Technology continues to replace jobs at unprecedented place and every estimate only predicts this number to exponentially increase. So, as many college students flock to computer science majors, middle and high schools are not adequately preparing the next generation for a fundamental change in the job market
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Are You Hands On Enough To Succeed In A Startup?
There is no substitute for diving into the key details of a new startup. Executives from large companies have sometimes long forgotten how to do this (“My people will contact your people to work out the details.”). Others hire consultants or outsource much of the real work. These executives won’t survive long in a startup […]
How to Ask Your Startup Customers the Right Questions
Giff Constable and Frank Rimalovski don’t think that entrepreneurs really know how to talk to their customers, or how to turn off their instinct just to sell to them. Constable, the CEO of NEO, and Rimalovski, the executive director of NYU’s Entrepreneurial Institute, have found that most entrepreneurs don’t talk to their customers to find […]
28 Hardware Innovators in NYC You Should Know
There was a time when New York was a manufacturing town. A lot of the former factory buildings are still standing in Queens, just east of Manhattan. In Brooklyn and SoHo, many of them have been converted to apartments and lofts. That’s New York for you. Well, heads up, hipsters: New York is a maker […]
Remember When the Valley Was Known for Semiconductors? NYC Startup Seamless Semi Is Changing That
Seamless Semiconductors has developed and demonstrated a proprietary “Switched-Mode Signal Processing (SMSP)” technology that, along with the company’s proprietary digital calibration techniques, enables the design of innovative, high-performance, digital-oriented mixed-signal circuits in highly scaled CMOS processes. Weren’t expecting that one, were you? To simplify: they’re targeting the high performance Analog-to-Digital Converter market for the next […]
The Opportunity Network: The Next Step Up from Social Networks
Sure, it’s good to connect with friends, but Opportunity Network connects companies that belong to accredited organizations with each other for serious deal flow. Anonymously. Seriously. This is where firms in the $50M to $1B+ revenue range find opportunities, and trust-worthy, vetted business partners, and here’s how CEO and Founder Brian Pallas (‘14BUS) and the Columbia […]
This is the App That is Replacing Tinder on Females’ Phones
We’d better explain that one. Think of Kwoller as a Tinder for commerce, where you swipe right for ‘love It,’ left for ‘leave it.’ The app also learns what you like and what you don’t, so the more you use it, the better it gets.. The company launched at the last TechCrunch Disrupt NYC’s Startup […]
An Angel in New York: Robin Chan
Robin Chan is an active angel investor specializing in such areas as social media, mobile and gaming. Chan is currently the founder and CEO of Time Machine Ventures. A global entrepreneur and recognized by Forbes as one of “Nine Young Chinese Entrepreneurs To Watch” in 2010, Chan has really made a name for himself. Putting […]
Sous-Chef Bot Enters the Scene
Recently, I had the good fortune of meeting Jason Ravel, a new robotic entrepreneur out of Columbia University. He is focused on helping solve real problems for physically-challenged humans in an aging world. I am sworn to secrecy, but let’s just say Wall-E and Evo maybe closer than one might think. Ravel, a software guru, […]
A New York VC Spotlight: Danny Schultz
Danny Schultz graduated from Columbia University with a degree in economics before becoming a senior banker with Lehman Brothers in the Equity Capital Markets groups in New York and London. From there, he co-founded his startup Atlantic Venture Partners, now known as Gotham Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm in NYC within the Draper Fisher […]
An Angel in New York: Derek Denckla
Derek Denckla is an investor and social entrepreneur with a unique focus on environmental sustainability. As the founder and co-chair of NYC LION (NYC Local Investing Opportunities Network), Denckla and his investors concentrate on funding small, sustainable food and farm businesses in and around New York. He is an advocate for urban agriculture and impact […]