http://www.meetup.com/ultralightstartups/events/103609512/ On Thursday, May 9, 2013, OLC attended Ultra Light Startups' monthly event held at Microsoft. This event featured nine innovative startups with four brilliant panelists serving as advisors and moderators of questions. Gabor Szanto presented iMect; Demir Gjokaj, MONTAJ; Jack Funk, givlet; Jenna Fernandes, CareBooker; Peter Henderson, New Healthcare Enterprise; Richard Liang, BUZZtheBar; Tom Meredith, P2P Cash; Peter Gyorffy, Zinbox; and Anna Curran, Cookbook Create. The panelists present were: Josh Bruno of Bain Capital Ventures, Brian Cohen of New York Angels, Brendan Dickinson of Canaan Partners, and Jason Klein of On Grid Ventures. The hosts of Ultra Light Startups this particular Thursday were Mark Carondelet and Tatiana Bakaeva.

May 17, 2013 | Events & Recaps | comment (0)

http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/events/74528182/ On Tuesday, May 7, 2013, OLC attended yet another packed New York Tech Meetup’s event held at NYU Skirball Theater. Ten presenters were to demo their companies: Airdrum, Gitdown, IBM Research, IMRSV, PivotDesk, Rallyverse, RoboKeg, LaserTanks, The Muse and Videolicious.

May 16, 2013 | Events & Recaps | comment (0)

http://www.meetup.com/Hadoop-NYC/events/107584892/ On Monday, May 6, 2013 OLC attended New York Hadoop User Group’s event held at AppNexus. The event, Deep Dive into Cloudera Impala featured Marcel Kornacker, a teach lead at Cloudera for new products development. Kornacker is also the creator of the Cloudera Impala project. He graduated from UC Berkley with a PhD in databases and joined Google in 2003, where he worked on storage infrastructure projects, becoming the tech lead for distributed query engine component of Google’s F1 project.

May 15, 2013 | Events & Recaps | comment (0)

http://www.meetup.com/queens-tech/events/105865992/ The Queens Tech Meetup on Hunters Point Plaza in Long Island City may just have the most scenic view of Manhattan’s skyscrapers. It’s already unique for being out of Silicon Alley’s neighborhood, but if you think about it, the venue fits tech startup founders. It’s nestled on a rooftop like how startup companies featured here must feel with more downloads to their respective apps. The guests at the seventh meetup of this group on May 2 soaked in the sun longer than usual as they admired the view. Later, as the people trickled into the main hall for the product demonstrations, the admiration would be lavished on the three companies—WeHostels, Uber NYC and Tacks—for making it to the top.

May 14, 2013 | Events & Recaps | comment (0)

http://www.meetup.com/NY-Mobile/events/113533652/ OLC attended the App Developer Event: Discoverability Event on April 30 at Alley NYC, entrepreneurs and developers gathered together to find out “How to get noticed in a marketplace overflowing with apps.” Jake Ward, executive director of the Application Developers Alliance, served as moderator, with guest speakers Arie Abecassis, co-founder of AppStori; Mark Ghermezian, CEO of Appboy; Louis Simeonidis, CMO of Applico; Michael Ludden, senior technical marketing manager at Samsung Developers; and Glen Nigel Straub, director of Global Monetization Solutions at Millennial Media.

May 13, 2013 | Events & Recaps | comment (0)

http://vibrantfuture.eventbrite.com/ On Friday, May 3, 2013, OLC attended Vibrant Future of the Creative Economy at the Old School, sponsored by Openinvo.

May 10, 2013 | Events & Recaps | comment (0)