Tag: nyc
Check out Creative Week NYC: May 7th – 11th
Creative Week is a celebration of creativity in advertising, design, digital media and all the arts that feed and touch those disciplines. It takes place in New York throughout the second week of May 2012. Creative Week began when The One Club, a non-profit in the Advertising industry, saw that the creative professionals it drew [...]
David McCoy and Global Alliance for Community Development – A Series of Tiny Wins
How do you create a non-profit organization from scratch? According to David McCoy, co-founder and executive director of the Global Alliance for Community Development (GACD), you start with vision and commitment, and build on it, one small step at a time. After he and co-founder Christina Perelli worked on a graduate school development project in [...]
What Makes the New York Entrepreneurship Scene Awesome
Maybe I’m biased about the New York Entrepreneurship scene because I’ve lived in and around New York my whole life, but the more I think about the explosion of startup activity here, the more I think that all of us who are part of this are really lucky. If you want to launch and grow [...]
Rising Tech in NYC: 20 Apps to Help Navigate the City
In addition to creating its own apps, NYC supports developers creating innovative apps for fellow New Yorkers. The NYC BigApps competition offers cash and other prizes for the best new apps utilizing NYC Open Data. These apps help New Yorkers navigate, enjoy and take full advantage of their great city. Which do you use? Past [...]
Rising Tech in NYC: Social Media Accounts
During social media back in February, the City launched four new central digital media channels to engage and inform New Yorkers. New York City government is now on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and foursquare. This is in addition to the numerous other social media accounts that departments across the city maintain. You can follow and get [...]
Building Business and Raising Consciousness: foodtoeat.com’s Deepti Sharma Kapur
One of my favorite parts of doing these interviews is learning about a hidden gem buried in what seems like an otherwise straightforward business concept. In the case of Deepti Sharma Kapur, 25-year-old founder and CEO of foodtoeat.com, her business plan contains within it the seeds of a progressive social movement. Her company provides an [...]
High School Opens to Train City’s Future Software Engineers
“The students who walk our halls represent the next generation of young people who dare to dream that anything is possible through software, design, technology, and the human spirit.” – AFSE Right in the heart of New York Cities tech center, Union Square, a new school will be opening for future tech engineers. The Academy [...]
The Maestro Project: Educational Classes to Check Out in NYC
The Maestro Project is an ecosystem of influential entrepreneurs and business leaders driven to share their expertise with entrepreneurs seeking practical knowledge and clear direction in real-time. We’ve developed educational programming in the areas of entrepreneurship, design, technology and personal development to assist entrepreneurs create sustainable companies. Check out The Maestro Project Some of their [...]
Top Co-Working Spaces in NYC
Welcome to the new Under30CEO New York. If you love the New York startup scene then make sure to follow us as we showcase all of the opportunities and innovation in NYC. Get our New York newsletter or use our RSS Feed. Everyone comes to New York to make it big. If you are going out on your own [...]
11 NYC BigApps Winners. What Apps Will You Use?
Welcome to the new Under30CEO New York. If you love the New York startup scene then make sure to follow us as we showcase all of the opportunities and innovation in NYC. Get our New York newsletter or use our RSS Feed. New York City set out to challenge developers to create apps using [...]
