With so much going on in the city’s thriving ecosystem, it is easy to miss some of the happenings in the space. We keep you abreast of a few of things that you may have missed in NYC Tech News for the week of 7/1/18 to 7/7/18 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC Tech events. CLICK HERE […]
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The AlleyWatch NYC Startup Daily Funding Report: 7/6/18
Here are the latest venture capital, seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 7/6/18. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.
Sports Tank: Making Deals through Opportunity
While the temperature in the room slowly climbed on an unseasonably warm April night, the action behind the scenes at the third annual Sports Tank sports tech pitch event produced by TPG Sports Group was about to heat up in a big way. Although Sports Tank’s name is an ode to the “Made for TV” […]
This Founder Didn’t Know a Single NYC VC and Just Raised $3.2M
Not only did ZergNet close their Series A: they’re working with some of the top VCs in town. How did they do it? First, by providing a new way for publishers to grow their sites and monetize their traffic without showing a bunch of terrible sponsored ads. Having publishing partners like Conde Nast, Time, NBC, […]
Yes, You Can Become a Better Entrepreneur: Here Is How
If you ever took an entrepreneurship course in business school, chances are you’ve heard your professor ask, “Can entrepreneurship be learned, or is it something you are born with?” As a fourth-generation entrepreneur, I used to be adamant that entrepreneurship was a trait that certain people were born with. What I’ve since noticed is that […]
How This Ad Network You Have Never Heard of Bootstrapped Itself to Multi-Million Dollar Success
“It takes money to make money.” You can bet that phrase originated with an investment banker, not an entrepreneur. If you’re passionate about building a successful business, it’s possible to do so with little or no capital–as long as you understand a few important concepts up front. In 2007 my beautiful girlfriend (now my wife) […]
A New York VC Spotlight: Andrew Chang
A New York VC Spotlight: Andrew Chang Andrew Chang is a founding partner of Liberty City Ventures (founded 2012), which invests in early stage startups that are innovating at the cross-sections of technology, media and commerce. LCV commit a percentage of each partner’s time to providing value-added services to their portfolio companies, using their expertise […]
Horses For Courses on Social Media: Short-Form vs. Long-Form Content
Mark Cuban had an interesting blog post in which he said he hardly uses Google anymore. If he wants to know something that’s urgent and happening now (like a sports score), he goes to Twitter. If he wants to know about what’s happening at an event, he goes to Instagram. Google is great, but it’s […]
The Startup Dream Team
With March Madness in full gear, sports fans and enthusiasts start packing bars and clubs around the nation with speculative chatter. Who is the best team? Who is the best player? Our creativity and memory rapidly dives through stats, numbers, and highlight reels of our favorite players and teams. When I was a kid I […]
“What’s your plan? Forget the Plan” A Post inspired by Mark Cuban
What’s your plan? We have heard this annoying question in various forms throughout our lives. When we’re kids in elementary school, adults would ask “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Parents asked us this question as we tried to navigate our way through high school and college. The options for paths […]
The Next Technology Tsunami and How to Navigate Your Career
Erik Straser, partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, said that the most important thing you can do for your career is to “figure out how to ride a long wave – some immutable trend that is going to permeate most of the tenure of your career.” He suggests that you find a “wave” that coincides with […]