July 2010
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4 NYC startups, 3 Valley Firms = a New New York
It’s official: New York City is an Internet product town.
When Silicon Alley emerged in the mid-90s the idea that top tier West Coast venture firms would invest in New York City companies was as likely as Michael Arrington cracking a smile.
While Andressen Horowitz, which joined Union Square Ventures in funding Foursquare, has decades before they can catch up to the Sequoia or...
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Tennis Therapy
My father and I snuck out of the hospital today and played an 80 minute set. I won bringing my lifetime record to 2-176. But I’m 2 for my last 6 and with him rapidly approaching 74 and my new Babolat raquet I feel my best days are ahead of me.
Mom’s cancer has me far more familiar with Washington DC traditions than I have been in years. How could I have forgotten about the joys of...
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Where I've Been
Amtrak somewhere in Delaware — Last week, I ran into a friend who promptly asked, “Where have you been?”
9 months ago my mother got sick. A month later, the diagnosis was cancer. A month after that, we learned it was terminal. Nobody was more shocked than my mother. After all, she reasoned, her mother was turning 100 this year. Why wouldn’t she live for another 25...