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NJ Tech Meetup is the new name for Hoboken Tech Meetup. Everything else has remained pretty much the same since my last visit to Stevens Institute, the home of this Jersey-based startup gathering: interesting demos, great energy, and exceptional speakers. … Continue reading →

I was at Google last night, at their 8th Ave. location in NYC, attending a JavaScript Meetup. I almost didn’t make it: I was on the waiting list up until the last minute. So what brought over 125 people into … Continue reading →

One eyebrow-raising moment at last night’s Hoboken Tech Meetup was when former Huffington Post CEO Eric Hippeau said that in his new gig at Lerer Ventures, he funds one company per week. It is a good time to be a … Continue reading →

Taap.it is the geographically aware classified  buying app that I first saw at TechCrunch. On Tuesday, the Taap.it crew were on the big stage at New York Tech Meetup. I wasn’t there, but fortunately the video of their presentation is … Continue reading →

I had a lot of fun listening to Craig Kanarick, the co-founder of Razorfish, the proto-interactive agency, at last night’s Hoboken Tech Meetup. I could definitely envision him pitching Fortune 500 companies during the dot-com years and explaining the Web … Continue reading →

My reportage of last night’s New York Tech Meetup is based on listening to the Livestream while I was in the kitchen preparing dinner, but making quick visits between sautes to my MacBook to take a peek. Yup, another quirky, … Continue reading →

Based on Wednesday’s Hoboken Tech Meetup, it appears that a Hoboken coworking space is moving closer to reality.

Hearing angel investor David S. Rose (@davidsrose) speak last night at Hoboken Tech Meetup was the equivalent to speed reading a course in startup financing, marketing, and management in under an hour. Rose has a lot to say, and he … Continue reading →

It can happen. Hoboken Tech Meetup’s Arron Price is trying to arrange a low-cost creative working environment  in ‘Boken with a local business person. The space: lofty, over 3000 square feet. Parking: limited. Office: desk, conference rooms, private offices, Internet. … Continue reading →

Flickr Last night at New York Tech Meetup there were clear signs that the local tech ecosystem is growing and evolving. First, the NYTM organization itself is looking for a managing director to essentially oversee the affairs of the organization—events, … Continue reading →

I first learned about Megaphone Labs’  DialPlay TV product last month at HTM. This startup turns a boring DTMF keypad from your cell phone into a remote control for TV games, surveys, and trivia contests. The same idea of reading … Continue reading →

I’ve read many, many tech white papers sprinkled with the conventional bizspeak phrase, return on investment. But at Hoboken Tech Meetup last night, I came across a new metric, social return on investment or, in acronymese, SROI while listening to … Continue reading →

With a case of post-holiday ennui setting in, I decided to forgo a visit to Skirball and instead tuned into last night’s NYTM video stream from my couch. It was great entertainment and far more edifying than what’s transmitted over … Continue reading →

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. And there is no other place I’d rather be than New York City in December— chestnuts roasting, falafels cooking, and Food52 giving a demo at New York Tech Meetup. Of course, this … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

At New York Tech Meetup’s election day event, a bunch of young college-age upstarts stole the show from some of the slightly older incumbents.  I’m referring to student projects and hackathon winners who were up on stage at Skirball demoing … Continue reading →

Hoboken Tech Meetup is a nice counterpoint to the goings on across the Hudson. Though I enjoy the big-city excitement of the NYC version, the Hoboken Meetup I went to last night at Stevens Institute’s Babbio Center also had its … Continue reading →

I couldn’t make last night’s New York Tech Meetup in person, so I grabbed my laptop, settled into my sofa chair (after removing the cat), and watched the Livestream broadcast.  Besides liking introspectr (more on them in a later post), … Continue reading →

I missed this month’s New York Tech Meetup due to a previous engagement that was scheduled over 5000 years ago. By the way, Matt Merriam has a nice summary of September’s NYTM demos. One of the startups, Kodingen, caught my … Continue reading →

My ears are still ringing from a rant by Sam Lessin, Drop.io founder, as he went about trying to disprove intrinsic altruism and trust, and reclaim the commanding heights with neo-classical economics. More on this later, but it is a … Continue reading →

I took a quick peek at the Internet Week NY headquarters on 18th street in Manhattan while on the way to New York Tech Meetup’s “action packed” June event. I had just enough time to see some of the booths, … Continue reading →

I was lucky to get one of the few seats that suddenly became available for what I had thought was a sold-out  New York City Tech Meetup. I assume Spring fever infected a few early RSVPers. Anyway, I grabbed the … Continue reading →

An internet pundit wrote a much linked to piece of punditry about how complexity overwhelmed the administrative powers of a few past civilizations, thereby leading to their eventual demise. Last night at a NY Tech Meetup I was feeling incredibly … Continue reading →