The Andreessen Horowitz Effect
Marc Andreessen, left, and Ben Horowitz at their office in Menlo Park, Calif. In the three short years since Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz set up shop as venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road,...
View ArticleThe SEC’s Crowdfunding Conundrum
When President Obama signed the JOBS Act last April, one of the most controversial and potentially far-reaching provisions was giving startups the ability to raise money through crowdfunding. Private...
View ArticleGhosts Of Detroit
By Erick Schonfeld What draws creative types to Detroit? It’s all the possibilities. I got a tour of the city yesterday from Jerry Paffendorf, a local resident and entrepreneur I met on Twitter....
View ArticleReimagining Detroit
by Erick Schonfeld Where most of us see abandoned lots and vacant buildings, Jerry Paffendorf sees a blank canvas. Paffendorf drove me around Detroit when I was there last week for the Techonomy...
View ArticlePutting A Human Face on Big Data
by Erick Schonfeld Big Data is a hard concept to grasp because it applies to so many things in our digital world: the exabytes of information produced every year, the digital exhaust of a billion cell...
View ArticleTurning Makers Into Middle Class Manufacturers
When you walk through TechShop just outside of Detroit, you see all sorts of contraptions and manufacturing projects—from bipedal robot legs hanging off a wooden stand to super-stretch cargo bikes that...
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