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There is an amazing wealth of innovation around early stage venture financing, most of which developed in just the past few years.There are new models of creating companies out of innovation: Seed Camp, Y Combinator, Tech Stars are just three, [...]  Read more

Yesterday’s “reveal” of the iPad was predictably anti-climactic. With the hype that had built up, anything short of a mind-reading, teleporting device had to be a bit of a letdown. But we are now likely to enter the phase of [...]  Read more

Heading to the Munich airport after 2 days at DLD - a thoroughly enjoyable and productive conference. Here is my report from last year: http://continuations.com/post/73536016/dld - I was happy to see that the biggest nuisance from last year had been [...]  Read more

The Gotham Gal and I make a fair number of non-tech angel investments. Things like media, food products, restaurants, music, local real estate, local businesses. In these investments we are usually backing an entrepreneur we've gotten to know who delivers [...]  Read more

With family (parents) in Germany, two investments in London, and conferences (eg DLD) and vacations, I wind up flying to Europe at least half a dozen times a year. Here is the system I have come up with for minimizing [...]  Read more