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Venture Studio (6): Trevor Owens: Entrepreneur, Super-Connector, Community Organizer

This is Episode (6) of Venture Studio

Welcome to this conversation with one of the most dynamic members of New York's tech community, the omnipresent and ubiquitous Trevor Owens who embodied the concept of "student entrepreneur" during his time at NYU. He has recently left school to launch two startups simultaneously. Enjoy.

Below is a short table of contents (with corresponding minutes) of our conversation.

:15          How a finance major @NYU got drawn into tech world? 

3:31       "I was taking every awesome opportunity I could & running with it"

3:39       Heard that Trevor Owens is leaving NYU... why, how, etc.? 

5:12        How his mentors, family, friends reacted to his decision

6:08       Trevor's thoughts on mentorship

7:38       Our discussion on team-building      

8:52       The story and business model of www.insidestartups.org

11:18      The story and business model of the Lean Startup Machine

12:47     Discussion of this Mobile Accelerator Model and his influences       

14:00    Trevor hiring interns. Has lots of projects going on right now    

 

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Venture Studio (2): Professor Evan Korth of HackNY

This is Episode (2) of Venture Studio

Get to know our guest, a huge figure in NYC's technology ecosystem, Professor Evan Korth. 

In this conversation we discuss HackNY at length, the role of the University in New York's technology ecosystem, some of Evan's student teams (including Diaspora!), NYU's Innovation Fund, and his passion for teaching, mentorship and NYC.

(This excellent piece was released today on TechCrunch about HackNY 2011)

Click for Venture Studio (3) w/ Mark Loranger of Square 1 Bank

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Attention NYC Students and Startups: Time to Gear-Up for HackNY October 2010!

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I was talking to my friend and colleague Chris Wiggins today about the upcoming Hackathon. Chris, Evan Korth and Hilary Mason as you may know are the visionary founders of HackNY. If you haven't heard of it, it's perhaps one of the best opportunities for student hackers to dive into the startup scene and for startups to identify super-talented student hackers. Read all about it below and check out this awesome video to get a taste of what these hackathons are all about. Here's what you need to to do to apply:

ATTENTION ALL NYC-AREA STUDENTS AND STARTUPS:

hackNY is thrilled to announce the fall 2010 hackNY student hackathon October 9-10!

In April, more than 200 students from almost 40 NYC-area schools participated in the first ever NYC-area student hackathon. Some of NYC’s hottest startups presented their APIs, shared their datasets, and helped organize students into teams of coding monsters to work on projects of their own design. 24 hours of pizza, caffeine, and intense hacking later, teams demo’ed their code for appreciative judges from the NYC startup community. Winning teams presented at the New York Tech Meetup in front of an audience of hundreds of NYC area technologists, and several participants went on to join the 2010 class of hackNY Fellows, interning at NYC startups. For more about the Spring 2010 hackathon, see the FAQ or the movie by Eric Wu, official hackmeister of the Yahoo Developers Network.

The Fall hackNY hackathon will be October 9-10, back at NYU’s Courant Institute; we look forward to seeing what members of the NYC-area student hacking population will create!

Hackers: please hack on whatever you want but if you’re competing, we
are only accepting hacks based on APIs or datasets presented at the start of the hackathon.

STUDENTS: Register here.

STARTUPS: Apply here to present at the Fall 2010 hackNY hackathon. You will be asked for your startup’s name, a description of the API or dataset or other tech you’d like to demo, and availability to help organize teams among the student hacking population.

ABOUT HACKNY: hackNY is an initiative founded to federate and mentor the next generation of NYC tech all-stars. During the summer we organize the hackNY Fellows program, including internships with NYC-area startups as well as a lecture series and housing. During the school year we organize student hackathons to introduce students to fellow members of the hacking population and to the exciting startups in NYC where their skills are enthusiastically needed. For more information just email info@hackNY.org.

ABOUT HACKING: note that all hacking will be of the awesome variety, not the evil variety. Thanks.

 

Discussing University Entrepreneurship in NYC with MIT's Entrepreneurship Review

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I was recently interviewed by MIT Entrepreneurship Review, MITER, a very cool new online journal covering the topic of innovation in and around the university space. One of MITER's founders, Erdin Beshimov, a Sloan MBA student formerly with Polaris-backed startup Experience and I had a good conversation about university entrepreneurship generally, but with a focus on all the good things happening in NYC.

I told him that whereas we still have a lot of work to do-  we are making great strides with university entrepreneurship in NYC of late.

For the full interview, click here.

Morning Read: Curiosities and Tidbits 4-28-2010

Morning Read: Tidbits and Curiosities