By Gary Sharma 8/06/12 10:30am

Goooood Morning Silicon Alley!

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Best Tech Events This Week (NYTM, The F Word Party, Investor Feedback Forum, Pinterest Meetup)


This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysguide.com.

“I’m safely on the surface of Mars. GALE CRATER I AM IN YOU!!!” That was NASA’s @MarsCuriosity rover tweeting after successfully landing on Mars after a nerve-wracking but thrilling journey. Here’s one of the pics that Curiosity sent back and here’s a video that vividly describes what Curiosity’s Seven Minutes of Terror probably were right before landing on Mars. As Hayden Planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted, it was a reminder of what it feels like “to boldly go”! Read More

By Gary Sharma 7/09/12 10:30am

Goooood Morning Silicon Alley!

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Best Tech Events This Week (NY Tech Meetup, DreamIt Speaker Series, UltraLight Startups, Women 2.0 Founder Friday, Creative Mixer)

This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysguide.com.

I’ve always been a big fan of Dave McClure, and that’s even more true after reading his recent blog post, a wonderfully honest, inspiring, straight-from-the-heart outpouring of his experiences and the ups and downs of life in Silicon Valley. Definitely a must-read.

Speaking of Dave, he and the folks from 500 Startups will be in town later this month for their Demo Day, a private, invite-only showcase of their fourth accelerator batch. They will also be organizing The Smash Summit, which will be all about the ‘new skool’ of online customer acquisition, in-depth case studies & “hack-tics” using platforms like Pinterest, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, & more. Don’t miss it!

And now let’s see what’s going down in the Alley this week… Read More

By Alexandra Dean Hitzler 6/15/12 3:31pm

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Morra Aarons-Mele, founder of The Mission List

NY Tech Meetup Hosts Its First Women’s Demo Night

Tereza Nemessanyi, founder of Honestly Now, an online Q&A forum, brought her elementary school-aged daughter along to a tech demo that she said was unlike most others she has been to.

“Last time I demoed was January 2011,” Ms. Nemessanyi said. “I brought my daughter with me and she asked me ‘mommy, why is it all boys?’”

Well that certainly wasn’t the case this time. Last night, more than 100 tech-savvy women (and a few guys) filled rows of chairs in a large room in the Microsoft building in midtown to participate in the first-ever  Read More

By Ben Weitzenkorn 2/08/12 6:00am

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There's a lot to learn (San Diego Air and Space Museum archive photo | flickr.com)

Startup News: DailyWorth Creates CreateWorth

MEET. Ten dollars gets you into the NY Tech Meetup at NYU this evening. The meetup will take place at the Skirball Center For The Performing Arts at 566 LaGuardia Place where NYC startups will demo all the cool things they’re doing.

BestVendor, CartoDB, Everything Butt Art,Lenddo, MVF, MyMatchmaker, Scroll Kit, Paperlex and Umami will all be showing off their startup skills.

GIRL POWER. DailyWorth, an online resource for women in business with backing from the likes of Joanne Wilson is launching a new financial newsletter devoted to female entrepreneurs: CreateWorth. Lady entrepreneurs who sign up will recieve a “bi-weekly forum” detailing personal experiences from DailyWorth founder Amanda Steinberg, and encouragement and tips to “master business-building fundamentals.”

TECH RUSH. Reuters TV hits up ZocDoc, HiiDef and LivePerson in a new video for their tech show, Tech Tonic. Read More

By Ben Popper 10/11/11 8:54pm

Mayor Bloomberg at NY Tech Meetup

Mayor Bloomberg Makes His First Trip to NY Tech Meetup, Announces New Tech Council

Master of ceremonies Nate Westheimer cut the demos short last night to introduce NY Tech Meetup to a surprise guest, a  former Wall Street worker who had seen the light and invested his life savings into a tech startup instead.

“Hello innovators, entrepreneurs, or as I call you, my peeps,” said Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who likes to break the ice with a little slang for the youths. “Thirty years ago I would have been sitting out there with you. I was unemployed, I had a lot of passion, but no business.” Read More