Events

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

Despite the snow, sleet, and rain, presenters at the Disruptive Technologists NYC Meetup had a packed house at NY Institute of Technology Jan 28, 2013. The theme: wacky and unusual companies, apps and the processes entrepreneurs went through conceiving them. Four panelists had different and funny takes on their startups; a dating service for dogs; a service company without a phone or website; a VC’s new startup that other funders don’t get; and an app that lets women know

Join our Very Disruptive Meeting on November 28th in the NYIT auditorium at 16 W. 61st. About the Event As New York City starts to get into crazy holiday mode, Disruptive Technologists in NYC Meetup want to spread the cheer in their disruptive way by launching their first Disruptive evening filled with exceedingly wise, inspirational, and funny speakers. The event will celebrate, support, enlighten and advise entrepreneurs and the people that fund them on game-changing new pr

by Lauren Leyson When Jennifer Shaw went to her first NY Tech Meetup , a 25,000 member non-profit organization that supports the growing New York technology community, she felt displaced. While several thousand of the members, the managing director Jessica Lawrence and the NYTM’s co-founder Dawn Barber are all women, she felt that she wanted to know people at the event before she got there, and she felt like some other women might feel the same way. “I think that every ent

by Lauren Keyson Andrew Wong , a startup entrepreneur-organizer , said that starting NY Business Entrepreneur Network changed his life. “It allowed me to interact with so many people and I learn new things every day. These things changed my personality, changed career path." NY Business Expo Now he is taking his entrepreneurism to the next level by organizing his first annual New York Business Expo 2012 to be held at The 69th Regiment Armory on November 14th from 1 pm to

"A disruptive innovation helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network, often entirely displacing earlier technologies." TEDxBigApple's 2012 event this week in the West Village was themed around disruptive ideas with near-term impact in housing, biotech, local spaces, biomaterials, and fashion. It focused on ideas that are likely to change the world in the near term instead of those whose impact is in the p

January 19, 2012, 6:00 PM at Chadbourne & Park 30 Rockefeller Plaza, 36th floor New York, NY The Hatchery opens its doors to a fast paced New York pitch event. Hatchery style is honesty. In ways others may be too polite to share. It's what you need to hear about your startup, covering marketing, finance, technology, business, presentation, and more. Why Come to the Event? Pitching practice Honest feedback about your company Review Panel Bill Reinisch - Paladin Capital Group W

Jeff Thomson, Prodideo and Graham Lawlor, director of Ultra Light Startups At the Ultra Light Startup’s Investor Feedback Forum and Pitch Showdown in January at Microsoft in midtown, the room was packed. At about 240 attendees, it was probably the largest audience yet. Graham Lawlor , the founder of Ultra Light , said that they are receiving more applications from startups that want to pitch at their event so his organization has become more selective in choosing the entrepre