December 17, 2008

First Round Capital Holiday video

First Round Capital, one of Powerset’s investors, had a really innovative idea for a holiday card.
The partners in the fund visited all their portfolio companies around the world and danced with them. In this video, you can see Barney Pell and Lorenzo Thione dancing with Josh Kopelman in the lobby at Powerset.
I found it really touching to watch the joyful spirit in all these startup companies even in the tough economy that is making life difficult for startups.

Posted by barney on December 17, 2008 at 7:52 pm | 2 Comments

June 22, 2008

Talin’s 50th Birthday Party


Talin sharing his $5000 birthday experiment

Photo by Barney Pell.

Last night I hosted a party for my good friend Talin, to celebrate his 50th birthday. Talin had notified people that he had a surprise theme for the party, which turned out to be a social experiment. Talin contributed a pile of $100 bills, one for each year of his life, and said that the only rule was that the group of attendees had to figure out how to spend it before midnight. They even had to figure out the process by which the decisions would be made.

In the end, after hours of partying mixed with negotiation and philosophizing, the money was allocated approximately as follows:

Mike Arrington attended the party, his first time at Barney’s house, and was surprised to find how few of Talin’s friends read TechCrunch, but despite that he had a great time.
The whole photo set is here.

Posted by barney on June 22, 2008 at 1:26 pm | No Comments

February 28, 2008

Cyan Banister in Nerd Girl video

My friend Cyan is featured in this music video. It’s awesome!
I like the starting lyric: “Nerd girl, I don’t deserve you. I don’t get the references you allude to.”

Posted by barney on February 28, 2008 at 11:30 pm | No Comments

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