Hacks provide comic relief; Floored floors everyone at NYTech Meetup
By Dennis Clemente In the weekly two-hour long startup presentation at the New York Tech Meetup, there’s a featured hack that provides welcome comic relief. That’s when co-organizer Brandon Diamond...
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What’s happening in education technology around the world
By Dennis Clemente What is happening in (edtech) education technology around the world? It’s too broad a question to tackle in one hour. But there were some recognizable buzzwords at the NY EdTech...
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Sponsored Content videos offer more monetizing opportunities for publishers
At the NY Video Meetup at AOL By Dennis Clemente If you’re a publisher, you know how Sponsored Content can help you monetize your site. For the uninitiated, Sponsored Content can be advertorials or...
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Global Innovator presents foreign startups in transit, mobile marketing,...
WIN’s Global Innovator meetup By Dennis Clemente Where most tech startup events lump all startups without geographic distinction, Global Innovator makes it entirely clear that foreign startups has an...
View ArticleAugmented reality app Blippar wows NY tech audience
By Dennis Clemente Blippar sprinkled fairy dust to the mesmerized crowd of the NY Tech Meetup last July 1 at Skirball Theater. Taking the stage as the first of eight presenters, Alana Kalin, account...
View ArticleEarnest talk on product costs, no-holds-barred dissection of Vintage 141
By Dennis Clemente Jeremy Horn’s Product Group meetup is a hybrid of the focus group and brainstorming session. A topic is explored followed by the dissection of a startup, which clearly benefits the...
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Startup presenters compete like it’s the World Cup
By Dennis Clemente The Ultra Light Startups: Investors Feedback Forum last July 10 lived up to its name. It was light with a French twist. With the World Cup in full swing, the startups—some from...
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NY Enterprise Tech features Hightower, x.ai, Aorato
Hightower’s Brandon Weber By Dennis Clemente Last July 16, the New York Enterprise Technology Meetup hosted by Jonathan Lehr featured three startups—Hightower, x.ai and Aorato– with Jason Lemkin,...
View ArticleHow would you like some hip hop to go with your school lessons?
By Dennis Clemente How would you like some hip hop to go with your linear equations or your history lesson? Last July 17, Flocabulary, one of four presenters at the NY Video meetup, brought the house...
View ArticleOut of 14 startups, Flower Turbines get investors’ votes at Startupalooza
By Dennis Clemente How do you tweak the startup meetup? The drill in New York meetups: Startups pitch for two to five minutes to investors who then provide their feedback. That’s how it goes. In the...
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Secondmic and David Rose get most audience votes at Ultra Light
Secondmic By Dennis Clemente Every month the Ultra Light Startup group asks the audience to vote for the night’s startup presenter and the investor giving the feedback. Last August 14, Secondmic won...
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ER Accelerator presents 4 startups to Greycroft Partners’ Ellie Wheeler
By Dennis Clemente Would you like to watch free online sports you can’t find on TV? Would you dump your broker if you can find an apartment on your own? Would you like to dig deep into your social...
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Charlie O’Donnell: A refreshingly candid VC at NJ Tech Meetup
By Dennis Clemente The attendees at the NJ Tech Meetup held at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NH last August 27 were all praises for venture capitalist Charlie O’ Donnell of Brookyln...
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Audience favorite BoardRounds improves emergency patient follow-up
By Dennis Clemente The way startups are named these days, it’s hard to tell what they can really do for you. Can you tell what these eight startups do– BoardRounds, BotFactory, yourMD, Care + Wear,...
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De Blasio introduces NY’s first CTO, Minerva Tantoco
Minerva Tantoco By Dennis Clemente “New York’s tech story is an underrated story,” said New York mayor Bill De Blasio who graced the NY Tech Meetup last September 9 to introduce “one more thing” on the...
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Jason Klein explains angel work; Sailo offers you a boat to rent
By Dennis Clemente How many times have you seen investors make actual Powerpoint presentations? Another question, how many of them have you seen present in front of a big audience in an engaging...
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Startups in mobility: charters, electric charging and smart automation...
By Dennis Clemente You know the brand behind the ultimate driving machine? BMW is also investing in startups under BMW I Ventures. And since it’s in the automobile business, you’ll have to be in the...
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Hatchery is back with no-nonsense feedback to startups
By Dennis Clemente You better be prepared when you present at “The Hachery: Are you serious?” meetup, because even if there are so many similar meetups in the city, it doesn’t fail in one regard:...
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Science writer Steven Johnson talks about ‘How We Got to Now’
By Dennis Clemente Steven Johnson, author of “How We Got To Now: Six Innovations That Made The Modern World,” likes to tell little-known success stories, sometimes or precisely because they are...
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Editonthefly is crowd-pleaser at NY Tech Meetup
By Dennis Clemente How can you tell if your startup is going to be the crowd-pleaser at the NY Tech Meetup? Every month, almost like clockwork, the last presenter gets the most applause. Of course, it...
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