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January 19, 2012 By Meena Hart Duerson The New York tech scene is booming and the next Mark Zuckerberg might be right here in the city, sharing space with a dozen other startups in a loft near Union Square. As the number of new companies explodes, we’ve chosen twelve people in New York tech you [...]
Continue Reading →January 9, 2012 via TechCrunch by Alexia Tsotsis Collaborative consumption startup TaskRabbit has acquired SkillSlate (a First Growth Venture Network Fall 2010 Vintage Graduate), according to this press release I just received. This will be TaskRabbit’s, which has a total of $24.7 million in financing, first acquisition. Even a cursory glance will tell you that [...]
Continue Reading →TechCrunch December 15, 2011 by Rip Empson: Not many startups can lay claim to being part of two recognizable accelerators at the same time, but 72Lux would be one of those exceptions. The New York City-based luxury eCommerce startup was selected as a member of 500 Startups’ third batch of companies this October and was [...]
Continue Reading →Wednesday December 7, 2011 by Ed Zimmerman from the EdGrapeNutZimm Blog I wanted to talk to Alex Payne. Alex co-founded Simple (formerly BankSimple), the Portland-based startup that’s changing the face of banking at a time when people really want banking to change! Customers… Simple currently has 80,000+ people on a wait list to use the [...]
Continue Reading →via New York Times by Eric Wilson Nov 9, 2011 Since its debut in February, Moda Operandi, the online retailer that sells designer clothes right off the runway, has become a surprise competitor on the lucrative trunk-show circuit. During the September fashion shows, for example, the average transaction on the site reached $1,800, and one [...]
Continue Reading →via TechCrunch by Josh Constine November 10, 2011 Amateur bloggers want exposure, while publishers and brands want cheap content they can monetize. Tidal launches today with hopes of connecting the two. Bloggers signup, and Tidal’s licensable content curation platform pulls out the best posts that match what its clients are looking for. These posts are [...]
Continue Reading →Vivian Rosenthal, Founder and CEO of First Growth Venture Network Spring 2011 graduate GoldRun shares her vision of an augmented reality future at TEDx Silicon Alley NYC video link here.
Continue Reading →via Business Insider by Alyson Shontell | Nov. 2, 2011 Alexis Tryon and Scott Carleton founded Artsicle, a monthly art rental startup, last year. Carleton left his engineering job last August, taught himself the basics of coding, and created a prototype. Tryon left American Express in November to join him and the pair bootstrapped for [...]
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