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I was at New Jersey Institute of Technology last Thursday for another round of Startupalooza. At this NJ-centric pitchathon, startups of a mostly medical or pharma flavor get to make their case to gathered investors (Jumpstart NJ, DFJ Gotham, Golden … Continue reading →

As a non-contributing member of the Hacker League, a community devoting to preserving those late night hacks for posterity, I get the benefit of receiving their newsletter, the EventTransmitter(). It nicely summarizes hackathons in this area and across the US. … Continue reading →

Could be. Our local technology press has lit up with a few announcements made at a conference held yesterday at Stevens Institute of Technology. Stevens President Nariman Farvardin is “committed” to setting up a technology incubator associated with the university … Continue reading →

Can consumers keep straight another Groupon-clone in their short-term shopping memory? NJ-based PromoVerse has plans to enter the small business deal market with a geo-aware mobile app. This Gardens State startup is purely focused on small biz. The model is … Continue reading →

Honestly, Now is a personal advice site that I first saw demoed at Hoboken Tech Meetup in March. Started by Bob Petrie and Tereza Nemessany, NYC-based Honestly is a Q&A sub-genre specializing in personal advice and appearance feedback. You ask … Continue reading →

New Jersey-based Mutual Force pinged us the other day about their upcoming beta service that pays former employees for their institutional wisdom. We have been in many, many situations where we left assignments, have good feelings for our old employers, … Continue reading →

The MissionFifty coworking space opened its doors yesterday to the public. I stopped by for a late afternoon visit to find workers busily finishing up this makeover of what was a manufacturing loft. Even in its almost-complete state, you can … Continue reading →

Pavan Katepalli had his ‘aha’ moment about blogs when he was running his second startup, a search engine marketing service. In trying to expand the online marketing presence of one his clients, he discovered that bloggers hold a lot of … Continue reading →

Stevens Institute held its Research and Entrepreneurship Day conference this past Friday. It was a chance for this engineering school to give the public a peek at tech projects that have been incubated by professors and students with the goal … Continue reading →