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Watch full presentation of Sports Tech and Major League Baseball’s Advanced Media at: http://disruptivetechnologists.com/videos/ Monday, May 16, 2016 6:30 PM to 8:45 PM Microsoft 11 Times Square, 6th floor, corner of 41st & 8th Ave., New York, NY www.DisruptiveTechnologists.com Price: $15.00 /per person MLBAM powers more live events on the Internet than any other property in the world. Established in June 2000, MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM) is the interactive media and inte

by Zak Niazi and Lauren Keyson Brandon Diamond loves startups, community, and code. He is the Director & Co-Founder, HuffPost Labs , the Director & Founder of Hacker Union, and a Director for NY Tech Meetup . We caught up with him at the last NY Tech Meetup. He tells us what’s up with hackers and how he feels about having a startup. Lauren Keyson: Tell me what you’re doing. I guess after trying to do the startup thing, which is where we last left off, I went to 10Gen, which

by Danielle Brody When developers, entrepreneurs, and designers meet for the first time and spend 48 hours together at an AngelHack competition, real businesses are born. AngelHack , an international San Francisco-based events and marketing company, hosts hackathon competitions in more than 35 cities across the world, bringing strangers together to create new ideas. At these bi-yearly hackathons, attendees form teams for a weekend of rapid-prototyping sessions. “We are const

by Lauren Keyson and Zak Niazi Inaki Berenguer is the founder and CEO of Pixable , a mobile photo discovery act. At the January NY Tech Meetup, his team launched their new app called Photofeed , a mobile application to back up photos across devices. Once Photofeed is installed on a laptop or other device, it will automatically back up all the photos into a single photo feed in a single timeline, eliminating the duplicates across devices and across photos. Everything is then

By Altynay Demeubayeva Every student at least once had difficulties getting along with roommates and Brooklyn-based Ajay Yadav was not an exception. He might have been one of the people who had one of the worst experiences. Coming back to New York after three months of break, he found his empty apartment, all his belongings gone, and his deposit taken away. After hearing from friends that they were also having similar problems, he came up with an idea, "I thought what if I c

By Lauren Keyson Bruce Crawford, Founder Entrepreneurs and Small Business Forum At the Entrepreneur & Small Business Forum covering the launch strategies of successful startups, organizer Bruce Crawford explained that a lot of things need to go right for a startup to succeed. “The critical time period for most is the year leading up to the launch and the initial two years of operation. There are no consensus figures, but the survival rate of startups is at best 50%.” Crawfo

By Lauren Keyson Susan Thomas of Gilt Susan Thomas is a senior business systems manager for Gilt.com , a provider of instant insider access to designer labels at up to 60% off retail. She works with the company's business and technology departments to align their program priorities with Gilt's overarching core business initiatives. Her primary focus--and her passion--involves distilling business concepts into actionable goals. You can sum up her quest in three words: What’s

Joe Rubin FundingPost held a Food Investing Conference on Thursday at The International Culinary Center at Union Square where entrepreneurs and investors learned about the early-stage food and food tech investing environment. There was a copious of innovative foods to eat and drink, exciting food tech ideas , and many foodie angels. Food Tech Investing But why a whole conference on food investing and why now? Because the food industry has become a hot topic, propelled by co

by Lauren Keyson Victor Wang Victor Wang is the creator of a quirky little dog called Gerijoy , a virtual companion for seniors. About 42 million Americans provide care for a senior in their life, but care is not enough. Many of them are depressed. Gerijoy is trying to change that by simultaneously raising awareness while giving them healthy social interaction through a tablet. There are millions of lonely seniors in the U.S. that could use interaction. “Why a dog you might

Steven Asherman Steven Asherman , Founder of Content Galaxy , saw an opportunity to disrupt the customary way we view video content online. Content Galaxy is a web content hosting service that gives authors and publishers a better way to earn money from their videos and other digital goods. Unlike already established video streaming giants Netflix, YouTube, and Vimeo, Content Galaxy allows users to upload their digital content, and get paid according to “rigorously metered us

About the Event Disruptive Technologists Event: Tech & Food; Lollipops, Cookbooks, Kitchen Incubators and Buzz Monday, August 19, 2013 at 6:15 pm at AT&T AdWorks Lab 810 7th Ave, 19th Floor, New York, NY $10.00/per person This event was all about Food & Tech, from lollipops that help you lose weight, to texts that tell you when your table is ready, and personalized cookbooks and experiences of enterprising food tech entrepreneurs. Agenda 6:15 - 6:45 Registration, Networking a

by Lauren Keyson Bruce Bachenheimer , the accidental entrepreneur , is a Clinical Professor of Management and the Director of Pace University's Entrepreneurship Lab. He tells his students that passion is a must for entrepreneurs and that if they don’t yet know what that passion is, they should keep looking. Sometimes it can happen when it’s least expected – and he is a great example of this. Bruce Bachenheimer “Passion is very important. When I found a passion for something

By Derek Webster Disruptive Technologist™ D. Bernard Webster is the founder of Vanguarde Consulting Group , an entrepreneurial content provider for small business development and innovation. He believes that scaling a company quickly requires properly capitalizing the company at the beginning to ensure long-term sustainability. A 2013 Entrepreneur/Venture-in-Residence at the New York Institute of Technology , Webster shared the story of his first business launch into the the

As revered fashion judges deliberate over the winner of $10,000 cash and a launch supported by the Council of Fashion Designers of America , audience and media alike bask in the awesome that is the fashion week tents at the Decoded Fashion Forum and Hackathon . Creators, hackers, and disrupters sat around the runway as the presenters explained their products in under four minutes while moderated by no-nonsense Vogue contributing editor Candy Pratts Price . The Startups Start

by Lauren Keyson Volodymyr Pigrukh , the Co-founder of Profitero, the 2011 IBM Global Entrepreneur of the Year, and winner of its SmartCamp competition for startups, was on hand Thursday at the 2013 IBM SmartCamp Global Finals at the Waldorf Astoria to share his insight into building smarter businesses. IBM holds its SmartCamp to find entrepreneurs like Pigrukh who use data in order to discover global startup companies that can build a smarter planet. It was no accident tha

by Lauren Keyson Graham Lawlor , founder of Ultra Light Startups said that there are five things that Angels and VCs look for in entrepreneur pitches: understanding, originality, scalability, team, and revenue model. At his January event, four of NYC’s top investors: Bradley Harrison , Brad Harrison Ventures; Eric Hippeau , Lerer Ventures.com ; Geoff Judge, InoviaCapital ; and William Reinisch , will be looking for just these things. Innovators who apply will have the opp

By Lauren Keyson Advice for Entrepreneurs and Startups At the NY Technology Council’s Holiday Party last week, several of the members talked about their companies and had advice for entrepreneurs and startups, including attorney William Bierce of Bierce & Kenerson , a corporate and technology law firm that focuses on taking small companies global and handling their corporate, tech, information, property employment and finance. IP and Agreements His firm helps startups g

Interview by Lauren Keyson About Lynn Rogoff Lynn Rogoff, MFA, is the Founder of AMERIKIDS USA Green Kids Media and associate professor of Communications in the College of Arts and Sciences at NYIT talks about founding an organization for kids. Listen to The Disruptive Technologists' Podcast with Lynn Rogoff : The Augmented Reality Experience (2016) What is your organization about? It is an online ‘edutainment” interactive virtual game using mobile, tablet and computer platf

by Lauren Keyson The team from Hashable , an app that helped manage relationships on any device, recently announced that they had shut down. They had raised a lot of money and launched at SXSW, the major annual interactive conference and festival held in Austin. They became internet darlings. Joe Rubin , director of Arc Angel Fund and founder of Funding PosHYPERLINK "http://www.fundingpost.com/"t was one of its investors along with the well-known Union Square Ventures. Wh

Interview by Lauren Keyson About Joanne Scillitoe Joanne L. Scillitoe, Ph.D. is the director, Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and associate professor of Entrepreneurship in the School of Management at NYIT Joanne Scillitoe What are your favorite television shows and movies? I do not watch much TV but I am enjoying the 2012 Olympics. I love Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy movies. Any favorite books? I enjoyed No Greater Love by Mother Teresa. She is an inspiration in