Today, six New York startups are unveiling innovations that could make their way into the country’s largest banks. The FinTech Innovation Lab, now in its second year, partners with banks and financial institutions like American Express, Bank of America, and Goldman Sachs to put startups through a 12-week accelerator program. Each startup is mentored by…
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As psychologists continue to study what motivates us – and why our new gym membership gets used once in January then forgotten – New York startup Moteevate is putting their insights into practice. Moteevate is a social network for achieving goals, from “ace a job interview” to “become vegetarian” to even “achieve happiness.” The site…
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On and off for the past 15 years, entrepreneur Terry Jones has been working on a grand vision for The Way Computers Should Be. He dreams of a massive database of Everything, where anyone can add information, and items are linked and searchable rather than trapped in a hierarchy of folders. When I interviewed Jones in…
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Attention fashionistas, designers, digital window shoppers and boutiques: a revolutionary new startup launched a couple of weeks ago for you. Take the visually sleek and elegant UI from Tumblr and mix it with the quirky e-commerce world of Etsy and you have TheCools. The main concept is curation. By answering a series of preliminary questions…
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When we covered Allen Burt’s first startup, he was building a business around the intersection of his two greatest passions: adventure travel and saving money. The result was Epic Thrills, a members only, adventure-vacation, flash-sales website. It wasn’t until he immersed himself in the travel industry, however, that Burt discovered a more effective way to deliver…
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We’re halfway through 2012, and also halfway through Codecademy’s Code Year, with over 400,000 people signed up to learn basic programming skills. Students of all ages started out with an introduction to JavaScript. Over the course of 6 months, they’ve learned some HTML and CSS to build websites and jQuery to spice them up. Code…
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Gojee, that gorgeous curated recipe site, today announced that it raised $2.8 million in funding. This series A round includes California-based InterWest Partners as a new investor. Gojee previously raised $1.2 million in a seed round led by Kapor Capital. Gojee reported zero revenue in an SEC filing, but not for lack of high-quality content: the site has…
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On July 9, a group of high school girls in New York City will begin a very different type of summer school. They are the first class of Girls Who Code, a new 8-week program to educate girls in technology and (ultimately) help close the gender gap in tech jobs. The girls will learn web…
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Media company and female entrepreneurship champion Women 2.0 is calling for applications for its November 2012 PITCH NYC Conference. Startups with less than $1 million in funding and at least one female founder can apply, and the top 10 will pitch at the conference. The winner gets $25,000, plus a finalist interview for TechStars NYC’s…
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When you think photo booth, it may conjure up images of the mall, or maybe an amusement park. Venturing into that type contraption results in a strip of four photos you usually don’t quite know what to do with afterwards. One for the Book is a photo booth application (and installation) that is about as…
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There are a lot of startups out there that want to make gift giving easier. NoBadGift is universal wish list that accepts donations towards the items on your list, and GiftCaddie is a universal wish list heavily used by moms and girlfriends. Giftiki is a group gifting platform that pools money to be turned into…
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“We wanted to solve the problem of ‘how do you meet new people?’ in a way that’s much more comfortable than, say, walking up to someone at a bar or lobbing a message through a website. What we came up with was the whole Grouper social club experience of which the ‘group’ part is only…
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The Daily Muse, one of our former Tech Cocktail NYC showcased startups that provides career and job advice to women, launched Company Muse in February to give job applicants an inside look into companies. “A big predictor of whether an employee stays with a company is based on company culture,” Kathryn Minshew, Founder and CEO…
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One could argue that the most valuable byproduct of the startup experience is the knowledge gained by those starting up. That was the impetus behind the creation of Startup Grind, a monthly meetup that started in San Francisco, spread to New York City, and is now in a dozen cities. It started, simply enough, with…
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Jay Miletsky was a traditional marketing/advertising guy and self-described big brand person. He had his own marketing agency in NYC with some pretty big clients – Hershey’s, NBA, Washington Mutual. Several years ago, one of his clients, Asco Energy, which is a division of Emerson Electric, wanted to publish videos privately, rather than on YouTube. …
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If you’re on social media (and I am assuming all of you reading this are), then you know how much junk is posted all day every day. Stupid status updates – “Gosh, it’s hot out today” – and tweets that are even more inane – “Just landed at SFO.” Makes you just want to give…
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