Monthly Archives: July 2013

Awkward Black Girls & Pretty Grey Cubes: Funded Takes L.A.

New York is a literary city and also a place that you’re worried may kill you at any moment’s notice, so it’s little surprise that our first two episodes of Funded that we shot there carried similar themes. Fittingly, our trip to L.A. this past week featured cameras filming cameras …

Why Your Brainstorming Meetings Suck

Cross-posted from Fast Company In a reminder that “what happens at SXSW definitely does not stay at SXSW,” Fast Company captured part of a conversation I had with Behance cofounder Scott Belsky and has posted the high-quality surveillance footage here on the Internet for your viewing pleasure. In the video, …

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Thoughts on Finishing Side Projects and the Benefits of Openly Sharing Ideas

Hi! Craig here. This is a crosspost from my blog. Every maker I know has a handful of side projects they’re thinking about building. More often than not, the projects don’t end up completed. Here’s a handful of the excuses I’ve heard and definitely used at times: It’s already been …

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Hazmat Suits And An East Harlem Bookstore: Behind The Making Of Our Web Series, Funded

Two down, eight to go. That’s our progress bar for shooting the web series we’re making with AOL about successfully crowdfunded businesses. A few weeks ago, we went up to East Harlem to visit Aurora Anaya-Cerda, owner of La Casa Azul Bookstore. It’s the only independent bookstore in East Harlem …

What, Don’t All Startups Spend A Week In The South Of France Within Their First Year?

Leaping precariously across the 18-inch gap between the dock and the untethered ramp to a party yacht rented by a 22 year old CEO and his delegation of American college students studying abroad; Nearly ordering iced coffee from the hotel bar before realizing that the price, 12 euros or nearly …

3 Days In Berlin: We Came To Arrange A Comedy Hack Day, We Stayed To Trespass On Private Property

Scoring a business trip to Europe then only staying for four days would be like winning the lottery and only buying a new pair of shoes. It wasn’t gonna happen. So not long after AOL agreed to bring us to France to represent our series Funded at the Cannes Lions …