even after living here for 20 yrs, excited after unlocking the foursquare city badge for Tokyo! makes me feel giddy, and more Tokyo-ite! still lovin’ the service! =)
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012 from Tokyo! 明けましておめでとうございます!
Merry Chrismahanukwanzakah! Wishing everyone a joyous holiday break! =)
Introducing the CVC30
We’re excited to announce the first annual CVC30, a list of Columbians who have accomplished the most interesting things in the technology, entrepreneurship, and venture industries.
From not-yet-graduated wunderkinds to venerated experts, the 2011 CVC30 is made up of alumni, faculty, staff, and students who represent a host of diverse backgrounds and experiences, much like CVC itself.
It goes without saying that there are many, many more people who deserve to be applauded for their accomplishments this year. We hope this list will serve as a reminder that with every round of funding raised, site launched, and graduate who dares to take a non-traditional career path, Columbia and New York City are only growing in their relevance to the startup world .
Without further ado, the CVC30:
Mike Brown Partner, AOL Ventures
Bill Campbell Chairman, Intuit
Mark Davis CEO, Kohort | Venture Partner, HPVP
Chris Dixon Founder, Hunch
Michael Dwork Founder, Verterra
Roger Ehrenberg Founder, IA Ventures
Marc Glosserman Founder, Hill Country Barbecue
Seth Goldstein Founder, Turntable.fm
Ron Gonen Founder, Recyclebank
Jared Hecht Founder, Group.me
Daniel Hoffer President/CEO, CouchSurfing International
Ben Horowitz Founder, Andreesen Horowitz
Doug Imbruce Founder, Qwiki
Deborah Jackson CEO, JumpThru
Philip James Founder, Lot18 & Snooth
San Kim Founder, ShowMe
Graham Lawlor Founder, UltraLight Startups
Dave Lerner Venture Studio + Venture Lab @ Columbia
Cyrus Massoumi Founder, CEO, ZocDoc
Chris McGarry Major Gift Officer, SEAS
Jen Schnidman Medbery CEO/Founder, Drop the Chalk
Alan Patricoff Founder, Greycroft
Alessandro & Alexandra Piol Co-founders, Vedanta Capital
Adam Pritzker Founder, General Assembly
David Rose Chairman, NY Angels
Bartek Ringwelski CEO, SkillSlate
Zach Sims & Ryan Bubinski Co-founders, Codecademy
Jon Stein CEO, Betterment
Jon Steinberg President, BuzzFeed
David Whittemore Founder, ClothesHorse
Chris Wiggins Founder, HackNY
Source: columbiavc
11.11.11 11:11:11! Happy Nerd New Year / last binary date of the century! Let’s turn it up to 11! I’m celebrating by hatching a new startup!
Revenge of the Personal Assistant with Artificial Intelligence (Siri)
Source: makeuseof.com
This outtake / overtime of Steve Jobs talking about rivals Microsoft / Google / Facebook is definitely the more fascinating part of last night’s 60 Minutes interview with Walter Issacson on his biography of Steve Jobs.
I’d say Microsoft and Google have a lot in common. Microsoft never had the humanities and the liberal arts in their DNA - it was pure technology company. And they just didn’t get it. Even when they saw the Mac, they couldn’t even copy it well. How dumb do you have to be to not see it once you see it, you know? But, Google’s the same way - they just don’t get it.
Jobs’ advice to Larry Page on becoming the CEO of Google again:
Focus. Don’t be like Microsoft doing products all over the map. Figure out what you do best and keep it focused. Secondly, don’t try to be too nice as a CEO. You want a team only of A-players, and it really means that at times, you’re going to have to blow people off.
On Facebook:
You know we talk about social networks in the plural but I don’t see anybody other than Facebook out there. It’s just Facebook - they’re dominating this. I admire Mark Zuckerberg. I only know him a little bit, but I admire him for not selling out. For wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot.
Bill Gates to Jobs on the great difference they had:
You know, you proved that your model (everything should be connected, end-to-end, integrated tightly) works. [Later on: What I didn’t tell Steve was that it only works when you have a Steve Jobs]
Steve Jobs in return:
Well, you know, your model (of licensing it out) - that worked as well; I guess we were both OK [Later on: Yeah, it works, but only if you don’t mind building crappy products]
I don’t agree with everything, but it’s definitely interesting and the love-hate relationship between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates is always fun
Source: cbsnews.com
Ashton Kutcher has even more foursquare stickers on the back of his laptop now (on Two and a Half Men)! Awesome!
Steve Jobs passing this week brings back memories of this famous pic (22,000 hits in 2 hours!) from Alexa Andrzejewski of Foodspotting (an awesome visual guide to good food + places to eat) when the founder of Apple was denied a table at Flour + Water (they have infamous wait times, like 3 hours?!)
Here’s the back story in Alexa’s own words (republished from TechCrunch):
Kim (@taro) is an awesome Swedish programmer living in Japan. He took a month off from work here at Smart.fm to do a cross-country road trip, with the idea of hitting Apple land as the Mecca of the voyage. He’d just spent the previous day in Cupertino, just to see “The Apple Temple.”
Kim is the the biggest Steve Jobs/Apple fanboy in the universe, and his trip ended with him seeing Steve Jobs and getting his picture with him plastered all over the place.
Kim’s second love to Apple is food, so I’d been planning to take him to Flour + Water for months. I had no idea that Steve Jobs would be waiting in line right behind us! What are the chances that, as our other flabbergasted friend Simon put it, “the great god in his infinite kindness and wisdom would grace @kimtaro with his presence at Flour + Water.”
When Steve Jobs politely declined our request for a photo with Kim, we walked away sullenly, but moments later my husband turned around to snap this “photobomb.” It was the happiest day of Kim’s life! Here are a few more photos to dispel the Photoshop charges. Plus this guy did a thorough analysis here.
By the way — he was there with his family of course. And yes, we were just bystanders.
Alexa
