I had an interesting conversation with a colleague the other day about why the percentage of computer science graduates who pursue entrepreneurship after graduation is relatively low. We discussed various university initiatives designed to introduce students to startups. While these are important and do a lot of good, introducing the…
I’m late to the Instagram party (I define late as discovering my first name has already been claimed as a username; if you’re curious I’m grabbed Tylda instead) and I’m hooked. Its simplicity makes discovering images a joy and its community is overwhelmingly positive, lacking the anonymous trolls that usually…
I’m asked this question often and was reminded of it while reading Mark Copeman‘s post on lessons learned during the first 100+ days of his startup, one of which was: Every task seems to be writing oriented – writing the app, writing the site, writing the alert emails the system…
I’m taking a course titled Designing Living Systems at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program this semester. The course has little to do with journalism and startups, which is great because I believe stretching the mind in new directions can help propel it to find solutions in familiar fields. Sometimes it’s best…
Tonight I attended the Founders @ FAIL meetup, whose purpose is to celebrate and learn from failure by telling stories of startups that had a lot going for them but didn’t manage to make it. It’s a good idea, since failure can be a better teacher than success. College multi-player…