Gotham's Tech Start-up Scene
I snapped some photos from our screening of “The Startup” at the Drop.io headquarters in DUMBO. The turnout included folks from other startups to the likes of First Round’s Charlie O’Donnell and staff from Mashable, which today published a post about TeamHomeField on their site. The post also included the first chapter of the documentary. Thanks to all who attended.
Join us for a screening of the “Startup: Four Entrepreneurs Battle the Odds in Gotham” at the Drop.io offices in Brooklyn on April 19 at 7 p.m. We’ll show the documentary and you’ll have an opportunity to network with others in the New York tech scene.
Thank you to Drop.io for being kind enough to host!
Go to the Facebook event for more information and to RSVP.
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Graham Lawlor
By JC HEWITT | Guest Author
In 2008, Graham Lawlor resigned his position as an IT product manager at Deutsche Bank to found Ultra Light Startups. He began the group as a method to test out his technological business ideas. He used it as a method for getting in touch with other tech entrepreneurs looking to start their businesses with little to no outside investment. Since then, a thriving community has grown around the organization, featuring regular seminars and pitching events.
Lawlor implores Ultra Light Startups members to develop businesses around the needs of customers rather than inventing hot ideas that will appeal to investors.
read morePer popular demand, here are the videos on Vimeo for you to embed:
Team Homefield gathers on top of their office roof.
The Startup is a four-chapter video documentary with interactives on a young tech startup trying to make it in New York City. My colleague Alex Hotz and I followed the entrepreneurs behind TeamHomeField.com for the past four months as they develop and grow their web-based video application for sports teams. Below is the Vimeo video intro for the project, which we encourage you to to embed and it includes the likes Fred Wilson, Nate Westheimer, Charlie O’Donnell and more.
The intro briefly explores how the New York City’s start-up community is growing, evolving and becoming more collaborative. In 2008, 95 seed and early stage startups could be found in the Big Apple. In 2009 that number shot up to 150, according to Union Square Ventures. Many of these start-ups are technology focused, gaining prominence and growth in recent years. In many ways, the scene is reaching a new level, 3.0. This is the inspiration behind “The Startup” and NYC 3.0.
The project was quite time-consuming and both Alex and I learned a lot. We first started following the guys from TeamHomeField.com in late October and tried to highlight some of the aspects startups have to take on (pitching, sacrifice, etc.). We hope you enjoy(ed) it. Also, take a look at the interactive timeline of TeamHomeField and a map of some of the tech startups in the city. We may also be hosting a screening of this in the near future. Stay tuned.
The music in the documentary is by the NYC-based group CARLON. Check them out at www.carlonmusic.com. You can also find them out on Facebook or Twitter.
read moreHot Potato, a location-based social platform, released a fresh version of their site, a new iPhone application and an API for developers to play with Thursday – just in time for South By Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas this year.
We sat down with Justin Shaffer, the founder and CEO of Hot Potato, at their Brooklyn offices last Thursday, to talk about the new release and where the company is headed.
read moreBy LIMOR ELKAYAM | Guest Writer
There’s been a lot of chatter lately about the lack of female founders in the tech space and some are even questioning if VCs have a gender problem.
Being a female founder of the startup iSpotaStory.com, I started wondering…Is it really any different than being a male founder?
My first reaction was no, but after thinking about it, I realized there are striking differences.
I’ve always had a lot of guy friends and even if there were girls around, I never really paid attention. I knew the tech space was dominated by guys, but I never really noticed that there were no iconic female founders; a la Mark Zuckerberg.
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by SHANE SNOW | Guest Writer
Throngs of programmers, MBAs, and entrepreneurs in all varieties swarmed Fashion Institute of Technology’s Haft Auditorium last night to watch nine New York technology companies demonstrate their products; the Fire Marshall had to order a few dozen people standing in the back to bounce. (But geeks in the crowd squeezed in close so they could all fit.). With 70 previous such events under its belt, New York Tech Meetup, a monthly gathering of tech talent, kicked off the night with a set of five one-minute demos by new companies, and concluded with five five-minute demos. As usual, the crowd ate it up.
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Nate Westheimer, co-founder and EVP of product & technology at AnyClip. He is also known as the organizer of the NY Tech Meetup.
Nate Westheimer, the co-founder and executive vice president for product and technology at AnyClip.com and the executive director and organizer of the NY Tech Meetup, demoed AnyClip for us and talked about how the company plans to make money through affiliate revenue, advertising and partnerships.
The site uses meta data to allow users to search words or subjects to find specific movie clips. In the video, you’ll see Westheimer search gas station and several movie clips in which a scene takes place at a gas station show up. The idea is similar to that of SpeakerText, which we’ve written about, in that it helps make online video more usable and searchable.
read moreRecently we spoke with Jay Levy, a principal at Zelkova Ventures. Jay outlined the types of startups Zelkova invests in, the qualities he looks for in entrepreneurs and how Zelkova found the companies currently in its portfolio. In addition to his position as a VC, Levy was involved in his own startup and currently serves as a panelist on the American Idol-esque Hatchery. Simply put: this man knows his startups.
NYC3.0 Jay Levy Interview from Alexander Hotz on Vimeo.
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