Beyond Engineering: the Silicon Valley "Ops Team"
Contributed by Joe Lonsdale, Founder of Addepar and Palantir/ Partner, Formation 8 In Silicon Valley we build and invest in elite technology cultures to transform global industries. Whether or not they define it explicitly, the great engineers here know what it means to be part of a great technology ...
Social Fortress publicly launches at TechCrunch Disrupt
Adam Ghetti, founder of our portfolio company Social Fortress and an expert in security, publicly presented Social Fortress for the first time at this week's TechCrunch Disrupt Conference. I met Adam and Social Fortress at the first Flashpoint Demo Day in New York earlier this year; ff became the only ...
Allocating Startup Equity by the Hour
Contributed by Alon Cohen, EVP/CTO at Phone.com. How do you move from a few friends brainstorming on a new startup concept, to actually getting the group to sit down and start working to build a company? How do you deal with situations in which one team member already has a job ...
Free Webinar 9/13: How to Hack Your MBA and Get the Most Out of Your Degree
On 9/13, David Teten, partner at ffVC, will be delivering a free, one-hour webinar on How to Hack Your MBA and Get the Most Out of Your Degree. This webinar will have an estimated 300 attendees from most of the major business schools in Europe and the US. It's hosted ...
The Fall 2012 ffVC Interns
Yong Kwon is currently pursuing a MBA with a focus on Entrepreneurship at the Columbia Business School. Previously, he was an Associate at Performance Equity Management, a global private equity firm, where he worked on buyout, VC and debt investments across multiple sectors and geographies. Yong received a B.S. in ...
Interning at a Venture Capital Fund vs. a Startup
Contributed by Joan Xie, Summer Associate at Centzy -- former ffVC Fellow As a recent college graduate (Georgetown Dec. 2011) with nine months to spare before starting a full-time strategy consulting position in October, I decided to pursue two internships: one at a VC, and one at a seed-stage ...
Flashpoint Demo Day, September 13, at Union Square Ventures
HBS Alumni Angels of New York and ff Venture Capital are happy to be co-sponsors of Flashpoint's upcoming New York Demo Day, September 13, 2:30 PM to 6:00 PM, held at Union Square Ventures. Space is limited. Flashpoint is a startup accelerator program at Georgia Tech. Fourteen Teams will ...
The Data Era – Moving from 1.0 to 2.0
Contributed by Jim Kaskade, CEO at Infochimps Do you think they truly under stood just how fast the data infrastructure marketplace was going to change? That is the question that comes to mind when I think about Donald Feinberg and Mark Beyer at Gartner who, last year, wrote about how the data warehouse market ...
5 easy ways to jump start your photographer presence online
Contributed by Evgeny Tchebotarev, COO at 500px In the past few years photography's popularity has exploded. Does this mean getting noticed today is harder than ever? Not necessarily. With a little initial effort, you can automate and maximize your online presence, allowing you to spend more time shooting. Here are five ...
