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I am excited to share my newest piece in Harvard Business Review on "What Sets Successful Startup Accelerators Apart": hbr.org/2024/03/what-s… @susleec @UWFosterSchool

@orgRem @marxmatt @klaviyo @edhallen Huge congrats to @edhallen on this and great to have seen the journey along the way! (And thinking back to some early coding prototypes he did while visiting our London flat before we had any furniture)

@marxmatt @benhallen @klaviyo @edhallen @marxmatt @edhallen if you ever want to do a HBS case on @klaviyo lmk!

Big thanks for @tak_lo for being a fantastic guest speaker today at LBS's Financing the Entrepreneurial Business

Big thanks to @jeffseedrs for being a guest lecturer in my entrepreneurial finance class, talking about @Seedrs, and trends in crowdfunding

Sorry to see the passing of Prof. Hutchinson at UVA; His ERICA eye tracking company was the first startup I worked at washingtonpost.com/local/obituari…

NYT on lead bible app - interesting illustration of business model innovation and building ecosystem of partners: nytimes.com/2013/07/27/tec…

Zynga announces layoffs. Fascinating / scary how newly public companies are increasingly facing disruptive threats allthingsd.com/20130603/zynga…

Great article by @joshuareeves in WSJ on tapping into an entrepreneurial ecosystem: blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2…

Great time to be I-Banker in tech. Yahoo submits bid for Hulu: allthingsd.com/20130524/yet-a…

Was Yahoo's Summly acquisition part of locking up access to other IP they were buying? businessinsider.com/why-marissa-ma…

Crowdfunding brings to mind Huggy Rao' work on social movements and how company's can leverage these movements: amazon.com/Market-Rebels-…

Fascinating to watch movie studios now using crowdfunding for Veronica Mars movie. Has raised nearly $1M on 1st day kickstarter.com/projects/55991….

Terrific! Google Glass: prototyped using binder clips and clay wp.me/p10512-hPd via @wordpressdotcom

LivingSocial in trouble: privco.com/livingsocial-r…. Upside is that may release lots of entrepreneurial talent into the DC startup ecosystem.

Great to see how social media entrepreneurship can impact agriculture: bit.ly/UDN2c6 @mfperkins @yieldpop

Great interview with Marc Andreessen on shifts in corp IT. One implication is that now easier for startups to tackle: techcrunch.com/2013/01/27/mar…

Congrats to @joshuareeves on the ZenPayroll round and coverage: blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital…

Enjoying Mary Meeker's idea of an "asset-light generation" and its business applications (Slides 59-75): kpcb.com/insights/2012-…

Instagram's limiting access by other firms is not a surprising strategic move - but interesting to see public reaction: techcrunch.com/2012/12/06/the…

The (re)rise of enterprise over consumer startups? avc.com/a_vc/2012/11/w…. If so, I expect funded entrepreneurs to have more past experience.