About

I’m a NYC based entrepreneur. I’ve been kicking around this planet for 27 years and I’ve figured out a few things I’m smart about and a bunch of areas where I’m lacking. I’ll try to focus on the smart stuff here, but it’s my blog, so sometimes I’ll take a risk on something I know nothing about. Feel free to bombard me with hateful comments when I’m wrong. I think there is one metric that can be used to measure the value of a human life and that’s impact. How did you change things? How many people did you touch? How different is the world because you lived in it and how positive was the change that you affected? (p.s. i don’t use spell check…deal with it)

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Here’s my company: http://hyperpublic.com/ (acq by GRPN)

Here’s my seed fund: http://lererventures.com/

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Impact is key. A century ago Teddy R. had a few words to say on the same topic:
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

the full speech can be found at http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/research/speech%20arena.htm

abel
January 12, 2010