Past meeting
April 2008 Meeting of the NY Tech Meetup
(59 ratings)
Meeting Description
Organized by
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"You can't miss us, we take over the whole ground floor of this building!"
--dawn barber (Co-Organizer), Hugh Dornbush, and Scott Heiferman
Details
Don't be fooled - our Tuesday April 1st NY Tech Meetup will
include -
1. Steve Rosenbaum: http://magnify.net...
2. Oliver Hurst-Hiller: http://DonorsChoose.o...
3. John Pavley: http://exchange.conte...
4. Mark Ghuneim: http://www.trendrr.co...
5. Ben Kaufman: http://kluster.com...
6. Ben Satterfield: http://twiddla.com...
7. Justin Ouellette: http://muxtape.com...
8. Nate Westheimer: http://bricabox.com...
7pm Presentations begin promptly
8pm Breakout Group Discussions
8:30pm Out the door (and if someone steps up to
organize it you may continue the tomfoolery at a local
bar)
The last 200 slots will open up at 12pm Monday March 31st here
http://newtech.meetup.... We understand that a lot of people want to attend, but we're limited to 400 seats.
REMEMBER: Make sure your RSVP includes your FULL NAME
- FIRST & LAST - if not you'll get bumped off.
Also, please note:
- We've re-opened the NY Tech Meetup Message Board for everyone at http://newtech.meetup....
- You may adjust your Mailing List settings at http://www.meetup.com....
Thanks to the venture firm DFJ Gotham
http://www.dfjgotham.....
IAC http://iacbuilding.co....
and the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
http://www.wsgr.com/W.... for supporting our
community!
The NY Tech Meetup - We ARE the NY Tech community (no
foolin'!)
Talk About This Meeting
Who Attended
It's estimated that 392 people attended.
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Mark Chackerian
"lots of presenters; a few dull, but many good" -
Gadi BenMark
"Excellent selection of companies, all came well prepared, all stuck to the 5 minute time frame, it flowed smoothly from one to the next. The event was well prepared and well executed. " -
Luis Hernandez
"Awesome!" -
Nate
"Great presenters, as usual. Unfortunately the presenters are just not enough; needs more debrief, discussion, collaboration and interaction. Otherwise, might as well watch it on youtube." -
Steven Lehrburger
"I'm a recent graduate and on a pretty tight budget, so the increased fee will make it harder for me to attend. Speakers this month were good, especially Twiddla and Muxtape!" -
Michelle Travis
"Was my 1st one and not my last!" -
Tom
"Not bad but it would be nice to foster networking opps as well" -
Tim Kress-Spatz
"This was my first meeting and I thought it was great. The presentation we mostly interesting and it was nice have time to speak directly with the presenters at the end." -
Anthony De Rosa
"Excellent mix of presenters, I would definitely come again." -
Yaritsa Arenas
"I really enjoyed all the presenters, the meetup was very informative and exciting as usual. My only complain about this particular meeting was that since there were more presenters than usual, it felt a bit rushed. I would have preferred to stay an extra half hour in order to give each presenter a couple of extra minutes. I'm not sure what the agreement is with the venue, so I'm not sure if this would have even been an option, but it's a thought. I prefer to keep the presenter count lower and have a less rushed presentation." -
Jim Stogdill
"Very cool. Always enjoy these things." -
Nichelle Stephens
"great presentations" -
Neil Kahn
"My first Tech Meetup and I thought it was great. Cool idea to have the speakers stationed around the room afterward. Suggestion: in addition to posting the name of the speaker at each location, post the project name as well." -
Travis Millman
"Another group of interesting presenters. Nice balance of "commercialness"" -
Max Avramenko
"I really liked Twiddla prototype. It's really amazing what could be done with scripting technology. However a bigger challenge would be to build a company around it. Also DonorsChoose.org is a great idea. I always disliked the fact the one cannot chose how money is spent when donating to a conventional charity. This is the real deal!! Donors chose where the money is going. ADSDAQ reminded me of the securities trading business. Very clever, I don't know enough about online advertising, however spend a lot of time working on securities trading systems and I got the concept right away!!" -
Matthew Caldecutt
"Was more crowded than I'd expected and was surprised to see so many people standing." -
John Ebbert
"Great presentations." -
Brian Driscoll
"Meeting was very good. Thought it would have better results if all the presenters were from the same market segment. This was done in a prior meetup and seemed to work well." -
Mark Curran
"a couple too many presenters, 5-6 would be just right, it was a lot to absorb in short time" -
Meghan Attreed
"I thought the crowd was great! As a 20-something in tech, it was nice to go to a tech networking event and meet people in my age range, as well as some more established tech folks. " -
Josh
"Great companies...great logistical improvements (roaming mikes...allowing people to as about the business model)" -
Matt Ittigson
"Scott mentioned some "growing up" that NY Tech Meetup would be doing. That "discussion" should happen on kluster.com, which is a perfect forum for soliciting feedback and allowing tech meetup members to make decisions." -
Erin Pettigrew
"Would suggest putting the company names on the column placards when doing the break-out sessions. A lot of us have no idea who the people on the signs are or what they look like and 5 minutes often isn't enough time to figure that out and go to the right column later. Really need the company names. Make this more substantial. Charging $10 but not adding more value isn't helpful. This meetup is too large to make really personal connections, so finding a way to add value in another way would be great." -
Jonathan Wegener
"Great presenters, great space. Thanks!" -
Joshua E. Rockoff
"It was hard to see the speakers based on the arrangement of chairs. The rushed nature of it was hard to figure out details, but it was fine for getting a general overview. "
Peter Karp
"A good set of presentations."