Mayor Bloomberg just announced the winners of the NYCEDC’s Next Idea Contest.
And did we call this or what?
Congrats to Radim and Babak of VerifEyed, and Andy Tsai and his team at ReFleX.Continue reading
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NYC Next Idea
The New York City Economic Development Corporation is an agency tasked, not surprisingly, with stimulating the local economy. This includes our booming information economy, and in fact NYCEDC are the folks behind the BigApps competition.
Final presentations for another idea of theirs called, naturally, NYC Next Idea, were held this morning at Columbia University’s Shapiro Center. The six startups that made their presentations to the judges—as assortment of entrepreneurs, investors, and Steven Strauss, an NYCEDC director— had been winnowed from over 150 worldwide entries.
The common theme among this group of university student finalists was their desire to set up shop in NYC.Continue reading