"Worth reading Superintelligence by Bostrom. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes." - Elon Musk (CEO, Tesla Motors)
IBM building scalable chip inspired by human brain. uBeam's created functional prototype for wireless charging. MIT scientists recover speech from silent video of vibrating bag of chips. And stretchable electronics could lead to computerized clothing & robots w/ humanlike skin that can "feel". Amazing! :)
ANNOUNCEMENTS ==> Accelerator Corp opening hub @ Alexandria Ctr w/ $51 mil (from Pfizer, J&J, Lilly) to build Life Sciences startups. WeWork opening 1st (of 3) Brooklyn locations w/ 90k sq ft @ Jared Kushner's Dumbo Heights (WatchTower) w/ Etsy also moving in (200k sq ft). FYI, WeWork testing WeLive.
Mo' Announcements ==> Governor Cuomo’s CUNY 2020 Initiative ... 3 CUNY campuses awarded $4.6 mil for New Media Jobs Incubator & Innovation Lab and Big Data Consortium awarded $15 mil for Center for Data Visualization.
Mo' Announcements ==> World2NYC Smart & Sustainable Cities (apply by Aug 22). Accelerators? Fuggedaboutit! I give you World's 1st Decelerator! 10 days (Oct 12-24) of work-cation + retreat in Bali, Indonesia. Sign me up, yo! :)
EVENTS ==> Sep 02 Transatlantic Entrepreneur Conf (explore opptys for NYC & Berlin), 2 Free Passes ($99 value)! Sep 19 NYC Media Lab Summit w/ Jon Oringer (Founder, Shutterstock), Genevieve Bell (VP, Intel Labs), 2 Free Passes.
Mo' Events! ==> Oct 01 is NewCo, check out offices of FourSquare, GrubHub, Tumblr, Yahoo! Oct 03 Focus100 Conf w/ Kyle Kimball (President, NYCEDC), Brian Cohen (Chairman, NY Angels), Mignon Clyburn (ex FCC Commissioner), Rachel Haot (Chief Digital Officer, NY State). 5 Free Passes ($300 value)!
SPACES ==> 2-6 desks (pics) for sublet ($450/mo) in Midtown West w/ awesome Ed-Tech startup, email Emily. Sublets within architect's beautiful office loft (pics) in SoHo, email Rodney. LiveStream's beautiful loft studios (pics), offices & retail space in Bushwick for sub-lease, email Dan.
FREE PASSES! (browse) ==> Sep 11 Global Innovator AdTech & E-Commerce w/ Greycroft, Firstmark & Comcast Ventures. ROADMAP to Entrepreneurship ($499 value!) Early Stage (Oct 18) & Growth Stage (Nov 08) w/ Andrew Weinreich (MeetMoi), 20% off w/ "garysguide20". Nov 04 The Summit ($2200 value!) w/ founders from Evernote, Dropbox, Oculus, Tinder.
Mo' FREE Passes! (browse) ==> Aug 11 Queens Tech (Vengo, Upstage Ventures). Aug 12 Startup Grind w/ Stuart Wall (CEO, Signpost). Aug 12 HealthTech Innovations (Blueprint Health, Lux Capital). Aug 13 Music Tech.
Mo' FREE Passes! (browse) ==> Aug 15 Raising Startup Capital ($100 value)! Aug 15 Phat Startup w/ Combat Jack. Aug 20 Ecommerce Idea to Concept. Aug 27 Startup Rock Climbing. Aug 27 IgniteNYC Sensors & Wearables.
Upcoming ==> Aug 14 Startup Coffee. Aug 22 WeWork Summer Camp. Sep 02 TurnToTech iOS+Swift (part-time) & Ruby on Rails (if qualified, pay after job).
PROMO! ==> Hola startup Founders & CEOs! Want an expert 409A Valuation of your startup?? Check out Preferred Return! They've worked w/ the HOTTEST startups incl. Codecademy, SkillShare, Sidecar, Blue Bottle Coffee, Refinery29, Paperless Post, DuckDuckGo, Songza, Tilt & more! 10% off w/ code "gguide" :)
Mo' Promos ==> Google Cloud ($500 credit w/ "garysguide"). Apartment rentals startup Zenly, code "GARY2014" @ checkout for savings. Register your .NYC domain @ HelloNYC. 3 Free LittleBits Cloud Starter Bundles ($165 value)!
DEADLINES ==> Aug 15 Mashable Mashies Awards. Aug 20 Drone Social Innovation Award ($10k). Aug 17 Ideation Hive ($20k). Aug 22 Digiday Video Awards. Aug 25 Techstars R/GA Connected Devices Accelerator ($120k).
Mo' deadlines! ==> Aug 31 Conscious Venture Lab ($50k). Aug 31 Amazing Startup Series. Sep 03 NYCEDC Next Top Makers. Sep 09 AT&T Connected Intersections. Hacker Paradise (12 wks Costa Rica). Tech Talent Draft!
Congrats! ==> Jonah & BuzzFeed raise $50 mil ($850 mil val) from Andreessen Horowitz. Josh, Nick & Plated raise $15 mil. Phillip, Neil & Casper raise $13.1 mil. Jordan & Wildcard raise $7 mil. Contently's investigative journalism non-profit. And Electric Objects Artist-In-Residence program w/ NY Public Library.
Biz Dev at MOUSE, Frontend Dev at Signpost, Mktg Intern at Bonobos, Community Mgr at TED, Tech Diplomat at LaunchLM, Programs Producer at GA, Mktg Mgr at Knewton, Product Mgr at Amplify, Events Mgr at Trusted Insight, Sr Rails Engineer at WeDidIt , Ad Ops at Flipboard, Strategy at Foursquare, Copywriter at Plated, Campaign Mgr at MongoDB,
Until next week :) Gary (aka "The Guy with the Red Tie")
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Fringe NYC (thru Aug 24 ), largest multi-arts festival in North America. 16 days, 20 venues & 200 incredible performances!
Electric Zoo Music Festival (Aug 29-31) w/ Kaskade, David Guetta, Armin Van Buuren, Dada Life & more!
Wabbit season has arrived ;) What’s Up, Doc?!, Animation Art of Chuck Jones (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck) @ Museum of Moving Image (thru Jan 19).
33rd Annual Downtown Dance Festival (Aug 17-21) showcasing great dance companies from around the world and its free!
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