Last year, I came across what I considered the most accurate and pleasant definition of the vocation of early-stage venture capital. It took me far too long to find it again, but I finally have…

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While startup twitter continues to be an amalgamation of thirsty AND extra over bitcoin in the run up to the end of the year, there’s another consumer technology that’s low-key (compared to BTC at least) arrived in the mainstream in the second half of 2017...

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I put together a timeline of the New York Tech’s outsized tech exits since 2002...

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I find these first few stanzas of the Robert W. Service poem “The Men That Don’t Fit In” the most accurate representation of those dedicated to the craft of venture…

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A year ago, I couldn’t have told you what the thyroid does or where it is in the body...

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I had the opportunity to speak at length with Bart Clareman about early-stage venture, New York tech, and my favorite books...

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The investment memo is essential, a time-stamped artifact that summarizes all of the contributing factors that gave us the conviction to invest...

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It's hard to imagine that the voice ecosystem will look anything like the mobile-app layer, or for that matter the early world of early e-commerce marketplaces. Voice as an interface and an experience makes invisible design a reality...

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Maybe there isn’t a single entity anywhere that should be expected to perpetually protect the endless mass of sensitive data we produce in leaving our identities all over the place online...

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A rundown of the first five Gotham Alpha episodes streaming via Soundcloud...

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When my emotional response to a first meeting is excitement, I consider that an important indication of where I’ve ranked a startup concept. The conflict, I’ve found, is in navigating how closely to check or how adamantly to follow that enthusiasm as time passes from that first meeting...

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In order to provide more transparent access and information, today we’re excited to launch the Hitchhiker’s Guide to New York City Tech. The Guide is a living resource intended to equip anyone interested in the New York City startup ecosystem with an information arsenal to help plot his or her own journey...

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Following up on my post about the Bot Craze in machine learning and AI, I wanted to call out a few less obvious areas where increased activity in developing relevant machine learning can have a profound impact...

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ots are the buzzing tech trend of 2016 so far. The big five — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft — have all unveiled or featured bots in their annual product conferences. Bot has quickly become as common as the word app has been in startup chatter about what people are building...

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As proud advocates of this density development, we want to recognize it. So, NextView is inviting the New York engineering community to NYCode...

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My friend Jason’s enthusiasm gets me no matter what he’s describing and last night it got me hooked on Pokemon Go. Three quick observations from a relatively late adopter...

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oday, I’m calling on another of our ethos points, an adjective that can consistently describe the founders we work with: Authentic...

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The reason we take passing seriously is because we know something that entrepreneurs know all too well: fundraising sucks...

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I’ve mapped out my product stack according to how regularly I use a given product and/or have set time to check/review/reorganize/clear-out the content a particular product holds for me...

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With conviction in this city, its entrepreneurs, and their ideas, I put some of my analysis and opinion about the state of NYC seed out there to our world...

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