Restaurant Week, Fashion Week, Flood Awareness Week, Sunshine Week, Community Week … we could really go on all day. New York City is home to dozens of themed weeks aimed at boosting local NYC businesses, helping communities, aiding a cause, highlighting an industry, or educating people on a subject. Although most of the themed weeks… Continue reading Top 7 Tech and Startup Weeks in New York
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Entrepreneur Portrait: Elizabeth Schwartz and Sonu Sanghoee, Better Speech Now
Better Speech Now is an accent reduction startup based in Queens. Professional speech pathologists and founders, Elizabeth Schwartz and Sonu Sanghoee, won the 2012 Queens Economic Development Corporation startup competition in the social enterprise category. Through Better Speech Now, they work with international professionals to increase their ability to communicate effectively in their careers and… Continue reading Entrepreneur Portrait: Elizabeth Schwartz and Sonu Sanghoee, Better Speech Now
Finding the Right Price for Short-Term Housing in NYC
Have you landed a coveted position in NYC and need a place to stay ASAP? Is your new company reluctant to pay for your moving expenses? Are you lacking the thousands of dollars often required to setup in a new city? If this is you, you’re not alone: Thousands of people move to New York… Continue reading Finding the Right Price for Short-Term Housing in NYC
Keeping it Lean: Finding the Freebies in NYC
Starting up is hard. From developing your idea and finding talent to marketing and partnerships, the list is never-ending. You’ve done all the work, but all of the work in the world isn’t always enough to help you get off the ground because of that annoying roadblock: Money. Fortunately, in New York City there are… Continue reading Keeping it Lean: Finding the Freebies in NYC
Kick off your US Career Search the Right Way, Part 2: Resources for Licensed Fields
“Here in New York, health care, engineering, and law are among the toughest sectors to break into.” Professionals from licensed fields will find it harder to jump into the fray of New York job searches. Here in New York, health care, engineering and law are among the toughest sectors to break into, due to a… Continue reading Kick off your US Career Search the Right Way, Part 2: Resources for Licensed Fields
Changing Locations Could Be the Best Thing for your Startup (It Was for Us)
The lure of doing business in the US, and in NYC particularly, is unyielding; the opportunities for international growth, partnerships and venture capital investment are hard to match in any other place. Pablo Rivera, one of the three co-founders of TopList, an iPhone app for shopping recommendations, shares how an unwavering desire for success lead… Continue reading Changing Locations Could Be the Best Thing for your Startup (It Was for Us)
A Simple Tax Preparation Checklist for Entrepreneurs and Small-Business Owners
CPA Allan Madan gives New York International readers a helpful checklist for tax time.The tax deadline is coming and many entrepreneurs and small business owners fail to adequately prepare ahead of time. Luckily, we have made a simple list of tips and advice that you should be taking into account when preparing for your tax… Continue reading A Simple Tax Preparation Checklist for Entrepreneurs and Small-Business Owners
Kick off your US Career Search the Right Way, Part 1: Reviewing the Basics
Right now, New York City is home to well over 3 million immigrants at 37.2 percent of the city’s population. Ask any of the professionals among that 3 million, and they will likely tell you that job searching in the US is remarkably different from wherever they came from. Job search skills such as writing… Continue reading Kick off your US Career Search the Right Way, Part 1: Reviewing the Basics
Top Pitch Opportunities for Startups in NYC
So, you’ve got a great product idea and even a great team to make it happen, but unless you are blessed with the funds to bootstrap your company, you’ll need some seed funding. Pitch events are one great way to get that funding.Pitching to potential investors is something most startups have to go through, and… Continue reading Top Pitch Opportunities for Startups in NYC
The Brooklyn Boom: A Community of Innovation
We all know the “garage story” of tech innovation. College dropouts like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, with too much hair and too little grooming, squirrelled away in suburban, West Coast workshops – usually attached to their parents’ house – where they end up developing the next big thing.Today’s makers take a different approach. Here… Continue reading The Brooklyn Boom: A Community of Innovation