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Joseph Turian, Sqrrl, Infochimps and MemSQL
The December NYC Data Business Meetup was focused on big data infrastructure companies, with the co-founders of Sqrrl, Infochimps and MemSQL presenting to a full house. We started the evening with a...
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Street Fight Summit 2013: The Billion-Dollar Opportunities in Hyperlocal
I recently got a chance to participate in a panel focused on opportunities in hyperlocal at the 2013 StreetFight Summit, along with Ben Siscovick. Since they recorded it, here it is, along with a...
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Recombine
The field of bioinformatics is having its “big bang” moment. Of course, bioinformatics is not a new discipline and it has seen various waves of innovations since the 1970s and 1980s, with its fair...
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NYC: A Natural Home for European Entrepreneurs
Last night I was invited to speak at the inaugural NYC European Tech Meetup. There are tons of obvious reasons why the NYC and European tech ecosystems should work closely with one another, so a...
View ArticleThe NYC Tech Ecosystem: Catching Up to the Hype
I’m fascinated by tech ecosystems, and the network effects behind them. I wrote about Berlin (here) and about Paris (here) But of course, as an NYC venture capitalist, I’m particularly interested...
View ArticleMy 9/11 Story
In September 2001, I was the co-founder of a NYC tech startup, TripleHop Technologies. We were building recommendation engine software, à la Amazon. We had maybe 25 people on the team at the time....
View ArticleFrom 0 to $200M in Revenues in 7 years: In Conversation with Ben Uretsky,...
Who would be crazy enough to compete head-on with AWS? The question was almost as obvious seven years ago than it is today. Yet in just a few years since its founding, Digital Ocean, a cloud...
View ArticleThe Significance of the Datadog IPO
The Datadog IPO just happened, and it’s proven to be a resounding success, not surprisingly given the company’s superb metrics – big revenues ($333M ARR), happy customers that keep buying more (146%...
View ArticleBuilding a $12B Public Company: In Conversation with Olivier Pomel, CEO, Datadog
By any measure, Datadog is an incredible entrepreneurial success story. The company went from a tiny startup in 2010 that had trouble raising money, to a public company that, at the time of writing,...
View ArticleNew York: The New Center of Gravity of European Tech
While it’s certainly possible to build a tech giant solely in Europe, the path to building a global, category-dominating company will, for most European tech startups, require building a strong...
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