"One of the things that has helped me the most, especially recently, is removing myself from the stuff I'm not good at and bringing in people to help," says David Karp, founder and CEO of Tumblr Inc., in this episode of The Deal's Behind the Money video show.
New hires at Tumblr include John Maloney as president and Jacob Bijani as creative director.
"I'm much happier in my day-to-day work," says 22-year-old Karp (pictured). And as for Tumblr, "we're moving a lot faster than we have ever before."
We asked Karp to share his experience and offer some advice to help other entrepreneurs just moments after he won the 2009 Silicon Alley Award for Most Loved Product or Service at Wednesday's Startup 2009 event, which was part of Internet Week New York.
In the video, he also talks about the toll fundraising can take on a CEO, calling it a "mental sink." Karp recently raised a $4.5 million Series B from New York's Union Square Ventures and Boston's Spark Capital. (Click here to watch an earlier video with us ...
We're celebrating Internet Week New York with a special edition of The Deal's award-winning Behind the Money online video show, in which we ask entrepreneurs and venture capitalists why they love New York.
Special thanks to our guests: Drop.io's Sam Lessin, Spark Capital's Bijan Sabet, KPG Ventures' Dave Hill, Buddy Media's Mike Lazerow, NY Tech Meetup's Nate Westheimer and mediabistro.com's Laurel Touby. And big thanks to The Deal's George White and Maria Woehr for conceiving, producing and editing the piece.
Internet Week New York, which kicks off Monday, is a festival of events saluting New York's thriving Internet industry. It is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences in cooperation with the City of New York and The Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting. Like the Web itself, Internet Week is open: Anyone can attend events, and anyone can throw events citywide.
Look for us at Silicon Alley Insider's Startup 2009, where 10 startups will compete for a $25,000 ...
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Because of Time and Space is a film about ex-lovers (Maura and Allen) who get back together for a weekend. Maura and Allen dated for unspecified amount of time, in the past. Since their break-up, Maura has had a string of one night stands and short-lived relationships. It's taken her some time, but she's realizing this isn't the path she wants to go down. Allen, on the other hand, has been in a committed relationship for awhile. His current relationship looks good on the surface, but when you look closer - it lacks that spark. After breaking up with her latest fling, during sex, Maura calls Allen and they make plans to meet in Manhattan.
Spark acquires Engage.com. Sugar Daddy sites criticized. New Facebook apps from GenePartner and DateRaters. eHarmony lawsuit. Matchmakers doing ok according to CNN. Virtual singles marry online, and Courtland Brooks blog launches.
http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/covert-small-gps-tracking-device.html - BrickHouse Security resident Security Specialist Gina Mobilio takes a look at the Spark Nano. This is the world's smallest and most powerful GPS real-time tracking device available that's water resistant, battery powered, and completely covert. Use it for gps vehicle tracking, or tracking an employee or family member. With unlimited tracking, this super sensitive GPS tracker will continually track even in low reception areas where other GPS trackers fail.
One small bar of soap can spark many reflectionsâspiritual, sociologic, entropologic and ecologicâaccording to Claudio Oliver, who has spent 20 years working with the urban poor, and on community development, dental and medical projects, team equipping, and teaching in Curitiba, Brazil. Over the past five years, interviewer Spencer Burke has developed a friendship with Claudio and recently, Spencer visited Claudio in Brazil to see first-hand his innovative, provocative and practical ministry. They walk viewers through the process of making soap out of used cooking oil, telling viewers, âAll this got started because we were talking about holiness.â Distributed by Tubemogul.
"We're looking for entrepreneurs that are taking on these very ambitious projects and that have passion about what they're doing and are really trying to do something very big," says Spark Capital general partner Bijan Sabet in Part 2 of The Deal's Behind the Money video interview. Spark recently launched a new seed-stage program to nurture entrepreneurs in New York and Boston, where Spark is based.
"It's not like we're sitting around at Spark, saying, 'We'd love to find a company that's building a widget for Facebook'. We're looking for something really different."
As an example of a startup with a big idea, Sabet points to Spark portfolio company Boxee, which develops media center software and which raised $4 million in December from Spark and its frequent New York co-investor, Union Square Ventures.
Sabet, who is 40, points out that entrepreneurs in their 20s and early 30s have a competitive advantage: They have never known a world without the Internet.
About Spark portfolio company founders David K...
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Good Hope Road Movie from Lisa Wingate's book "Good Hope Road". Twenty-one-year-old Jenilee Lane, whose dreams are as narrow as the sky is wide, is the last person to expect anything good to come out of the tornado that rips across the Missouri farmland surrounding her home. But some inner spark compels her to take action-to rescue her elderly neighbor, Eudora Gibson, from the cellar in which she's been trapped. To make her way to the nearby town of Poetry, where the townspeople have begun to gather in the only building left standing.
Bijan Sabet, co-founder of Boston's Spark Capital, talks about partnering with other VC firms, especially New York's Union Square Ventures in this episode of The Deal's Behind the Money video show. Spark and Union Square co-invest in Boxee, Bug Labs, Covestor, Tumblr Inc. and Twitter Inc.
To get a feel for the mechanics of co-investing, we asked Sabet to walk us through how he met David Karp, the 22-year-old founder of Tumblr Inc., and introduced him to Union Square Ventures co-founder Fred Wilson.
In December, the two firms invested $4.5 million in Tumblr, following up on a $775,000 round the previous year that included TV producer Fred Seibert, entrepreneurs Jakob Lodwick and Martin Varsavsky, as well as Betaworks, an innovative incubator in New York.
To find the next generation of Twitters and Tumblr, last week Spark announced a new seed-stage program called Start@Spark. Through the new program, Spark will invest up to $250,000 each in promising startups in the Northeast.
Short selling hedge funds lit the spark that led to the global economic meltdown. Now they want to help craft the laws Congress will pass to fix our broken regulatory system. That's insane.
Bio: Part alchemist, part sherpa, part director and part producer, Jim is a trusted advisor and accomplished business leader. He brings a diverse set of lenses and perspectives to his work; focused on the union of brand offering and experience design. Jim has a depth of real-world experience as an architectural and graphic designer, musician, artist, chef and passionate student of the remarkableness of life. This empowers him to bring a holistic, authentic and innovative flavor and tone to the development, evolution and revolution of brands and their expression. Paired with his design thinking, his ability to inspire people, to collaborate with organizations and to navigate the complexity of markets and business, Jim is able to dig deep into a companyâÃÂÃÂs soul, galvanize its essence and communicate its true potential. For over 30 years, Jim has helped businesses uncover their authenticity, generate the courage, create bold ideas and sustain the commitment to new, truly differentiating products, experiences and environments. His clients include Starbucks, the Tennis Corporation of America, Sears, Getty, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, AT&T, JDL Development Corporation, the Frank Russell Company, the Buona Companies, Florsheim, Exxon, Kraft, Tishman, WendyâÃÂÃÂs, among many others.
At Burger King Corporation, we're committed to both diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Diversity is about more than what we say or show on the surface; it's about progress through deeper changes. That's why we embrace and act daily on this commitment with three equally important components. 1. Diversity is our goal. We strive to create an environment where every person - as part of a workplace that celebrates individual differences - has a chance to impact the organization. 2. Diversity is a strategy. In valuing different perspectives and backgrounds we spark innovation and create a stronger business. 3. Diversity is our culture. Threads of integrity, communication, inclusiveness, and respect weave together to form the fabric that is our diverse culture.
Throughout life there are many obstacles presented in which we must find a way to overcome. Sometimes, it feels as though these challenges are far greater then our ability to prevail and therefore we become overwhelmed, finding it too difficult to sort things out on our own. We all hold a divine spark of God within us and hold a beauty that is unique to our individual selves despite our circumstances.
A pair of drivers hungering to get back to winning form went to victory lane, and another four raced their way into the season-opening Daytona 500. Listen as Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch, Tony Stewart, Jeremy Mayfield, AJ Allmendinger and Scott Riggs talk about their outings at Daytona International Speedway.
You go out & have a few drinks, get chatting to someone attractive, you both spark off each other, this could be a night to remember, so remember to use a condom or you might catch more than you bargain for!
Norma Jean performing live at The Lost Horizon in Syracuse NY.
Setlist:
1. vipers, snakes, and actors
2. the entire world is counting on me and they donât even know it
3. robots 3 humans 0
4. blueprints for future homes
5. birth of the anti mother
6. bayonetwork
7. surrender your sons
8. a small spark vs a great forest
9. and there will be a swarm of hornets
10. memphis will be laid to waste
Are Americans finally ready to downsize their rides for good? With up to a year long wait for the pint-size Smart car and the continued sales growth of the fashionable Mini brand, downsizing could be more than a fad. The switch to smaller, more fuel-efficient cars is something the US automakers are also working on.
At the Detroit Auto Show, General Motors bid for a piece of the growing segment by announcing production of the Chevrolet Spark. The all-new four-door mini-car, coming in at 11.5 feet in length, will be the company's smallest car to date. And with the unveiling of the new Ford Ka at the Paris Auto Show, Ford is considering manufacturing an American version of the popular European mini-car.
The Spark was originally shown as a concept at the 2007 New York Auto Show and GM's website was flooded with over 2 million votes to make it a real car. Sales will begin in Europe in the first quarter of 2010, followed by the US in 2011.
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This project seeks to portray black girls as the complex beings they are. Not just the two sides of the coin we see perpetuated in the media: saint or sinner. It also seeks to spark inter and intra-generational dialogue between black girls and women.
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Diamond Alignment Founder, Jacqueline Joy, speaks about how the Diamond Alignment Experience activates the vibration of our innate Joy…that spark of the Divine within us… and stimulates the outward manifestation of this Joy in many surprising ways. Jacqueline Joy emanates the ecstatic Joy that comes from her own Diamond Alignment and demonstrates the Self-Realization of a Being who has integrated Enlightenment into her everyday life.
Diamond Alignment is a Sacred Technology for the 21st Century that uses the Internet to deliver a revolutionary online phenomenon called the Diamond Alignment Experience. This Spiritual Energy Transmission keeps us charged with the vibration of Joy, the Essence of the Diamond Self Within, and frees us to experience Joy without contradiction. Convenient yet profound, this exclusive multi-sensory energy experience clears the mind, relaxes the body and creates a sense of Inner Peace… in just 6 minutes.... whenever ...
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Due to the economy and the threats of recession I decided to put together 10 ways that you can make some extra money. Hey, I understand that finances are tight right now and that many people are scared about paying their bills, job security and the financial status of America. So I wanted to put together these ten tips to help ease your mind, and to spark your creativity so you can be relieved of some of your stress.
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Season 2 Episode 8: Bad Spark. The psychotic Protoform X crashes on Earth and attacks Maximal and Predacon alike. Eventually Megatron removes his spark, using it to blackmail him into joining the Predacons under a new name: Rampage. During this time, Silverbolt and Blackarachnia start to have a relationship.
Season 2 Episode 2: Coming of the Fuzors [Part 1]. Two Fuzors - Silverbolt and Quickstrike - are created from damaged stasis pods, and Megatron is able to convince them to join the Predacons. Meanwhile Tarantulas is able to download his spark back into his new Transmetal body. Dinobot steals the Golden discs after he and Waspinator found out that the planet they are on is prehistoric Earth
The Decepticons move into action, but not before addressing each other as if they were strangers, then they attack the Hover Dam, Megatron gets free, an alternate rewrite is proposed where megatron GETS the All Spark! Meanwhile Bumble Bee shrinks the All Spark and they flee onto the highway!