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Curious about NYC Startups? This Thursday, take office tours of 130 innovative #nyctech companies and startups for #OpenCo! Create your schedule before 6:00pm EST today.
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5 Reasons Tumblr + Yahoo Is Good For Users
Whenever a spunky, growing startup gets sold to an established player, the cry goes out. Users won’t like it. The culture will be ruined. The startup will be subsumed by its parent. Sometimes it’s true, but in the case of the Yahoo purchase of Tumblr, I think there’s an argument […]
Congrats to NYC Generation Tech judge David Karp on Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr, a great NYC startup success! Thoughts from NYCEDC’s Entrepreneur at Large Steve Rosenbaum on the news: http://onforb.es/19VqUv8
Tech Hubs Flourish Outside of Silicon Valley
Mashable highlights the growth of New York City tech, thanks to NYCEDC’s groundbreaking Applied Sciences NYC tech education and other initiatives to support entrepreneurship in the city:
To help facilitate economic growth in each of the five boroughs, the New York City Economic Development Corporation is following the startup movement closely. It’s a non-profit whose goal is to encourage redevelopment programs and ultimately create new jobs across the city.
The organization has been focused on building an engineering campus — called NYC Tech Campus (Applied Sciences NYC) — in the boroughs. With Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology partnerships, the initiative will provide 20,000 construction jobs and 8,000 permanent jobs, along with more than $23 billion in economic activity over the next 30 years.
Learn more at NYCEDC.com/tech.
Attention talented tech job seekers! Come meet NYCEDC and 50+ hiring startups at NYC Uncubed next Friday, May 17 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea. From early-stage ventures and Take the H.E.L.M. winning business Booker to more established tech companies like Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter, Uncubed features the most successful startups in New York City in a fun, high energy atmosphere. Startups are hiring for software development, web design, sales, marketing, and other positions. Uncubed is also offering classes for the first time, from intro to advanced topics across skill sets. Get your tickets here! Come say hi to us at the NYCEDC booth and learn how to get involved in NYC’s startup scene.
See you all tomorrow at Uncubed!
Source: nycedc
With this news, you’d think Bobby Valentine is now managing New England’s tech scene:
New York’s share of venture capital dollars has doubled over the last ten years while its rival, Silicon Valley, has grown at a much slower pace and New England has sputtered, a new study from the Center for an Urban Future shows.
Between the first quarter of 2003 to the first quarter of this year, the New York area’s share of VC investments surged to 11.4% from 5.3%.
Silicon Valley’s share rose to 31.7% from 28.6% over the same period while New England’s share fell to 10.2% from 14.8%.
Read more in NY Daily News. Go #NYCTech!
Chart: Center for an Urban Future report
Attention talented tech job seekers! Come meet NYCEDC and 50+ hiring startups at NYC Uncubed next Friday, May 17 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea. From early-stage ventures and Take the H.E.L.M. winning business Booker to more established tech companies like Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter, Uncubed features the most successful startups in New York City in a fun, high energy atmosphere. Startups are hiring for software development, web design, sales, marketing, and other positions. Uncubed is also offering classes for the first time, from intro to advanced topics across skill sets. Get your tickets here! Come say hi to us at the NYCEDC booth and learn how to get involved in NYC’s startup scene.
This weekend, we stopped by the NYC BigApps Hackathon at the offices of Huffington Post! Developers and teams assembled Saturday and Sunday to build apps related to Healthy Living and Lifelong Learning and compete for $10,000 in cash prizes.
Check out the winners of this Hackathon:
Healthy Living
Pavlov Health
Acting like Pavlov, this mobile app helps condition the user to make healthy choices. The app will detect your location, allow you to set your preferences and then act on its own to guide you towards the healthy locations around you and on your route.HealthBux
HealthBux helps more New Yorkers take advantage of the NYC Health Bucks program so that they and their families lead healthier lives.Salmon: Don’t Just Get There
Salmon is an app that allows users to find paths between destinations that encourage movement, health, and well being.Lifelong Learning
Plexx. Training the World
Plexx is a mobile training app where people can learn the skills they need to obtain a job and build a career.CUNY Bound
CUNY Bound is an open source educational resource for the 11,000 underprepared high school graduates who arrive to New York community colleges every year. The website offers interactive tools for reviewing the standard math, reading, and writing material covered by New York City curriculum.LearnTogether - Online Study Groups for MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)
LearnTogether provides online study groups for students who are taking Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
Learn how to get involved with NYC BigApps, New York City’s ultimate data software challenge offering $150,000 in prizes. The submission deadline is June 7 at 5:00 PM EST.
Photo credit: Grace Cheung/NYCEDC
Paperless Post To Expand in Lower Manhattan and Create 76 New Jobs
NYCEDC and Empire State Development announced that Paperless Post, an innovative online communication design company, will relocate and expand its operations to Lower Manhattan. The company has outgrown its old space, and will move to 115 Broadway in Lower Manhattan in September 2013. The expansion will create 76 new jobs and retain 51 existing positions.
In March, Paperless Post was selected as one of the winners—from more than 300 applicants—of NYCEDC’s Take the H.E.L.M. competition, which encourages creative and innovative businesses to open a new office or expand an existing office in Lower Manhattan and to encourage growth and diversification of the area’s economy. Paperless Post was the winner of the “Technology Track” and awarded $250,000 to assist their move and expansion.
Watch the video to hear from the founders of Paperless Post on their move to Lower Manhattan. Find out more about Take the H.E.L.M. and apply for the second round by July 15, 2013.
Got NYC startup questions? Skype with Steve Rosenbaum, NYCEDC’s very own Entrepreneur at Large, during his Virtual Office Hours on Friday, May 10 at noon! Find out more and sign up at http://bit.ly/WEcNDL
World to NYC: Central Eastern Europe
By Patricia Bayley, Senior Project Manager, Center for Economic Transformation
From May 6th to 8th, NYCEDC’s International Desk will welcome its first Central Eastern European delegation! Representing such countries as Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany and Romania, the delegates will partake in panel discussions, service provider presentations, company tours, and multiple networking events. Panel discussion topics include an introduction to NYC Startup Scene, NYC Investor Environment, and a candid chat from “expats” who’ve made it in NYC. With three of our panelists now recent authors, we’ll also give the delegates time to meet and greet the experts who literally “wrote the book” on their perspective fields.
Also, in a World to NYC first, the companies will be touring Long Island City to learn more about that area’s burgeoning startup scene. The tour will include a visit to NY Designs, Songza, See.Me and Aereo.
Getting here wasn’t easy; in partnership with European technology accelerator iCatapult, we selected just 15 companies to participate from different fields of technology such as media-tech, mobile-tech, and enterprise-tech.
Starting Monday, May 6th, the delegates will spend three days learning more about the New York City tech scene and the different facets of successfully bringing their tech company to New York City. Stay tuned for updates from their experience.
