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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 →

How about over 40 exhibitors split up between health care and IT, six semi-finalists asked to present and pitch, a panel of savvy judges, and two startups that walked away with boasting rights? While some may be surprised that this … 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 →

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 came back to MissionFifty yesterday during its extended open-house week—i.e, it’s free—to use Hoboken’s first coworking space as my base of operations for the day. I got work done, handled a few phone calls, took those pictures I promised … 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 →

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 →

One of the advantages of living close to a major NJ academic institution is that universities, especially tech-oriented ones, are often hubs of entrepreneurial activity. That is the case with NJIT, which is located down the road from me in … 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 →

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 →

Mission Fifty, the new Hoboken co-working space, is well on the way to opening its door to NJ coworkers. The principals involved— Michael Pierce, Gregg Dell’Aquila, and HTM’s Aaron Price—already have the space lined up, at 50 Harrison Street. It’s … 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 →

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 →

Xydo is a recommendation startup I first discovered at Hoboken Tech Meetup. Since then I’ve partially trained GetGlue and Hunch to respond to my tastes (not successfully), perused Parse.ly’s recommendation app for filtering feeds, and gauged Google’s own Prediction APIs … Continue reading →

One of the benefits of  joining Hoboken Tech Meetup is learning about tech startup activity and entrepreneurial opportunities on the other side of the Hudson. Sometimes, as is the case with Bubbalon (Montclair), you come upon an exciting recommendation and … 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 →

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 →