NYC BigApps competition

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Oct 16, 2013	CollabFinder Just Made Founder Dating Super Simple	Two heads are better than one. It’s an age-old saying that has particular poignance in the entrepreneurial realm, where investors are much more comfortable handing over wads of cash to a team instead of an individual. A new betaworks-backed...
Oct 14, 2013	Best Tech Events This Week (Ada Lovelace Day, Social Week, Ingenuity, Queens Tech Bash, Music Hack Day, Mobile Payments Hackathon, The Feast)	This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu...
Jun 3, 2013	Best Tech Events This Week (Personal Democracy Forum, GoRuCo, SXSW V2V, Queens Tech Forum, MakerFaire Townhall, FinTech, EnterpriseTech)	This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu...
May 27, 2013	Best Tech Events This Week (World Science Festival, Angelhack, Venture for America, dd:IMPACT, TechDrinkup, Public Hackathon, EDesign Hackathon, BigApps)	This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu...
Mar 25, 2013	Best Tech Events This Week (Open Tech NYC, First Round Capital Business+Startup, Columbia University Earth Summit, Fashion Disrupted, Startup Grind, NYC Gaming)	This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu...
Jun 6, 2011	Financing Options: Contests/Prizes/Accelerator Programs	This is the second in a series of posts about financing options for startups. By "financing" I mean obtaining cash to fund your business. There are all sorts of strategies to avoid needing funding, but this series is not about the...
Apr 13, 2011	Five Open Questions For Data.gov Before We #SaveTheData	Editor’s note: Guest author Kate Ray is the co-founder of Nerd Collider, a new Q&A website designed to bring a diverse group of nerds to a temporary page to solve a problem. Data.gov is coughing blood. The budget being negotiated by Con...
Mar 31, 2011	NYC Announces BigApps Winners Roadify, Sportaneous, And DontEat.at	New York City announced the winners of its second BiggApps competition tonight. BiggApps is a way to get developers to use city and government data to create useful apps for citizens and visitors to New York City. The prize money was double...
Dec 22, 2010	NYC Big Apps Version 2.0	Last year NYC ran a mobile and web app developer contest called NYC Big Apps. I posted about it and was one of a number of judges. The city and the participating developers thought it was a successful effort and so NYC Big Apps is back for ...
Oct 12, 2010	New York City Wants More BigApps, Please	New York City is opening up its government data to hackers in the hopes that they will create some apps to help the people who live there. Today, it officially opened its BigApps 2.0 challenge (hosted by ChallengePost). Developers will have...
May 27, 2010	ChallengePost Becomes A Government Contractor	Can we get better government through game mechanics? We are about to find out. Today, ChallengePost was named the official online “challenge platform” of the U.S. federal government. Any government agency that wants to run a challenge to ge...
May 25, 2010	Bloomberg Announces Funding, Calls For Startups in NYC	“Small businesses are the future of America,” said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg this morning at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in NYC. Bloomberg described New York City as “the place to come” for entrepreneurs and startups, anno...
May 25, 2010	Mayor Bloomberg tells TechCrunch Disrupt audience New York is awesome	New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was a surprise guest at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference this morning, and he didn’t waste any time in promoting the city as the perfect spot for emerging startups. According to Bloomberg, “When you want to...
Feb 9, 2010	NYC BigApps contest winners announced; Avencia not included	The biggest example to date of contest-driven technology submissions for making government better hasn’t gone Philadelphia’s way. Callowhill-based GIS software firm Avencia was Philadelphia’s lone representative in software application cont...
Feb 5, 2010	NYC BigApps Winners Announced	I've posted about the NYC BigApps contest a few times here. And you all helped me with my chore of judging all 85 apps. Thank you for that. Last night I walked up The Highline to IAC Headquarters to attend an event where the winners were an...
Feb 4, 2010	NYC’s BigApps Winners Announced: WayFinder, NYC Way Lead the Pack	Last fall, we told you about an exciting and innovative competition to find – and fun – civic-focused web abd mobile apps in New York City. Tonight, after an all-star panel of judges had reviewed more than 80 apps over a month-long period, ...
Jan 4, 2010	Judging NYC BigApps	NYC is running an app developer contest in partnership with ChallengePost and Rackspace. It is called NYC Big Apps. I blogged about this back in early October when Mayor Bloomberg announced the competition and noted that I am one of the jud...
Dec 28, 2009	City data fuels cool apps: call out bad taxi drivers, find parking	“Government 2.0” has been a big buzzword of 2009, with thought-leaders like Tim O’Reilly and The Sunlight Foundation showing the way. It’s a movement that pushes public institutions to use technologies that have thrived in the last five yea...
Dec 24, 2009	5 Million NYC Property Records Available Via Startup’s API	Back in the fall, we told you about NYC’s BigApps competition, which encouraged technological innovation to benefit government and civic engagement. Public voting for the submitted applications opened this week. One of the submissions to co...
Dec 18, 2009	BigMapple, other NYC apps load up on location data online	reader comments 1 with 1 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit One of the big trends of 2009 has been the mass proliferation of location-based services. They can be for functional reasons ...
Oct 7, 2009	NYC's BigApps Challenge	Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced yesterday that New York City was joining the open government movement with a challenge to developers to build apps using open government data. The challenge is called BigApps (a take on "Big Apple" i...
Oct 6, 2009	NYC’s BigApps Competition to Spawn Innovation, Gov’t Accessibility	In keeping with Mayor Bloomberg’s focus on innovation, transparency, accessibility, and accountability, New York City is today launching the NYC BigApps Competition, a challenge to developers to create software based on city data. The compe...

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Parsers VC has collected 23 articles mentioning NYC BigApps competition, among them “CollabFinder Just Made Founder Dating Super Simple” (Oct 16, 2013) and “Best Tech Events This Week (Ada Lovelace Day, Social Week, Ingenuity, Queens Tech Bash, Music Hack Day, Mobile Payments Hackathon, The Feast)” (Oct 14, 2013).

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NYC BigApps competition is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Aug 20, 2014.