We analyzed data on the age and educational history of New York
City tech founders, and found that these myths do not tell the full story of the city's founders or the sector's success.
The average New York
City tech founder is thirty - one years old when she founds her company and founders are just as likely to have studied a non-technical subject in university as a technical one.
Not exact matches
Mayor Berke and Skuid
founder and CEO Ken McElrath sat down with Fortune to discuss the economic impact of Chattanooga's
city - wide
tech initiative.
A recent viral open letter to San Francisco
city officials by startup Commando.io
founder Justin Keller serves as an example of such
tech bro - iness.
In a
founder - dense
city like San Francisco, which further has two peak neighborhoods where
tech companies congregate (SoMa and the Mission), what this means is that you can't walk down the street without (almost literally) running into someone else who is starting a
tech company.
«We only want warm referrals, and if you don't have one, get one,» says attorney Ed Zimmerman, chair of the
tech group at Lowenstein Sandler in New York
City and
founder of the accelerator FirstGrowthVC, which doesn't take equity or provide co-working space.
«This would be an utter disaster,» says Bradley Tusk,
founder and CEO Tusk Ventures, a New York
City venture capital firm that helps
tech startups navigate government regulation.
«One day you are the
tech person, one day you are the salesperson, one day you are the cleaning person,» says Shobha Tummala,
founder of an eponymous chain of beauty salons in New York
City.
There's no small contradiction in having
tech founders muse about how to build better
cities from places that bear little resemblance to lively
cities at all.
Drawing off of survey data collected from local
tech startup
founders and public and private sector leaders, the annual extensive research project, now in its third year, ranks 25 American
cities» readiness to capitalize on the shift to the digital economy.
AccessNow
founder and Next 36 alumna Maayan Ziv has been named one of eight Toronto women working to make the
city a better place, one motivational speech (and awesome app and
tech tutoring...
But PayIt, a Kansas
City - based government
tech startup, gladly tackles the daunting task of simplifying government - citizen interaction, said John Thomson, CEO and
founder.
At 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Crain's New York Business will host an event on how startup businesses take off in New York
City, featuring: Gregg Bishop, Commissioner, NYC Department of Small Business Services; Howard Lerman, Co-
Founder & CEO, Yext; Rachel Shechtman,,
Founder and CEO, STORY; Adam Shwartz, Director, Jacobs Technion - Cornell Institute at Cornell
Tech; and moderated by Matthew Flamm, Senior Reporter, Crain's New York Business.
Now, entrepreneur / venture capitalist / author Brad Feld,
founder of
Tech Stars and the Foundry Group, has taken the idea of social reading to a new place, allowing those who connect through the title Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in your
City, to have virtual meetings in Twitter - like conversations, share notes in the title, and forge business connections that could have real - world impact.
Infoteria Pte. Ltd. (Singapore), a subsidiary of Infoteria Corporation (Headquarters, Tokyo;
Founder and CEO: Yoichiro Hirano; hereinafter «Infoteria») and
Tech Bureau Corporation (Headquarter: Osaka
City, Osaka; President: Takao Asayama; hereinafter «
Tech Bureau») successfully transferred the loan and deposit account data in the main system of BC Finance, one of the largest microfinance institutions in Myanmar», to «mijin» * 1, the private Blockchain * 2placed on Microsoft Azure * 3 using ASTERIA WARP * 4 and «mijin» adapters * 5.
The project was announced during the MIPIM PropTech Summit, which is part of New York
City Real Estate
Tech Week 2016 by Ragnar Lifthrasir,
founder and CEO of Velox.re.