I don’t know Brad Feld but I love his Venture Capital blog, Feld Thoughts.  He understands investing in early stage companies is first and foremost a people business. Here is his latest post on Startup Karma: Great Entrepreneurs Believe in Karma I met with an entrepreneur yesterday that I hadn’t seen in a few years.  [...]

Will eBay incorporate social shopping into its fold? Link to another Vator.tv interview with Erik Stuart.  Erik clearly understands the dynamics at play in social shopping and has pretty good advice for ThisNext.

Just because you are struggling mightily fundraising doesn’t mean it’s because of the collapse in the financial markets. It could just be your business/idea isn’t that great.

We’re still competing in Vencorp’s Mashable Showdown and now we just entered  Babson’s $30,000 Innovation Competition.  I’m really enjoying these contests.  Unlike the old school business plan competitions, v2.0 always seems to include a crowdsourcing element.  That’s great because you can get early feedback on different elements of your plan and then iterate before you [...]

We were picked as one of the nine finalists in Mashable’s startup showdown.  Yahoo!!!!!!

For those of you that don’t know how the NY Fashion 2.0 Group started, last month I posted on NextNY about how many times I had attended tech events that promised the potential to meet lots of VCs/Angels only to be disappointed by the lack of investor presence. Charlie O’Donnell, founder of NextNY and CEO [...]