Interview

By Michael Piggot Roberto González teaches a class called Life Hack: How To Live Rent-Free in NYC. through Skillshare, where entrepreneurs can create their own local, in-person classes or apply to teach global, online classes. His mission is to help innovators, technologists, and artists pursue their passions without having to be slaves to rent. He has a step-by-step system that he said “Flip the script on the New York real estate market.” He created this plan when he left

by Lauren Keyson LK: Who is Sandra Ordonez ? Sandy Ordonez: I'm a native New Yorker from the Bronx and Yonkers who fell in love with the web in the early 90s and has been geeking away ever since. Sandra Ordonez LK: What is your organization, Collaborative Nation about? SO: We provide developers working on anti-surveillance and anti-censorship open source tools with diverse type of support. LK: What are your favorite television shows and movies? SO: Stand by Me is my top movi

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

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

By Lauren Keyson During NYC Entrepreneur Week, the founders of Vanity Photo Booths demonstrated their new game-changing photo booth by steering people into one of them at Public House in midtown . “Within the session of taking photos, guests have the opportunity to upload the photos they love to their Facebook page or email it to themselves,” said Vanity Photo Booths' founder Ken Carrion . “And we are in the process of adding Twitter and other social media.” Phil Santisi ,

Interview by Lauren Keyson We met up with Jonathan Gottfried at NY Tech Meetup , to find out what he has been up to since Lemonade Stand, his lauded mobile simplified version of Craig’s List, started and ended in 2011. Jonathan Gottfried LK: What happened? JG: We created it initially on the Startup Bus, which was a three-day hack-a-thon. We had an eight-person team, which was pretty large for a hack-a-thon, and after the event, we went back to our normal lives, and it fiz

By Lauren Keyson At Entrepreneurs Roundtable 43 we asked Bernie Leone, partner at the regional accounting firm WithumSmith+Brown , about how accounting affects startups. He has several clients that are considered disruptive tech businesses, including Tumbler, GetGlue, and Codecademy, and says that several of the things that entrepreneurs like them have to face include business model reviews, tax issues, finding financing, and help to prepare for investor and equity structure

By Lauren Keyson Kunal Batra is the founder of Deaftel , a new program that allows deaf people to talk over the phone with any hearing person in the world. Originally he went to the NJ Institute of Technology, graduating with a degree in computer science. He decided to try a startup rather than take the traditional route of getting a job at another company. The unusual thing is that he came up with the idea by accident – he had entered a programming contest and thought it

By Lauren Keyson Tara hunt Tara Hunt, CEO of Buyosphere , created a sort of Quora for shopping where users can ask for specific items like a red tie and get targeted, affordable choices sent back to them. She worked at 30 startups before she started her own , which launched in November of 2011 and already has seed funding from Real Ventures. What problem did you solve with Buyosphere? The plethora of choice online – for me, I don’t know where to begin and this gets me in co

By Lauren Keyson I sat down with Mike LaValle co - sponsor of the 2011 FarmBill Hackathon and CEO and founder of Gojee . We discussed his beautifully rendered recipe app that showcases 10,000 handpicked recipes by 160 food writers. To use Gojee, people simply enter what they have in their kitchen and curated recipes pop up in seconds. The site will even deliver personalized recipes based on what users crave and dislike. Along with his partner Tian He and his designer, Adam