Category: Tech Talk

   Eyal Bino has been working for years to bring Israeli entrepreneurs into the New York City tech ecosystem, and his latest venture, ICONYC Labs is the culmination of that work.Together with his partner Arie Abecassis, a partner and mentor at Dreamit Ventures, Bino has established an acceleratorfor young entrepreneurs coming from Israel to build… Continue reading ICONYC Labs Builds A Bridge Between Israeli Tech And NYC’s Startup Scene

  If you are launching a business, you have probably heard the horror stories of business failure after business failure. Listen to some of the naysayers and you’ll start believing that 90% of new businesses are destined to fail. However, the reality is much brighter: according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor, 75% of new… Continue reading Surviving Your First Year As A Small Business Owner

  There is a lot of coverage of the companies that have reached valuations of over a billion dollars. Many of these companies were not always fast growing businesses.At Shasta Ventures, we focus on investing at the early stage, so we studied 32 high value consumer companies to see what they looked like around their… Continue reading What did Billion Dollar Companies Look Like at the Series A?

  If you build it, they will come. If only!!One of the biggest struggles most small businesses face is trying to reach and attract customers. Whether you are a B2B (Business to Business) or a B2C (Business to Consumer) business, if you dont have a way of letting people know you exist, theyll never find… Continue reading How to Market Like the Big Dogs on a Small Business Budget

  The one constant in New York City is change.Across the five boroughs, communities are constantly shifting, innovating, and evolving.But our neighborhoods also ground us, providing foundations for New Yorkers to build their identity, heritage, and sense of place. The Lower East Side is one of these communities. It is home to more than 80,000… Continue reading Happy 75th, Essex Street Market

  I sat down with a young hopeful business development person this past week and he asked what the process of getting a yes and closing a partnership was. I’ve written individual pieces on this before, but I decided to put together a four-step process of getting someone to say yes and closing a deal.Step… Continue reading The 4 Steps Of Getting A Yes And Closing A Partneship

  Companies in all industries are wrestling with how to crack the code to win in the digital space. Typically, they focus their efforts on shifts in business strategy. They concentrate on enhancing marketing capability, creating new digital products and services, improving their social media efforts, and upgrading their IT expertise.From our experience working with… Continue reading Transformational Leadership in the Digital Age

You know what is fun? It’s fun to show somebody how to do something powerful. It’s fun to give somebody the superpowers you have.So if you know how to code, it’s really fun to teach kids how to do it.And if you want to have that kind of fun, you should check out a program… Continue reading Fun Friday: Teach A Kid To Code – AVC