The notable startup fundings for the week ending 3/14/20 featuring funding details for Finix, Lyra Health, Owler, and Cloudbeds.
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These are the 15 Largest NYC Tech Startup Funding Rounds of Q4 2019
Everything you need to need to know about the largest NYC startup funding rounds of the last quarter of 2019; broken down by industry, stage, investors, and more…
These are the 10 Largest NYC Tech Startup Funding Rounds of December 2019
#NYCtech Week in Review: 12/8/19-12/14/19
NYC Tech News for the week ending 12/15 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC Tech events including news for Kindbody, Augury, and much more…
Can Quantum Computing Save Us From A Third AI Winter?
Since Alan Turing first posed the question “can machines think?” in his seminal paper in 1950, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has failed to deliver on its promise. That is, Artificial General Intelligence. There have, however, been incredible advances in the field, including Deep Blue beating the world’s best chess player, the birth […]
You are Not Going to Believe The Latest Entry into the Cloud Storage Wars
The cloud has been a game-changer for tech entrepreneurs, in terms of helping to launch a new company way more affordable. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM – all of the big players have gotten into the game. From a small office at Cowork.rs, the Flatiron District-based coworking space, it seems that yet another player has emerged. […]
Laying Siege to a $750 Billion Dollar Castle
The venture capital firm DFJ wrote in a recent blog post: “Savvy entrepreneurs and venture investors tend to ‘think big,’ meaning…they build companies that go after big markets and especially those with incumbents that are ripe for disruption. As a venture capital investor, [what’s] on the top of my list for 2014? Enterprise software—a $120-billion-dollar […]
Startups Who Hide Early Work Only Fool Themselves
It’s popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. The common reason given is that this prevents any competitor from stealing their idea and beating them to market. In my view, this paranoid approach […]
Digital.NYC Launches and the New York Tech Community Just Got Easier to Navigate
Ok, so we all know that New York is the center of the universe and one of the fastest growing tech hubs globally, so it was only a matter of time before the city’s tech community had a hub of its own. It’s heeere… NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio unveiled digital.NYC, a first-of-its-kind online hub […]
Startup Company Lifecycle and Culture Change Too Fast Today
Successful startups seem to follow similar paths to greatness, and, unfortunately, that path all too often leads them back down the hill much faster than they went up. Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the […]
Entrepreneurs Need To Keep Their Startups Focused
One of the most common failures I see in startups is lack of focus. Unfocused entrepreneurs boast that their new technology will generate multiple disruptive products for consumers as well as enterprises around the world. Investors hear this as trying to do too many things with limited resources, meaning the startup will not shine at […]