November 2011
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WatchFounder Stories host Chris Dixon interviews Mayor Bloomberg on TechCrunch TV on how the Mayor got his start in business.
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Mayor Bloomberg on Founder Stories
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Flood of government data fuels rise of city apps →
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NYC Next Idea Update
By Patricia Bayley, Project Manager, Center for Economic Transformation
Round 1 of NYC Next Idea global business plan competition closed to entries earlier this month, and the turnout couldn’t have been more impressive!
This third annual NYC Next Idea encourages innovative business ventures to launch and operate in New York City and raises the visibility of New York City as an...
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New York Times: "'Scene Near Me' Hackers: From...
The New York Times explores NYC BigApps 3.0 Hackathon winner, Scene Near Me:
Avinash Dabir, Dan Blumberg and Luis Miranda [pictured above] are friends who live and work in New York City. Miranda works in financial services technology, while Dabir and Blumberg are media professionals. They signed up for their first hackathon, the two-day BigApps 3.0 Hackathon put together by the New York City...
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City's FRESH Program Brings Key Food to Staten...
Mayor Bloomberg today broke ground on a new Key Food supermarket in the South Beach area of Staten Island, the latest in a series of new or expanded supermarkets that have been created as a result of the City’s Food Retail Expansion to Support Health (FRESH) program. Launched in 2009 in partnership with the City Council, FRESH was created to increase access to food in underserved...
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NYC Digital: High-tech employment in NYC up by 30%... →
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“High-tech employment in New York is, much like Yipit, on the move, shooting up by 30 percent in the last five years, at a time when overall private-sector employment has decreased. New York recently surpassed Boston in the amount of venture capital invested in Internet start-ups, and lags behind only San Francisco. The vibrant growth has led Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to...
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NYCEDC's Entrepreneur at Large: "New York...
NYCEDC’s new Entrepreneur at Large Steve Rosenbaum talks about why New York City is the ideal place for tech startups:
New York startups, this is our time. New York is ready to be the center of the technology universe. In the past three years we’ve grown an active and fast moving seed-stage venture community of venture capitalists and angel investors. We’ve grown an impressive list of rock...
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This week at NYCEDC
This week at NYCEDC:
We quoted our new Entrepreneur at Large Steve Rosenbaum
We highlighted resources for NYC’s maker community
We announced a RFP for a new Harlem business incubator
We mentioned NYC 2.0 on iTunes (via NYC Digital)
We invited you to this weekend’s Clothing and Textiles Recycling Day in Harlem
We gave you highlights from the NYC BigApps 3.0 Hackathon
We...
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Rapid Prototyping and Fabrication in NYC
By Alison Hodgson, Project Manager, Center for Economic Transformation
Behind jewelry, robot, art installation, and building design is Rapid Prototyping and Fabrication (RPF), an emerging industry that is bringing New York City’s culture of innovation and experimentation into the digital age. In January 2011, NYCEDC’s Center for Economic Transformation launched a study of the City’s Rapid...
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Request for Proposals: Harlem Business Incubator
Mayor Bloomberg and NYCEDC today announced that the City is seeking proposals from individuals, organizations, and companies to develop, operate, and maintain a new small business incubator space in Harlem. The incubator, which will be part of the City’s network of spaces designed to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation across a variety of sectors, is an important part of the...
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“New York City has a new official position, entrepreneur at large, which has just...”
– Crain’s New York Business (via nycdigital)
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NY Post: Two Trees grows tech in Brooklyn →
In partnership with NYU-Poly and Two Trees, our DUMBO incubator for technology and digital startup businesses is coming soon. Here’s a map of affordable workspaces across NYC for entrepreneurs and small businesses.
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Adventures (in code): Where the hacky things are-... →
Here’s Alastair’s story on how he decided to enter the NYC BigApps Hackathon, which resulted in the NYC Taxi Tracker app!
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I signed up attend the NYC BigApps Hackathon with the honest intention of not writing a single line of code. I was there to represent RecordSetter as an API provider, and I figured I’d take a back seat, live tweet/blog the event and take some...
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WatchIt’s amazing what applied sciences can do! We’re mesmerized by this video taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station as it orbits the Earth. The green glow, we’re told, is an aurora over the planet.
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The ChallengePost Blog: Awesome NYC BigApps hacks →
Here’s a list of all the apps created during this weekend’s NYC BigApps 3.0 Hackathon!
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How was your weekend? If you were at the first-ever NYC BigApps Hackathon, it was pretty amazing! A diverse group of developers, designers, and visionaries collaborated on some incredibly innovative uses of NYC Open Data and APIs from participating companies. A stellar panel...
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NYC Open Data: Congratulations to the winners and... →
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Congratulations to the winners and everyone who participated in this weekend’s Big Apps 3.0 Hackathon at Pivotal Labs!
The 1st prize winner was “Can I Park Here” designed by @Eric Rafaloff which tells users if it is legal to park in a space in real-time.
The 2nd prize winner…
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“Under the mayor, there has been a lot of success in continuing to diversify the...”
– NYCEDC President Seth Pinsky, quoted in City Hall News
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This week at NYCEDC
This week at NYCEDC:
We caught up with previous BigApps winner Roadify
We saw Applied Sciences on the cover of the Chronicle of Higher Education
We reminded you about this weekend’s NYC BigApps Hackathon
We mentioned endorser of Applied Sciences Bill Clinton
We greeted the NYC Open Data Tumblr
We read about immigrant entrepreneurs in The New York Times
We noted NYC tech...
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Bill Clinton endorses Applied Sciences NYC
In his new book, Pres. Clinton writes in support of Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to create an applied sciences and engineering school in NYC to spur innovation and the economy. According to this NY Daily News article:
“New York could then rival Silicon Valley and tech communities all over the world,” wrote Clinton in the book, entitled “Back to Work,” which came out Tuesday.
Clinton—whose...
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NYC Open Data: Welcome to the NYC Open Data Tumblr →
By the way, it is possible to spend hours on the NYC Open Data site. It’s so interesting! Plus, if you are a developer, you can create a fantastic mobile app based on NYC Open Data and enter our NYC BigApps 3.0 challenge for the chance to win up to $50,000 in cash and prizes. This could even lead to a new business!
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Welcome to the NYC Open Data Tumblr
As part of Mayor...
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NYC Advanced NIH SBIR Funding Proposal Workshop
By Julie Chan, Senior Project Manager, Center for Economic Transformation
Are you an academic, businessperson or entrepreneur in NYC’s life sciences and healthcare community? NYCEDC and the New York Academic Consortium will host its next workshop on Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant programs on Thursday, November 17th at the Levin...
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The 20 Most Innovative Startups In Tech →
More startups from NYC than any other city made Business Insider’s top 20 list of the most innovative tech startups, as picked by industry experts. These included:
Codecademy
H.Bloom
Joor
Kickstarter
Makerbot
MoviePass
Roundtable
Skillshare
ZocDoc
What are other innovative tech startups from NYC you’ve come across lately?
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Growing NYC's Bioscience Sector
NYCEDC is committed to growing the City’s Biosciences sector, providing world-renowned research, talent, and resources no other city can offer.
Take a look at the following biotech events happening this week in NYC. Explore more Bioscience news and events when you read NYCEDC’s Bioscience Bulletin, or receive this news in your inbox when you subscribe to the monthly e-newsletter.
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NYCEDC Holds Eds & Meds CEO Workshop on Proposed...
Session Summary by Chelsea Rao, Julie Chan, Lenzie Harcum, & Kristy Sundjaja Center for Economic Transformation
New York City’s bioscience enterprises, academic medical centers, non-profit research institutions and healthcare technology companies—also known as “Eds & Meds”—represent a significant asset base from which to develop a broader bioscience cluster. On October 19th, we held the...
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New York Daily News: "Coney Island draws biggest...
The New York Daily News applauds Coney Island’s booming attendance this summer:
Crowds at Coney Island surged this summer despite the soggy weather.
More than 640,000 people came to two new amusement parks, city officials said — up from 450,000 last year and the most since Steeplechase Park closed in 1964.
“With another season of record attendance in the books, the city’s...
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This week at NYCEDC
This week at NYCEDC:
We reached 4,000 Tumblr followers (thanks, everyone!)
We invited you to Zoning the City
We explored the Economic Impact of the NYC Marathon
We listened to Mayor Bloomberg at New York City Global Partners Summit
We were asked to speak at SXSW Startup Village
We heard more about Curate NYC on The Brian Lehrer Show
We rounded up official apps from the City of New...
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Economic impact of the New York City Marathon
The ING New York City Marathon takes place this Sunday, November 6, 2011. According to the NY Post:
This Sunday’s massive, five-borough road race is expected to bring the largest economic windfall to the city of any sporting event ever, as New York’s economy will run green with some $350 million in marathon-related activity, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday.
The 26.2-mile...
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