From First Round Capital's Charlie O'Donnell to Greycroft Partners' Alan Patricof, New York's technology entrepreneurs and investors say why they love New York in The Deal's video, shot at the nextNY-hosted Shake Shack II, a hot party for 300 of the most savvy folks on the city's tech scene. Watch the video below or download it on iTunes. - Mary Kathleen Flynn
Twitter Inc. is all the rage this year, but what's next? To search for the next big hit on the Internet, we went to Shake Shack II, the hottest party on the New York tech scene where we chatted with venture capitalists, angel investors and entrepreneurs.
Cloud computing, location-based mobile and online education are among the technologies on the radar of Intel Capital's Sita Vasan, who focuses on the digital home. We caught up with Vasan at nextNY's recent Shake Shack II mixer. Watch the video below or download it on iTunes. For more of The Deal's coverage of the New York tech startup scene, read below the video. -- Mary Kathleen Flynn
David S. Rose, chairman of New York Angels, talks to The Deal about how angel investors are handling the recession. The biggest impact has been a "flight to quality," meaning entrepreneurs have to work harder -- and take their companies further -- in order to get angel financing. We spoke with Rose at at Shake Shack II, an informal gathering of 300 of the smartest folks on the New York tech scene. Watch the video above or download it on iTunes. -- Mary Kathleen Flynn
A java jolt has helped many a student through an all-nighter, but for Greycroft Partners' Drew Lipsher, coffee played a significant role in underwriting his business school education. At the recent Shake Shack II party, Lipsher told The Deal's Mary Kathleen Flynn that he met Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ:SBUX) founder Howard Schultz in 1991 at Kellogg's Entrepreneur Club and noticed immediately that the entrepreneur had the process of launching a Starbucks cafe "down to a science." During the summer between his first and second years, Lipsher "scraped together every penny I could so that I could buy shares in Starbucks when it went public in 1992." The move paid off for Lipsher, an obsessive coffee guzzler who prefers the Dunkin Donuts brand. When he got his MBA, he was debt-free. Watch the video below or download it on iTunes.- Maria Woehr and Mary Kathleen Flynn
Perot Systems, the company founded by sometime presidential candidate Ross Perot, is in the news this week due to its acquisition by Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL). But last week, it was the entrepreneur himself that being talked about, as The Deal asked Stuart Ellman and Jim Robinson, co-founders of RRE Ventures, to name the entrepreneurs they admire most.
We chatted with Ellman and Robinson at Shake Shack II, a party for 300 held September 15 at an outdoor burger stand favored by the New York tech crowd. The casual gathering hosted by nextNY, a group for up-and-comers in the tech and new-media fields, offered precious opportunities for entrepreneurs and investors to rub elbows -- and make deals. We were there, videotaping our conversations with dozens of the digerati. For more on the event, see Shake Shack II: Hip mixer for founders, investors and Shake Shack II tech shindig in pictures. Watch the video below or download it on iTunes.
Charlie O'Donnell, co-founder of career development site Path101.com, talks with The Deal at Shake Shack II, a party for 300 held on September 15 at an outdoor burger stand favored by the New York tech crowd. The casual gathering was organized by O'Donnell and hosted by nextN, a group he founded for up-and-comers in the tech and new-media fields. The evening offered precious opportunities for entrepreneurs and investors to rub elbows -- and make deals. We were there, videotaping our conversations with dozens of the digerati. For more on the event, see Shake Shack II: Hip mixer for founders, investors and Shake Shack II tech shindig in pictures. Watch the video above or download it on iTunes.
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