"Banks approaching an 'Uber moment' as they fight to stay relevant & profitable in face of technology & # of branches & people in financial services sector may decline 50% over 10 yrs." - Antony Jenkins (ex-CEO, Barclays)
"If both HTT & HTI's Hyperloops are successful, we'll end up w/ national version of NYC subway - built in early 1900s by 2 competing developers & to this day MTA has to buy 2 different types of subway car." - Hyperloop Race Heats Up
"Takes a long time to find your place in the market. We were in Year 5 of Justin.tv before focusing exclusively on gaming & building Twitch." - Justin Kan (Co-Founder, Twitch, sold to Amazon for $970M) // Survive & Thrive
Yahoo for sale? Zuck explains $45B donation. Uber raising $2.1B @ $62.5B val. Apple open-sourcing Swift. Q-Carbon brighter, cheaper, harder than Diamonds. Airbnb NYC data. Microsoft open-sourcing Chakra JS. Google's needle-free blood draw patent. And Instagram filters as baby names?!
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 ==> Futureworks NYC Growth Initiative (For startups using advanced manufacturing tech; $30K funding); apply by Dec 14. Processing Foundation Fellowship (Promote software literacy in visual arts & visual literacy in technology-related fields); apply by Dec 18.
ANNOUNCING ==> Reach Higher Career App Challenge (For developers & educators; Mobile solns to improve access to career info); apply by Dec 07. EdSim Challenge (For gaming & EdTech; Design simulated gaming/VR environments to prepare America’s students); apply by Dec 09.
ANNOUNCING ==> Grace Hopper Academy (Coding school for women; Deferred tuition); Info session Dec 07; Admissions prep workshop Dec 12). Women Entrepreneurs Festival (Feb 01; Apply to attend).
ANNOUNCING ==> NY Fashion Tech Lab (Women-led startups; Partnership Fund & Springboard); apply by Dec 14. Pilot Health Tech ($1M; NYCEDC, Health 2.0 & Blueprint Health); apply by Dec 18.
ANNOUNCING ==> Global Virtual Hackathon (IBM & Koding, $150K prizes; 60,000+ devs; Themes incl. Data Viz, Productivity & Games); apply by Dec 09. Global Mobile Innovators Tournament (IBM & 4YFN; Future of mobile; IoT themes incl. smart homes & travel); apply by Jan 06.
CAUSES ==> Dec 07 Charity:Water Ball @ Met Museum (Help bring clean water to 300 villages in Ethiopia).
DON'T MISS! ==> Dec 08 Entrepreneurial Journalism Demo Night (BuzzFeed News, Walc, Empathetic Media, Blockfeed, Slant News); 10 FREE Passes! Dec 09 IoT Tech Talk & Hanukkah Celebration (Soundwall, Xfinity, Time Warner Cable, IoT @ Verizon); 3 FREE Passes ($50 each)!
DON'T MISS! ==> Dec 09 VC Insider: Ins & Outs of Raising Money with VCs (Scout VC, 645 VC, Fund That Flip, REZI); 10 FREE Passes! Dec 10 LatinoTech Startup Pitch Competition w/ Minerva Tantoco (CTO, NYC), Univision, Thrive Capital, NY Angels, Maker's Row, Silas Capital; 5 FREE Passes!
DON'T MISS! ==> Dec 15 AppNexus Tech Talks (FREE) (Learn about Software Transactional Memory & how to implement it and AppNexus' real-time ad-serving stack built to achieve sub 1% timeout rates). Dec 16 SheWorx Holiday Party (Celebration of female entrepreneurs); 3 FREE Passes!
DON'T MISS! ==> Jan 18 Habit-Forming Products Workshop (Learn how companies create products people use every day & secrets of building services customers love) w/ Nir Eyal, Author of Hooked.
DON'T MISS! ==> Dec 09 NJ Tech Council Tech Day (Incubator Showcase, Data Summit). Dec 17 TechStars Demo Day @ NYU. Thru Apr 17 Silicon City: Computer History Made in NY.
DON'T MISS! ==> Product School (product mgmt training; 1-on-1 mentorship, hands-on experience building digital product end-to-end) w/ Weekday Edition (Jan 26 – Mar 17; Tue & Thu 6:30-9pm) and Weekend Edition (Jan 30 - Apr 02; Sat 9:30am-3:30pm). Info session Dec 09 & Info session Jan 13.
HOLIDAY PARTIES! ==> Dec 08 LMHQ Party. Dec 08 Social Good Party. Dec 10 UX Party. Dec 10 WeWork Hanukkah Party. Dec 14 NYC Tech Meta-Party. Dec 15 EdTech Party. Dec 15 NYC Sales Party. Dec 16 Amazon AWS Party. Dec 16 Daybreaker Party. Dec 17 Digital DUMBO Party.
Dec 07-13 Computer Science Education Week, Hour Of Code (Schools can register here by Dec 07) & Code Brooklyn (Hour of Code @ every Brooklyn public school); volunteer here.
Dec 08 Sales Hacker Workshop w/ David Greenberger (Dir. of Sales & Partnerships @ Foursquare) & Kevin Chiu (Greenhouse); 4 FREE Passes ($249 each)!
Dec 08 VR: Navigating New Frontier w/ Court 13 Filmmaking & Future Perfect Lab; 5 FREE Passes! Dec 09 Latin America (LATAM) meets Middle East & N Africa (MENA) Tech (StartupCuba, Endeavor, MENACA, AOL Int'l); 20 FREE Passes!
Dec 09 Financial Times FT Innovate 2015 w/ Richard Plepler (CEO, HBO), Beth Comstock (CMO, GE), Atif Rafiq (Chief Digital Officer, McDonalds), Anthony Coyle (Chief Scientific Officer, Pfizer), Robert Carter (CIO, FedEx); 2 FREE Passes ($695 each)!
Dec 15-17 National Education Week w/ Jaime Casap (Edu Evangelist, Google), Luyen Chou (CPO, Pearson), Richard Culatta (Dept of Edu), John Katzman (Founder, Noodle), David Levin (CEO, McGraw Hill), David Clark (CLO, Amex), Carmen Farina (Chancellor, NYC Edu); 2 FREE Passes ($795 each)!
Jan 27 MobileDevHacker: Past Trends & Future Bets @ Microsoft HQ w/ Chris Copeland (CEO, GroupM Next), Pete Dille (CMO, Tapjoy), Wilson Kriegel (CRO, PicsArt), Greg Stuart (CEO, MMA), Ramy Serageldin (COO, Moven), Evan Schwartz (CEO, ActionX).
FREE PASSES! (details) ==> Dec 08 Intro To Pricing Strategy. Dec 08 Info Security (Synack, Code42). Dec 09 Fashion Business LIVE w/ Olga Vidisheva (Founder, Shoptiques). Dec 09 SheWorx Breakfast Club w/ Greg Ho (Spring Mtn Capital). Dec 09 Damsels in Design Party. Dec 16 Polish Pitch Night.
UPCOMING EVENTS ==> Dec 07 OWASP NYC @ Goldman Sachs. Dec 10 Fintech Central @ Canaan Partners. Dec 16 Product Mgmt Happy Hour (Celebrate Product School's 1st year in NYC). Dec 16 SheWorx Breakfast Club w/ Mitch Wainer (Co-Founder/CMO, Digital Ocean)
CLASSES ==> Dec 08 Info Session @ Dev Bootcamp. Dec 10 NodeSchool @ Fullstack Academy. Dec 11 Bootcamp Open House @ Data Science Academy. Dec 14 Web Design Career @ Noble. Dec 15 Javascript for Beginners @ Dev Bootcamp. Jan 11 Data Science Bootcamp @ Metis.
SPACE ==> District Cowork (Holiday special: $350 / gallery member; Schedule a tour).
DEADLINES ==> Dec 08 Orbital Bootcamp (Launch side project). Dec 11 30 Weeks Designer Founders Program (Google & IDEO). Dec 15 NYC Media Lab Combine ($250K grants; Commercialize tech @ universities). Dec 15 hackNY Fellows (Pairing students w/ NYC startups).
Mo' Deadlines ==> Dec 19 Drone Film Festival. Mar 11 TechHire Federal Grants ($100M; Tech training for folks w/ low income, disability). Paris Business Exchange (6 mo. in Paris & NYC). Tech/Creative Ctr RFP (124 E 14th St). Mar 31 Shopify & NYSE: Build A Business (Russell Simmons, Tim Ferriss).
Mo' Deadlines ==> Google Digital News Innovation Fund ($170M). XPRIZE: Carbon ($20M). Verizon Connected Futures Prototype Challenge ($25K). Singularity Accelerator ($100K; Co-work @ NASA). Startup52 Accelerator. Amazon Alexa Fund (Voice startups; $100M).
CONGRATS! ==> Alan, Ellie, Ian, John & Greycroft Partners on raising $200M fund.
Mo' Congrats! => Bill & Evariant (health mktg analytics) raised $42M. Bluecore (mktg automation) raised $21M. Clearpool (next-gen e-trading) raised $8M. Caren & Nestio (residential leasing platform) raised $8M. Jonathon & SeamlessDocs (smart forms) raised $5M.
Customer Experience at Updater, Design at IAB, Customer Success at Custora, Project Mgr at Custora, Front-End at Fifty Three, Product at Jukely, Acct Exec at Fog Creek, Mktg & Ops at Gracious Eloise, PR at Airhelp, UI/UX at GameChanger, Rails Instructor at Noble, Software Dev at Society of Leadership, Full Stack Engg at Data Minded, Enterprise Acct Director at Reonomy, GM at Metaprop Accelerator, Enterprise Acct Exec at Reonomy, Client Exec at Hired,
Until next week & Happy Hannukah :)
Gary
(aka "The Guy with the Red Tie")
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LineFORM (from MIT Media Lab) is an interactive robot snake that can shape-shift! It has an arduino mega controlling dozens of servo motors & a touch-sensitive skin.
Populous (world’s largest sports architecture firm) along with Sports Illustrated and WIRED try to visualize the reimagined NFL Stadium of Tomorrow.
Theo Sanson accomplished a world slackline record walking 500 meters on a slackline rigged from The Rectory to Castleton Tower in Castle Valley, Utah. Crazy, yo!
Detailed analysis of Taxi & Uber trip-level data in NYC from 1.1 Billion rides (Jan '09 - Jun '15). Yes, Bruce Willis & Samuel L Jackson would've made it from 72nd & B'way to Wall St in 30 min in Die Hard 3 ;)
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