This morning, we attended a very high quality demo day hosted by Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, where ten companies pitched their ideas. (Disclosure: John Frankel and I are mentors.) This is the first session of the ER Accelerator, and they did a highly professional job. The companies were very well-coached, hitting all the necessary points. Impressively,...
[Continue Reading]Notes from PluggedIn Ventures Real Time Data, Content, & Analytics Roundtable
Gregory Sanzone, an intern at Parse.ly, took details notes on today’s Real Time Data, Content, & Analytics Roundtable, hosted by PluggedIn Ventures. Real Time Data Real time data is valuable in two ways, mainly. The first is that it crudely allows content providers to recognize spikes in popularity of pieces of content, so they can...
[Continue Reading]Inaugural Investor Day @ FinTech Innovation Lab
This is a guest post from our intern Franklin Bi . On Friday morning, I witnessed another volley of shots being fired from New York City at Palo Alto during FinTech Innovation Lab‘s Inaugural Investor Day. The Lab is a collaboration between the New York City Investment Fund and Accenture, with support from the New...
[Continue Reading]FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011
The new FinTech Innovation Lab, an annual program run by the New York City Investment Fund and Accenture, had their launch event on Thursday night. It attracted a very high quality crowd of senior executives from major investment banks and members of the innovation community — two groups that don’t normally mingle. One peculiar note:...
[Continue Reading]The reality of Profitably raising money from angels and VCs in New York
Adam Neary wrote an unusually open post about his experience raising $1.1m for Profitably, a provider of small business analytics. (Disclosure: I’m a Mentor for Founder Institute. Adam was one of our star students from the first class in New York, when Profitably was just Adam, a Powerpoint, and a really amazing domain name. I...
[Continue Reading]The Future of America’s Innovation Economy- Progress and Challenges at the USPTO
Image via Wikipedia I took fairly detailed notes at last night’s panel on ‘The Future of America’s Innovation Economy Progress and Challenges at the USPTO’. It was sponsored by The Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology; Seton Hall University School of Law; and the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association . The speakers were:...
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