Category: New York

This six-hour intensive workshop is designed for entrepreneurs at all levels. Among the topics discussed will be crafting a pitch, finding investors, revenue generation, “Demo Driven Development,” and marketing. Facilitators include Igor Lebovic, head of About.com’s CalorieCount team, marketing and digital consultant Brian Fountain, and Subjot founder Chris Carella. Register here.

General Assembly presents an evening with Michael Geer, founder of Badoo, who will share key lessons learned from idea-stage through its current status as a booming network with 100 million users and $100 million in revenue. Topics will include successful product design, viral marketing, and achieving rapid global growth. Register here.

New York Entrepreneurs Business Network hosts this evening of pitches and judging, plus pizza and drinks. The panel of judges includes Geoff Schneider, managing partner at Cava Capital; Kirill Sheynkman, managing director at RTP Ventures; Maneesh Sagar, managing partner at Visium; and Sachin Jade, managing partner at Klifer Capital. Register here.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Office of Technology Development hosts this panel discussion on how to work with your technology transfer office. Speakers include Kathleen Denis, associate v.p. at the Rockefeller University Office of Technology Transfer; Andrew Maslow, director of the Office of Technology Development at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; and Brian Kelly, director of technology … Continue reading “Riverside Chats Speaker Series: Technology Transfer”

Columbia University’s independently organized TED event will be a day filled with presentations on innovation in areas ranging from organic chemistry to economics, and from engineering to entertainment. The three sessions—health, sustainability, and technology information–will allow attendees to learn about the latest ideas in these field as well as how to convert their inventions into … Continue reading “TEDx Columbia Engineering”

Learn the legal and accounting aspects of starting up a life sciences company at this lunchtime seminar sponsored by Columbia Technology Ventures. The event will cover such topics as choice of entity, allocating the rights of equity owners, accounting issues and projections, and negotiations between owners and investors on valuation. Speakers include Stephen M. Goodman, … Continue reading “Founding a Life Sciences Company”

This meeting, sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences, will assess the state of the world economic-environmental complex as it is now, compared to the possible paths projected in the controversial 1972 book The Limits to Growth. Featured speakers include the book’s author, Dennis Meadows, and Thomas Graedel of the Center for Industrial Ecology at … Continue reading “Will Technology Let Us Avoid the Limits to Growth?”

During this 54-hour event, budding entrepreneurs will work with people of different skillsets to build a web or mobile application that can form the basis of a credible business.Mentors include Matt Healey of Foursquare, McAdory Lipscomb Jr. of CEOCoach.net, and Emma Persky of Hashable. Register here.