The Watch -
Each week we bring you a handy guide to just a few of the events we think should not be missed. On any given night, there are too many events. You can’t attend all of them and neither should you, unless you’re a career socialite. For the week of May 27th – May 31st, here are our suggestions for navigating the scene:
Monday: 5/27/2013
Memorial Day
Unplug and...
Business - Today, we speak with Korey Lee, Vice President of Operations and Analytics at SumAll, a real-time e-commerce analytics tool that allows store owners to identify patterns in their data.
What does “Made in NYTM” mean to...
Techs and the City -
Last week, Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) held a panel discussion that addressed funding concerns before a packed house at Apple’s SoHo store. WIM, an accelerator that focuses on women-founded companies in mobile technology,...
Accelerators - DreamIt Ventures recently announced its summer 2013 NYC class, which marks its third class since expanding to New York from Philadelphia and Austin. Today, Eytan Daniyalzade, CEO and Co-Founder of Stylr, a mobile shopping app for...
Accelerators -
There’s no shortage of tech pitching events, so it’s refreshing when you go to one where the investor/speaker starts out by saying that his motivation was to make the world suck less by writing cool software. “Most people...
AlleyTalk - Thanks to Donald Trump and the extraordinary spectacle played out at Trump Tower recently, we just got a glimpse of crowdfunding as a nightmare: people crammed against each other as they clawed the air for MONEY.
As Trump put it, he...
Strategic - Finally, New York City offers an all-day ‘hackathon’ for marketing and product development. StrategyHack, organized by The Inventure Co., brings together marketers and early-stage startups for a day of hacking together marketing...
Advice - Today we speak with Women Innovate Mobile mentor, Adaora Udoji.
Adaora is the founder and marketing director of The Boshia Group, a network of content creators, developers and strategists. The network provides media...
The Watch -
Each week we bring you a handy guide to just a few of the events we think should not be missed. On any given night, there are too many events. You can’t attend all of them and neither should you, unless you’re a career...
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...
Startups - Ultra Light Startups, New York's oldest startup pitch event, held its monthly investor feedback forum this past Thursday. Nine startups made pitches to panelists Josh Bruno of Bain Capital Ventures, Brian Cohen of New York Angels,...
Funding - Today we speak with Vivek Sharma, CEO and Co-Founder of Movable Ink, a real-time email marketing platform. Vivek shares some insights into the fundraising process in the Alley as his company just completed a sizable series B round...
AlleyTalk - This infographic is an oldie but a goodie and indicates that New York may be better suited for earlier stage startups than San Francisco.
What do you think? Sound off in the comments below...
Infographic courtesy...
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...