ff Venture Capital profiled in Creative Workspaces Magazine
ff Venture Capital was recently profiled in The Roger, an online magazine that profiles creative workspaces. The feature, titled Fitness Financed: Motion, Margin, Risk, and Reward; offers an inside look into ff VC's 5,000 square-foot fitness office. The twelve-page spread has beautiful photos of some of our healthy office practices, including Pilates ...
John Frankel Named NJTC Financier of the Year
Congratulations to John Frankel, who was recently awarded Financier of the Year during a breakfast held by the New Jersey Technology Council (www.njtc.org) on June 8, 2012. The award is presented annually to a venture capitalist, investment merchant, or commercial banker who has contributed to the economic development of New ...
Sorry!
Beside Forever by Suradej Chuephanich I am going on vacation in two days - the first time with my wife for quite some time, and with 200+ incoming emails each day I am concerned that I will come back to an unmanangeable inbox with unmanageable expectations. I have always tried ...
GameSalad Moves East Through Partnership with Leading Chinese Internet Company
The Chinese economy may have slowed with the recent financial recession, but, according to John Radoff's blog, the Chinese online game market represents an increasingly attractive opportunity; there are more Internet users in China than the entire population of the U.S., and two-thirds of those users play some sort ...
Portfolio Company Spotlight: Betterworks
BetterWorks' company mission is to help small and medium-sized businesses recognize, reward and retain employees by Making Work Rewarding. Betterworks was founded in 2010 by Paige Craig, Sizhao Yang, and George Ishii in order to help the country's six million small and medium sized businesses create better work environments. Since ...
More Cash for Entrepreneurs, Crowdfunding, and Indiegogo
As Steve Case has said, it's ridiculous that anyone can gamble and be guaranteed to lose money, but there are strict regulations around who can invest in early-stage private companies and earn (in some cases) a 27% IRR on their capital. * The Entrepreneurs Access to Capital Act helps to ...
Personal Training in Your Hallways
Personal trainer Jake Koenig reached out to us to request to run a minimum viable product trial of his in-office fitness training service. We're always glad to help entrepreneurs, and we are a bit obsessed with making our fitness office even more effective, so more than half of our office ...
Developers of NYC Startup Tour to Visit ff Venture Capital
After work on April 18, thirty-five curious developers will visit the ff Venture Capital offices to learn about our fund and listen to technical talks by the founders and technical experts of Parsely and Movable Ink. If you'd like to join them, contact Skillfer ASAP; there may still be some ...
Seeking CEO+Cofounders for Spinoff of VC-Backed Startup, W. 36th St.
- Do you have a great team but your product just isn't working? - Are you thinking of applying to Y Combinator without an idea? - Does your team want to quit your day jobs and really kick-off a company? - Would you like to have a salary from day ...
Technology Hiring & Employment Outlook
I recently attended the "Technology Hiring Employment Outlook" hosted by the New York Technology Council on Monday March 19, 2012. The panel featured speakers: Tom Silver, Sr. VP for Dice.com; Manish Chowdhary, Founder; CEO of GoECart; Jay Colan, Sr. VP of Lee Hecht Harrison; and Scott Sperling, Senior ...
