No Oscar commentary this morning, because by the time they come on, I'll be sleeping...in Colombia, after cycling 85 miles in the Gran Fondo down here. Let me tell you, that whole altitude thing--it's real. I finished middle of the pack--and considering that pack was basically 98% Colombian cyclists who bike these mountains all the time, I'll take it.
Meanwhile, did anything happen in the US while I was away? I mean, besides certain press critical of the President being barred from briefings, a repeal of transgender protections, Trump lying about his impact on the national debt...
One of the biggest unfortunate impacts of this administration is the promoting the idea that leaders can't ever admit when they're over their head and they need help. The quickest root to failure is a lesson that can be taken from the startup and corporate world--only asking for help when it's far too late.
There's a lot of pressure on people who take a new role to have all the answers--but no one does. Admitting that you need help is a sign of confidence, not weakness.
It's like saying, "I know I'm capable of doing whatever is needed or finding the people who can, but I've never done this thing, and I would be better at it if I could get input from someone who has."
I digress... But let's all do something this week. Ask someone for help with something. I know it's not easy to be vulnerable that way, but you'll get better at something you've either put off or you've been failing at, and someone else will get to feel helpful.
Just don't all of you reply back to me at once. You know plenty of other helpful folks.
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Startup Battlefield is coming to town in May! TechCrunch is looking for new, up-and-coming startups to launch and compete on the TechCrunch Disrupt NY stage. Teams will pitch for six minutes and then face Q&A from an all-start list of judges. All Battlefield sessions are live streamed to a vast, global audience via TechCrunch, Facebook, Twitter/Periscope, and Youtube. The Battlefield winner takes home the renowned Disrupt Cup, a check for $50,000, and priceless exposure to investors and media.
User Research Fundamentals - Online UX Course by Sarah Doody
This online course equips UX designers, product managers, and founders with a blueprint for doing user research. Change your organization's attitude to research, understand your customers, and make smarter product decisions. Get $100 off with code: BROOKLYN100
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What's next for IoT and Mobility? Meet the Techstars teams
An evening of networking and a panel discussion featuring industry leaders and successful founders to talk about challenges in IoT and mobility innovation. Office Hours with the Techstars IoT and Mobility teams will be held before the session.
Million Dollar Women Summit is for female entrepreneurs that are generating revenue and want to scale up to $1M+ in annual revenue this year! Together with 150 other phenomenal female entrepreneurs, you will learn how to get to the top faster with fewer falls through interactive workshops, 1:1 coaching, top speakers, and access to capital. The summit will feature a startup pitch competition with a $50,000 investment prize from SoGal Ventures up for grabs! Attendance is by application only. (Pitch competition submissions due by March 3rd)
Acquiring customers is the most important thing startups need to do. Yet how do you cut through the noise and get access to customers? We go over the most exclusive growth hacking strategies needed to start and scale your company! Agenda: Registration and Overview. PART 1 GROWTH HACKING BOOT CAMP. PART 2 PRESS HACKING BOOT CAMP. Are you trying to get more customers? Need press exposure to validate your brand? We go over the top 100 tactics needed to get new customers and get featured in press from all over the world. Host is Christine Souffrant Ntim - Forbes30Under30, AdAge 40Under40- who speaks at over 20+ global conferences a year! I'm sharing all of the FREE strategies and tips I used to get 80+ press mentions in Forbes, Entrepreneur etc, speaking engagements @TEDx, UN etc, and paid tactics in 1 hour! www.Csouffrantntim.com.
James Patten returns to Huge to talk about the convergence of interactive media and architecture. With Patten Studio Creative Director Mihae Mukaida, Patten will introduce a new set of interaction principles that look at how the design decisions we make today have huge implications on not just how we interact with each other but ultimately how our environments can shape us.
Work-Bench 110 Fifth Avenue, Fifth Floor New York, New York 10011 - New York, NY
In functional programming, types can appear in a variety of ways and forms, each with their own uses; phantom types and existentials types are two examples of these forms. This talk aims to explain phantom and existential types in a two-step process: first explaining the concept itself using a simpler language where it is clearer, and then translating the concept into Scala. The talk will also explain how these concepts can be useful in Scala code. Pedro Rodriguez is an FP Scala developer at Cake Solutions. He has many years of experience in FP Scala and Haskell.
Hi everyone, the meetup will be one week later because of the scheduling conflicts. 6:00 - Food and chat, 6:15 - Use your Angular skills to build native mobile apps with NativeScript, 6:45 - Building angular apps the Google way. IMPORTANT: Please use your real name and bring your ID. Talks: Use your Angular skills to build native mobile apps with NativeScript By Alex Ziskind.
DigitalOcean 101 Avenue of the Americas, 2nd Floor - New York, NY
If you’re a fan of DigitalOcean and its powerful but simple platform to deploy cloud-based infrastructure, you’ll appreciate CockroachDB: it’s similarly simple to deploy and provides your stack a lot of power and flexibility. CockroachDB is a natural fit within DigitalOcean’s no-fuss framework: both are for developers who like technology that’s easy-to-reason-about and lets them get work done quickly. To demonstrate the synergy between DigitalOcean and CockroachDB, this talk will demo how to build and deploy a distributed 3-node cluster in under 20 minutes. With a cluster live, we will then walk through some of CockroachDB’s core features (automatic data distribution and survivability) to give a better sense of how it makes your life easier.
From Wall Street to Silicon Alley Tuesday, February 28th @ 7pm | WeWork. A roundtable discussion with former investment bankers and finance professionals who made the leap into the world of startups. Investment bankers are becoming a driving force behind many of today's successful startups. If you're tired of building excel models, editing powerpoints and running "scenarios" then join reformed investment bankers as they discuss their journey from Wall Street to Silicon Alley and learn how you too can make the leap. #WStoSA. Roundtable Participants: Charlie O'Donnell, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, Gesche Haas, Dreamers // Doers; Lee Moulton, Breather; Moderator: Sameer Syed, Google.
NYC Data Science Academy 500 8th Avenue, Suite 901 - New York, NY
Join us for pizza, beer and a data modeling demo! This is a demo session for Reece Heineke's Data Science with Python: Machine Learning course. The upcoming session runs 5 Sundays from March 12 - April 9 2017, from 1 - 5 pm. Click to learn more. During this talk, Reece Heineke will demonstrate in one hour how you can use Python to explore financial time series data, apply a number of machine learning models and find the best fitting one. Our Speaker: Reece Heineke is a data scientist and engineer working at the fintech startup Credibly which provides capital to small businesses.
Raven's Head Public House 38-04 Broadway - Astoria, NY
QueensJS will be hosting our 31st meetup on Wednesday, March 1st, at our usual haunt, Raven’s Head Pub in Astoria on 38th & Broadway, just around the corner from the Steinway MR stop and 7 short streets over from the Broadway NW stop. Your speakers for the evening will be: •Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo (@supersgp) •Amy Cheng (@am3thyst) •Sara Chipps (@sarajchipps). QueensJS expects all speakers and attendees to follow the JSConf code of conduct.
Union Square Ventures 915 Broadway #19 - New York, NY
Software is disrupting equity administration, allowing companies to develop new strategies to incentivize employees and to stay private longer. Companies who use technology to manage equity gain an edge in hiring, retention, fundraising, and more. eShares, a USV-backed company, works with over 5,000 growing tech companies including Warby Parker, Reddit, Trello, and more to help them manage their equity and corporate financings to excel as private companies. Join eShares at 12:30 pm on Thursday, March 2nd at USV’s office as we do a deep dive on the eShares product and explore the following topics: Optimizing equity award structures including post-termination exercise periods, vesting schedules, and more. Using tender offers and primary financings to create employee liquidity. Integration between HRIS, payroll, and equity administration systems. Scaling equity administration as a private company. Space is limited. RSVP below.
One of the most excruciating parts of building a startup and turning your idea into the company you dreamed of. On March 2nd, Israeli Startups NYC is bringing some of the leading VCs in New York, to share their insights and tips on raising venture capital money for your startup. This panel is going to discuss when is the right time to approach a VC, what's the best way to do it, what are some of the challenges international entrepreneurs have when raising funds in the US and how can they overcome it! This is a rare opportunity to have all these distinguished guests in one panel. Don't miss your chance to attend this great event!
WeWork Times Square 1460 Broadway, New York NY 10036 - New York, NY
World’s biggest #TechstartupJobs Fair is coming back to New York! TechStartupJobs runs a successful job board for startups within Techmeetups’ 21 global tech communities crossing 60,000 + active members.TechStartupJobs Fair has been setup to help Startups find the talent they are looking for and for talent to find their way into the hottest Startups around.
Hi everyone! This is the launch for a program we've been working on for a while. 4 events, 1 set of panelists, 1 location. The events will be 2 weeks apart, and while each event is a separate unit, going to all 4 will give you a complete overview. Our panelists are all wonderfully accomplished, and they'll be sharing their experience, stories, and unique perspectives. Event 1: The Basics. We'll go through the principles UX relies on, what it looks like in practice, and what you should keep in mind. Event 2: Research & Discovery. How can we get information to inform product/design decisions? What do people commonly do to f#$% up their results, and how can they learn to avoid that? Event 3: Prototyping and User Testing. These are well-known and deceptively simple UX techniques, but they're so often done incorrectly. How can we do them the RIGHT way? Event 4: Iteration. Designing a product isn't over when it ships. How can we build consistent, scalable processes to gather data and improve the product? Our panelists: Jay Meany - Director of Product Design Digital Strategy & Initiatives at Condé Nast, Tim Jaeger - Interaction Designer at Google, Michelle Chu - Product and Design Manager at Alpha, Michael Redding - Freelance UX/Creative Director.
Share, learn and network with fellow Product Managers at The Product Group. Some topics to expect...Planning Product Discovery and more. Featured Product: Insticator. From Zack Dugow..."I'm Zack Dugow Founder and CEO of Insticator.com. We increase revenue and engagement for web publishers through an interactive trivia and polling widget that has advertising embedded into the experience. Our widget creates a rich content engaging experience for visitors in content websites that builds a positive exchange between all 3 stake holders (Site visitor, Site Owner, Advertiser). We work with big media companies like Warner brothers and Tribune Media to smaller startup publishers. We are looking for ways to incentivize visitor sign ups, to our widget, within our customers website and drive more interactivity with the product. Hope to see you there!
iOSoho - New York City's largest iOS Engineer Meetup
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Submitting your App to the App Store: Zoufishan Mehdi, iOS developer at Healthie. Your product is ready but now what? iOS developer Zoufishan Mehdi will walk you through shipping your product to the App Store and lessons learned. Zoufishan started her iOS development journey at Coalition for Queens’ Access Code program. With a background in security and foreign languages, she was always curious about delving into the unknown. While analyzing her MA thesis in cybersecurity from a theoretical perspective, she became interested in the nuances that were amiss without the technical know-how. For her, that was the spark that would eventually help make sense of the world of theory with logic. Cassandra Shum, Lead Consultant at ThoughtWorks Cassandra Shum is a Lead Consultant with ThoughtWorks, who has primarily been leading and working in a variety of mobile projects. She has primarily been involved in IOS, Android and Mobile web applications that are supported on multiple devices. She is also one of the leaders in the initiative to organize the women's group in ThoughtWorks and is also involved in promoting more female speakers in technology.
#BetaNYC, NYC's open data, open gov, & civic tech community
Rise NYC 43 West 23rd street, 2nd Floor - New York, NY
New York City School of Data is a community conference showcasing NYC’s civic design, civic/government technology, and open data ecosystem. New York City School of Data is a community conference showcasing NYC’s civic design, civic/government technology, and open data ecosystem. Through TEN thought provoking sessions and THIRTEEN small group workshops, this year’s conference asks for your help in improving community resources, and challenges you to build a collective future. Join us and others around the world on Saturday, 4 March, for International Open Data Day to demystify technology, policy, data, and celebrate New York City’s inaugural Open Data Week! To attend, you must register via eventbrite.
Whole Foods 270 Greenwich Street Greenwich & Warren Streets (Lower Manhattan/Tribeca) - New York, NY
Recently a handful of us have been getting together on the weekends and doing interview prep together and we realized this might be something others would want to join in on. The event will be relatively informal and it'll mostly center around preparing for interviews and going over interview questions together. However, if you'd like to work on your resume, a personal project, help others with their careers, or just get to know some of the other members of NY JavaScript, please join us! If you have any interview prep resources like Cracking the Coding Interview, please bring them. Also, there's no need to sign up for this event. If you have any concerns about being listed as an attendee of this kind of event, feel free to just show up. And feel free to bring any friends who you think might enjoy this sort of event!
Rise New York - Private Entrance 24 West 24th St, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10010 - New York, NY
The Founder Institute is the world’s most challenging and effective program to start a company. Join us for the Graduation of the latest New York cohort, where you can see presentations from the newest Graduates that are building great startups. Learn the tips and tricks to building a company in New York, and ask Graduates about their experience in the Founder Institute program. Angels, venture capitalists, media, mentors and the general public are invited to meet the most recent Graduates of the Founder Institute and learn about the diverse businesses that they are building. This event is FREE, and we expect over 50 people in attendance. For more information, visit http://fi.co/courses/founder-institute-graduate-showcase-networking-event--5.
New York City Galvanize 315 Hudson St - New York, NY
Techstars IoT and Techstars Mobility are now accepting applications for our 2017 programs. Please join us for a evening of networking and a panel discussion featuring industry leaders and successful founders to talk about challenges in IoT and mobility innovation. Office Hours with the Techstars IoT and Mobility teams will be held before the session. If you're interested, please fill out the respective forms below.
Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington Avenue - New York, NY
Bloomberg, Cornell Tech, and Tech:NYC invite you to join us for the latest installment of the CornellTech@Bloomberg series, featuring Ben Lerer, CEO of Group Nine Media, co-founder of Thrillist Media Group and managing partner of Lerer Hippeau Ventures. The digital media industry has been rocked by change in recent years. New platforms for consumption, proliferation of advertising formats, and consolidation of companies have forced executives to reinvent themselves, and their companies to deftly navigate this new frontier. Through the formation of a new viral content operation, Group Nine Media, Ben Lerer has embarked on an ambitious journey to lead this next generation of media. Both an entrepreneur and investor, Ben has established himself as an influential member of New York’s venture capital and digital media communities. His success as co-founder and CEO of media upstart Thrillist, as well as his proven investment track record in many high-profile startups, including Warby Parker, Giphy, Oscar, Casper and BuzzFeed, place Ben in a unique position to lead the charge on the future of content, commerce and digital advertising. Ben will be joined on stage by Bloomberg’s own Scarlet Fu to discuss his entrepreneurial journey, his work with his father, as well as predictions on the future of the media and venture capital industries.
In this mini-workshop by LifeLabs Learning we'll explore hacks to increase your ability to get ideas heard, get to the heart of an issue, and gain trust and commitment from others. The focus will be on everyday behaviors (ways of framing issues, dropping into story mode, and adding structure) that you can turn into habits. You'll identify your influence strengths and areas of opportunity and walk away with a plan for becoming even more influential. LifeLabs specializes in manager and all-staff training for innovative companies (like Etsy, Squarespace, Reddit, Venmo, and Warby Parker). This workshop will be taught by Dr. LeeAnn Renninger. LeeAnn has a PhD in cognitive psychology with a specialization in idea transfer, rapid skill acquisition, and leadership development. She is the co-founder of LifeLabs, is a researcher, Columbia Business School professor, and co-author of the book Surprise: Embrace the Unpredictable & Engineer the Unexpected.
In this class, you’ll how to get started with Python, what advantages and disadvantages Python provides as a programming language, and the essentials of programming in Python.
NYU Skirball center 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square - New York, NY
Join fellow technologists for an evening of live demos from companies developing great technology in New York, followed by a networking afterparty. Please note: if it looks like the event is sold out, it is probably not. We release tickets in three batches. If tickets aren't available, they will be available at the next release. The three ticket releases for this Meetup are: November 10, November 11 and December 2, all at 1 p.m. Please note: In order to help accommodate the high demand for seats, if you've purchased a ticket, your seat will be held until 7:20 p.m. the night of the event. After that, we will consider you a no show, and may release your seat to someone waiting to get in.
ThoughtWorks 99 Madison Ave., 15th Floor - New York, NY
Join other Girl Develop It members at Thoughtworks for #IWD2017 in NYC on Wednesday March 8 at 6:30pm. Be sure to register (for free!) via the LINK below.REGISTER - International Women's Day at Thoughtworks REGISTER - International Women's Day at Thoughtworks REGISTER - International Women's Day at Thoughtworks. AGENDA: 6:30PM Doors open for refreshments and networking, 6:45-7:30PM -- TW Consultant Stacey Watro will kick us off with a talk about CQRS & Event Sourcing from a DevOps Perspective, 7:30-7:40 -- Speaker Q&A, 7:40-8:00PM - Technical panel discussion moderated by Senior Consultant Erin Kidwell, and featuring Rachel Laycock, Head of Technology (North America), and Cassie Shum, Lead Consultant.
work—bench 110 5th Avenue, 5th Floor - New York, NY
Ever wonder exactly what it takes to create truly exceptional UX? This star-studded event featuring Tomer Sharon, Gleren Meneghin, Ronnie Battista, Beverly May and Matthew Weber will showcase the process and outcomes behind recent winning work from top repeat UX Awards winners at Adobe, SAP, Method and Huge. We'll then pull back the curtain and discuss what goes into creating outstanding work so you can get actionable advice and tips to apply to your next project.
NYU Entrepreneurial Institute (Leslie eLab) 16 Washington Place - New York, NY
Join us for this special workshop, lead by guest presenter, Joyce J. Shen (Global Director, Emerging Technology Partnerships and Investments, Thomson Reuters), that will define and analyze AI consortiums, their members, the research they're doing, and who the key players are. If these consortiums are being formed to address the good of society, why are they currently so secretive? Should the general public be allowed to participate in defining the ethics of AI and, if so, how would this happen? We'll also be reviewing the new 23 Asimolar AI Principles, published just two weeks ago, which are guidelines covering research issues, ethics and values (short-term and long-term) in AI including how scientists should work with governments and how lethal weapons should be handled (among other things). The document was endorsed by hundred of AI professionals including Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking.
Galvanize NYC 315 Hudson St 2nd Floor - New York, NY
“Machine learning is to big data as human learning is to life experience,” says Christopher Nguyen, the co-founder, and CEO of big data intelligence company Adatao. Sure, but then, what IS big data? (especially as it’s become a buzzword that captures so many things). Spotify’s personalization platform involves multiple teams in New York, Boston & Stockholm producing datasets, feature engineering and serving up products to users. Features like Discover Weekly and Release Radar are but the tip of a huge personalization iceberg. Prerequisites: This talk is targeted at more of an intermediate level, but advanced data scientists are welcome as we can go as deep as they like. What to bring: Nothing special required. To learn more about Galvanize, visit galvanize.com.
The Spam Archive - Chronicling spam emails into readable web records index for all time
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