Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley spoke at the New York Tech Meetup about some of his plans for the company's store of data. He showed a digital map of all of the daily check-ins across Manhattan, color-coded by category. Crowley said that using this data, he can predict what a user will like in one [Full Story…]
#NYTM Co-Founder Tells Her Success Story
February 13, 2013 at 10:42 am
NY Tech Meetup creator Dawn Barber began her tech career 15 years ago without even having an email account. Now her 2004 creation is the platform for over 30,000 companies. Barber, who had a degree in English and had previous pursued careers in art and antiques, found her niche in the tech scene [Full Story…]
#NYTM Seeks a Larger Role in NY Elections
January 25, 2013 at 4:15 pm
The top leaders of the NY Tech Meetup are expected to approve a list of policy proposals this week that will eventually be presented to candidates running for city offices. Proposals include expanding low-cost broadband access, adding more math and science classes in public schools and making [Full Story…]
#Bloomberg Asks #NYTechMeetup to Reinvent Payphones
December 5, 2012 at 4:08 pm
At the New York Tech Meetup, Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked the tech community to come up with new ideas for pay phones. In a pre-recorded conversation with Rachel Haot, NYC’s chief digital officer, he said, “We need to replace them, reinvent them, bring these things into the 21st [Full Story…]
Emergency New York Tech Meetup Protests #PIPA and #SOPA
January 18, 2012 at 5:06 pm
In front of a passionate crowd of nearly 2,000 people earlier today, NYConvergence was on hand to see Alexis Ohanian of Reddit display the sympathy cards he addressed to Senators Schumer and Gillibrand over the death of the Internet. Ohanian told an Emergency New York Tech Meetup gathering that the [Full Story…]
Brandon Diamond of NYTM Discusses Future Plans
December 26, 2011 at 12:08 pm
In a recent email interview with BetaBeat, Brandon Diamond, a new board member at New York Tech Meetup (and an engineer at 10gen) discussed his plans for the future growth for the monthly gathering. As a member of the board, Diamond oversees the legal and financial aspects of the organization, as [Full Story…]
First Opel Award Winner to be Presented at Upcoming New York Tech Meetup
September 1, 2011 at 3:22 pm
The first annual 2011 Opel Awards, presented by Brian S. Cohen, vice chairman of the VC organization New York Angels, will take place, Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at the next New York Tech Meetup. Held at the at the NYU Skirball Center For The Performing Arts, the recipient of the award will be [Full Story…]
Jessica Lawrence Talks NY Tech Meetup
April 16, 2011 at 4:31 pm
BetaBeat recently interviewed the newly hired managing director, and first full time employee, of the NY Tech Meetup, Jessica Lawrence. She has only been an employee for two weeks and has focused on meeting all of NYTM's existing partners. She highlights that complaints have really centered around [Full Story…]
NY Startups Told to Get Feedback from Future Customers
September 28, 2010 at 1:25 pm
NY tech start-ups often fail to test their business plans on potential customers, putting new companies here at a disadvantage over competitors who use customer feedback to build a better tech product. A key benefit of being based in NYC is having a large number of potential customers to test ideas [Full Story…]
Internet Week NY: High Tech Creative Culture Good for Startups
June 11, 2010 at 2:58 pm
In addition to being an event for networking and collaborating, Internet Week New York also showed off the high tech creative atmosphere in the Big Apple, as it is a good place for tech companies to start up, an article in NY1 pointed out. Some Internet Week attendees said they chose to set up shop [Full Story…]
NY Tech Meetup Lists Local Startups
December 23, 2009 at 9:28 am
The New York Tech Meetup, with the help of local entrepreneur Michael Karnjanaprakorn, have compiled a list of technology startups in the New York area. You can see the list on the New York Tech Meetup site or on Karnjanaprakorn's site. If you want to make an addition or other [Full Story…]
Blip.tv Makes Show Creator Dashboard for All Users
August 20, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Made available to a select group of show creators in July, online television network blip.tv's new Show Creator Dashboard became available to all users earlier this week. Improvements include engagement graphs, player customization tools, and episode batch editing. An overview of [Full Story…]
Westheimer Wants to Unite NY Tech Community
February 9, 2009 at 9:42 am
The newly appointed New York Tech Meetup organizer Nate Westheimer plans to open up communication among New York tech companies, so that efforts are not duplicated and collaborating is easier. Westheimer was elected to the leadership role in December. TheDeal.comPrevious:> NY Tech Meetup [Full Story…]
February NY Tech Meetup Tonight at IAC Building
February 3, 2009 at 10:31 am
The meetup will start at 7 PM tonight in the IAC Building's lobby. Already sold out, it will be focusing on the theme "Mobile Meets Social" and include the following companies: Xtify Mobile Commons Flixwagon OMGICU Peek viaPlace Coovents Media consultant Jeff [Full Story…]
DOT-COMEBACK: Seven Years After The Bust, NYC’S Tech Sector is Booming
April 21, 2008 at 11:06 am
New York Post Imagine a show-and-tell featuring some of technology's finest, with an audience packed with geeks, Internet entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. The 500 or so tickets to this event sell out in a few hours - everyone wants to witness the seedling debut of tomorrow's Internet [Full Story…]
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