On Tuesday Night at City Point the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership presented their first Female Founder Pitch Contest as a part of the Make It In Brooklyn partnership, the most recent in a series geared towards connecting Brooklyn's entrepreneurs, startups,…
The nightmarish images from Houston of collapsed homes and streets that have turned into rivers are eerily reminiscent of Hurricane Katrina from 2005. During Katrina, phone calls to 911 and other emergency numbers was the primary way that victims found…
On August 15th, more than 100 people – either in, or interested in the cannabis industry – assembled at a coworking space in SOHO to talk shop. And learn about the status of the industry now. The monthly evening event…
July 2017 NYC Funding - Startup Recap NYC startups raised about $1.3 billion in July. More than half of this came from a $760 million investment in the coworking behemoth, WeWork. And a significant amount of new investment went to…
SoftBank, the Japanese multinational telecommunications and Internet company, has been making big waves lately. Last week, it acquired an approximately $2.5 billion stake in Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce company, founded in 2007. This has notable ramifications for a number…
Three strangers are put in a house where they have separate bedrooms, but they must share a kitchen, bathroom and common living area. No, it’s not the premise for a reality show. Instead, it’s the premise for Common, a NYC-based…
Among the essentials of starting a new business, like honing your product, acquiring customers, hiring and managing a team, it’s easy for entrepreneurs to overlook protecting their Intellectual Property (IP) rights. That includes patents (new or unique technology), trademarks (logos…
What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is a digital currency that was created in 2009 by an unknown person using the name Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin was the first and is the most commonly used digital currency, also called a cryptocurrency. One…
On August 31, seven buses filled with entrepreneurs will embark on the road trip of their lives. Once on the bus, they will divide into teams and their mission is to conceive, build and launch a startup with a group…
New York City is a center for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) innovation. And the city wants to keep it that way. At the end of June, the de Blasio administration announced that it had chosen New York…