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VC Offsites – Our Approach

Feld Thoughts

When we started Foundry Group in 2006, we had a very deliberate quarterly process in an effort to learn each other and become highly effective at working together. The leader curates the agenda and we finalize it the week before the offsite. We often start with a Red/Yellow/Green check-in.

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I was also sick of my own curated life on Facebook and thought, there must be a place more interesting than this to hang out online. In 2006, I founded Eschelon Experiences, including six restaurants: Mura, The Oxford, Zinda, Cameron Bar and Grill, Faire, and Basan. I decided to make my product using a green approach.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. So along come companies like Slide, RockYou & Zynga who wanted to build apps across all the social networks but were green-lighted the hardest by Mark Zuckerberg. This allowed followers to be able to “curate&# their newsfeed with people that they found interesting.

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Sketching A New Mobile Web

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

Chutes Too Narrow by The Shins and The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society are two pretty solid go-to albums. A brand new series on Smashing Magazine, where we highlight and curate the most interesting discussions, tools, techniques and articles that have been published recently and present them in a nice compact overview.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Interior of the Batcave, 2006 ( Jake Dobkin / Gothamist). Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code.

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