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Recent Posts
- Deconstructing The Economist
- Coke’s API and the Outsourcing of Innovation
- What a 100 Year-Old Race to the South Pole Teaches Us About Design
- “Should I Get an MBA?” and Why It’s Not about the (any) Degree
- Open Graph is Facebook’s Beacon Pivot
- One Way to Join a Startup and “Try Before You Buy” Hiring Practices
- Thoughts on Hiring a VP Sales and Why Rolodexes are Usually BS
- The Data Storage Conundrum & Oscar Wilde
- Will Apple Bet the Farm on Quattro Wireless?
- How Square is Building a Two-Market Platform One Market at a Time
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About
Professional
Currently
- Co-Founder of PlaceVine
Previously
- Headed business development and sales at Colloquis, a developer of natural language software systems that was sold to Microsoft.
- Worked as an investment banker at JPMorgan in the Leveraged Finance group, focusing on Telecom, Media and Technology transactions.
- MBA from The Wharton School, majoring in Finance
- BA from Tufts University, majoring in Economics, and Russian & Eastern European Area Studies.
- More background here.
Personal
I live in New York City, run, ski and snowboard as much as I can, play lots of Scrabble, am a no-knead bread aficionado, and explore food, music, and tech with gusto. I post shorter things, mostly images and video, here.
Contact
Please drop me a note and introduce yourself. I’m [first name] dot [last name] at gmail.