The View from Hoboken

I’m liking the Hoboken Tech Meetup experience. As I remarked in my last HTM post, there are advantages with smaller groups and a limited roster of speakers. The pace is less hurried, the demos more leisurely, the speakers can make extended points, and the Q&As have more educational value.

Obviously, I hope that HTM grows and prospers, but I would recommend NYCers take the Path or ferry and try this more intimate tech gathering. And the views of the NYC skyline from the Babbio Center are quite stunning.

Kudos to Aaron Price and his staff.

I’ll confess that I come to these meetups just for the demos, but at last night’s Hoboken Tech Meetup I arrived earlier and stayed later to listen to the speakers.  To my surprise, I was able to understand some of the inner legal and financial aspects of the startup world, which were the subject of two of the talks.

Bigger surprise: I enjoyed  it.Continue reading