Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley, and Berlin’s hip coffee shops to East London’s Silicon Roundabout , the world is well versed in the global innovation boom towns. This post originally appeared on the TransferWise blog. But have you heard of what’s going on in Cyprus, Sweden or North Carolina?

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The Next Web

JULY 18, 2013

One of Rose’s aims for CTC (which already has some 35 startups under its wings) in the coming months is to expand the scheme outside of Croydon and forge links with other notable tech areas such as ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York. “We

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 4, 2012

My partners at DFJ Gotham have organised an event in Shoreditch this evening to foster collaboration between the London and New York tech scenes. I will be speaking along with representative from the New York startup and venture scene, and government officials will discuss their role in supporting the startup ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 16, 2011

She went to work running sales for Jason Calacanis at Silicon Alley Reporter (mid 90′s). I didn’t think about who was going to put food in the refrigerator.&#. “The Internet saved my life. I needed something to find my own identity.&# The Internet really re-connected Joanne with her former working self.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

They are there to help you correct your course when you want to make decisions that their history and wisdom tells them might lead you into a dark alley. They are your sparring partners. Each situation you face is different and unique. Platforms have changed. Marketing channels have changed. Crowd funding now exists.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Durant died managing a bowling alley in Flint, Michigan, in 1947. William Durant tried to build his third car company, Durant Motors, but he was still speculating on stocks, and got wiped out in the Depression in 1929. The company closed in 1931.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Ron Burk has a provocative post about Microsoft and Google at Silicon Alley Insider. He says they both suffer from “cash cow disease” which he defines as “Cash cow disease arises when a public company has a small number of.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 11, 2012

Although cities like Chicago, Austin, and North Carolina's Research Triangle have produced a number of Web-based businesses in recent years, the New York's startup scene is growing exponentially. The amount of capital and seed funding continues to rise as well as the success of local companies like foursquare, Gilt Groupe, and Tumblr.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 23, 2017

ProductCamp was right up my alley. They can be focused on anything — education, health, environment, technology or products — good conferences have a welcoming vibe of sharing ideas and personal growth, with a bonus of getting to meet new people with similar interests. This weekend at ProductCamp was no different.

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Berkonomics

JULY 27, 2023

Upon conclusion of eight laps of this, after pulling into the alley and climbing through the window on the driver side (there are no doors in these cars), I was handed a sheet with my timings for each of the eight laps. Only then, after when the information might have been useful, could I see how well I did.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 3, 2012

Ever since my time well spent with the Yoda of Silicon Alley , I've tried to avoid "biting the hook"--quickly getting into arguments that probably won't have a good outcome for anyone involved. I was writing against his argument that it's better to take money from an investor over 40. that's not what he wrote at all.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Founded within Manhattan’s Silicon Alley – which is seeing an explosion of entrepreneurship in the digital space - New York City-based Girlfluence aims to gather the support of and speak to the new generation of female entrepreneurs, influencers and consumers and thereby harnessing and nurturing female empowerment.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

But, in the alleys, most of the improvised cafés and galleries that used to enliven the city have been cleared away, in the name of order; overhead, the race to build new skyscrapers, which attracted designers from around the world, has stalled.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 9, 2013

We first met in the mid-1990s when Jason was hanging out in NY doing Silicon Alley Reporter. I always enjoy hanging out with Jason Calacanis. I can’t remember who initially introduced us – it was probably Fred Wilson. We covered a lot in the hour+ interview for This Week In Startups.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 21, 2018

Getting any startup off the ground is still a knife fight in an alley with Andre the Giant and he has a gun (as we often say at Sputnik ATX). So don’t think that if you do merely these three things, you’re going to be the next Winklevoss twins and the living is easy.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2020

This is particularly the case when a founder is continuing to build in their power-alley. Experienced founders should have an advantage in getting things done faster than a less experienced founder (of course, there are exceptions). What I’ve found worrisome is when founders switches contexts completely.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

If you want to get started with your invoice right now, no questions asked, no registration necessary, well this invoice template will be right up your alley. Invoiceto.me is about as simple as it gets. It’s literally the homepage of the site. Beyond immediate, this template boasts a minimalist design.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

This facilitates technology growth and innovation for startups in Silicon Alley, as well as positioning IBM for growth down the road. A partnership was announced with the City of New York, to connect and grow NYC's startup ecosystem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

This will facilitate technology growth and innovation for startups in Silicon Alley, as well as position IBM for growth down the road. A partnership was just announced with the City of New York, to connect and grow NYC''s startup ecosystem.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

If you’re looking to start a side business online, this one might be right up your alley! To learn more about how you can make this model work for you, read our guide on How to Use Patreon to Start a Business, and check out our favorite Patreon profiles, which should give you some good ideas. We’d love to know.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Even New York’s startup scene wants to replicate its West Coast counterpart (and been somewhat successful, earning the term Silicon Alley ), and other countries, including Brazil , clamor to copy its success in positioning themselves as hotbed of innovation and technological entrepreneurship.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 14, 2012

Silicon Alley, Silicon Mountain, Silicon Prairie, Silicon Slopes, Silicon Gulch, Silicon Bayou, and on, and on, and on. They don’t talk about Silicon Alley and Silicon Flatirons. Before I could go on a rant about why you should call things “Silicon Blah” I got a round of applause. ” Whatever.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

In this chart from Silicon Alley Insider you can see the first major trend to affect the open Web – the growth of Facebook. One change in Google’s algorithm and whole businesses could be wiped out as chronicled in this excellent book by John Battelle called The Search. Why does the rise of Facebook affect the web?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Here’s what most of us probably do – go down to somewhere like Change Alley in the financial district, check the foreign exchange rates mounted on digital screens at each money changer, and search for the best rate. Then we queue up like every responsible Singaporean does and wait for our turn.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2015

New York isn’t Silicon Alley. And Fred has been ranting about this since at least 2008 when he made a public plea to bury the name Silicon Alley. In 2015 there’s apparently a new effort in New York to rekindle with force the name Silicon Alley. It’s New York. Here are some rhymes I hear on an almost basis.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

It could be an urban area where several startups settle (think Silicon Alley in London) or a grass roots organization like the famous ‘ home-brew computer club ‘ or even a hipster coffee place like Berlin’s Oberholz cafe. Think of Stanford and Sandhill road in Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston or IIT in Bangalore India.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

We are honored to be among the cosponsors for the first NYC Blend event taking place on March 5th, 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm, at Alley powered by Verizon, 119 W 24th St. NYC Blend was started by just a few VCs in New York and has now grown to a network of over 80 venture firms.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2015

There will also be “Bootstrap Alley”, a sprawling exhibition of startups looking to expose themselves and their product-ready startups to the world. The Jakarta conference will welcome the likes of Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon; Thomas Lembong, Indonesia’s Minister of Trade; and Roger Egan, Co-founder and CEO of RedMart.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

So when I actually thought about such "ranks" I wondered how accessable the Alley Insider 100 list was. Did the digerati have a stranglehold on it, preventing newcomers from rising through the ranks, or is this the kind of community that takes well to newcomers?

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

They made a calendar, titled “ Only in the Alley ” to mark its culmination. The fact that the scene has exploded so quickly validates all the hard work and more importantly the vision that a lot of the pioneers in Silicon Alley have. What else in the startup world caught your eye this year? What will be left in the dust?

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