InSITE partners with IBM for the NY SmartCamp on May 24
InSITE, as part metformin side effects and pcos of its Always Be Closing (“ABC”) series, has been working hard partnering with IBM to find early state entrepreneurs to participate in IBM’s Smart Cities SmartCamp in New York on May 24th. Through the Smart Cities global initiative and the Smart Camps program IBM is looking to bring together entrepreneurs, investors and experienced mentors to help build a Smarter Planet. Does your company address problems the world is facing in energy, healthcare, telecommunications or any of the other areas of Smarter Planet? If that sounds like your company and it is less than 5...
Read MoreNew InSITE officers elected
Tonight the InSITE fellows and board members gathered at P.J. Clark for our traditional end-of-year annual dinner and elections. One of the sentences that we heard over and over again in the candidates’ speeches was ‘InSITE has been the best thing that’s happened to me in business school…’. Many of us feel this way and are very excited to make this organization even stronger in the months to come. Everyone will have the opportunity to take on leadership roles next year, even those who didn’t win a formal position. Fellows can start a new initiative,...
Read MoreInSITE’s Spring Pitch Event Celebrates A Year of Growth
It’s no secret that New York City’s startup ecosystem is booming. The City recently passed Boston to become the second largest venture capital investment hub, early stage investment in New York based companies has reached an all time high, and the City is now home to an ever-increasing roster of tech success stories. As the New York startup community continues to mature and evolve, so has InSITE. This year we worked with startups in an unprecedented number of industries, broadened our services to serve increasingly later-stage companies, partnered with Sony and IBM to host the...
Read MoreInSITE fellows have breakfast with Spark Capital’s Mo Koyfman
What do 6 guys, 5 of whom are from Jersey, all have in common? Well, aside from being unafraid to consume most of InSITE fellow Brian Ballan’s delicious hot sauce with our breakfasts, a truly rare opportunity to sit down for an intimate conversation with Mo Koyfman, General Partner of Spark Capital this past Wednesday. After discussing the subtleties and nuances of hot sauce flavor, Mo was kind enough to let us pick his brain on a variety of topics regarding his experiences and forging careers as budding entrepreneurs and early stage investors. What follows are just a few nuggets of our...
Read MoreLegendary NYC’s VC Fred Wilson talks to InSITE
In what has become InSITE’s ‘State of the Union’ speaker event, last Monday over 50 fellows had the privilege to hear and talk to Fred Wilson, one of New York’s most-prominent venture capitalists, who regularly blogs on the popular ‘AVC: musings of a VC in NY’ –mostly about investing and technology. Fred, a graduate from MIT and MBA at Wharton, began his career in venture capital in the mid-‘80’s. In 2004, he co-founded Union Square Ventures and has made successful investments in companies such as Del.icio.us, Twitter, Zynga and Foursquare, among many others. He mostly...
Read MoreBreakfast with Steve Martocci
This Wednesday, InSITE Fellows Joe Rizk, Sean Weinstock, Adam Kalamchi, Marianna Zaslavsky, and myself were fortunate enough to have breakfast with Steve Martocci, who co-founded GroupMe with Jared Hecht in 2010. For those of you who don’t know, GroupMe is a group messaging startup founded in May 2010 at TechCrunch Disrupt and was sold to Skype (Microsoft)… about 14 months later. Steve, who joined us straight from Sundance (#winning), touched on a number of interesting topics from the perspective of a recent founder, a unique and valuable viewpoint. The first part of the breakfast was...
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