Justin Wohlstadter navigated easily through the crush of long-legged beauties and laptop jockeys crowding the lobby of the Ace Hotel on a chilly Thursday night. His informal office when he’s not in the U.K. doing postgraduate work at Oxford, the wood-paneled bar is also his hunting ground for tech deals to fund as director of Read More
In a Dec. 15 interview with David Rose, the prominent angel investor as chairman of the New York Angels, the founder of Rose Tech Ventures explained why the New York Tech Meetup has become a crucial opportunity for the city. "With the financial crisis, there was a beginning of a movement, realizing Read More
David Rose, chairman of the New York Angels, a consortium of investors to new-media start-up companies, remembers a time when he was losing his best Internet and software engineers to big-time Wall Street firms offering six-figure salaries and fat bonus checks. “We’re paying them a decent Web 2.0 start-up salary, but then they Read More
In the fall of 2002, during the run up to the war in Iraq, Oprah Winfrey devoted a portion of one of her shows to answering a pressing international question. Do the Iraqi people want America to liberate them from Saddam Hussein?
Ms. Winfrey posed the question to Entifadh Qanbar, a spokesperson for the Iraqi Read More
Recently, Isabel Rose—writer, singer, actress, all-around extrovert—bought a copy of Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World’s Great Family Businesses, a book by David Landes, to do a little research for a forthcoming work of fiction. “Dynastic situations are about shared wealth, and I’m very interested in ruptures in families, those kind of cataclysmic breaks Read More
For a man with an ambition to reshape New York’s skyline, Joe Rose has spent a prodigious amount of his time lately tending to grassroots. Several evenings a week, New York’s young Planning Commission chairman slips into the back seat of a dark city-issued Crown Victoria, on his way to another classroom or community center, Read More
