Apr
25

Find out how Katy Rubin, Founder of Theatre of the Oppressed NYC, was able to marry her artistic side with her entrepreneurial side by enrolling in and graduating from NYCEDC and NYFA’s Artist as Entrepreneur Boot Camp. It’s a fascinating story of how, with training and mentoring, art and business can live hand-in-hand, and make it in New York City.

Watch more NEW YORK CITY. MAKE IT HERE. videos and discover our initiatives to support the City’s arts, nonprofit, and higher education sectors.

Apr
19
What we’re seeing is emergence of Hyphen-Tech. Technology plus Media, Technology plus Advertising, Technology plus Finance, Technology plus Fashion. In worlds where tech is driving innovation around industries, being near those industries accelerates innovation and growth. New York is ideally suited to grow technology companies in these verticals and, in particular, in social media software where New York’s diversity, population density, and frenetic pace helps people-powered software innovate in rapid cycles.
What Washington Could Learn From The New York Tech Boom by Magnify.net CEO and NYCEDC Entrepreneur-at-Large Steven Rosenbaum (Forbes)
Apr
12

Watch to learn more about Hot Bread Kitchen’s incubator program, HBK Incubates, at La Marqueta and see how incubator program participant and entrepreneur Diana Scot-Sho made it here, in New York City. This video also features Jessamyn Rodriguez, founder of Hot Bread Kitchen.

Apr
03
This past month, Renaissance Economic Development Corporation (REDC) hosted 17 entrepreneurs at a Business Financial Management course in Korean at their Flushing location. As part of our goal to build business capacity in immigrant communities, NYCEDC partnered with REDC to translate and conduct NYC Business Solutions courses in Mandarin and Korean. This is one of five partnerships over the past year with community-based organizations (CBOs) across the City to provide free business courses in non-English languages. NYCEDC is working with NYC Department of Small Business Services, the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, and multiple CBOs to expand business assistance courses into additional languages (including Chinese, Haitian Creole, Korean, Spanish, and Russian) and geographies. Find out more about our programs to support immigrant entrepreneurs in NYC.  Photo credit: REDC

This past month, Renaissance Economic Development Corporation (REDC) hosted 17 entrepreneurs at a Business Financial Management course in Korean at their Flushing location. As part of our goal to build business capacity in immigrant communities, NYCEDC partnered with REDC to translate and conduct NYC Business Solutions courses in Mandarin and Korean. This is one of five partnerships over the past year with community-based organizations (CBOs) across the City to provide free business courses in non-English languages. NYCEDC is working with NYC Department of Small Business Services, the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, and multiple CBOs to expand business assistance courses into additional languages (including Chinese, Haitian Creole, Korean, Spanish, and Russian) and geographies.

Find out more about our programs to support immigrant entrepreneurs in NYC. 

Photo credit: REDC