I want to feel love, run through my blood
Tell me is this where I give it all up?
For you I have to risk it all
Cause the writing's on the wall - Sam Smith (theme song for SPECTRE)
"Your computer needs 70 Facebook likes to be more accurate than your friends & 250 Facebook data points to be more accurate than your spouse." - Your Computer Knows You Better Than Your Mother
NASA big Mars announcement today (water discovered?). Bitcoin computer. Uber Commute. Broadband report. Google Nexus event Sep 29. And Mets clinch NL East & headed to playoffs (first time since 2006)! :)
Bono, Zuckerberg & others involved w/ UN 2030 Agenda (17 goals, 169 targets) incl. Internet connectivity for all by 2020. And Indian PM Narendra Modi signed deals w/ Google (free WiFi in 500 stations) & Microsoft (low-cost broadband in 500,000 villages).
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." - RIP Yogi Berra (Yankees catcher, 3-times MVP & more World Series appearances than anyone in history)
As y'all know, my New Years Resolution is to get to know GarysGuide members & subscribers better :) So shoot me an email & introduce yourself!
ANNOUNCING ==> Shopify & NYSE: Build A Business Competition (Winners get exclusive week of mentorship w/ Russell Simmons, Tim Ferriss, Tony Robbins, Daymond John, Troy Carter) @ Oheka Castle (aka Great Gatsby Mansion). Get on it, yo! ;)
ANNOUNCING ==> VentureWell E-Team Program ($25K grants & $50K funding for collegiate technology entrepreneurs); apply by Oct 07. Founder Institute Fall Semester (Fellowships incl. Vet-Tech, Female Founder, Latino Startup Alliance); apply by Oct 04.
ANNOUNCING ==> 2X in Tech: Female Founders Conf (Oct 27; Invite only; 250 women; With GCT, Lerer, First Round, Greylock, RRE; MC is Kara Swisher of Recode); apply by Sep 30. Sandhill NYC (VCs @ Sequoia, Kleiner, Andreessen visiting in Oct), request invite.
ANNOUNCING ==> Next Top Makers NYC (7-mo studio incubator); apply by Oct 12. Data Science Winter Bootcamp (12 wks; $2K scholarship for women, minorities & veterans), apply by Nov 16.
DON'T MISS! ==> Oct 01 Family Technology Tech Talk w/ Rachel Rothman (Dir. Engg, Hearst), Alvin Crawford (CEO, Knowledge Delivery), Dr Orit Goldhamer (Psychologist), Reuben Steiger (Founder, 8&Up). 5 FREE Passes! Oct 01 Startup Pitch Night (Scout VC, KEC VC, LunaCap VC); 30 FREE Passes!
DON'T MISS! ==> Oct 05 Founders Guide (FREE) w/ founders Anu Duggal (F Cubed), Mariah Chase (ELOQUII), Christina Mercando (Ringly), Katina Mountanos (Manicube). Oct 06 Future Of Fintech (FREE) w/ founders Jon Stein (Betterment), David Klein (CommonBond), Omar Qari (Abacus), Charles Birnbaum (Bessemer VC).
DON'T MISS! ==> Oct 06-08 DELVE: PRODUCT (masterclass on making products people love w/ UX & product designers from Google, Amazon, IBM, Etsy, Flipboard, Betaworks, Conde Nast).
DON'T MISS! ==> Oct 09 FinTech Conference w/ Leora Klapper (Lead Economist, World Bank), Maria Torres-Springer (President, NYCEDC), Tyler & Cameron Winklevoss (Co-Founders, Gemini), Iqram Magdon-Ismail (Founder, Venmo), Claire Mills (Federal Reserve Bank NY), Capital One Labs, MasterCard. 3 FREE Passes ($145 each)! Oct 09-11 FinTech Hackathon @ Cornell Tech (Grand prize: $25,000)!
DON'T MISS! ==> Oct 12-18 TechWeek NYC w/ founders Dennis Mortenson (x.ai), Adam Sager (Canary), Alex Chung (Giphy), Paul Berry (RebelMouse), Alexandra Wilson (GlamSquad), David Teten (ffVC) & Al Roker. 15% off w/ "TW_GARYSGUIDE". 2 FREE Passes ($50)!
DON'T MISS! ==> Oct 13 Raise Academy: How To Make Fundraising Simple (Workshop for founders to learn what it takes raise Seed or Series A; Startup Pitch, Investor Panel, Networking & Cocktails). Oct 08 Investor Summit (100+ VCs & Angels); 3 FREE Passes ($475 each)!
DON'T MISS! ==> Oct 22 #SportsFest w/ Danny Keens (Head of Sport Partnerships, Twitter), Elisa Padilla (CMO, Brooklyn Nets & Barclays Ctr), Rudolf Vidal (MD, FC Bayern Munich), Patrick Willis (Former All-Pro NFL Athlete), Melissa Proctor (SVP Strategy, Atlanta Hawks), Lauri Saft (VP, IBM Watson).
DON'T MISS! ==> Sep 28 - Oct 02 Advertising Week. Oct 02 Blueprint Health Demo Day. Thru Oct 03 O'Reilly Data Week. Oct 06 ERA Demo Day. Thru Oct 11 Convergence (VR Films, GameScape Arcade, Sherlock Holmes & Internet of Things) @ NY Film Festival.
Sep 29 World Technology Network Summit w/ Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel Prize-winning economist), Larry Summers (ex-Secy of Treasury), Robert Reich (ex-Secy of Labor), Martin Ford (Author, Rise of Robots), Scott Santens (Universal Basic Income), Gerald Huff (Tesla). 2 FREE Passes ($795 each)!
Sep 29 Strata + Hadoop World w/ Eric Brewer (VP Infrastructure, Google), Roy Ben-Alta (Big Data Lead, Amazon AWS), Jenelle Bray (Data Scientist, LinkedIn), Kurt Brown (Director, Data Platform @ Netflix), Jerry Chen (Greylock), Mike Abbott (Kleiner). 1 FREE Pass ($2045)!
Oct 01 TAP Conference w/ Senator Mark Warner, Gary Vaynerchuck (CEO, VaynerMedia), Jed Kleckner (CEO, Delivery.com), John Elton (Greycroft), Serge Kassardjian (Global Head, Google Play), Jack Groetzinger (Founder, SeatGeek), Maja Lapcevic (Citi VC). 3 FREE Passes ($499 each)!
Oct 01 ADAPT: Art, Design, Adventure, Passion, Tech @ TheYard: Herald Sq (Samsung, Moleskine, General Assembly, Art Exhibitions, Live Music); 12 FREE Passes ($95)! Oct 08 Demo Day Marketplace @ Made In NY Media Center by IFP (Register by Sep 30); 2 FREE Passes ($250)!
Oct 02 FEAST Impact East w/ Albert Wenger (Union Sq Ventures), Craig Hatkoff (Founder, Tribeca Film Festival), Christopher Fabian (Innovation @ UNICEF), Loretta Whitesides (Virgin Galactic Astronaut), Vikram Gandhi (Filmmaker, VICE). 4 FREE Passes ($800 each)!
Oct 02 iOS App Development Bootcamp (iPhone, iPad, Watch apps w/ Swift & Xcode). Oct 03 Women Entrepreneurs Rock The World w/ Gretchen Rubin (Best-selling author, Happiness Project) & founders Melissa Ben-Ishay (Baked by Melissa), Katrina Markoff (Vosges Haut-Chocolat). 5 FREE Passes ($299)!
Oct 06 NY Media Festival w/ Raul Leal (CEO, Virgin Hotels), Edward Roussel (CIO, Dow Jones/WSJ), Danny Goldberg (Mgr, Led Zeppelin & Nirvana), Jeff Birnbaum (Gaming Head, Google), Adi Sideman (Founder, YouNow), Vivian Lewit (Partnerships, YouTube). 10 FREE Passes ($300 each)!
Oct 06 Blockchain Conf w/ founders of Coin Sciences, Blockchain Collective, Chainalysis, Applied Blockchain; 10 FREE Passes ($279 each)! Thru Oct 17 BSR Sustainability Hackathon ($7.5K prizes; Winner to demo at BSR Conf).
Oct 09 Secret Conf: Security & Privacy Talks (MIT, Atomicorp, Vindicia, EFF, Silent Circle, Trees.delivery); 5 FREE Passes ($179 each)! Oct 11 BUILD By Brunchwork (launch your first company); 1 FREE Pass ($159)!
Oct 28 Decoded Fashion Summit w/ Sean Rad (Founder, Tinder), Melisa Goldie (CMO, Calvin Klein), Alan Tisch (Founder, Spring), Mike Grishaver (SVP, Etsy), Daniel Habashi (Instagram). 15% off w/ "GG". Oct 29 Fashion Futures Awards (Decoded Fashion & W Mag); apply by Oct 02.
FREE PASSES! (get details) ==> Sep 29 TEDx NJIT. Sep 29 Animals In Social (Barkpost, Human behind Felines, Dodo). Sep 29 Women In Tech Salary Negotiation. Sep 29 Product Council (Vimeo, Katch.me). Sep 30 NYC Apps (Fifty Three, Often).
Mo' FREE Passes! (get details) ==> Sep 30 Launch Startup Now Workshop. Sep 30 Content Mktg. Oct 01 Hacking Mindfulness w/ Brain Spa. Oct 02 Raising Startup Capital ($100 value). Oct 04 Pakathon NYC (Shutterstock, Harvard, Samsung Accelerator, TechStars).
Mo' FREE Passes! (get details) ==> Oct 07 Year of FinTech VC Perspective. Oct 07 Enterprise Tech (Pepperdata, Ensilo). Oct 08 Intro to Pricing Strategy. Oct 14 Tech Tapas Spanish Pitch Night. Oct 27 Creative Tech Mixer (Experiential installation from Met Interactive). Nov 18 Italian Pitch Night.
UPCOMING EVENTS ==> Sep 29 B2B Tech Marketing w/ Jon Russo (Founder, B2B Fusion & ex-SVP @ ReturnPath). Oct 08 Recess Inspires ($100 off w/ "garysguide"). Oct 27 IBM Cloud Performance w/o Limits @ Intrepid Air, Sea & Space Museum. Nov 11 Bitcoin Regulation & Security @ OWASP NYC. Dec 07 OWASP NYC Meetup @ Goldman Sachs.
CLASSES ==> Sep 28 Employment Strategies @ Noble. Oct 01 JavaScript for Beginners @ Dev Bootcamp. Nov 07 R, Data Analysis & Visualization @ Data Science Academy. Jan 11 Data Science Bootcamp @ Metis.
DEADLINES ==> Sep 30 Extreme Tech Challenge (Pitch Sir Richard Branson). Sep 30 Women Who Tech Startup Challenge (Nov 09; $25k). Sep 30 Made in NY Media & Tech Fellowships. Oct 02 Intel: America's Greatest Makers ($1M; Create next amazing wearable). Oct 08 Pilot Health Tech ($1M).
Mo' Deadlines ==> Oct 13 Made In NY Innovation Grant ($5-$10K equity-free for media startups). Oct 13 YCombinator Winter Class. Oct 14 BigApps NYC ($125K). Oct 15 Telluride Accelerator ($30K; Beautiful Colorado mountains locale). Oct 18 Make It In BK Pitch (Nov 05; $5K). Oct 19 Ivy Innovator Design Awards (Wired & Cadillac). Oct 31 Harlem Biospace Incubator. Dec 19 Drone Film Festival (Mar 04-06).
Mo' Deadlines ==> Israel Tech Incubators. Israel Tech Mission (Nov). Amazon Alexa Fund (Voice startups; $100M). Coboating! Coworking Catamaran (Sails in Nov). Newark Venture Partners Fund+Accelerator ($50M; 10-50 startups). Startup52 Accelerator (mentor).
CONGRATS! ==> Marc Ecko & Complex Media raised $21M from Hearst. Yaron & Billguard (personal finance-tracking) acquired by Prosper for $50M. Moot & 4chan acquired by japanese web culture pioneer 2Channel. Mark & Cover (restaurants payments) acquired by Velocity. Portware acquired by Factset. Qognify acquired by Battery Ventures.
Mo' Congrats! ==> Lindsay (Casper) & Richard (People Mag) on baby box Max :) Alan Patricof (80 & still an active VC)!
Chief Digital Officer at NY Public Library, Mobile Design at IBM, UX Lead at Imperative, Analytics (Mktg) at Quartz, Office Mgr at NewsCred, Sales at Snapchat, Sr .Net Dev at Tradeweb, CTO at Thinkful, Magento Dev at The Collective, Sales at PAX Labs, VP Finance at Interlude, Teach Keynote at Noble, Mktg at Zuznow, Venture Associate at XRC Labs, New Markets Mgr at Hired, Client Exec at Hired, Talent Advocate at Hired, Mktg Intern at District CoWork, Events Intern at District CoWork, Biz Dev at District CoWork, Dir of Platform at RRE Ventures, VC Associate at Flatiron,
Until next week :)
Gary
(aka "The Guy with the Red Tie")
Word on the Streets: "Heard great things about Gary and a big fan of GarysGuide!" - Angelia Muller, Director @ (XRC Labs)
Thanks, Angelia! :)
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Speed across the Jakku desert from Star Wars: The Force Awakens with this immersive 360 experience. Nice, yo!
NASA images (via Hubble Telescope) of Veil Nebula w/ supernova remnants from massive star that exploded 8000 years ago & 1470 light-years away. Whoa.
Archtober is 5th Annual Architecture & Design Month in NYC & a festival of architecture activities, programs & exhibitions during month of October.
Check out Lands End, the VR adventure game from my peeps @ Ustwo (who created the amazing Monument Valley) for Samsung Gear VR powered by Oculus.
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