Announcing the first annual Startup Summer sponsored by AT&T
May 12th, 2010 · View Comments - brandon
With all the success the NY Tech community has had lately, it can be easy to forget that by accounts we are still in start-up mode. It’s wonderful our industry was recognized on the cover of New York Magazine but you’ll know we’ve really arrived when a similar article appears in TIME Magazine or Newsweek. As Nate echoed in his State of New York Technology post, New York has all the makings of a truly innovative technology ecosystem:
We have amazing companies starting everyday on the backs of brilliant entrepreneurs, we have an active and forward thinking community of VC’s and Angels, a gigantic and magnificently diverse city of potential users and we are located in the most badass city on earth. Not bad. What we also have that no other city does, including our friends out west, is each other. NY tech is ferociously supportive of one another. When an NYC based start-up launches, the entire community rallies, incubates and promotes that hell out of that product. When foursquare says in their about us, “with the support of our 300 closest friends (thanks guys)” they are talking about you.
That’s why I think New York City is the absolute best place in America to launch a start-up. What we are not is the best place for a start-up to mature. Where we lose, is talent. Right here in the northeastern United States the best of the best are educated in the Ivy League and yet every year the top talent ships off to the bay area. Here in our own city we aren’t doing enough to develop relationships with universities, public schools and students so that NY tech has a meaningful impact on curriculums, budgets and individual student interest. We need to get active on this front and there is no better place to start than in our own backyard.
With that in mind we were thrilled to announce live at the May Meetup, The NYTM Startup Summer sponsored by AT&T in partnership with MOUSE.org, a local non-profit that supports New York City high school students in establishing and managing leading edge technical support help desks in their schools.
The NYTM will pair 10 of the cities most gifted young technologists with 10 of New York’s most innovative companies for a 6 week long summer internship program.
We feel that with your help the NYTM Startup Summer can evolve into a significant engine for growth within the community and will leave a positive impact on student participants through your valuable mentorship.
Now it’s your turn to help make this vital program a success. Please visit the program home page at nytm.org/startupsummer and register your startup as a program participant! Before we can successfully recruit top talent to New York we must first nurture and develop the young talent already here. Be apart of it, New York.
Yours truly,
Adam Schwartz
adam@nytm.org
NYTM Startup Summer Coordinator
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Startup Movement Hits NYC Universities with NYU Startup Week!
April 2nd, 2010 · View Comments - trevor
Tech@NYU, a student council promoting technology and entrepreneurship organizations and events across NYU, is hosting the first-ever NYU Startup Week.
It’s kicking off with the NYC Hackathon tonight and has some awesome entrepreneurs and speakers coming in Monday-Thursday. The week intersects the NY Tech Meetup and tops off with the NYC Startup Job Fair. Scott Heiferman will keynote the week’s events.
Tech@NYU's NYU Startup Week
More info- NYUStartupWeek.com
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How to Present at the NY Tech Meetup
March 31st, 2010 · View Comments - adam
Each month, I get dozens and dozens of emails from people asking the same thing: “How can I present my company/product on stage at the NY Tech Meetup!?”
Of course I can identify with this request. Before I ran the NY Tech Meetup, I lobbied Scott and dawn pretty hard to get my startup on stage.
Well, the process and factors that go into getting someone on stage are about the same then as they were now. While we may make changes to the process in the near future, the factors we consider will likely remain the same for eternity. Here, I’ve tried to write some of them down:
- How technically interesting and innovative is your product?
- How demoable is the the product?
- How involved in the community has the presenter been? Haven they even been to the event before?
- Is this a NYC-based project?
- Is it a product launch? We love launches.
- Does it fit the month’s theme, when we have one?
- How long has the person been waiting on the backlog?
You’ll note that what’s not factored in is whether or not it’s a good business. Frankly my dear, we don’t give a damn. If one thing has been constant with with the NY Tech Meetup and what’s worked on stage, it’s the belief that there are lots of great businesses which are online, but not all of the great business are interesting demos.
Content, e-commerce, video, and niche social-network sites are usually the most common applicants to be turned away simply because they, while offering something new or valuable to their consumers, don’t offer something extraordinarily new or valuable to the attendees of our event — who are there to have the back of their brains tickled.
So, now that you’ve read, internalized, and still believe you fit the bill to be on stage, feel free to submit your application to present below:
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