European Tech Meetup
February 9th, 2010 · Comments - adam
Last month, Scott and dawn invited Saul Klein, founder of Seedcamp, to Meetup HQ for a special NY Tech Meetup about European startups.
The event was sold out, so if you didn’t get to attend but wanted to see what went down, check out this video made from the folks at techfluff.tv about the event.
CommentsTags: Saul Klein·Seedcamp
Help Promote the NYTM Student Group!
January 30th, 2010 · Comments - trevor
Attention NY Technologists!
My name is Trevor and I am a senior at NYU. There’s no doubt in 2010 we will see a comeback in NY Tech Scene. With the recent loss of jobs more people are turning to entrepreneurship. However, unless we take this opportunity to bring on board our city’s universities, this comeback will be short-lived. As an NYU student I know that my university’s entrepreneurial offerings are not on-par with our western counterparts. Young entrepreneurs do not have nearly the exposure and access to mentoring opportunities. My peers at Columbia agree.
For this reason I am starting the NYTM Student Group to bring together student leaders from all of our city’s universities, increase their involvement and exposure in the community, and thereby grow the NY Tech Scene from the bottom-up.
Please assist me in promoting our kick-off event this Tuesday Feb. 2nd, from 5-6pm before the NYTM.
- Tweet about the event
- Share the event on facebook
- Send a quick email to interested faculty, staff, & students, at NYC’s universities (Flyer below, RSVP link here: http://anyvite.com/ica4sve9wa)
- Email me if you’re an entrepreneur interested in being a student group mentor. (trevor.owens@stern.nyu.edu)
Thank you everyone, here’s to the NY Tech comeback in 2010!
Trevor
PS. Students, faculty, & staff, post in the comments if you have questions or to let me know you are out there.
CommentsTags: NY Tech Revival·The Student Group·Trevor Owens
MakerBot: Reporting from CES
January 26th, 2010 · Comments - innonate
Editor’s Note: Last Summer, in a partnership with CEA LineShows, the NY Tech Meetup hosted a “NY Startup Classic,” where 5 of the most exciting startups (who had presented at the NY Tech Meetup that year) competed for a spot at the International CES 2010 in Las Vegas. In the end, two startups won, Aviary and MakerBot, and both attended the show. The following post is a report back from Bre Pettis, Co-Founder of Makerbot.
MakerBot at CES!
When we won the Tech Meetup CEA startup battle with Aviary, we really had no idea what CES would be like. We lasercut a bunch of signs, booked our hotel at the Excalibur and packed up a few MakerBots and jumped on the plane to Las Vegas.
On setup day, electricians and engineers kept stopping by and then they brought their bosses and their friends to check out the MakerBot 3D printer. If there were an electrician and engineer award, we would have won it. People who know about making things instantly get that MakerBot is a powerful tool for making almost anything.
For the 4 days of CES our booth was packed. We got great coverage on lots of blogs and we estimate we told our story more than 3000 times to groups of 10-12 at a time reaching approximately 35,000 people. Our business cards and all of our literature flew off of our display table and on the first day and we ended up giving out thousands of stickers for the rest of the conference.
We kept our MakerBots printing out models of heads, artwork, and mechanical pieces the entire time! We made lots of connections, made friends, answered questions, and chatted with potential angel investors stopping by the booth to see what the buzz was all about.
Although we wouldn’t have gone if we hadn’t of won the competition, it would have been worth it for us to have spent the money on our booth. Based on our experience this year, we’ve already reserved a 20×20 spot for next year. Even though next year’s reserved spot is deep in an obscure corner, we’re hoping to someone drops out and we get a bit closer to the front. When we return to Las Vegas next year, we’ve got some spectacular booth plans, stay tuned!
Bre
CommentsTags: Aviary·CEA Lineshows·CES·MakerBot·NY Startup Classic
