The venue and time of a planned L8 event is the only legitimate secret I can think of. But as soon as the first L8 portal pops up you are on the map. And the event is no longer a secret. If you are lucky the nearest high level enemy agent is at least 40 minutes away so you can hack to burnout. L8 Farms don't survive.
The concept of L8 farms and how it is done: no secret. People are doing it everywhere, and I get the impression they are doing it bigger and better everywhere else. NYC is in a clam, sort of.
The biggest mistake being made by both teams in NYC is the whole secrecy thing. And so NYC Ingress is nowhere on the global Ingress map. I think both teams should actively blog about their exploits and adventures.
A L8 Farm is not worth global attention. It is routine stuff. But when you create a cluster of 380 L8 Portals, that is worth global attention. And that did not happen in NYC. I think it would be impossible to create more than 100 simultaneous L8 portals by either side in NYC.
Simultaneous L8 farms, consecutive L8 farms: no secret. Neither team has enough active L8 agents to bring them about.
Attack events involving multiple agents to sweep specific sections of the city multiple times on the same day: that was an event idea I had. But I did not feel unique in coming up with it. Once there are more active agents on both sides we will see more such attack events.
Getting together to farm L7 and L8 portals is the most popular group activity. But both groups still leave attacking to solo action items. You go, you attack. Why do you need more than one person? That is the thinking. I don't agree with it. Larger the number of agents involved, more complex the attack event, greater the fun.
The concept of attack events involving many agents: no secret.
What is holding the game back is there are not enough agents in the field. Niantic, I want you to issue 10 more invites to all agents Level 2 and up.
And good sportsmanship is important. The mark of good sportsmanship is that you truly enjoy meeting agents from both sides. You play as hard as you can, but you then truly enjoy meeting the people you play against.
Pollenware is located in Kansas City, our second investment in the midwest in less than a year. We are finding lots of interesting networks and marketplaces all around the country and all around the world. The opportunities are certainly not limited to the bay area, boston, and NYC these days.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Paramendra Bhagat
Date: Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:11 PM
Subject: Courtney, seeking a Strategic Consulting gig
To: Courtney Bolton
Please help find some gigs. Thanks.
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From: Paramendra Bhagat
Date: Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:26 AM
Subject: Timo, seeking a Strategic Consulting gig
To: Timo Ewalds
Please help out if you can. Thanks.
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From: Paramendra Bhagat
Date: Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Subject: Shane, seeking a Strategic Consulting gig
To: Shane Snow
Hi Shane. Can you please help me land a gig? Thanks.
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From: Paramendra Bhagat
Date: Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:54 PM
Subject: Hi Eric, seeking a Strategic Consulting gig
To: eric@foursquare.com
Hi Eric.
I seek a short term strategic consulting gig with FourSquare. Can you
please help out?
Thanks.
Paramendra.
(I hope I got your email address right. I guessed it.)
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From: Paramendra Bhagat
Date: Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:16 PM
Subject: Hi Albert, requesting help
To: Albert Wenger
Hello Albert.
Can you please help me land a few strategic consulting gigs?
Thanks.
Paramendra.
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From: Paramendra Bhagat
Date: Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:15 PM
Subject: Fred, need a small help
To: Fred Wilson
Hi Fred.
If I manage to get through your inbox impossibilities and you do end
up reading this email....... Can you please help me land a few
strategic consulting gigs with some of your portfolio companies? Would
be a big help.
Thanks.
Paramendra.
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From: Paramendra Bhagat
Date: Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:10 PM
Subject: Seeking A Strategic Consulting Role
To: Dina Kaplan, Mike Hudack
Hi Dina. Hello Mike.
I was at your guys' Holiday party in 2010.
http://technbiz.blogspot.com/2010/12/bliptv-how-do-they-ever-get-anything.html
I seek a strategic consulting role with Blip.TV along these lines:
http://technbiz.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-politician-in-redmond.html More
about me here: http://www.linkedin.com/in/paramendra I was Barack
Obama's first full time volunteer in NYC, and the campaign in Chicago
picked up specific advice from me three times, each documented at my
Barackface blog.
I am someone working to launch a tech startup in the microfinance
space down the line. But I do consulting gigs right now.
I biked along Broadway, across the Williamsburg Bridge, straight to 8th Avenue, then up north on 8th, into Central Park, made a few circles, then came down 7th Avenue, then down Broadway from Times Square, then down 5th Avenue from Madison Square Park, then a few lefts, and back across Williamsburg Bridge.
A few blocks from Williamsburg Bridge one black dude remarked: "First time I seen a biker stop for a black male!"
I had not even seen them until then. I had just stopped, waiting for my turn to cross the road.
I waved as I sped away.
Biking through the city was a serene feeling. The best part was going up on 8th Avenue for as long as the bike lane had been painted green, and then it got wild close to 40th Street.
Biking is like walking - the exercise, the sight seeing - only faster.
I almost ran into a cab door. Some dude abruptly opened the cab door when I was almost next to the cab. I managed to avoid.
I had no plans to cross into Manhattan when I got the bike out: borrowed bike.
"There are not going be that many innovating companies coming from the web."
- Peter Thiel
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If you have a business or idea you have been contemplating and are looking for some type of assistance lets connect.
Shoot me an email to start.
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Peter Thiel: We Would Be A Lot More Careful About Funding Facebook Today. But…: What he meant is that he would think twice about investing in Facebook again because there are not going be that many innovating companies coming from the web. He thinks that a lot of the current big guys, like Google and Yelp, will be at the forefront of innovation and that there’s not many game-changers emerging that will innovate on the web. He tells Lacy, “Yelp of cellphones will be Yelp, the Google of cellphones will be Google.”
TechCrunch: How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today: Facebook will grow without needing to cut into Google’s core business of text ads, which are still 99% of Google’s profits ..... because Madison Avenue’s brands are less interested in targeting than they are in broadcasting to vast mother-loving buckets of demographically correct eyeballs, and Facebook has become the perfect platform for that. ...... Facebook already has more page views than Google. People already spend more time spent on Facebook than Google. ..... For many consumers, Facebook is the Web....... Facebook’s second-mover advantage affords the company the luxury of offering both types of Internet money-making product: Advertising and Commerce..... targeted lead-generations and subsequent transactions feed into the next series of even-better-targeted lead-generations and subsequent transactions ..... Television advertising represented $60 billion in 2009, or roughly one out of every two dollars spent on advertising in the U.S. ..... Facebook “is the equivalent for us to what TV was for marketers back in the 1960s. ..... brand advertising, which accounts for 90 percent of the $600 billion ad market. ..... . Yahoo just paid $1 per like, and buying fans is only going to get more expensive as the lifetime value of a “fan” is better understood. ...... Facebook Credits are poised to be this generation’s American Express .... Facebook is running the real mafia wars, taking 30% while letting the game developers do the heavy lifting. ..... PayPal’s 2009 revenue was $2.8 billion with 87 million active accounts ..... The most famous example of this in our industry is Microsoft’s inability to come to terms with the Web. When Windows and Office were making money hand over fist, text ads were as small as mouse balls. .... in 2004 when Jason Kottke boldly predicted that Google would become “the biggest and most important company in the world in 5-8 years” by selling access to the world’s biggest, best, and most cleverly utilized map of the web
“Those are Botanicalls. When they need to be watered, they send you a message on Twitter that says, ‘Water me, please.’ I have it hooked up with one of my plants at home.”
“There was a girl who had a project that was just three robots following each other around. I said, ‘I need to be here playing with this stuff. This is where I belong.’ ”
“See that foosball table? That was my first project at ITP. I put sensors in the goals. When you started playing, you swiped your NYU I.D. on the table and your stats got shown on the screens behind it. If you scored a goal, it would show.”
“I wanted to make the foosball table smarter. My professor”—Internet-culture guru Clay Shirky—“said to go analyze a source of social data. I had all the data from the foosball table, and I started thinking, What do friendship circles look like? Who are the outliers? Who doesn’t connect to other folks? I was trying to wrap my head around it. To make a foosball table smarter isn’t that different from ‘Let’s make a city smarter.’ ”
“It was just after their IPO. The New York office had just opened. A couple weeks into it, we were like, ‘Where are those engineers?’ We were hoping to have more of a team, but it was hard to get engineers.”
“The stuff is, first and foremost, meant for our friends. The same thing happened with Dodgeball. We were just building tools that were making New York more efficient for twenty of our closest friends. A lot of the ideas we shoot within Foursquare are also themes that I think already existed in Dodgeball. We’re just bringing them back to life in new ways, with smarter phones. At the time, Dodgeball was a New York application. It was meant for people to start off with 25 friends who could easily jump to five places in one night, which is definitely an urban type of experience. Foursquare has been changed so that it rewards a one-player experience—it gets more interesting as you add friends to it, but it’s definitely a better one-player experience. And it’s designed to work in New York, and then we kind of tweak it so it works everywhere else. I think it works best in really dense urban areas. New York’s been critiqued for a long time,” he continues. “The critique is that you can’t do stuff like this here, but I think part of the reason that our product is interesting and special is because it came out of New York. It was designed to solve problems in that context, and those solutions tend to work in other parts of the world pretty well. I think the product is better because we’re based here.”
“Usually what will happen is a user becomes the mayor somewhere and asks the manager, ‘What do I get for free?’ ” says Crowley. “The manager at first is usually like, ‘What are you talking about?’ They’ve never heard of Foursquare. Eventually, the manager will break down. It’s an opportunity for us to start turning users not just into evangelists but also salespeople. So the venues win—anytime someone checks in, it’s like a mini-ad. With the stats tools, you can find out who the most valuable users are to local businesses, like who’s sending their check-ins to Twitter. Maybe the owner wants to reach out to that person.”
“We have all these companies calling us, and it’s a little bit problematic—we have so much inbound business development that we can’t capture it all. Foursquare could eventually turn into not just an app that tells you how many bars your friends went to the night before but a more ambitious project about social relations. You build a game of it. The first person to do ten crazy things wins. It expands it beyond consumption. Maybe you get badges for meeting people or bringing people together.” So on Foursquare, based on the bands you saw in one week, maybe you met more people, and so maybe your happiness and your productivity is higher. So check-in is just the first part of this story.”
“There’s enough of a unique user experience within Foursquare that I don’t think someone can come along and replace it. It’s a different type of sharing. When Facebook changed its status updates, it didn’t kill Twitter. It might make us a little more focused.”
“We’re trying to figure out what the best thing is for us going forward. We’re raising financing and meeting with tons of different companies. Don’t read into it too much. It’s a business that can be a real business.”
“We could make it work as a stand-alone business, or it might turn out that there are other companies that would find us valuable. The future is rosy.”
Fred Wilson
“They’ve taken the Silicon Valley culture and infected hundreds of engineers with it, and those engineers are not likely to want to go work for Morgan Stanley or Goldman Sachs. It’s not in their DNA. That’s not what they’re going to do. They’re more likely to go into one of our start-ups.”
“I think it’s partially the Wall Street mentality. This is a very merchant town, a very commercial town. My partners and I make a decent living, but we manage $275 million. I have friends who are my same age who are partners at Goldman Sachs, or who are running their own hedge funds, who make ten to a hundred times more money than I make. I’m not upset about it, because I love what I do. But in New York, it’s about making money.”
“We have a two-year program here, and we try like hell to hire women into that program. We tell the world we’ve got this opening, and anybody who’s interested can apply, and it’s 90 percent men who even bother to apply. I mean, I don’t know what the problem is.”
“Here we were schlepping around, protecting the power of gatekeepers and publishers and Barry Diller. Fuck that. We really have to look at ourselves—the Internet is reinventing and rejiggering everything. We need to see ourselves as making a new New York.”
“In Silicon Valley, when an Apple or a Google happens, it inspires tons of people to not just be entrepreneurs or founders of start-ups. It encourages people to just work in the industry because they know if you’re an engineer for a company that does really well, then you do well. New York does not have its great success stories that become the stuff of legend and lore and myth.”
“Madison Avenue ain’t gonna be the heart of New York anymore. Wall Street’s not going to be the heart of New York anymore. Media’s not going to be the heart of New York anymore. New York is actually really hot. We’re inventing the shit that the world is using! This is a first. The fact is that New York didn’t create any great companies in the first tech boom. The closest thing was DoubleClick—but that was about making what old advertisers need.”
Intra-Portfolio Evangelist. Now that is a title that could work for me. I could argue I have already been doing that for USV for free. I believe Vint Cerf is Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. (Vint Cerf, Craig Mundie, Steve Wozniak)
..... the successful candidates will spend a couple of years with us and then move on to a start up.... the GM of the USV Network will focus primarily on supporting our portfolio of 28 web services companies. ....... Because of our focused approach, many of our portfolio companies face similar challenges as they work to create and sustain user engagement, recruit talent, build relationships with partners, or design, code, and operate web services at scale. So it's no surprise that our portfolio companies are learning from each other. We have tried to facilitate that learning by hosting meetups and mailing lists, but we believe that we can do so much more. .......build on our early work to create a useful and sustainable connection between the portfolio companies. Think of it as a community manager for the USV portfolio. The community is small, and private, but populated by people and companies who are having a big impact on the web...... Build on the current platform of mailing lists and meetups by identifying and implementing social tools and services that create value for USV portfolio companies.....Identifying best practices in areas like social media, search, and online marketing and sharing those in the network.....Helping the portfolio companies recruit and hire great employees.....Organizing events like the annual portfolio company CEO summit...... Fostering connection online and offline between the functional disciplines (marketing, sales, finance, etc) in each portfolio company....... Strong interpersonal skills ..... Proven ability to foster communication and cooperation among diverse individuals online and offline...... Hands on experience with light weight tools such as Wikis, mailing lists, etc...... Several years of management experience in flat, matrix, or loosely coupled organizations...... At Union Square Ventures, we basically do two things. We try to make the best investments we can and then we do everything we can to help our portfolio companies succeed....... At the end of the day, we will hire two people who will help us make investments and support the portfolio. If you think your skills would be a better fit in a slightly different alignment, feel free to make that point....... very important to us that the candidates for these positions share our conviction about the transformational potential of the web......be prepared to forcefully defend thoughtful positions on potential investments, but to also consider carefully the positions of others and to be intellectually honest and open to persuasion....... "net native" .....
Ideally, I would do one year, but I could do two. But two would be max.
Vision and group dynamics are my major strengths.
I got myself elected student body president at the number one liberal arts college in the (Bible Belt) South within six months of landing as an international student. When I landed I could not have told you the cultural differences between Kentucky and California. I spoke so fast, people asked me if I was from New York. One friend who voted for me later told me, "I did not understand a word you said, but you sounded so excited I figured you might do something, so I voted for you." They had to change the constitution so I could run as a freshman.
In 1999 I was one of the founding members of Chaitime.com that raised 25 million dollars before it succumbed to the nuclear winter. We were trying to be the premier South Asian online community. We had offices in Philadelphia, Toronto, London, Mumbai.
There is a concrete mathematical theory called the butterfly effect. A butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon forest could be the reason a cyclone hit Bangladesh. What happened in Nepal in April 2006, January-February 2007, and February 2008, and more recently in February 2009 were political cyclones. I was the butterfly flapping my wings in New York City. In April 2006, over a period of 19 days, about eight million people out of the country's 27 million came out into the streets to shut the country down completely to force a dictator out.
And I see things. I got vision.
I am a Net Native.
I don't live in America. I live on the Net. I am a Netizen. America is Europe, the Internet is America. I said that over a decade ago.
I did Nobel Peace Prize quality work a few years back for the democracy and social justice movements in Nepal. I did my work entirely online. Nepal is the poorest country outside of Africa.
I am the second richest farmer in my neighborhood on Farmville. Was the richest. A few weeks back someone with more XP than me befriended me, but he has a few weeks at best.
I am more than a Net Native. I am a Net Entrepreneur. I don't want to just live online. Online is where work is. After USV it is a startup for me, my own startup.
I was early on Geocities. I was also early on Hotmail, Flickr, LinkedIn, Friendster, Gmail, Wave, among the other obvious names.
"If you think your skills would be a better fit in a slightly different alignment, feel free to make that point."
I think I am a great fit for the Intra-Portfolio Evangelist position. Other than what you have already mentioned, and what you have mentioned does cover what I am about to say, but I'd like to go ahead and specify nevertheless.
I want to make a case that Twitter needs to go public before Facebook, and it needs to do so this year, earlier the better. I have a few ideas on how FourSquare can cement its number one position in the location space. I think it is very important USV get into Chatroulette early and help it cement its number one position in the random connections space. And I want to help find the next FourSquare, just be on the lookout.
I hope this is not a salary only job. I hope you can add elements that give it an entrepreneurial feel. I am assuming there is a decent six figure salary, but that there is also some kind of a performance-based percentage cut of sorts. I'd be eager to suggest something on that pertaining to Twitter. And I hope you are not too rigid on office hours. Working long hours is second nature to me. But this job feels pretty citywide to me, and also bi-coastal. And I expect to be reading a ton of books on the clock in preparation for some specific projects I have in mind. A Kindle as a business expense item?
I am excited. What can I say? I feel like Bill Clinton when he was applying for colleges. The dude applied to just one school. Georgetown was in DC, it was a good school, and it had a strong foreign service program. I hope you hire me. Summer is absolutely beautiful in New York.
This video is from 2005.
LinkedIn tells me all five USV people are circle two to me: Fred Wilson (3 shared connections), Brad Burnham (2), Albert Wenger (4), Eric Friedman (2), and Andrew Parker (5 shared connections). Looking forward to bringing all of them into circle one.
I heard about the Social Media Week (@socialmediaweek) at the January NY Tech MeetUp - Scott (@heif) announced it (I became friends with Scott when I was new in town and the NYTM was less than 10 people at a bar on the Lower East Side, I told him meeting him was like moving to LA and meeting Tom Cruise, for me, since MeetUp took off with Dean 2004, and I - and Barack - were Deaniacs; I was predicting a Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan thing for Dean, but did not realize it would happen so soon; Dean 2004 was organized around MeetUps) - so it is only fitting I talk about the week within a NY Tech MeetUp framework.
I did five events on Monday, the first day, starting with the press conference early in the morning, and I didn't even have a press pass.
"Your name is not on the list."
"Are you sure? Because I did RSVP."
14 Events
I did 14 events in all. The founder of Social Media Week Toby (@tobyd) was impressed. That is how I got into the final event of the week, the fabulous party Friday evening. I danced the way I like to: I gotta sweat it out.
After having checked into Grand Central a few times, I started feeling like maybe I am running for Mayor of Grand Central. But I am pretty sure some daily commuter is Mayor of that big, fancy place.
Jacob Brody
My Social Media Week started with a new friendship with Jacob Brody (@anwaraizer). This white guy actually raps! He has his own rhyme down. He is with VentureBeat. I showed up at the Paley Center. I was not in a mood for breakfast, but figured some orange juice might lift me up, so as I made my way, I looked at this guy. When close I realized he is not who I thought he was. Back with some orange juice, he looks at me and goes, "Are you Paramendra?" I look at him again. He still was not who I thought he was. But he said my name.
"I was looking at you because you look awfully like a friend of mine by the name of Sam ..."
"Sam Rosen. Proximity."
"You know the guy?"
We talk along. He mentions the First Round Capital guy. I said I have met him, briefly. He presented at the New York Tech MeetUp after a day spent with entrepreneurs. A few people accompanied him that day. Jacob said he was one of them. Miko Mercer was another. And, of course Jacob also knew Miko. (@mikomercer) Miko is with a company that sounds like it might be a militia organization.
Jacob and I went together to our next event.
Drop.io
Drop.io is kind of like MeetUp, kind of like FourSquare, only older than FourSquare. These are serious tech companies on their way to becoming global brand names and in the process putting New York squarely on the tech map.
Dropio is in Dumbo, Directly Under the Manhattan Brooklyn Overpass. Their office space is great. It is a loft. I just love the idea of all that open space. The whole block or two, the building, the whole space felt like a blank canvass on which tech startups could congregate, grow, mature, take off. The locale has that tech startup feeling.
Companies like Dropio are the bridge from the current PC era to what I call the IC era. And it has been and will be successful, but it will have to reinvent itself as a company once the transition is mostly done and we are squarely in the IC era. IC, Internet Computer.
I had tweeted back and forth one or two times with one Dropio guy during the weeks prior: @sgreenwood. So before Jacob and I enter the Dropio space, we decide on a quick restroom run. You never know. Out comes some Sam. Jacob being the VentureBeat guy recognizes him. "Hey Sam!"
Did I hear Sam? I am thinking this is it, this is that Greenwood fellow.
"What is your last name?" I asked. He said something not Greenwood. False alarm, I figured. Later I realized that was Sam Lessin (@lessin), none other than the founder of Dropio. A few days later I also found he runs a great MeetUp that is rather large that I had never heard of before.
I finally met Steve - not Sam, it just so happens - Greenwood at the party Friday evening. I had seen him at a few events, his face looked familiar, so I approached him. What's one more introduction after having done 14 events, I thought.
Once he said he was with Dropio, I asked him what his name was. When he said what that was, I said, no kidding, we have tweeted back and forth before. I shared the Sam Lessin story with him. He thought that was hilarious. He shared with me that a lot of people think the two are brothers. They just go ahead and assume.
"So which of you is the older brother?"
I thought that was so funny.
Before I left the Dropio event, I had a small chat with Lessin. Hey, drop by any time, he said as I parted. It sounded like poetry, considering what the name of the company he founded is. When they run out of files to drop, what if they start dropping people, real people? I think I will stay away. I will go to his MeetUps though.
"Why did you do this, of all the other things you could have done? Why file sharing? Why this particular thing?"
He said there were three considerations. I forgot the first one. The second one was, it had to have been a billion dollar market. Three, Google should not get into it. If I needed proof Silicon Valley won the dot com round. (Presenting At The Dot Com Hatchery)
FourSquare
When people say FourSquare is the next Twitter, I totally get it conceptually, although I have admitted I was late to the party. I got it conceptually, but did not think it was for me. But Social Media Week was my FourSquare week. I was checking in left and right.
There was a Haiti related event Monday afternoon at the New York Times, Andrew Rasiej (@rasiej) moderating. It was a powerful event. I got to ask the first question later. Ann Curry was on the panel. I stayed around to meet her in person later.
"I am sorry, but I have never owned a television. I first learned of your existence when I was watching videos online from the 140 conference. I was very impressed. So I am honored to be meeting you in person like this."
I get the impression she is major on TV. How major? Does she read news every night?
She (@anncurry) now follows me on Twitter. You better believe. She has over a million followers, and she follows about 650.
NY Tech MeetUp: February 2010
I was a few minutes late. I took my seat. Later we both realized - about 40 minutes later - that I had randomly placed myself right in front of Vamsi Sistla. (Whuffie: Vamsi Sistla) He had to leave early, so I stepped outside for a few minutes for a brief chat, and to say hello to his two Indian friends. Vamsi is a good guy to know when you are in the process of raising early money. Vamsi called me up the following morning and gave me some great fundraising advice.
Scott was on stage. I have never seen this guy more impressive, on stage, in person, or one on one. The dude was in his element. He gave a great talk and set tone for the rest of the evening. The talk was uplifting, and bold. At one point he said, "some stupid iPhone app you might be working on." The guy is a die hard Steve Jobs fan, so don't get him wrong. It is just that he feels tech entrepreneurs should look to solve some real problems, the bigger the better.
My personal favorite was: * Jacqueline Novogratz, Acumen Fund http://www.acumenfund.... Though I thought both Scott Heiferman and Clay Shirky spoke well, and the Choir was all energy.
At the after party I got to meet Shana (@shanacarp) who made it official: she is the number one commenter at Fred Wilson's blog, my favorite solo blog, AVC.com. Also met Carmen Magar: I told her Magar was an ethnic group in Nepal. Summer Nemeth has Imagine Election. (@imagineelection)
Harlem
I met a guy at that first press conference who was wearing a shirt that shouted out loud: I Love Black Women. He got me into a Wednesday event in Harlem that was full but that I wanted to get into. I got there. It was the fanciest venue of the week. L Martin Johnson Pratt is the name.
Women In Social Media: The Panel
This was the old Bear Stearns building, now JP Morgan. 98% of the audience was female, and later I realized 1.5% were panelist boyfriends. I felt special being there. Collectively speaking this was the most impressive panel of the week. Neha Chauhan - that is an Indian name - moderated. Alexa Hirschfeld, Meghan Muntean, Casey Carter, Jordan Reid were on the panel. I am now Facebook friends with two of them. Thanks for accepting. (@caseyscarter, @jordanberkow, @meghanmuntean)
I asked my question to Casey: "I have been blogging for years. I have a lot of followers on Twitter, actually I have more followers than Donald Trump, and I log into Facebook every day. So I feel like I have been eating all my vegetables. But I am not on Tumblr. Do you think I am missing out?"
I met another guy at that first press conference event who approached me like he knew me, although we had never met. I got to ride around in a small van through large swathes of Brooklyn Thursday afternoon and for a few minutes got to sing something I did not think I was capable of. This was the most out of the box event of the week.
I met Joe and Iara again at the party Friday, them and one singer who is perhaps a regular on the Dollar Van Demo. That party is where the picture up top comes from.
Sunshine NY
I got introduced to Vacanti last year over email by a Morgan Grice who I have never met. Finally I got to meet Vacanti (@vacanti) in person at Sunshine. He was on the panel.
Kiss N Fly
I saw Toby at the press conference. I talked to him the following day at the Personal Democracy Forum event. He asked if I was going to the next event - the NY Tech MeetUp - and I said yes. I saw him again at the New York Times event Friday afternoon. I got him to put me on the invite list for the "by invitation only" party Friday evening. Who says it is crowded at the top? (Party Photos)
It was one of the best parties ever. I liked it that I was drinking but not alcohol. She asked me what I was drinking, I said I did not know the name. The Whole Foods free food was great. The music was great. One particular clip hit close to home.
I met great people, one of them was The Onion guy Baratunde. (@baratunde) We have known each other a while.
I said to Baratunde, one day I was surfing around, and I came across this podcast where you had been interviewed by some kind of a morning show person, so I listened to the whole thing. I did not get to the podcast from your Facebook page, but just while surfing around.
"I talk a lot, and sometimes they record it," he said.
"Maybe I log into Facebook less often these days or something, but you don't seem to show up in my Facebook stream as often as you used to," I said.
He said he had hit the 5,000 friends limit of Facebook and he was pissed at Facebook. He wanted that limit lifted. Or he could try and use a Fan page thing, he said.
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took off with Dean 2004, and I - and 
thing for Dean, but did not realize it would happen so soon; Dean 2004 was organized around MeetUps) - so it is only fitting I talk about the week within a NY Tech MeetUp framework.
Week Toby (@
a few times, I started feeling like maybe I am running for Mayor of 
Week started with a new friendship with Jacob Brody (@
might lift me up, so as I made my way, I looked at this guy. When close I realized he is not who I thought he was. Back with some orange juice, he looks at me and goes, "Are you Paramendra?" I look at him again. He still was not who I thought he was. But he said my name.
and in the process putting 
squarely on the tech map.
Brooklyn Overpass. Their office space is great. It is a loft. I just love the idea of all that open space. The whole block or two, the building, the whole space felt like a blank canvass on which tech startups could congregate, grow, mature, take off. The locale has that tech startup feeling.
Computer.
dollar market. Three, Google should not get into it. If I needed proof Silicon Valley won the dot com round. (
is the next Twitter, I totally get it conceptually, although I have admitted I was late to the party. I got it conceptually, but did not think it was for me. But 
Week was my FourSquare week. I was checking in left and right.
was on the panel. I stayed around to meet her in person later.
online from the 140 conference. I was very impressed. So I am honored to be meeting you in person like this."
advice. 
app you might be working on." The guy is a die hard Steve Jobs fan, so don't get him wrong. It is just that he feels tech entrepreneurs should look to solve some real problems, the bigger the better.
Nemeth has 
Black Women. He got me into a Wednesday event in Harlem that was full but that I wanted to get into. I got there. It was 
every day. So I feel like I have been eating all my vegetables. But I am not on Tumblr. Do you think I am missing out?" 
Thursday afternoon and for a few minutes 
Forum event. He asked if I was going to the next event - the NY Tech MeetUp - and I said yes. I saw him again at the 
event Friday afternoon. I got him to put me on the invite list for the "by invitation only" 
free food was great. The music was great. One particular clip hit close to home.