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| Jun 23, 2014 | Bitcoin and Charities Were Made For Each Other, They Just Don't Know It Yet | On the evening of July 14th at 6:30pm, I am going to give a talk on the subject of Bitcoin and philanthropic giving. It will take place at NYU’s Eisner and Lubin Auditorium and we are selling tickets to the event (in bitcoin of course) to r... |
| Jun 3, 2014 | FiveStar Finds The Best Products On Amazon From Any Category On Any Budget | Do a lot of Amazon shopping? Then you’re going to dig this: a new website called FiveStar helps you uncover the best products on Amazon in any category and organized by budget. So for example, you can find the best coffee makers that are $1... |
| Dec 3, 2013 | Intel Makes Another Acquisition: Hacker League, A Platform For Hackathons, Is Now A Part Of Mashery | Intel’s acquisition spree continues apace, with the latest being made to augment one of its other recent acquisitions. It is buying Hacker League, a popular platform for managing hackathons, which will be incorporated with the API managemen... |
| Oct 21, 2013 | University of Maryland wins fall 2013 Major League Hacking season | By 108 points, the Terrapin Hackers from the University of Maryland, College Park, are the champions of the fall 2013 season of Major League Hacking.
Major League Hacking is the brain-child of a 23-year-old former SendGrid employee and 2012... |
| Jun 19, 2013 | Startup Rundown: Brooklyn Tech Triangle Takes on New Startups, and Apple TV Takes on More Vampire Porn | Ultimate first-world problem solved: You can now watch True Blood on Apple TV
Brooklyn Tech Triangle welcomes new startups As New York gears up to overtake Silicon Valley in the quest for total tech domination, NYU-Poly and the New York Cit... |
| Oct 20, 2012 | These are the people making NYC tech rock | A while back we asked for your nominations for New York City’s most influential techie. Now we’re, ready to announce a list of finalists — one of whom we’ll name our top Silicon Alley tech influencer later this month.
The group of finalists... |
| Oct 20, 2012 | These are the people making NYC tech rock | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A while back we asked for your nominations for Ne... |
| Jun 26, 2012 | Hello World | I first came to USV one year ago, almost to the day, as a hackNY fellow. Fred, Brad and Albert gave a talk about venture capital, with a special emphasis on the New York tech ecosystem. I’ve been following them ever since.
My name is Alexa... |
| May 28, 2012 | MBA Mondays: Where To Find Strong Talent | One of the most vexing problems entrepreneurs face is where to find strong talent for their companies. The kind of people you want to hire for your company are in short supply and they are rarely out looking for a job. You have to go find t... |
| Mar 31, 2012 | Hackathon Planning In Less Than 10 Steps | Editor’s note: Erin Tao is a business development associate at Aviary — and, yes, its hackathon organizer. Follow her on Twitter @etaooo.
It’s been about a month since Photo Hack Day 2, and I’ve recovered sufficiently from my hackathon hang... |
| Feb 29, 2012 | Startup News: LetsLunch Wants to Send You on a Platonic Date | Umami's new "Dishboard"
TV IS SOCIAL. At New York Tech Meetup earlier this month, Umami showed us how their audio fingerprinting technology can help users find anything and everything about the show we’re watching. Now, they’re ro... |
| Feb 26, 2012 | What's Wrong With Sensationalist Media | Check out this email I got from a major media company this past week:
I was just talking to my boss about New York's tech scene and the types of stories I should go after. He wants me to get a little personal like digging into how founders ... |
| Feb 9, 2012 | Columbia’s DevFest 2012 Showcases Student Hacks, New York Talent | The culture of hacking continues to bloom in New York, evidenced last weekend by Columbia’s DevFest 2012. DevFest is entirely student run, and had workshops and support from local VC firms and startups. The event culminated with presentatio... |
| Dec 18, 2011 | Watchitoo is best of WebEx and live streaming, launches layers (exclusive) | Watchitoo is adding a little flavor to the video conferencing industry tomorrow with its new interactive “Layers” function, including a way to monetize what you’re seeing on the screen.
The company, which competes with the Cisco owned WebEx... |
| Nov 21, 2011 | Raise Cache: New Yorkers strut for Silicon Alley, raise over $100K for HackNY | On Thursday November 17th, 1,300 plus New York techies descended upon the Lexington Ave Armory to raise over $100,000 for HackNY, a nonprofit organization run out of Columbia and NYU that keeps young engineers off of the “street” (i.e. Wall... |
| Nov 1, 2011 | Raise Cache | On the evening of November 17th, the NY tech community is going to throw a party to raise $100k for HackNY. It is called Raise Cache and it should be a lot of fun.
At 8:30pm there is going to be a fashion show featuring members of the tech ... |
| Oct 26, 2011 | Raise Cache NYC Teams With Turntable.fm: Crowley, Wilson & Weissman In The House | Silicon Valley is still king when it comes to startup hubs, but there’s at least one area where NYC has it beat: having a good time for a good cause.
In this case, the event is Raise Cache, and it’s looking to raise $100,000 for hackNY, an ... |
| Oct 19, 2011 | Hilary Mason of bit.ly says realtime data reveals we’re no heroes | When we read or watch something online, we’re not quite the same person as we when we decide to share it.
No one knows this better than Bit.ly, the link shortener that has a front row seat on the world’s realtime data, especially content sh... |
| Oct 19, 2011 | Hilary Mason of bit.ly says realtime data reveals we’re no heroes | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
When we read or watch something online, we’re not... |
| Sep 28, 2011 | Startup News: Skillshare Shares New Courses and Tentative.ly Tentatively Launches | SHARE AND TELL. Skillshare is testing out “courses,” similar to the multi-part classes and certification programs at General Assembly. The first trial course is being run by CEO Mike Karnjanaprakhorn called “Launching Your Startup Idea.” “W... |
| Sep 1, 2011 | Killer Job Opportunity - GM HackNY | Of all the many terrific programs in the NYC startup sector, the one that excites me the most is HackNY. Started by Evan Korth of NYU and Chris Wiggins of Columbia, HackNY brings the top students from the top CS programs around the country ... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | Start-Up News: Kickstarter, Not Kickstarter, and Two More %$^&ing Hackathons | Here’s your week in New York start-ups:
TELL ME A STORY… ABOUT THAT BAGEL SHOP: Broadcastr, the location-based storytelling social network from Brooklyn-based Electric Literature, drops its Android app at long last today. You can now stream... |
| Apr 10, 2011 | The HackNY Hackathon | College students from around the country have been hacking away for about 18 hours now. At noon today at NYU's Courant Institute, the results will be demo'd. I will be there to see all the cool projects that have come to life in 24 hours of... |
| Apr 7, 2011 | (Founder Stories) Christopher Poole: Build A Product Before You Build A Platform | One of the biggest startup cliches is that every other startup wants to become a platform for other startups to build on. But to Christopher Poole, the founder of Canvas and 4Chan, that is the wrong approach. “People get caught up in trends... |
| Mar 1, 2011 | hackNY Expands Its Internship Program, Matching Student Hackers and NYC Startups | hackNY is a program that brings student hackers from universities around the country to New York City for paid summer internships. The hackNY Fellows are matched with startups in the city and participate in a 10-week program that includes m... |
| Mar 1, 2011 | HackNY Doubles Effort To Match Top Tech Students With NYC Startups | In a quest to start something as big as the Apple in the Big Apple, a number of incubators, funds and fellowship programs have sprung up in New York City in recent months.
The FinTech Innovation Lab made its debut in December 2010, and the ... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | Inside General Assembly, the Shiny New Hub of New York’s Startup Scene | “Everyone I bring here runs into someone they know,” said 24-year old Brad Hargreaves, beaming over the spacious, warmly-lit common room of General Assembly, the shiny new 20,000-square foot coworking space near Union Square where more than... |
| Jan 6, 2011 | Talent and Bandwidth | When people ask me what the city and state government can do to help the technology driven startup community in NYC, I tell them two things.
First, there is not one tech ecosystem. There is the software, internet, digital media sector which... |
| TEC 2011: Inspiring Young Entrepreneurs | On July 29, we wrapped up the third year of The True Entrepreneur Corps (TEC), our summer program designed to inspire and educate the entrepreneurs of tomorrow who are in college today. Our team believes in the creative power of the entrepr... |
