TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2012
I remember the unseasonal heat-wave that baked NYC last year at this time, and turned the Pier 94 hangar, the home to TechCrunch Disrupt, into …
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NJIT Pitch Event Attracts Startups on the Verge
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 …
BetterCloud Gets Better with FlashPanel (and $2 million in seed money)
Earlier in the week, I chatted with BetterCloud‘s CEO, David Politis, to learn about their latest app. Called FlashPanel, it extends BetterCloud’s Google Apps portfolio–see …
DevCamp Mobile NYC: Sphero Ball of Fun
One of the vendors who sponsored yesterday’s Mobile DevCamp NYC hackathon just happened to be Orbotix. They make a robotized plastic ball, known as Sphero, …
Yapp: Mobile App for Managing Events
Yapp was a mobile app I came across during one of my circumnavigations of the NY Tech Day show floor last week. This blog has …
David Lee of SV Angel Is a Theme Investor
I was at NYU’s Stern School last night to hear David Lee, founder of the super-angel investment company SV Angel. Together with Ron Conway, this …
FoundIt: Altruistic Entrepreneurs
Last week, I was lucky enough to stop by FoundIt’s table at NY Tech Day. FoundIt solves the problem of returning misplaced stuff–hats, scarves, mp3 …
Springtime for NY Tech Day
I was told by the organizers that NY Tech Day was initially expecting about 3000 visitors. But this “science fair” for (mostly) New York City-based …
ITP Shanghai to Begin in 2013
FYI: New York University’s ITP has moved back its plans to set up shop in Shanghai by a year. Midori Yasuda, ITP’s admission coordinator, said …
Mobile DevCamp NYC Deal for TvB Readers
We’re pleased to offer a special deal to students interested in Mobile DevCamp NYC. They can get a 20% discount off the ticket price. This …
NYC/NJ Hacker News
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 …
Mobile DevCamp NYC 2012 Accepting Campers
Our friends over at CodeFab run the annual Mobile DevCamp NYC hackathon. This year DevCamp Developers will gather during the weekend of April 28th to …
Hoboken As Startup Hub?
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 …
NJ’s Answer to Groupon: PromoVerse’s Location-based Deal Finder
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 …
The Garbage Man of MIT
In Manhattan last Thursday night,I stopped by the NY Future Mobility Meetup at BMW’s iVentures HQ on Morton street. With Bavarian Motor Works the sponsor …
The Long Meeting Infographic
All you need to know about long, rambling corporate meetings is captured in this infographic from our friends at SalesCrunch. I’ve often felt the meter …
Hackers Come Through at Fifth hackNY Hackathon
While the rest of us were having our usual Saturday nights, hackers from the New York City metro area and from far away places, like …
Pivot Alert: Taap.it and Wanderfly
Software startups, unlike their industrial-age grandparents, don’t have to do a messy retooling of their factory to change product lines. They revamp their look-and-feel and …
InboundWriter: SEO for Small Biz and Other Content Creators
Friday morning I received a product tour of a very usable and useful SEO web service called InboundWriter. The name says it all. This San …
NYU to Offer ITP Program in Shanghai!
Last year New York University announced an agreement to create an independent research university in Shanghai. The first program to be offered at this new …