One night in November 2009, at Damon Dash’s short-lived Tribeca basement venue, Under 100, Alexis Krauss, one-half of the buzzy Brooklyn noise-pop duo Sleigh Bells, walked up to her microphone stand and stood timidly before her audience. Derek Miller, the band’s guitarist, songwriter and beat-maker, was right next to her, bouncing on the balls of Read More
The Zagats- the restaurant review company, known for their relic red books, never took off online
Julia Allison- Pioneer of the hot pink ‘lifecast’ blog concept, NonSociety has become nonentity
Laurel Touby- Founder of MediaBistro, has gone the way of the newspaper industry
Nouriel Roubini- economist who predicted the recession every year for past decade, celebrates with the young ladies
Bob Pittman- Formerly Mr. MTV, now of the Pilot Group, funded Daily Candy and Thrillist
Barry Diller- IAC honcho, cultivates entrepreneurs in riverside HQ
Susan Lyne- Gilt Groupe, Martha Stewart doppelganger
John Caplan- Ex Model in Chief of Ford Models, now runs OpenSky
Jenny Carter Fleiss – the 25-year-old dreamt up Rent the Runway, a designer clothing rental company, at Harvard Business School
Nick Denton- Dark lord of Gawker Media and anointer of breakfast at Balthazar
Henry Blodget- Business Insider and the Silicon Alley 100 list. Now fine with the SEC
Peter Rojas- Engadget, once a writer for print magazines
Dan Abrams- Mediaite, known for his imdb-only dating habits
Peter Kafka- softy Read More
Fabrice Grinda- OLX, the classified ad guy can be found writing endless blog entries about being rejected by 98% of the 3650 women he asked out in a year
Max Haot- Livestream, now dates Rachel Sterne
Marcy Simon- publicist, Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s “sometime girlfriend”
Emily Gould- Ex Gawkerite, infamously rolled her eyes at Jimmy Kimmel
Karin Klein- VP at big-time VC Softbank Capital, never misses a good techie party
Dina Kaplan- co-founder of Blip.tv, launched the Founders Club
Nate Westheimer- AnyClip, also behind NY Tech MeetUps
Neil Vogel- Recognition Media, founded the Webby Awards, or ‘Oscars of the Internet’
Chris Dixon- Hunch, self-described ‘urbane, sophisticated and dashing,’ now looking to invest in smaller startups
