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When you’re preparing for your newborn, you’ve got big fish to fry: where will the baby sleep?  How will you feed the baby?  How do we take care of a little human being?  It’s unlikely email or digital privacy is top-of-mind, and certainly you won’t be discussing these things in a Lamaze class.  However, theyContinue reading “Do Newborns Have a Right to Digital Privacy?”

Should you let your toddler play with a tablet, or other “toddler tech”?  It’s a divisive topic.  Many parents have strong opinions about this.  Some claim their kids won’t be touching technology until much older; some extremists even suggest not showing the kids TV until it becomes necessary!  Other parents note that given technology isContinue reading “Toddler Tech and Tablets – Where to Draw the Line?”

The average person types around 40 words per minute (WPM).  I type about 130-140 WPM (proof).  Sometimes, and this might sound weird, I feel in the zone and can type significantly faster – closer to 160 WPM.  I attribute this to my piano background and a childhood playing video games.  Sometimes I’ll sit at theContinue reading “I Type Faster Than You”

“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.” Ayn Rand I think Ayn Rand would be happy with the entrepreneurial attitude pervading the NYC tech startup scene. Admittedly, I’m only on the periphery of the startup culture; however, in taking a number of Entrepreneurship classes at Stern, I’ve heard my fair share about leanContinue reading “Ayn Rand & Tech Entrepreneurs”

So, as it would turn out, my Digital Media Marketing class was much more of a term-long case study in Entrepreneurship than a course in Marketing. Our guest list proved to be a Who’s Who of Yahoo alums and big industry players, and hearing their stories, seeing their presentations, having the opportunity to ask themContinue reading “Digital Media Marketing @NYUStern”

Tonight’s Digital Media Marketing discussion at NYU Stern was the penultimate class of the term. On one hand, this is really cool, because I so rarely have a reason to use the word ‘penultimate’ or ‘sex toys’ in context – and really, I’ll take what excitement I can get; on the other hand, I’ve enjoyedContinue reading “Sunday Nights & Sex Toys”

Another action packed evening at my Digital Media Marketing class at NYU Stern: after presentations by former Yahoo COO Dan Rosensweig and former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, and with them, VC guru and former Yahoo board member Eric Hippeau, and former CEO of NBC Universal Jeff Zucker in the audience, we the class presented (in teams)Continue reading “How to Fix Yahoo, Stern Style”

Day 1 One doesn’t decide to become an entrepreneur, but rather one is an entrepreneur. At day 1 of the NYU Entrepreneurs Festival, many panelists and moderators noted that you can come up with ideas, identify opportunities, and build businesses, but there’s a sense of passion, a spark, (a “genetic defect” in the words ofContinue reading “NYU Entrepreneurs Festival”

For those of you who may have read my post on Groupon, you’ll know I think the daily/group deals market is relatively untapped and the model is only going to improve as businesses learn how to adopt the platform properly. That said, following last night’s presentation in my Digital Media Marketing class at NYU Stern byContinue reading “Living Social vs Groupon”

Groupon, the crowd-funded daily deals site, and the fastest growing company in the world, ever, IPOs this Friday at a supposed valuation upwards of $10 billion. That’s a huge number – I mean, you can buy a whole lot of pole dancing sessions with $10 billion. It’s also nearly twice the valuation (at the conservative 10BContinue reading “Groupon’s Pre-IPO Secret*!”