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Andy Saldaña Appointed Executive Director of New York Tech Alliance

Andy Saldaña has been with the NY Tech Alliance for almost 6 year, primarily as Operations Manager. In that role he reviewed companies and presenting organizati...

A Conversation with Josh Weinstein, Founder of NYC's CannaGather

In the final week of summer we caught up with Josh Weinstein, founder of CannaGather, New York City's largest monthly cannabis event. The United States in in th...

A Better Mousetrap Podcast: Conversation with Regine Gilbert

Regine Gilbert's career path to her current projects gives her a rich perspective on UX and UI design. She founded her own company, teaches at New York Universi...

Interview: Lowell Kaufman, founder of Well Informed Pet

Lowell Kaufman, is the founder of Well Informed Pet, (wellinformedpet.com/) Lowell has some odd, off-beat stories to share. Lowell is a veteran of several start...

A Better Mousetrap - Conversation with Prasant Sudhakaran, Co-Founder of Aingel

Picking winners when investing in early stage companies is not for the faint of heart. No product, a prototype, a minimally viable product (says who?) or even a...

Conversation with Philip Delvecchio, Program Manager of VentureOut New York

Listen to my recent interview in which Philip Delvecchio describes his upcoming initiatives on the NYC tech scene, international companies coming to New York Ci...

Starta Accelerator's 5th Cohort - Podcast Interview with Select Founders

My podcast, A Better Mousetrap, distributed via my newsletter by the same name, spotlights founders and leaders in the New York City startup scene. My partner, ...

Instant messaging is probably the fastest-growing trend and one of the most powerful weapons for marketers today.

Watch a talk on the power of marketing via instant messaging. I tweeted about this and voiced skepticism but was surprised to hear from one follower that she op...

Japan to urge G20 for steps to prevent cryptocurrency use for money laundering

OK - So even though this push by Japan is unlikely to get buy in from the other G20 members it has the keeping this issue as something that nations should addre...

Blockdaemon Raises $3.3 Mil to Offer Blockchain Nodes-as-a-Service

We’re in the midst of the Blockchain gold rush. So what’s the best business play? Ask Mark Twain and, if he were alive today, he’d say, “During the gold rush it...

What factors should a startup take into account in order to succeed in New York?

By Ekaterina (Katya Dorozhkina, CEO and Co-Founder of Starta Ventures (English version published on Steemit by permission) Original Russian article in Russian h...

Blockchain Tackles the Challenges of Brain Drain and Diaspora Investing

Pictured, left to right: Vanessa Yurkevich, Danielle Leong, Aleks Mehrle, Ben Siegel (Credit Marcos Dinnerstein) In emerging markets the ‘best and the brightest...

The Momenta Edge Podcast Launches

Momenta Partners has just launched a podcast many of you will want to subscribe to. It’s The Momenta Edge Podcast featuring Connected Industry experts. I reache...

Founder Focus: Webjets’ Paul Savich and David Trattnig

I first met Paul Savich and David Trattnig, the Webjets founders, at a demo day for Starta Accelerator. Starta nurtures promising companies, sourced in Eastern ...

Blockchain solutions for the refugee crisis

Earlier in the week I attended a heart-swelling round table discussion. This event had smart, idealistic but practical people who were attending to identify pro...

What Can a PR Company Do for Startups?

As editor of Digital.NYC I was regularly approached by startup founders, desperate to get publicity for their companies. The need to be known to customers, pote...

Random thoughts and a good read: "Bitcoin Is Just The Latest In The Trend Toward Decentralization"

Whether you call it the 'Sharing Economy', 'Peer to Peer', collaborative or so whatever, we can safely say the days of centralized platforms are moving more to ...

New York City Ballet's Art Installation

For the past several years the New York City Ballet, at Lincoln Center, has hosted art installations during the performance seasons. They're all big in scope an...

Japan's Biggest Bank Is Releasing Its Own Cryptocurrency In March

It's official now but this past Wednesday (2 days ago)advance word went out at a blockchain event in New York City that Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. will...

From the NY Times: Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble

This long form piece from the New York Times looks at the beginnings of the internet and how open protocols - TCP/IP, smtp and more - made possible the explosiv...