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| Feb 6, 2025 | Gilbane Development Company Names James Patchett as New President & CEO, Setting the Stage for Future Growth and Innovation | James Patchett, President & CEO, Gilbane Development Company (PRNewsfoto/Gilbane Development Company)
Gilbane Development Company, the real estate development and asset management arm of Gilbane, Inc. today announced the appointment of ... |
| Sep 11, 2024 | Cure® Announces 2024 XSeed Award Winners, Promoting Women- and Minority-Led Life Science Startups in New York City | Teams led by Carol M. Troy, MD, PhD, of Columbia University Medical Center, and Paraskevi Giannakakou, PhD, of Weill Cornell Medical College, each to receive $250,000 grants
NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cure, a premier healthcar... |
| Aug 29, 2024 | Cybertech NYC 2024: Leading Experts to Tackle Election Misinformation and Digital Deception | Cybertech NYC logo
Top Industry Leaders to Unveil Strategies for Protecting Democracy in the Age of Digital Misinformation
NEW YORK, Aug. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Cybertech NYC 2024, East Coast's premier cybersecurity event, will take... |
| Mar 7, 2024 | Lilium Supports NYC EDC’s Decision to Seek Agnostic Operator for Downtown Manhattan Heliport & AAM’s Inclusion; Heliport will Serve as Key Site in Northeast Corridor Regional Network for Lilium Jet | |
| Nov 20, 2019 | Amazon tried to remove a Seattle City Councilmember and lost. Here's how she describes taking on and defeating one of the world's biggest companies. | A campaign ad for Seattle councilmember Kshama Sawant. Associated Press
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Amazon spent $1.45 million on lobbying efforts in the recent Seattle City Council election.
Amazon's primary target was Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Saw... |
| Jun 20, 2019 | How New York City’s Startups Have Become a Global Force | New York City is known for many things — the Statue of Liberty, the World Trade Center, a diverse population of nearly nine million people across five boroughs, inspiring Broadway shows, and of course, pizza. While those are notable, the ci... |
| Mar 20, 2019 | The Big Apple's Startup Ecosystem Gets Even Bigger | It will come as no surprise that New York City features one of the most formidable technology and startup scenes in the U.S., given that it is one of the financial and cultural centers of the world.
In fact, New York City is the second high... |
| Feb 6, 2019 | NYC launches partnership network, ‘The Grid,’ to help grow urban tech ecosystem | The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and CIV:LAB — a nonprofit dedicated to connecting urban tech leaders — have announced the launch of The Grid, a member-based partnership network for New York’s urban tech community... |
| Jan 11, 2019 | New York City Economic Corp Launches Blockchain Education Center | New York City may begin testing blockchain technology for various use cases later this year.
The New York City Economic Development Corporation's (EDC) new Blockchain Center opened Thursday, and intends to begin testing the tech's use cases... |
| Dec 6, 2018 | In search of biotech hub glory, the Big Apple lures local startups with lab space | The city that never sleeps is itching to become the city that could cure insomnia. With Boston and San Francisco maintaining their dominance as the premier hubs for developing drugs, New York City has orchestrated a scheme... |
| Jul 19, 2018 | Johnson & Johnson launches life sciences incubator for Philadelphia area | The goal of the program is to identify and accelerate the development of early-stage healthcare businesses from the Philadelphia region’s life science industry in areas like pharmaceuticals, medical devices, consumer and health technologies... |
| May 4, 2018 | Sawing down desks and persevering through a hurricane- how one biotech startup is managing to stay in NYC | Reuters
A lack of lab space can be a big challenge for biotech companies hoping to stay in NYC.
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Starting a biotech in NYC can be rewarding, but it isn't always easy.
An example is personalized reproductive health company Celma... |
| May 3, 2018 | Inside New York City's struggle to become a biotech hub | Hollis Johnson
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Biotech companies of all shapes and sizes have started to make New York - a city known more for banks than biotech - their home.
But while the city is home to major pharmaceutical company headquarters and academ... |
| Feb 22, 2018 | Is NYC a biotech hub? Gut-brain startup Kallyope, equipped with $66M in new money, says yes | In a win for New York City’s hopeful biotech scene, Columbia University spinout Kallyope has nailed down a $66 million financing round with plans of growing the startup’s staff in NYC’s life science core.
The company got the... |
| Feb 7, 2018 | New York City’s private sector added 2,000 jobs in December: report | New York City’s private sector added 2,000 jobs in December, according to a new report from the New York City Economic Development Corporation.
The city’s unemployment rate now stands at 4.3 percent, the organization reports, which is sligh... |
| Dec 17, 2017 | HITLAB and NYCEDC unveil Digital Health Breakthrough Network’s third class of startups | In simplest terms, the Digital Health Breakthrough Network functions as an accelerator for pre-revenue and pre-Series A healthcare startups. Eligible participants must be early-stage companies based in New York City.
In a phone interview, H... |
| Oct 14, 2017 | A little-known Brooklyn neighborhood was named one of the world's coolest places - here's what it's like | Sarah Jacobs/Business Insider
Sunset Park has rows of townhouses.
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Sunset Park is having a moment.
Earlier this year, Lonely Planet revealed its list of the coolest neighborhoods to visit in the world, and Sunset Park, a former... |
| Sep 21, 2017 | Pratt’s work on smart fabrics just got a boost from the Brooklyn borough president | Swipe right on your sweater to phone home. Rub the fabric between your hands to reveal a hidden pattern in the knit.
Those were two possible applications of high-tech fabrics demoed on Tuesday at the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator. T... |
| Aug 25, 2017 | Approval ratings for NYC Ferry are very high | The New York Economic Development Corporation released the approval ratings of the new NYC Ferry system and they are: good.
According to the report, 93 percent of riders gave the ferry system a 7 or better on a scale of 1–10.
Some other int... |
| Jul 12, 2017 | Grand Central Tech unveils its fourth class of startups | Grand Central Tech is kicking off the fourth year of its startup accelerator.
As its name suggests, the organization is located near New York City’s Grand Central station. It’s not just an accelerator anymore — it also runs a coworking spac... |
| Jun 1, 2017 | Ferry service starts today for Red Hook, Sunset Park, Bay Ridge | It’s June 1 and there’s the smell of fresh infrastructure in the air.
The new NYC Ferry is launching its South Brooklyn route today, which will link Bay Ridge, Sunset Park and Red Hook to Dumbo and Wall Street by boat.
Boats run every half ... |
| Apr 25, 2017 | Will there really be an economic impact from the new ferry system? | Earlier this month, the city announced with no shortage of excitement that the first line of its new ferry system will be ready to go May 1, with other lines to follow it this summer. In particular, a Brooklyn Navy Yard stop will be added t... |
| Apr 12, 2017 | Are ‘smart clothes’ the next digital health breakthrough? | Bonbouton and, apparently, the New York City Economic Development Corporation think the next digital healthcare breakthrough could be in the form of “smart clothes.”
Bonbouton, based in the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s 1776NY incubator was chosen b... |
| Mar 27, 2017 | City pledges $51 million to modernize garment industry and move it to Brooklyn | The New York City Economic Development Corporation announced Friday a $51 million aid package for the city’s garment industry.
The money, to be distributed over the next 10 years, will go to textile and fashion companies looking to moderniz... |
| Jan 23, 2017 | ‘WordPress for VR’: Meet the team trying to democratize virtual reality | At a recent workshop in Dumbo’s Made in NY Media Center, I expected to be a fish out of water. The class, dedicated to covering the basics of WebVR, an experimental JavaScript API for virtual reality on the web, was billed as catering to de... |
| Oct 20, 2016 | Why BotFactory just raised $1.3M, and what it means for BK’s innovation economy | Here’s the problem: unlike the world of software, where agile development (trying things out, iterating quickly) has become the norm, the electronics world is still stuck in the last century. Circuit boards — those lil green, rectangular di... |
| Aug 10, 2016 | Josh Breitbart is thinking about the people left behind by Brooklyn’s tech boom | Josh Breitbart has a rare status in the local tech scene. He’s a third-generation Brooklyn native.
As the first-ever senior advisor for broadband in the Mayor’s Office, Breitbart is aiming to get more New Yorkers, both natives and transplan... |
| Jun 4, 2016 | Manhattan CRE prices spark a mass exodus of startups to Brooklyn | David Mandell Contributor
David Mandell is the CEO of PivotDesk.
Manhattan, once the mecca for technology and innovation on the east coast, is now losing ground to the outer boroughs. Massive growth has led to high rents and lack of space f... |
| Mar 18, 2016 | How international startups are supporting New York City | Ramphis Castro Contributor
Ramphis Castro is the New York City director of The Founder Institute and he is a Kauffman Fellow.
Immigrants make up 13.3 percent of the population in the U.S., which is the highest percentage the country has see... |
| Sep 8, 2015 | This program is trying to make the Brooklyn startup sector more equitable | Brooklyn has been transformed in recent years with tech companies popping up along the waterfront in Dumbo and Williamsburg. With the city’s new Manage Forward program it hopes to extend beyond those tony neighborhoods and make the populati... |
| Jul 31, 2015 | Very fast internet on the way for companies in North Brooklyn, Industry City | Stupid fast internet may soon be commonplace in parts of Greenpoint, Williamsburg and Industry City, thanks to a public-private partnership between the New York Economic Development Corporation and two telecom companies.
As Technical.ly pre... |
| Jul 10, 2015 | NYCEDC teams up with ISPs to bring faster internet to Brooklyn businesses | Jacques Bastien, CEO of Boogie, a social media agency, needs reliable broadband access.
“If there is no internet, there is no business,” he said.
Some of Boogie’s employees work from a coworking space in Williamsburg. That place accommodate... |
| Apr 30, 2015 | Panel asks: What’s driving NYC’s tech boom? | New York City may need to up its connectivity and it may need more engineering talent. In fact, it may get partly washed away as sea levels rise. But one thing it doesn’t have to worry about is cool.
No one really argued that point at a pan... |
| Apr 15, 2015 | Check out the HCx3DP Meetup to learn how 3D printing is disrupting healthcare | The 3D printing industry (3DP) is the most commercially disruptive vector in all of manufacturing, and the fastest growing sector in 3D printing is healthcare products and services (HC).
We’ve dubbed this new intersection between 3D printin... |
| Mar 31, 2015 | Almost New? New York City's EDGE Edtech Accelerator | Here comes another one! New York City has a new edtech accelerator. Tempted to ask—as EdSurge did—do we need it?
For the past two years, Kaplan has supported the Techstars edtech incubator program in New York City. The program has graduated... |
| Jan 13, 2015 | Sunset Park is getting some sort of fiber line | Alicia Glen, deputy mayor for housing and economic development, said that Sunset Park is getting an upgrade to its internet access, in an interview with Capital New York:
Capital: It seems that the broadband is one of the key infrastructure... |
| Dec 5, 2014 | City grants $3.5M for textile making in Sunset Park: Manufacture NY | New York City is investing $3.5 million in a Sunset Park manufacturing and innovation center, Manufacture NY.
We previously reported on a much more modest grant that it received from the U.S. Small Business Administration. The larger grant ... |
| Oct 29, 2014 | Made In NY Media Center Members Demo New Tech | Three years after it first won the request for proposal to launch the Made In NY Media Center promoting companies and projects working at the intersection of arts and technology, the Independent Filmmaker Project is celebrating its first an... |
| Oct 1, 2014 | NYC's latest tech push: A new site designed to empower Silicon Alley | Not to be outdone by the West Coast, today the New York Economic Development Council is unveiling a new website, Digital.NYC, to help connect Silicon Alley.
This new website is an extension of the NYCEDC’s “We Are Made in NY” campaign, whic... |
| Aug 29, 2014 | Harlem BioSpace is putting learning in the lab | Tucked into one of Columbia University’s bioengineering labs, 25 high school students are vigilantly poring over salad spinners, pipe cleaners, circuit boards, and solar panels. They are trying to build solutions to some of the many problem... |
| Aug 26, 2014 | New app captures evolving record of NYC graffiti | The most interesting facet of NYC Graffiti, a new iOS app from Gaudos, is that it plugs into the NYC 311 API to flag graffiti tagged for removal.
In other words, it’s an alert that lets local graffiti fans go check out whatever will soon go... |
| Jul 30, 2014 | Accelerator opens an NYC hub with $51 million in backing from Pfizer, J&J, Lilly to build new life sciences startups | Despite the backing from some of the world’s largest pharma players, the biotechs will not have to immediately cede equity to the accelerator’s backers. Because none of these parties have any preemptive rights, the pharmas “won’t have any a... |
| Jul 8, 2014 | Zoning, industry and the forces of homogenization | In 2006, the city set up Industrial Business Zones [IBZs], in order to create incentives for companies to keep making stuff in New York City. There are several across Brooklyn, though good luck really understanding their boundaries.
The NYC... |
| May 15, 2014 | An open letter to Mayor de Blasio: The future of NYC’s tech community | Dear Mayor de Blasio,
My name is Todd Krizelman, CEO of MediaRadar. I run one of the more than 900 technology companies here in New York City. MediaRadar employs over 300 people, half in our Manhattan office. I took a tech company public he... |
| Apr 23, 2014 | Mark Cuban is a Biomeme investor [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
This isn’t a super recent development, but it was news to us: Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and one of ABC’s celebrity ‘Shark Tank’ investor, is an investor in Biomeme, the NextFab Studio-based startup that... |
| Mar 14, 2014 | Urban Future Lab clean tech incubator launches with NYCEDC, NYU-Engineering backing | The Urban Future Lab opened Thursday in Downtown Brooklyn, a new incubator focused energy and infrastructure innovation.
The incubator founders say their companies will create 9,000 jobs by 2025. For example, on the front page of its websit... |
| Feb 25, 2014 | Brooklyn teens building app that won NYC Generation Tech | There is no reason high schoolers can’t start businesses.
Three fifths of the team that won the first NYC Generation Tech prize of venture funding at the end of the program’s first summer were Brooklynites, said Alan Tenemaza, the team’s sp... |
| Jan 14, 2014 | The Startup Institute Makes International Moves into London & Berlin with $1.3M in Funding | After expanding beyond Boston into New York City and Chicago, the Startup Institute is ready to cross international waters. The career accelerator announced Tuesday it is expanding into London and Berlin — and with some brag-worthy baggage,... |
| Jan 6, 2014 | Here’s a list of every Brooklyn coworking space we know of | Coworking, they say, is so much more than just a physical space. It’s all about community. We guess that means Brooklyn has a lot of community.
Fumbling through a number of resources out there that aim to keep track of these types of things... |
| Dec 16, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (NYC Tech Holiday Party, Startup Weekend Holiday Party, Data Driven, Startup Battles, NJ Tech) | 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... |
| Dec 6, 2013 | A life science hub grows in New York: 3 ways the city is stimulating healthcare investing | Digital health, including mobile health, wireless health, big data, cloud computing, social networking, as well as scientific and clinical simulation
Biotech, including tissue engineering, sensors, robotics, microfluidics, and nanomedicine
... |
| Dec 5, 2013 | There’s 460,000 square feet of biotech space at the Brooklyn Army Terminal | More former military facilities are being rehabbed for tech ventures.
In a story about the $100 million fund the NYCEDC is developing to support biotech in New York City, Xconomy lists a number of biotech incubators either in development or... |
| Nov 18, 2013 | PowerClip: emergency power source secures UNICEF grant for development | The cofounders behind emergency energy provider PowerClip see themselves as unusually lucky because they’ll be finalizing their manufacturing process with feedback from a big likely customer in mind.
UNICEF has given the team of four a $15,... |
| Nov 18, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Founders Speak, Data Driven, Queens Tech, Wearable Tech, Silicon Drinkabout, Startup Grind) | 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... |
| Nov 18, 2013 | PowerClip: emergency power source secures UNICEF grant for development | The cofounders behind emergency energy provider PowerClip see themselves as unusually lucky because they’ll be finalizing their manufacturing process with feedback from a big likely customer in mind.
UNICEF has given the team of four a $15,... |
| Nov 11, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (ON:Bitcoin, Digital Health, Uncubed, Columbia Women in Business, TimesOpen Hack Day, NYU Hacks) | 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... |
| Nov 4, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Next Billion, FinTech Hackathon, Capital On Stage, StrategyHack, NY Tech, DevPong, Engadget Expand) | 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... |
| Oct 28, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Building The Digital City, NYC Television Week, NYC Data Week, Intel Codefest, Data Driven) | 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... |
| Oct 23, 2013 | Will Businesses Be Protected If Superstorms Like Sandy Strike Again? | October 23, 2013 5 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
Editor's Note: One year after Hurricane Sandy laid waste to countless businesses and homes across the eastern seaboard, we take a look back at those ... |
| Oct 21, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Startup 2013, Reverse Demo Day, StreetFight, COWORK|RS Costume Ball, Dating+Tech) | 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... |
| 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... |
| Oct 7, 2013 | Barcelona KEY: Creating The Right Ecosystem For Our City | Right now in Barcelona, there are several programs focused on creating the right ecosystem for business, technology, education and consequently innovation and economic growth. Just to name a few: Barcelona Growth, Barcelona Global and Barce... |
| Oct 2, 2013 | Brooklyn’s newest free public WiFi hotspots, including old phone booths | Mayor Bloomberg announced a major new connectivity initiative yesterday on NYC.gov. For Brooklyn, it means more public wifi hotspots downtown, along the Fulton Street Corridor, in the BAM Cultural District and in harder-hit Brownsville.
Tur... |
| Sep 17, 2013 | Mobile Delivery Platform Zipments Closes $2.2M Seed Round | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Zipments, a New York City-based online delivery platform with roots in Grand Rapids, MI, announced yesterday that it has raised $2.25 million in seed funding from a national s... |
| Aug 28, 2013 | Center for Urban Science and Progress: new NYU master’s program launches | The first 25 students to go through NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress [CUSP] program were welcomed by Mayor Bloomberg Tuesday.
The students will be earning an MS in Applied Urban Science and Informatics at the new center in downto... |
| Aug 23, 2013 | NYC gained 8,700 new tech jobs in 2012 [NYCEDC] | The monthly technology numbers from the city’s economic development agency NYCEDC are out:
New York VC funding up 16% this quarter
3/4 of NY funding dollars go to Series B or later rounds
New York fields 8% of nation’s IPOs and 18% of M&... |
| Aug 19, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Spotify Hackettes, NYC Tech for Reshma, Tech In Motion, Test Tube, Education Tech, Social TV) | 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... |
| Aug 12, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Hasbro-a-thon, WeWork Summer Camp, Ruby Science Fair, Cryptocat Hackathon, Enterprise Tech Meetup, StartupGrind, Design Evenings) | 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... |
| Aug 5, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (NY Tech Meetup, VentureOutNY Brazilian, AD Think, Investor Feedback Forum, Real Estate Tech, Tech Tuesdays) | 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 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... |
| Jun 18, 2013 | Smartphone thermometer, concussion detector among finalists in NYC medtech innovation contest | A medication adherence app for families, a social network for recovering alcoholics and a mobile health diagnostic that claims to diagnose concussions based on eye movements. In addition to contributing to the debate on mobile health apps a... |
| Jun 4, 2013 | New York City gets incubator in Harlem in latest addition to its life science ecosystem | “As a faculty entrepreneur, I am aware of the incredible amount of bioscience research taking place in New York City, but have also experienced the challenges of turning these ideas into products without leaving the city,” Sia said in a pre... |
| May 6, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Ideas NYC, NY Tech Meetup, Digital Health Accelerator Demo Day, Investor Feedback Forum, GoGreen, Innovating for the Connected TV) | 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 1, 2013 | Take The H.E.L.M. 2.0 Is A Competition Designed To Encourage Startups To Move To NYC | Take The H.E.L.M. 2.0 is a competition from the New York City Economic Development Corporation that is designed to encourage tech startups and other fledgling companies to move their offices to lower Manhattan. They’re accepting application... |
| Apr 30, 2013 | KISI Launches Its Keyless Home Access Management Platform On Indiegogo | Munich-based startup and TechCrunch Disrupt NY Battlefield contestant KISI Systems is launching its Indiegogo campaign today. KISI and KISIBox together comprise a keyless entry solution that lets users provide timed, revokable access to the... |
| 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... |
| Mar 4, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (BRITE Conference, Games Hackathon, BUZZtheBar Launch Party, Tech@NYU DemoDays, Future of Food, Inaugural Latino Tech Meetup, Women 2.0) | 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... |
| Feb 22, 2013 | Funding roundup - week ending 02/22/13 | Pinterest, Taboola, Euclid, Nexmo were among those that raised funds
Seed-stage
PayrollHero, a software company focused on time, attendance, scheduling and payroll, closed a $1 million seed round of funding from 500Startups, Benjamin Joffe,... |
| Feb 18, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Social Media Week, Funding the Best in Global Innovation, Queens Tech Meetup, Assembled E-Commerce, DreamIt Happy Hour, Running Away with the Band) | 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... |
| Feb 12, 2013 | Swarm of Applicants Vying for New York City’s Health Tech Grants | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Supporters of New York City’s rising health IT sector are poring over scores of applications this week for $100,000 city grants to help young companies test-drive their health... |
| Feb 4, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Hearst Fashion Hackathon, Social Commerce Summit, NY Tech Meetup, PandoMonthly) | 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... |
| Jan 25, 2013 | NYC plays matchmaker to hook up healthcare groups with startups to commercialize tech tools | Update below. This month, New York City is launching at least two new programs to help digital health startups provide solutions for the emerging technology gaps the healthcare industry is experiencing as they comply with provisions of the ... |
| Jan 21, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (The “Sponsor Gary’s Red Tie @ SXSW” Edition!) | 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... |
| Jan 14, 2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Social Retail Summit, Twitter NYC Talk, Enterprise Tech Meetup, Tech Drinkup, Bronx Tech Meetup, Music Hackathon, Hardware Startup) | 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... |
| Dec 17, 2012 | NYC startups: Take the HELM wants to give you $250K to move to lower Manhattan | If you’re a startup that wouldn’t mind moving your office south of Chambers Street, Take the HELM wants to hear from you.
Take the HELM’s basic goal to complement the Financial District with a more diverse array of businesses, which is why ... |
| Dec 3, 2012 | Best Tech Events This Week (ThinkCommerce, Xconomy, TimesOpen Hack Day, NY Tech Meetup, TEDxSiliconAlley, AlleyNYC Holiday Party, Hack/Meat, Pitchcrawl 2.0) | 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... |
| Nov 12, 2012 | Best Tech Events This Week (Women 2.0, Angelhack, Uncubed, NY Tech Meetup, Funding Global Innovation, Feedback Forum, NJ Tech Meetup) | 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... |
| Oct 29, 2012 | Apply for Startup PHL: unveiling of city-backed $6M seed stage tech startup fund [VIDEO] | The City of Philadelphia has officially opened the doors on Startup PHL, a proposed $6 million early stage investment fund partnership with an outside venture capital firm and a $500,000 open call for ideas to support entrepreneurship, as T... |
| Oct 26, 2012 | Philly launches $3M seed fund for startups — will healthcare get any brotherly love? (video) | Officials declined to talk specifics about the program, pointing out that they will have to wait until an investment firm is selected. There is already speculation that First Round Capital, a seed-stage venture capital firm with offices in ... |
| Oct 26, 2012 | Startup PHL: $3.5M in startup investment and grants from City of Philadelphia and PIDC | A partnership between the City of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation has earmarked $3.5 million in a two-tiered investment and grant-making initiative called Startup PHL, as Mayor Nutter will announce Frida... |
| Oct 15, 2012 | Best Tech Events This Week (Queens Tech Meetup, Ladies Who Code, Venetian Masquerade Ball, Enterprise Tech, Entrepreneurs Roundtable, SLC Camp) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of Gary’s Guide 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] garys... |
| Sep 26, 2012 | Startup News: Barry Diller Brings Back the Big Dog and Lauren Conrad’s Site Is Sold | (Photo: flickr.com/classicchanelhandbags)
Healthy Hills? Everyday Health, the SoHo-based and more successful version of WebMd, has acquired EQAL, the creators of Lonelygirl15 and the owners of LaurenConrad.com. Everyday Health’s ad revenue ... |
| Sep 10, 2012 | Best Tech Events This Week (Digital Money Unconference, NY Tech Meetup, Ignite NYC, NY Gaming, Investor Feedback Forum, Pinterest) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of Gary’s Guide 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] garys... |
| Aug 20, 2012 | Best Tech Events This Week (ER 50 Party, NJ Tech Meetup, Bubbleproof, Goodnik Hackathon, Brooklyn Tech Meetup, TechHub NY) | 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... |
| Jul 24, 2012 | Startup News: Shop ‘Local’ Edition | (flickr.com/nataliemaynor)
Shop ‘til you drop Shopkick—a location-based shopping app which rewards shoppers for walking into stores and interacting with products—has just announced a partnership with Macy’s. As of last week, customers at Ma... |
| Mar 21, 2012 | Watch Rachel Sterne on ‘Morning Joe’ as Joe Scarborough Tries to Explain Foursquare to His Co-host | New York City’s chief digital officer Rachel Sterne has already graced the pages of Vogue magazine. But this morning, fresh off of waving the Made in NYC™ pom-poms at SXSW, she stopped by MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to announce NYCgov’s new Faceb... |
| Feb 8, 2012 | Could New York be a better US base for European startups than the Valley? | For many technology startups today, Silicon Valley remains the quintessential place to look towards for inspiration, trends and – for some – a place to set up shop at some point in their startup’s life cycle. That remains true of some Europ... |
| Dec 19, 2011 | Cornell wins its bid to build a Stanford of the East Coast | Cornell University is erecting a massive, important new science and engineering campus on New York’s Roosevelt Island, just half a bridge away from Manhattan in the middle of the East River.
The two million-square-foot campus will cost $2 b... |
| Dec 7, 2011 | Mayor Bloomberg’s Office: Facebook Did Not Receive Any Incentives to Open an Engineering Office in NYC | Mr. Bloomberg, flanked by Facebook's Serkan Piantino and Sheryl Sandberg
When Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told a crowd of reporters last week that Facebook would be opening its first engineering office outside Palo Alto right here in New Y... |