Noom founder inspires foreign startups with his Korea-to-New York story
By Dennis Clemente If you’re a foreigner, how do you start a tech company in the United States? You can look at it in five different ways—from someone who experienced it first hand, another who helps...
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Funding your startup with legal, tax and accounting in place
By Dennis Clemente New York is packed with tech startup meetups every year, with great speakers and panelists as guests, but StartupNation NYC probably may just have the best moderator, Michael...
View ArticleEarnest talk on product costs, no-holds-barred dissection of Vintage 141
By Dennis Clemente Jeremy Horn’s Product Group meetup is a hybrid of the focus group and brainstorming session. A topic is explored followed by the dissection of a startup, which clearly benefits the...
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No holds barred with top VC Nikhil Kalghatgi
Nikhil Kalghatgi By Dennis Clemente The venue was just perfect for a meetup that promises to tell us what we need to know about venture capital. Eyes squinting above Grove Street, this blogger walked...
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What female founders should aspire to
By Dennis Clemente Tech meetups in the city have always attracted men, but law firm Orrick clearly knows how to attract women to their own meetups. For the second time last July 15, Orrick only...
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NY Enterprise Tech features Hightower, x.ai, Aorato
Hightower’s Brandon Weber By Dennis Clemente Last July 16, the New York Enterprise Technology Meetup hosted by Jonathan Lehr featured three startups—Hightower, x.ai and Aorato– with Jason Lemkin,...
View ArticleAirbnb envisions a better web experience with Rendr
By Dennis Clemente Last July 2, the Cleanweb group at NYU-Poly in DUMBO, Brooklyn hosted a special talk with Spike Brehm, front-end engineer of Airbnb who flew in from San Francisco. The topic was...
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Breakfast with startup champion Mike Edelhart
Mike EdelhartBy Dennis Clemente A tech meetup at 9 a.m. is a rare occurrence in New York but so is an opportunity to chat with an angel like Mike Edelhart, a current investor in 82 companies, a past...
View ArticleHow to accelerate the sales cycle in your startup
By Dennis Clemente How do you accelerate the sales cycle in your startup? If you’re talking to Mark LaRosa, chief revenue officer of Funnel Fire, he is going to be epigrammatic about it. He will tell...
View ArticleHow to build strategic partnerships with financial institutions
By Dennis Clemente How can financial innovators build strategic partnerships with financial institutions? PayPerks is one who has made headways in the financial space. CEO Arlyn Davich spoke about it...
View ArticleWhen outsourcing work, demand to see ‘visible work’
What is the secret to getting things done? “The essence of doing anything is making progress. You need visible work,” said Amol Sarva who suggested a radical, no-nonsense approach to outsourcing work....
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The secrets to designing a good game
By Dennis Clemente Last September 2 at Microsoft, NY Games Forum provided an overview of its upcoming workshop with instructor Mark Heggen, Entertainment Applications director at AMC, talking about...
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Challenges in e-commerce content; big companies investing in startups
By Dennis Clemente If you have not noticed, big companies have joined the tech investing bandwagon. If you have not noticed, the tech meetups are also adding more topics in one meetup night. Last...
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Jason Klein explains angel work; Sailo offers you a boat to rent
By Dennis Clemente How many times have you seen investors make actual Powerpoint presentations? Another question, how many of them have you seen present in front of a big audience in an engaging...
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Science writer Steven Johnson talks about ‘How We Got to Now’
By Dennis Clemente Steven Johnson, author of “How We Got To Now: Six Innovations That Made The Modern World,” likes to tell little-known success stories, sometimes or precisely because they are...
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David Tisch talks about his Spring e-commerce app, startups’ key to success
By Dennis Clemente Last October 8, Orrick hosted a fireside chat with David Tisch, former managing director of TechStars NY, co-founder of BoxGroup and startup investor at the WeWork offices in Soho...
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Powerfelt claims it can power portable devices like the iPhone
By Dennis Clemente International ThermoDyne’s Powerfelt bagged the most votes at the Ultra Light Startup presentation of eight energy startups that presented last October 9 at Microsoft, as it claimed...
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Mobile apps need to reduce burden in health systems
By Dennis Clemente “Reduce the burden.” That was Frederick Muench’s call to technologists last October 14 at the NY Mobile meetup at Microsoft. “Reduce steps 3 to 1 if possible.” It’s not common...
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‘Think jobs, pains and gains, not build, measure and learn’–Osterwalder
By Dennis Clenente In the startup world, who doesn’t know Alex Osterwalder, the lead author of the global best-seller, Business Model Generation, the handbook for visionaries, game changers and...
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UK’s Simon Laker discusses US move to EMV, Apple Pay with NFC
By Dennis Clemente From the United Kingdom, Simon Laker of Consult Hyperion, a payments consultancy firm, has since called New York his home since May, especially as he gears up for what is happening...
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