What characteristics do you value as a consumer when you make a decision to buy a product, use a service, or otherwise engage with a company? There isn’t some blanket “right” answer here… it’s a combination of characteristics that vary in importance per product. Some of those factors are:

Price
Brand / Image
Features
Quality (or, more [...]

I’ve spent a good amount of time in the last year at USV looking at consumer mobile applications, and I’d like to vent some frustrations.
The market’s too big to ignore: ~2.5 billion handsets floating out there. But the gatekeepers have an iron grip on all market entry points.
Pop quiz, hot shot: you’ve decided to [...]

Some thoughts on the 9/11 anniversary.
I saw ground zero for the first time this year. I didn’t even mean to go… I was trying to get to a theatre for the TriBeCa Film Festival, and I accidently had to walk over the land bridge past ground zero. It was wild. It reminded [...]

Pats open second half with 108 yard runback. Longest kick return in NFL history. Wooo! #

Going to free ballet in Battery Park tonight #

Reading parts of WSJ and Post over the arms of fellow A-Trainers. #
Seth Godin hits the nail on the head (again): http://tinyurl.com/2z2rja #
@fredwilson my solution was the Twitter Tools plug-in for WP (installed yesterday). Not sure if my readers will like it. We’ll see. #

After realizing that Twitter is recking my blog, I installed a plug-in to WordPress that automatically generates a digest of my Twitter posts to my blog once per day.
If you have any strong reaction to this (positive or negative) speak up in the comments, and I’ll modify (or remove) accordingly. Thanks.
Now back [...]

Patrick Wolf’s "Overture" is a killer start to an album. #
Going to a beer tasting event with a bunch of med students… in Washington Heights… Random, I know! #

Kotaku recently reported that Ubisoft released a couple of hits from their catalog of games for free. Ubisoft is making money by embedding ads from McDonald’s into the games. There are lots of ad-supported games on the net today, but they’re all small flash games that are limited in complexity. This is [...]