NYTECH: 4 Founders, 4 Ways to a Million – Focus!
Jennifer Walzer (BUMI), Manish Chowdhary (GoECart), Maya Mikhailov (GPShopper) By Lauren Keyson This week the New York Tech Council brought together four entrepreneurs whose companies have surged over...
View ArticleEtsy CEO Talks Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Senate Committee Meeting
Chad Dickerson, CEO of Brooklyn- based Etsy, discussed the trends in innovation and entrepreneurship at the Senate Steering and Outreach Committee meeting in Washington DC earlier this week. Mr....
View ArticleSabala Compares SF and NY Tech Scenes
Aubrey Sabala, Marketing and Communications officer for Sailthru, a NY-based behavioral communications company, wrote an article for TechCrunch last week about her decision to migrate from Silicon...
View ArticleMore Startups Choosing NY over Silicon Valley
Twilight over New York, NY (Photo credit: Grufnik) In the past few years, a growing number of startups have seen NY as a viable alternative to Silicon Valley. This increase is fueled by the rise of...
View ArticleNJ Hopes to be Next Silicon Alley
Hoboken. (Photo credit: KalasMannen) Hoboken, NJ is hoping to stretch Silicon Alley across the Hudson River. The city now has a tech meetup with 2,160 members, and City Council is set to vote on...
View ArticleSilicon Alley’s Boundaries Being Expanded
Empire State Building (Photo credit: b00nj) The boundaries of Silicon Alley are being expanded because more startups are looking for cheaper rent outside of lower Manhattan, according to the New York...
View ArticleStartup Culture More Fun Than Traditional NY Workplaces
English: Union Square Manhattan New York City 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As tech firms become more prevalent in NY, a California-like casual culture is also taking hold. According to Sean Carroll,...
View ArticleTech Firms Opt for Silicon Alley Over Office Parks
Looking south from Top of the Rock Newly forming tech centers are springing out of suburban environments and moving to cities like NY, who is home to more than 500 startups. According to author Richard...
View ArticleNY’s Academy for Software Engineering Opens Doors
NY’s Academy for Software Engineering (AFSE), has started classes for its inaugural class of 100 9th graders. Students are taking classes in computer science and statistics, and are encouraged to...
View ArticleNew Startups Demo at New York Tech Meetup #NYTM
Image via CrunchBase A sold out audience of more than 800 people filled NYU’s Skirball Auditorium for the New York Tech Meetup recently. A number of new tech startups had 3-5 minutes to showcase their...
View ArticleFlybridge Capital Opens #NYRealEstate Office
Image via CrunchBase Flybridge Capital Partners opened an office in Manhattan after investing in multiple NY startups, like 33Across and 10gen. Partner, David Aranoff, leads the firm and is currently...
View ArticleNY Expands Tech Sector to Wall St. #nyctech
Bottom of Wall Street from FDR (Photo credit: SheepGuardingLlama) Move over banks. The tech sector is coming to Wall Street. H.E.L.M., or Hire + Expand in Lower Manhattan, is NY’s latest initiative to...
View ArticleBI’s List of the 100 Coolest People in #nyctech
MUNICH, GERMANY – JANUARY 23: Henry Blodget, CEO and Editor-In Chief of Business Insider, speaks during the Digital Life Design conference (DLD) at HVB Forum on January 23, 2012 in Munich, Germany. DLD...
View ArticleGeneral Assembly Receives $10M in New Funding
General Assembly raised $10 million in new funding this week, according to a recent SEC filing. The NY-based tech education startup declined to reveal the funders to TechCrunch for this new cash...
View Article#Sandy Forces NY Tech Employees to Work from Home
With most of Lower Manhattan still without power, tech companies in Silicon Alley are also dark. Google closed is gigantic Chelsea office and told its 2,000 NYC employees to stay home until further...
View ArticleCo-Working Spaces Assisting Startups Affected by #Sandy #Sandycoworking
Image by Charlie O’Donnell via CrunchBase After Charlie O’Donnell, founder of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, tweeted that local co-working spaces should share information about available work space with the...
View ArticleNY Tech Scene Responds to #Sandy with Fundraiser/Hackathon #NYTechResponds
Hackathon (Photo credit: rooneg) In a response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy various organization of the NY tech community are organizing a 48-hour hackathon next week on November 7-8,...
View ArticleNY Tech Runs on Diesel this Week #Sandy
diesel fuel pump on the engine (Photo credit: Wikipedia) When power went out in Lower Manhattan this week due to Hurricane Sandy, Fog Creek Software’s data center switched to an emergency diesel...
View ArticleGrowing NY Tech Sector to Challenge Silicon Valley, Says Cutler #CornellNYCTech
NY is atop a list of cities challenging Silicon Valley for tech supremacy, according to Zach Cutler of The Cutler Group. In an op-ed in The Huffington Post, Cutler states that the city is the...
View ArticleNY Tech Community Builds #Sandy Relief Tools
After | Hurricane Sandy Brooklyn, New York | Frankenstorm (Photo credit: MichaelTapp) During Hurricane Sandy, government officials used a new alert system, which contacted anyone within an affected...
View ArticleNJ’s LiveU Raises $27M
PAX Prime 2012 (Photo credit: Chase N.) LiveU, based in Hackensack, NJ, recently raised $27 million in funding. The company’s 4G LTE-equipped LU70 backpack has become the go-to for companies looking to...
View Article#SiliconAlley Cool vs #SiliconValley Nerds
As NY’s tech and startup industry continues to grow, it is becoming more confident about being compared to Silicon Valley. NY founders are taking pride in the differences between the culture of the two...
View ArticleStartup CEO “Fires” Herself After Company Shutters
Welcome to Loosecubes (Photo credit: ajleon) Cambell McKeller started Loosecubes, which consisted of shared office space for freelance and mobile workers, three years ago in Brooklyn. Now it’s shutting...
View Article25 Rising NYC Startups to Watch Out For
buildings (Photo credit: meeshypants) After a recent PrivCo report that put NY-based startups second behind Silicon Valley in mergers and acquisitions, Business Insider has created a list of 25 NYC...
View ArticleThomas Pynchon to Write Book Set in Silicon Alley
August 16, 2007 (Photo credit: brandoncripps) The NY York Silicon Alley tech scene will serve as the setting for the next Thomas Pynchon book, according to The New York Times Dealbook. The novel, which...
View ArticleNY Startup #Yodle May Soon Gain IPO
Court Cunningham/Image via CrunchBase Silicon Alley ad company Yodle recently announced that he feels that an IPO is likely in the future of the company. Yodle is making steps towards a public offering...
View Article#SiliconAlley Venture CoFounder Talks #NYCTech
New York City (Photo credit: kaysha) Having worked in both Silicon Alley and Silicon Valley, RRE Ventures Co-founder Jim Robinson knows how each city works. Using that knowledge, he told Forbes that...
View Article#MadeinNY Campaign Promotes #NYCTech at #SXSW2013 Conference
Made in NY (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Shortly after it’s launch, the “Made in New York” marketing campaign has traveled to the South by Southwest Interactive technology festival in Texas in order to...
View ArticleFive #NYTech Companies Receive Grants to Move Downtown
7 World Trade Center (Photo credit: joseph a) In an effort to lure more technology companies into the Lower Manhattan financial district, the NYCEDC has offered five of 300 companies $250,00 each to...
View Article#MadeinNY Media Center to Open in Brooklyn
Made in NY (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Silicon Alley will soon become home to the 18,000-square-feet media center for the “Made In New York” initiative from Mayor Bloomberg’s Office. The center will have...
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