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.
read morePer popular demand, here are the videos on Vimeo for you to embed:
Hot 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 JC HEWITT | Guest Writer
Scott Heiferman, co-founder and CEO of Meetup, spoke at a small midtown conference center earlier this month about how he expects social networking to evolve for local communities and businesses. He expects that his platform will encourage web denizens to turn away from communicating with one another online, and instead turn the focus towards local organization.
“The internet is the world’s greatest organizing tool,” said Heiferman. “People go from seeing themselves as a consumer to a co-creator. They are powerful. One of the best ways to create value is to unleash it in people connecting.”
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Cody Brown, founder of Kommons and NYU Local.
Cody Brown thinks he may have stumbled across the “holy grail” in news publishing.
Brown, a senior at New York University and founder of NYU Local, is embarking on a new venture called Kommons. Kommons is a real-time news platform that’s intended for users in specific communities. He’s starting with NYU.
“It’s a culmination of everything I have learned in media so far,” Brown said. “Kommons is a quest for the holy grail in media.”
The Twitter/Wiki-like platform is in its very early stages and Brown is looking to shape the product through private alpha testing in the coming months.
From a demo of the product you might think that Kommons is a “lite” version of Twitter. But make no mistake, it’s functionality and purpose are quite different.
read moreDavid Karp, the founder of Tumblr, explains how he created the microblogging platform. Karp also outlines his team’s next steps for the Tumblr community.
To date Tumblr has over 3.1 million publishers. Karp said in December the site got 500 million impressions. And that same month more than 4 million unique visitors came to the site, according to Compete.com numbers. What’s next? Karp said he hopes to add new features and “perfect” the dashboard.
read moreWe sat down with Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures to talk about the trends he’s seeing in tech and the trends he’d like to focus on in the coming year. We also picked his brain about advice he would give to startups.
Fred Wilson Intro: The key words that we look for, that we invest around, are mobile, social, global, playful, intelligent and probably also immediacy. Immediacy is another time for the real-time web, things that are happening right here right now.
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Team Homefield gathers on top of their office roof, where the idea for the company originated.
New York City’s start-up community is growing and changing. 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 the venture capital firm 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.
NYC 3.0 is a hub for the tech start-up community in the Big Apple. It’s a place to connect, discuss news and learn about the resources available to entrepreneurs in NYC. The site will feature blog posts, podcasts, videos, and interactives. If you have story ideas, please feel free to contact us with a pitch.
The project will also feature an in-depth multimedia profile on Overtime Media, a startup creating the video-based HomeField application, currently going through the process of growing their technology company and seeking investors. The interactive profile, along with how-to content on starting your own tech company will launch in March.
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