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Bonnie Halper
Bonnie Halper is Editor-in-Chief of AlleyWatch and also writes and curates the StartupOneStop.com newsletter, which focuses on startups and entrepreneurs, and is currently being read is 50+ countries around the world.
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AlleyTalk - How the loss of all privacy may not be a bad thing…
Thanks to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, we now know that the National Security Agency is listening in on our phone calls, reading our emails, tracking us on social...
Accelerators - Although he was brought in this past January to replace David Tisch as the New York program’s Managing Director, it seems it just didn’t work out for Eugene Chung at TechStars. Nicole Glaros, who was interim Managing Director before...
Cool Tech - Despite the fact that the protests in Turkey had been raging for days, the international media was pretty much ignoring it. CNN Turkey was airing a penguin parade and cooking shows. Sitting on his sofa on Sunday afternoon on the upper...
Accelerators - …And then there’s Anuj Desai, Vice President of Market Development for the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), Member, Crain’s Class of 2013’s 40 under 40 and superconnector, which helped to make him one of New York...
Coworking -
With all of the coworking spaces available in Manhattan and Brooklyn, you’re no doubt wondering why a company would choose New Jersey. The fact is, a lot of entrepreneurs do live there, including many of you. It’s affordable,...
Accelerators - These are the startups you need to know about today….
Summer is here (or so you’d think judging by the 90 degree days last week) and ER Accelerator is announcing the ten startups that will be participating in ERA5. Drumroll,...
AlleyTalk -
We’ve heard it ad nauseam: the VC model is broken. There is certainly no shortage of posts on the subject. At TechCrunch Disrupt, Fred Wilson called the VCs sheep, saying they all wait, then jump into a deal together, usually...
Accelerators - “Think locally, act globally” is an expression we haven’t heard in some time, yet still applies today. And while there’s a big market in small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and the ad dollars they have to spend, the job...
Apps - The calendar says it doesn’t start until late June, but everyone knows that summer officially kicks off on Memorial Day Weekend. Whether it’s planes, trains or automobiles, everyone’s getting the hell out of Dodge. Here are a few...
Fashion - Fashion is a $3 trillion dollar industry. Combine that number with the lucrative e-retail market and when you come across a panel like this produced by OS Fashion, you pay attention. The funders were men. The founders, women. The...
The Watch - EdTech Nonprofit Honors Bre Pettis of MakerBot Industries, NYC entrepreneur Joanne Wilson and Best Buy Children’s Foundation at MOUSE@15 event on May 20th.
For those of us who were there when it launched, it’s hard...
Funding - Everyone knows where the Silicon Valley investors breakfast, lunch or otherwise imbibe: The Bar at the Rosewood Sand Hill in Menlo Park, Quadrus and, of course, Buck’s. But New York is a food town where supposedly you can eat out...
Accelerators - Digital Catalyst Fund Accelerator Launches This Summer in Romania, And They’re Now Accepting Applications...
Ah, Europe in summer. Outdoor cafes. Cobblestone streets. Castles, cold beer and - co-founders? Eastern Europe...
The Watch - You know it’s Spring when the overriding theme of the New York Tech Meetup seemed to be par-ty. NYC# was first to hit the stage and broke out in song – a cappella, no less!
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Advice - So you missed TechCrunch Disrupt this week. Well, here are 12 quotes to keep you in the loop...
“Don't start a company just because you can. Do it because you have the conviction.” – Naval Ravikant (Angel...
Startups - What sets Foursquare apart and always has is that it is one of the most Silicon Valley-like companies New York has produced. It’s not an adtech. It’s not a fintech. And they seem to be struggling to devise a revenue model. ...
Accelerators - Ten NYC startups you need to know about...
As a mentor at Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA), I always attend the hospitality events that are thrown to attract the next potential class. The question inevitably...
Cool Tech - Japanese serial entrepreneur Takahito Iguchi demonstrated Telepathy One earlier this week, a headset developed in Japan and stepping into the same space as Google Glass.
Like Google Glass, Telepathy One is a wearable...
AlleyTalk - They boast over 13 million members in 196 countries. There are 126,000+ meetup groups, well over a quarter of a million monthly meetups and last week Meetup announced that they had surpassed over 100 million RSVPs.
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Advertising - In the days of web 1.0, the claim was that content was king. Technology was critical, but no matter how good your technology might have been, people needed a reason to go online. While the promise was that content would be king, it was...
