http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/ Looking for real estate articles, commercial real estate articles and real estate news at Officeleasecenters.com en-us Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:39 EDT Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:39 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/ http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/june-14th-2013-the-hatchery-deutsche-telekom.html   http://www.meetup.com/hatchery/events/121086962/?a=ea1_grp&rv=ea1   On Friday, June 14, 2013, OLC attended The Hatchery’s Friday series featuring thought leaders, innovators and executives in a fireside chat. This particular event featured Andreas Wuerfel, Director for Innovation and Technology Scouting at Deutsche Telekom USA and Eric Dulkeith, Director of Detecon. Fri, 21 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/june-13th-2013-future-energy-ultra-light-startups.html   http://www.meetup.com/ultralightstartups/events/115629882/   On Thursday, June 13, 2013, OLC attended Future Energy Ultra Light held at Microsoft. There were four distinguished panelists: Thomas Blum of NY Angels, Andrew Garman of New Venture Partners, Willem Rensink of Shell GameChanger, and Mark Wight of GE Ventures. Opposite them were eight energy-related startups and their representatives: Elon Rubin of Fulcrum Solar, Eric First of Cost-Effective Carbon Capture, Blue Crump of Uvest Solar, David Mahfouda of Bandwagon, Iwao Teraoka of Surfactants for Oil Recovery, Ronald Anderson of Anderal Technologies, Scott Banta of ElectricBio Technologies, and David Sutton of Phosolar. Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/june-12th-2013-nyetm.html   http://www.meetup.com/ny-enterprise-tech/events/120434592/   On Wednesday, June 12, 2013, OLC attended New York Enterprise Tech Meetup held this time around at Microsoft. Four presenters were lined up for the meetup: 1010data, the leading provider of cloud-based analytics of big data; Typfesafe, provider of the most scalable software platform designed for computing architecture of the future; Gurobi, developed to help companies solve problems by providing the best optimization solver possible; and Microsoft’s Window Azure IaaS, a platform where customers can host Windows or Linux server’s workloads quickly and easily on enterprise-grade software at an extremely low price. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/june-11th-2013-june-nytm.html   http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/events/74528432/   On Tuesday, June 11, 2013, OLC attended New York Tech Meetup’s monthly event held at NYU’s Skirball Theater. There were 10 presenters in attendance: 1 Second Everyday, Fundelevator, Funding Community, Magic Story Maker, Open Garden, Posse, See.Me, Stash, Tribeca Cloud and a special Hack of the Month by a data editor from the Huffington Post. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/june-4th-2013-in-the-trenches-best-practices-for-crowdfunding.html   http://www.meetup.com/gaming/events/119904202/   Is crowdfunding right for you? For some people, the thought of sharing their business idea online to get funding is like giving it away but not unless your idea gets funded faster. Maybe you're not comfortable with the idea of getting in front of a camera, but there’s a way to overcome that, too.     At the meetup “In the Trenches: Best Practices for Crowdfunding” at Microsoft last June 4, the panel of speakers came from gamers who went through crowdfunding and lived to tell the tale. They were Melissa Marie Fassetta of FPS Russia, Joshua... Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-28th-2013-may-demosaol-ventures.html   http://www.meetup.com/NYCMobile/events/117166752/   Would you rather play Candy Crush or make one just as successful? On May 28, AOL Ventures played host to a diverse mix of mobile apps that show you how create a business plan, bank in a snap, track consumer behavior, provide enterprise solutions and experience 3D and 4D all in an app. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/june-5th-2013-startup-grind-philly-gabe-weinberg-of-duckduckgo.html   http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6630789871   In early 2011, Gabe Weinberg bought billboard ad space in San Francisco that proclaimed, “Google tracks you. We don’t. Search better at DuckDuckGo.” The “we” was in reality an “I,” because DuckDuckGo.com at that stage was a one-man shop — Gabe Weinberg and his search engine based in the suburbs of Philadelphia. OLC attended the Startup Grind Philadelphia Event hosted by Gabriel Weingberg on June 5, 2013. Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/june-6th-2013-nymobile-startups.html   http://www.meetup.com/New-York-Mobile-Startups/events/120859692/   On Thursday, June 6, 2013, OLC attended NY Mobile Startups event featuring Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital, a venture capital firm that specializes in providing seed-stage funding to tech companies. First Round Capital was founded in 2004 and its headquarters is currently located in Philadelphia. Chieh Huang was the moderator. Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/june-5th-2013-nyc-tech-startups-from-developer-to-cto-to-market-dominance.html   http://www.meetup.com/NYC-Technology-Startups/events/117046982/   On Wednesday, June 5, 2013, OLC attended NYC Tech Startups: From Developer to CTO to Market Dominance, featuring three panelists: Evan Spielberg, co-founder and CTO of roopstigo; James Cropcha, CTO of Fashism; and Alec Hartman, Managing Partner of NYC DevShop. The event was moderated by Richard Fallah, the organizer of NYC Tech Startups. Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/june-4th-2013-enterprise-tech-meetup.html   http://www.meetup.com/enterprisetech/events/116323642/   On Tuesday, June 4, 2013, OLC attended Enterprise Tech Meetup’s event featuring demos from three companies: Sailthru, Nomi and Floored, as well as a fireside chat with the CEO of Floored, Davis Eisenberg and the New York Editor of Xconomy, Joao-Pierre Ruth. Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/june-3rd-2013-foundersfail-dramafever-seung-bak.html http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6462235721/?invite=&err=29&referrer=&discount=&affiliate=&eventpassword= On Monday, June 3, 2013, OLC attended Founders@Fail, moderated by Schuyler Brown at General Assembly. This particular event featured Seung Bak, the co-founder for DramaFever, a streaming web service that provides subtitled Asian television. Bak comes from a non-entrepreneurial backgrond and DramaFever is his first startup—and a successful venture as well. Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-31st-2013-the-hatchery-mccann-world-group.html http://www.meetup.com/hatchery/events/116989062/?action=detail&eventId=116989062 On Friday, May 31, 2013, OLC attended The Hatchery’s Friday Speaker Series with McCann Worldgroup for a talk on Innovation, Social, Tech and Working with Agencies. Mark Fallows gave the talk. Fallows is the EVP Creative Technology at McCann New York. Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-30th-2013-ddimpact-conference-groundswell-the-next-wave-of-content-presented-by-digital-dumbo.html http://www.ddimpact.com/ On Thursday, May 30, 2013, OLC attended the dd:Impact Conference “Groundswell: The Next Wave of Content” presented by Digital Dumbo. It was a half-day conference created to explore how successful companies and brands are using content to increase engagement.  Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-29th-2013-startup-grind-jon-steinberg-of-buzzfeed.html http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6536247091 On Wednesday, May 29, 2013, OLC attended Startup Grind New York City’s event hosting Jon Steinberg, President of BuzzFeed, hosted by Neil Anderson, the Director of Startup Grind.  Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-29-2013-tech-in-motion-demo-night.html http://www.meetup.com/TechinMotionSF/events/118810092/ Hearing startup pitches is usually the domain of venture capitalists and tech reporters. It’s rare the rest of us get to see how hopeful entrepreneurs are positioning their products and grandiose visions behind closed doors. Luckily, we have demo events to fill that gap. Wednesday night in San Francisco played host to one such event, which featured a liberal range of mostly early-stage companies—from enterprise marketing software to recruiting tech. The event was the first demo night sponsored by Tech In Motion, a year-old meetup catering to San Francisco tech professionals and enthusiasts.  Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-28th-2013-ny-gaming-may-demo-night.html http://www.meetup.com/gaming/events/111973512/ On Tuesday, May 28, 2013, OLC attended NY Gaming Demo Night at Microsoft. Six presenters were lined up to demo, with Matt Newberg showcasing Playdope, Carla Fisher with Williamspurrrg, Kurt Bieg with Tomb Breaker, Brian Fountain with Run Sheldon, Dan Menard with Big Action Mega Fight and Jong Woo Kim with Afterland. Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-22nd-2013-hatchery--are-you-serious-early-stage-startups-present-their-companies.html http://ays052213.eventbrite.com/ Where startups in New York go by the numbers of introducing new products or services to a curious, relaxed audience, the startups that present at The Hatchery events face perhaps what no other meetups offer—the scrutiny of venture capitalists (VCs). In both cases on May 22 at Chadbourne & Parke, LLP, the audience saw how the pitching process works and how VCs give feedback.  Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/q-in-a-typical-nyc-lease-what-will-the-total-monthly-cost-be.html A. The simple formula will be to take the base rent amount and add 20% to calculate total or “all in” costs. Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:14:11 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-22nd-2013-internet-week-tribunal-worldwide-the-finely-curated-life.html   http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6741206129          OLC attended Internet Week’s The Finely Curated Life sponsored by Tribunal Worldwide on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The panelists present at the event were: Blake Robinson from Annalect, Matthew Israel from Artsy.net, Jen Rubio from Warby Parker and Jonathan Perelman from Buzzfeed. Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-23rd-2013-appnexus-engineering-at-scale-the-ins-andamp-outs-of-shipping-a-scalable-product.html   http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6651612151/es2/?rank=136   On Thursday, May 23, 2013, OLC attended Engineering at Scale: The Ins & Outs of Shipping A Scalable Product held at AppNexus. The event featured Theo Schlossnagle, the CEO of OmniTI and Circonus. Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-21th-2013-nyetms-may-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/ny-enterprise-tech/events/110245552/ OLC attended New York Enterprise Technology Meetup’s event featuring four spectacular demos on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Mortar Data’s Hadoop PaaS gets software engineers and data scientists up and running in an hour by making its custom big data work easy by leveraging existing skills and tools. Mortar is a cloud service platform that makes it easy to integrate your data into your pipeline. SiSense’s Prism is an easy-to-use, yet complete BI software that enables business users to connect to databases, analyze data and share web dashboards. Artisan is the first Mobile Experience platform that makes it easy to... Thu, 30 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-22nd-2013-huge-ux-the-internet-of-things.html   http://www.meetup.com/Huge-UX-Events/events/115949782/   On Wednesday, May 22, 2013, OLC attended Huge UX’s event, The Internet of Things featuring Peter Semmelhack from Bug Labs, Matt Cottam from Tellart and Chad Jones from Xively. The event dealt with the introduction of sensory technologies in our lives and the future. Thu, 30 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-21th-2013-internet-week-robert-scoble-and-possible-present-the-age-of-context-our-anticipatory-and-personified-future.html http://possible-iwny.eventbrite.com/ OLC attended Internet Week, a festival celebrating New York City’s internet community and industry. On Tuesday, May 21, 2013, OLC attended Robert Scoble and POSSIBLE Present: The Age of Context: Our Anticipatory and Personified Future. Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-20th-2013-ny-mysql-to-cassandra.html http://www.meetup.com/mysqlnyc/events/114879742/?action=detail&eventId=114879742 On Monday, May 20, 2013, OLC attended New York MySQL’s meetup, MySQL to Cassandra: Big Data, High Scale, Data Migration... Oh My! held at AOL. The featured speakers were Scott Bonneau, CTO and Executive VP of Engineering at Bazaarvoice and RC Johnson, NYC Engineering Manager at Bazaarvoice. Tue, 28 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-14th-2013-ny-intrapreneur-meetup-challenges-real-meaning-of-leadership.html http://www.meetup.com/NY-Intrapreneur-Innovation-in-the-Enterprise/events/113458852/ As a leader, do you think you could you ask your team this: “Tell me all the things that could go wrong?” and expect to get real answers? That startling question, from the best-seller, “Decisive,” by Chip and Dan Heath, pretty much summed up what the NY Intrapreneur meetup in the Upper East Side on May 14 had in store for us—vulnerability and transparency among leaders of various companies. Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-17th-2013-the-hatchery-mock-negotiations.html http://www.meetup.com/hatchery/events/116091302/?action=detail&eventId=116091302 On Friday, May 17, 2013, OLC attended The Hatchery’s Mock Negotiations on the topic of Negotiating with Big Media and Brands.  Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-16th-2013-worldwide-investor-network.html http://www.worldwideinvestornetwork.com/events/ On Thursday, May 16, 2013, OLC attended Worldwide Investor Network, a one-day conference that gathered investors and entrepreneurs from around the world in one building. The goal of the conference was to nurture and further the New York ecosystem by showcasing global talent in front of the New York venture community.  Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-14th-2013-huge-design-event--evolving-design-communities.html http://www.meetup.com/Huge-Design-Events/events/115802992/ OLC attended Huge Brooklyn’s Huge Design event: Evolving Design Communities featuring Dan Cederholm and Rich Thronett, co-founders of Dribbble; Ignacio Oreamuno, Executive Director of the Art Directors Club; and Matias Corea, co-founder and Chief of Design at Behance. The four panelists discussed the evolution of design and its community, as well as maintaining and nurturing it for growth.  Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-13th-2013-the-new-york-city-mysql-group--creator-of-php.html http://www.meetup.com/mysqlnyc/events/118036752/ On Monday, May 13, 2013, OLC attended The New York City MySQL Group’s event, Creator of PHP: PHP & MySQLnd, What’s Cutting-Edge Now, What’ll Be in the Future. This event, held at TheLadders, featured Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP and the current Distinguished Engineer at Etsy. Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-8th-2013-raising-startup-capital--tie-bootstrap-series.html http://www.meetup.com/tienyc/events/115018012/ What do dogs and penguins have in common? They were the topic of two presenters  at the TiE New York: Fostering Entrepreneurship Globally meetup on May 8 at Loeb & Loeb. The two presenters were Fitbark for dogs and Arie Abecassis of DreamIt Ventures who explained why you need the concept of the march of penguins to raise capital for your startup. Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-9th-2013-ultra-light-startups.html 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... Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-7th-2013-ny-tech-meetup.html 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. Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-6th-2013-new-york-hadoop-user-group--deep-dive-into-cloudera-impala.html 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. Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-2nd-2013-qtm7--mobile-tech-w-brett-martin-wehostels-uber-tracks-andamp-atandampt.html 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... Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-30th-2013-app-developer-event-discoverability.html 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. Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-3rd-2013-vibrant-future-of-creative-economy.html http://vibrantfuture.eventbrite.com/ On Friday, May 3, 2013, OLC attended Vibrant Future of the Creative Economy at the Old School, sponsored by Openinvo. Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-2nd-2013-new-york-city-emerging-technologies-summit.html http://nycets050213.eventbrite.com/ On Thursday, May 2, 2013, OLC attended the New York City Emerging Technologies Summit at Mount Sinai. The event was spearheaded by NYC Tech Connect to bring together 11 of New York City’s premier academic research institutions under one roof. The goal was to find a way to commercialize bioscience technology, and the 20 presenters and the panel persuasively demonstrated their desire to reach out to the investor community. Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/may-1st-2013-nyc-mysql-group.html http://www.nycsql.com/events/114869712/?eventId=114869712&action=detail On Wednesday, May 1, 2013, OLC attended the New York City MySQL group’s event, Future of 21st Century Databases: CEO/CTO Discussion Among Database Superstars. The event featured a superstar panel of Eliot Horowitz, CTO and co-founder of 10gen and MongoDB, Barry Morris, founder and CEO of NuoDB and Bob Widerhold, President and CEO of Couchbase. Eric David Benhari of AppNexus moderated the event. Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-29th-2013-april-nyc-web-design-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/nyc-web-design/events/110237342/ On Monday, April 29, 2013, OLC attended NYC Web Design Meetup’s event, An Introduction to Lean UX featuring Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden, Managing Directors of Neo and co-authors of Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience. Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-23rd-2013-techniques-experiments-and-actionable-metrics-tools-for-enterprise-change.html http://www.meetup.com/NY-Intrapreneur-Innovation-in-the-Enterprise/events/110035732/ What's your process in terms of making better business decisions? Have you considered Agile critical thinking? It’s easy to spot if your company is using it or not. Ask yourself: Is there always someone in your company selling you an idea you have to accept without argument? And if nobody is held accountable, is there actually a bad decision? You'd be surprised how many companies will tell you they are results-oriented but have never heard of Agile or lean startup thinking. “The greatest risk is when people assume they know what they (really) don’t know,” said Brian Bozzuto, BigVisible... Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-26th-2013-the-hatchery-georgetown-alumni-angel-network.html http://events.hatchery.vc/events/114338852/ On Friday, April 26, 2013, OLC attended The Hatchery’s investor series featuring Heather Gilchrist of Georgetown Alumni Angels Network. GAA is not just for Georgetown alumni—it extends its investing portfolio to invest in the best with or without Georgetown alumni. Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-25th-2013-datakind--data-in-the-big-city.html http://www.meetup.com/DataKind-NYC/events/112727792/ OLC attended Datakind’s event, Data in the Big City on Thursday, April 25, 2013 held at ThoughtWorks. Chris Corcoran from the Analytics branch of the Mayor’s Office along with Jaqueline Lu of NYC Parks Department and Brian D’Alessandro from media6degrees gave an informed talk about using data to help New York City and us— the inhabitants. Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-23rd-2013-responsive-web-design-nyc-mobile-ux-and-responsive-web-design.html http://www.meetup.com/ResponsiveWebDesign/events/88807782/ OLC attended Responsive Web Design NYC’s event, Mobile UX and Responsive Web Design on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. The event was held at Booker and presented by Rosenfeld Media. Josh Clark, a renowned mobile UX expert shared his views on user experience and web designed and two virtual panelists—Aaron Gustafson, author of Adaptive Web Design; and Sara Wachter-Boettcher, author of Content Everywhere: Strategy and Structure for Future-Ready Content). The topics discussed ranged from Mobile and Responsive Web Design to the best practices in Mobile UX and the Mobile UX process. This meetup was touted as just “a taste of... Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-24th-2013-content-conversations-the-fate-of-journalism.html http://www.meetup.com/contentconversations/events/113941022/ On Wednesday, April 24, 2013, OLC attended Content Conversations featuring Eddy Moretti, CCO of Vice; Chris Warren of Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance of Australia; Jeff Bercovici of Forbes; moderated by Yaron Galai, Outbrain’s CEO. The topic was about the fate of journalism and where it stands today. Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-18th-2013-luxahoy-creating-the-top-10-html5-game-of-2012.html http://www.meetup.com/HTML5Game/events/104201532/ If there’s an award for the Most Generous Presenter this year in a tech meetup category, the creative digital agency Luxurious Animals is in the lead to win it. The company’s presentation called “Cannons A'Blazing! Post-mortem: LuxAhoy HTML5 Game” on April 18 at the Microsoft office was more than a meetup—it was a workshop. The event stretched to more than two hours as Luxurious Animals’ founder Garrett Nantz, along with his team of animals, showed every stage of the creation of its hugely popular HTML5 game LuxAhoy. It was named one of the top 10 HTML5 games of 2012... Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-22th-2013-bdw-intro-to-nosql-databases.html http://www.meetup.com/Big-Data-Warehousing/events/102525302/ On Monday, April 22, 2013, OLC attended Big Data Warehousing Meetup’s Intro to NoSQL Databases event held at New Work City. The event featured Joe Caserta, CEO of Caserta Concepts; Elliot Cordo, Principal Consultant at Caserta Concepts; and Mike O’Brian of 10gen. They introduced NoSQL databases and focused on introducing syntax and usage patterns for a new aggregation system in MongoDB. “The new MongoDB aggregation framework makes it simple to do tasks such as counting, averaging and finding minima or maxima while grouping keys in a collection and complementing MongoDB’s built-in Map/Reduce capabilities.”   Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-11th-2013-internet-everywhere-wifi-role-and-implications-on-policy-making.html http://www.meetup.com/isoc-ny/events/113512552/ When you nonchalantly access public Wi-Fi in a café to check your friends’ newsfeeds on Facebook, other people have something more than Caramel Macchiato in mind. They’re thinking where does anyone even begin to think of public policy issues, including universal broadband access, federal spectrum policy, data security and civil liberties. The purpose of spectrum policy is to manage a natural resource for the maximum possible benefit of the public. It turns out public Wi-Fi access is that serious a subject, as it even brought in the cavalry to the eBay office last April 11, in an event called... Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-15th-2013-deep-dive--crowdfunding-your-next-game.html http://www.meetup.com/gaming/events/107967972/ You have the idea, but you don’t have the money? You might want to try crowdfunding. On April 15 at the Microsoft office, John Vaskis, Indiegogo’s Gaming Vertical Lead, presented how you can crowdfund your business successfully, whether it’s a game or your dream of publishing your own book: Do a video pitch. Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-19th-2013-the-hatchery-charlie-kemper.html http://events.hatchery.vc/events/97679042/?eventId=97679042&action=detail OLC attended The Hatchery’s Friday evening event featuring Charlie Kemper on Friday, April 19, 2013. Charlie Kemper is an entrepreneur and investor who has done extensive work with advertising and digital media, as well as advertising technology and software. He is a Partner at Revel Partners, an early-expansion stage investment group. At The Hatchery, Kemper talked at length about his experiences as an entrepreneur and about the state of New York City’s startup environment. Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-19th-2013--dumbo-developers-gittip-andamp-open-companies.html http://www.meetup.com/dumbo-developers/events/107714512/ On Friday, April 19, 2013, OLC attended Dumbo Developers’ event featuring Gittip’s founder, Chad Whitacre, who talked about his company and the idea of open companies. Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-18th-2013-nyenterprise-incubation.html http://www.meetup.com/NY-Enterprise-Incubation/events/105294722/ On Thursday, April 18, 2013, OLC attended NY Enterprise Incubation’s event, Cracking the Enterprise Sales Challenge hosted by Mohammed Ali and Gary Chan. The event featured Mark LaRosa, a successful player in the enterprise sales market. He has founded or been an integral part of various companies and closed sales on major accounts. The event also featured Lee Zucker, who put together an entire enterprise sales program for SinglePlatform. SinglePlatform was purchased for $100 million by ConstantContact just last year. Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-17th-2013-penn-digital-ignite.html   http://www.meetup.com/penndigital/events/111274482/   On Wednesday April 17, OLC attended the Penn Digital Ignite event. The event was held at Softbank Capital and featured eight presenters: Dick Talens, Co-Founder of Fitocracy; Keya Danenbaum, Co-founder at ElecNext; Asif Rahman, Chief Architect at NewsCred; Lucina Duncalfe, Founder and CEO, Real Food Works; Tedd Mann, CEO of SnipSnap; Matt Myers, CEO of Tidal Labs; Marjan Ghara, Founder and CEO, BiblioNasium; and Jordan Elpern-Waxman, Founder and CEO, BeerDreamer. Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-17th-2013-social-marketers-nyc--the-changing-nature-of-viral.html http://www.meetup.com/Social-marketers-nyc/events/110420492/ OLC attended Social Marketers NYC’s The Changing Nature of Viral: Defining and Understanding What Goes Viral, with Fast Company, BuzzFeed and Microsoft on Wednesday, April 17 2013 at Offerpop’s headquarters in Midtown. Sharad Goel, Senior Researcher at Microsoft; Jason Feifer, Senior Editor at Fast Company; Jonathan Perelman, VP of Agency Strategy and Business Development at BuzzFeed; and Mark Cooper, co-founder and CMO at Offerpop all discussed at length about what it takes to become viral and the differences between virality and popularity. Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-15th-2013-nui-central-ny-andamp-njs-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/NUI-Central-NY-NJ/events/110204922/ On Monday, April 15, 2013, OLC attended Natural User Interface Central NY & NJ’s meetup, For Your Eyes Only—Eye Tracking Explained and More, at WeWork Labs. The event, hosted by Ken Lonyai and Debra Benkler, delved into the world of eye-tracking technology and what it is all about. They hosted Tore Meyer, CEO of 4tiitoo over Skype and he shared his experiences with eye-tracking technology and talked about his new product, the eyeCharm, which had a successful Kickstarter campaign. Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-16th-2013-nyetm-april-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/ny-enterprise-tech/events/108870802/ OLC attended New York Enterprise Meetup’s (NYETM) April event featuring five enterprise companies. CipherCloud is “a cloud data protection solution with patent- pending technology that provides enterprise data inside and outside the cloud with full visibility and control and without impacting application functionality and backend integration. It completely eliminates data residency, privacy, security and regulatory compliance concerns associated with cloud applications and accelerates cloud adoption in the enterprise.” AppDynamics “is the net-generation application performance management solution that simplifies the management of complex, business-critical applications. With AppDynamics, no one has to tolerate slow performing applications ever again. It is built... Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-12th-2013-investor-series-at-the-hatchery.html http://events.hatchery.vc/events/110388682/?eventId=110388682&action=detail OLC attended Investor Series with Bill Siegel of SecondMarket in Funding Startups on Friday, April 12, 2013. Bill Siegel is responsible for managing fund strategies for SecondMarket. He worked at SAC Capital and was VP of Equity Research at MD Sass, where he focused on financial service and energy sector investments. Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-10th-2013-nyenterprise-search-user-group--scaling-search-for-large-enterprise.html http://www.meetup.com/EnterpriseSearch/events/110514022/ On Wednesday, April 10, 2013, OLC attended NY Enterprise Search User Group’s event, Scaling Search for Large Enterprise with John Back as the speaker. [Kamran Khan was to be the original speaker, but due to scheduling conflict, he was unable to make it.] Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-11th-2013-ultra-light-startups-investor-feedback-forum-april.html http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5833519213/eorg On Thursday, April 12, 2013, OLC attended Ultra Light Startups: Investor Feedback Forum. Hosts Graham Lawler and Mark Caron welcomed the four panelists: Somak Chattopadhyay of Tribeca Venture Partners, Owen Davis of NYC Seed, Micah Rosenbloom of Founder Collective, and Peter Valhouli-Farb of Bessemer Venture Partners. The eight startups pitching were Nero Commerce (Daniel Buelhoff), SolarList (Tyler Tringas), Nutmeg Education (Jon Modica), UPlanMe (Sean Barkulis), FreshGrid (Edwin Baladi), Wavicle (Gregg Hill), Gift.Rs (Alex Mashinsky), and CreativeWorx (Mark Hirsch). Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-9th-2013-nytech-april-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/events/74528092/ On Tuesday, April 9, 2013, OLC attended NYTech’s monthly technology meetup held at NYU’s Skirball Theater. Ten presenters demoed in front of a packed auditorium: Bout, a photo-taking game you play with friends; Grand St., a new market and community for creative electronics. The way that consumer electronics are made, bought and sold is changing fundamentally, and we believe that a new era in electronics requires a new kind of store; Ketchup, a fun and awesome way to plan your social life; Dining Band, a device that helps the blind and the visually impaired; Next Caller, the easiest way... Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-8th-2013-founders-at-fail-presents-entrepreneurs-roundtable-accelerators-nyc-managing-director-jon-axelrod.html http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6013820499 On Monday, April 8, 2013, OLC attended Founders@Fail event featuring Entrepreneur’s Roundtable Accelerator’s NYC Managing Director: Jon Axelrod. Axelrod has spent years building startups. He experienced the Internet bubble in the 90s, founding Music123 in 1999. Later, he founded MusicGremlin, which was acquired by SanDisk in 2008. Schuyler Brown was the moderator of the event and interviewed Axelrod. Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-9th-2013-agile-for-nonsoftware-teams.html http://www.meetup.com/agile-lean-practitioners/events/109054202/ If you’re looking to improve your scale or capability, there’s nothing like having some Agile thinking in place. For the uninitiated, it could simply mean having a workflow with sticky notes on a white board that categorizes tasks as “to be done,” “in process” and “finished.” But it’s more than that for two teams at the Agile for Non-Software Team meetup hosted and organized by Lori Masuda on April 9, 2013 at Kaplan Test Prep. Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-28th-2013-context-in-mobile-ux-strategy-the-importance-of-being-fickle.html http://www.meetup.com/LeanUX-Speaker-Salon/events/109353562/ Could a meetup called “Context in Mobile UX Strategy: The Importance of Being Fickle” come only from someone with a background in continental philosophy? It appears that way when you’re talking to Thomas Wendt, a UX strategist and founder of Surrounding Signifiers, a strategy and design consultancy currently with an innovation team at American Express talking in a midtown Manhattan office. OLC attended this meetup on March 28, 2013. Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-4th-2013-the-product-group-april-2013-its-my-bag.html http://www.meetup.com/TheProductGroup/events/96757942/ Tonia Torrellas, founder and creator It’s My Bag, a company that makes a reusable garment bag for dry cleaning, dropped by the Product Group meetup at Viacom last week and found, to her delight, how the wisdom of crowds can help take her product to the next level. In a roundtable discussion, Torrellas received constructive feedback and suggestions from over 300 attendees. Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-5th-2013-humanities-initiative-new-methods-in-digital-research.html http://digitalresearch.eventbrite.com/ On Friday, April 5, 2013, OLC attended Humanities Initiative’s event, New Methods in Digital Research featuring Daniel Cohen, Assistant Professor at George Mason University. Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-4th-2013-lets-talk-about-the-future-of-programming.html http://www.meetup.com/Thought-Machine/events/109091072/ OLC attended Thought Machine NYC’s event, Let’s Talk About the Future of Programming held at Etsy on Thursday, April 4, 2013. Eli Goodman and Dan McCormick gave a presentation about what they thought needed to be done to further facilitate programming for programmers and future programmers. Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-3rd-2013-april-growth-hacking-meetup-with-nabeel-hyatt.html http://www.meetup.com/growhack/events/104731492/ On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, OLC attended GrowHack’s monthly event, Growth Hacking Meetup. It was held in Projective Space LES and featured Nabeel Hyatt, a Partner at Spark Capital and former General Manager at Zynga. Hyatt also worked as the VP, Product at MIT Media Lab spinoff, Ambient Devices. Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/april-2nd-2013-how-to-make-it-collaborating-networking-and-the-influence-of-your-social-community.html http://howtomakeit.eventbrite.com/ On Tuesday, April 2, 2013, OLC attended UncommonGoods’ evemt, How to Make It: Collaborating, Networking and the Influence of Your Social Community featuring Katy Maslow and Michelle Inciarrano of TwigTerrariums and Kiel Mead, designer and founder of AmDC. The moderator of the event was Gaby Dolceamore, the Community Outreach Coordinator of UncommonGoods. Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-26th-2013-the-7th-ny-hardware-startup-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/NY-Hardware-Start-up/events/106832212/   As many tech startups there are in New York to admire, people always marvel at the sight of an actual physical invention, as the NY Tech Hardware Meetup demonstrated in its seventh meetup on March 26. Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-28th-2013-nyc-gaming-forum-nyc-gaming-march-demo-night.html http://www.meetup.com/gaming/events/106881522/ On Thursday, March 28, 2013 OLC attended NYC Gaming Forum’s March Demo Night featuring Jesse Freeman’s Super Jetroid, Melissa Marie Fassetta’s Beat Blocks, Colin Fuller’s Warping War Pig, Brad O’Farrell’s Story War, Damon Branch and Anatole Branch’s Organic Panic and Michael Christatos’ Worm Run. Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-29th-2013-the-hatchery-investor-series-with-ben-sun-a-new-york-angel-with-ny-entrepreneur-roots.html http://events.hatchery.vc/events/100754062/?eventId=100754062&action=detail On Friday, March 29, 2013, OLC attended The Hatchery's event, Investor Series featuring Benjamin Sun, a seasoned entrepreneur turned angel investor. Sun is an internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Community Connect Inc. in 1996, creating AsianAvenue.com, BlackPlanet.com, MiGente.com, FaithBase.com and GLEE.com, collectively generating over one billion page views per month. Sun started Community Connect in his apartment with a team of friends. In 2008, Community Connect was acquired by Radio One, Inc. Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-27th-2013-content-conversations-creating-content-in-the-native-age.html http://www.meetup.com/contentconversations/events/106739542/   On Wednesday March 27, OLC attended Content Conversation’s Creating Content in the Native Age. The event featured the following panelists: Matt Borchard, Strategist for The Media Kitchen; Michael Fasciano, Content and Social Strategist for Digitas and David Weiner, Content and Social Strategy for Pepsi . The event was moderated by Kodi Foster, Sr. Director at Outbrain. Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-27th-2013-scale-warriors-of-nyc-event-how-to-compare-nosql-databases-determining-true-performance-and-recoverability.html http://www.meetup.com/Scale-Warriors-of-NYC/events/108177832/   On Wednesday, March 27, 2013, OLC attended Scale Warriors of NYC's event: How to Compare NoSQL Databases: Determining True Performance and Recoverability featuring William Keung, Senior Software Engineer at adMarketplace, who talked about choosing the best NoSQL engine and avoiding vendor lock with a small NoSQL abstraction layer; and Ben Engber, CEO and founder of Thumbtack Technology, who talked about how to perform tuned benchmark across a number of NoSQL solutions (Couchbase, Aerospike, MongoDB and Cassandra). Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/q-in-a-lease-cancellation-clause-what-are-unamortized-costs.html A. If a tenant is required to sign a lease for a longer than desired lease term, it is possible to negotiate a lease termination clause at some point earlier than the end of the lease term. Because the landlord has expected to recover its initial capital outlay over the longer lease term, they will require a cancellation payment or penalty, in order to terminate the lease. Typically, the amount of this payment is defined as landlord’s unamortized costs.   Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:48:02 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-26th-2013-the-nyc-meetup-organizer-meetup-group.html http://www.meetup.com/4organizers/events/104144542/ On Tuesday, March 26, 2013, OLC attended the NYC Meetup Organizer Meetup Group at Meetup HQ featuring an interview session with Scott Heiferman, Meetup's CEO and co-founder. Heiferman is the CEO and co-founder of Meetup.com, a software platform that helps people find groups of other people that share similar interests and meet in offline settings. The interview was conducted by Will Petz, founder of Random Events. Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-20th-2013-general-assemblys-first-ruby-on-rails-meetup-with-derbyjackpot-and-mongodb.html http://www.meetup.com/FullStack-General-Assembly-NYC-Ruby-on-Rails/events/107952222/ On March 20, 2013 OLC attended the General Assembly's first Ruby on Rails meetup! DerbyJackpot was presented at the first Ruby on Rails Meetup at General Assembly as an example—it’s built on Ruby. The betting game is quite easy to track. You watch the race through a live video feed and bet on horse races around the country. The racetracks are located in the U.S. and Canada. Emily Stolfo, Ruby engineer at 10gen and adjunct faculty at Columbia, presented how MongoDB works together with Ruby on Rails. 10Gen is behind MongoDB, a NoSQL database written in C++. Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-25th-2013-ny-intrapreneur-innovation-in-the-enterprise.html http://www.meetup.com/NY-Intrapreneur-Innovation-in-the-Enterprise/events/106491452/ On Monday, March 25, 2013, OLC attended NYC Intrapreneur's event, Innovation in the Enterprise featuring Josh Seiden, Managing Director of Neo. Josh Seiden is a designer that has developed specialties that include Lean UX, interaction and service design. He is currently a Managing Director of Neo, a global product innovation firm. Seiden also has written a book, Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience. Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-21th-2013-prince-building-tech-talks-march-tech-talks.html http://www.meetup.com/Prince-Building-Tech-Talks/events/97590032/ OLC attended Prince Building Tech Talks' March Tech Talks this Thursday, March 21, 2013. Cormac Driver from Temboo and Nick Ganju, CTO of ZocDocs presented in front of an enthusiastic crowd. Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-15th-2013-how-to-master-the-art-of-social-seo.html http://www.meetup.com/new-york-seo/events/104747042/ On Friday, March 15, 2013, OLC attended How to Master the Art of Social SEO event featuring Dan Cristo of Catalyst Online. Dan Cristo, director of SEO Innovation at Catalyst Online, a search marketing agency, doesn’t seem to have any problem holding people’s attention against the backdrop of a noisy bar on a Friday night. Cristo was presenting “Mastering the Art of Social SEO” at the Joshua Tree on East Avenue early this month. Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-19th-2013-simulcast-of-march-nytm-at-new-work-city.html http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/events/109215262/ On Tuesday, March 19, 2013, OLC attended New York Tech Meetup's monthly tech demo event. This particular event was delayed due to SXSW, but the presenters were still lively and engaging as ever. The presenters for this event were Aviary, Birdseye, Clarity, Foursquare, iRescU, Moveline, Ontodia, Shutterstock and Yext. Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-20th-2013-mobile-ux-design-series-the-theory-and-practice-of-mobile-ux-part-1-of-4.html https://www.nytech.org/events/Mobile-UX-Series-1 On Wednesday, March 20, 2013, OLC attended New York Tech Council's first of four part series on Mobil UX Design. The first session was on Theory and Practice of Mobile UX. The speakers for the event were Tim Reis, Head of Mobile & Social Solutions at Google, and Jason Farman, Assistant Professor at University of Maryland. The event, however, was cut short as Tim Reis could not make it to Franklin Kurnit Klein & Selz's office and Jason Farman became the night's sole speaker. Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-18th-2013-agile-experience-design-user-research-for-agile-teams.html http://www.meetup.com/Agile-Experience-Design/events/105172602/ On Monday, March 18, 2013, OLC attended Agile Experience Design's User Research for Agile Teams meetup featuring Andres Glusman and Brenna Lynch of Meetup, Anna Cory-Watson and Cameron Burley of AppNexus and Jodi Leo of CapTap. Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-18th-2013-the-future-of-3d-manufacturing--brooklyn-style.html http://www.meetup.com/BLKNY30/events/100881682/ On Monday March 18, OLC attended Brooklyn Futurist: The Future of 3D Manufacturing. The event featured the following panalists: Robert Steiner, Director of Product Development for MakerBot Industries; Duann Scott, Designer Evangelist, Shapeways; and JF Brandon, of D Shape. The event was moderated Jim Kohlenberger, Chief of Staff for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-13th-2013-html5-gaming-meetup-making-money-with-html-5-games-in-2013.html http://www.meetup.com/HTML5Game/events/104274022/ On Wednesday, March 13, 2013, OLC attended HTML5 Games Meetup at Viacom. The meetup revolved around making money with HTML 5 games. The panelists were Jesse Freeman, Windows 8 Game Evangelist at Microsoft; Jamie Hall, co-founder and President & CTO of Mocospace; Elle Chen, License Manager of BoosterMedia; Robert Grossberg and Vincent Obermeier. Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-14th-2013-ultralight-startups--microsoft.html http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5222871750/eorg On March 14, 2013, OLC attended Ultra Light Startups' monthly event held at Microsoft to see nine startups pitch their product and listen to four panelists give them advice. The panelists were David Aronogg, General Partner at FlyBridge Capital Partners; Gil Bryda, Founding and Managing Partner at Genacast Ventures; Ed Sim, Managing Partner at BOLDstart Ventures; and Mark Wachen, Managing Partner at DreamIt Ventures. There were nine pitches in tow, with Caleb Gandara of DegreeCast pitching first, followed by Joe Regal of Zola Books, Melchior Schöller of Poutsch, Rohit Vashist of Sverve, Domi Enders of Open Assembly, Noah Smith... Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-12th-2013-march-growth-hacking-meetup-with-michael-geer.html http://www.meetup.com/growhack/events/98096082/ On Tuesday, March 12, 2013, OLC attended the March Growth Hacking Meetup which features a presentation from Michael Geer. How do you get your first million users in your online business? Michael Geer, who helped grow and internationalize badoo.com to 70 million users (it now has 175 million users) said you need three things—virality, revenue and user utility. Geer was at the Grow/Hack meetup at the NYU Stern School of Business talking about the methods, strategies and lessons he learned from his career, both local and overseas. Geer has worked with Y&R and Badoo in Moscow, also with Badoo in London,... Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-13th-2013-mobile--commerce-demo-night.html http://www.meetup.com/NYCMobile/events/102275212/ Mobile shopping is raking in the dough. In 2012, people spent $25 billion on purchases made from phones and tablets, an increase of 81 percent from the year before, according to e-marketer, which compiles data from 120 sources that track consumers. Gilt City (giltcity.com), Dom and Tom (domandtom.com) and EachScape (eachscape.com), have got it made in the mobile arena. If the numbers hold up, they will be part of the mobile’s $87 billion or a quarter of e-commerce by 2016. At the Mobile & Commerce Demo March 13, the three companies showed us how they have made a strong... Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-12th-2013-march-new-york-enterprise-tech-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/ny-enterprise-tech/events/92993442/ On Tuesday, March 12, 2013, OLC attended New York Enterprise Tech Meetup's monthly event. The March event featured three demos from Ireland in the spirit of St. Patrick's Day. Datahug works by information you already have: communication data coming in and out of the business daily. With this, Datahug builds up a dynamic database of company-wide connections and uses analytics to show who is who. Waratek developed the first Java Virtual Machine specifically for cloud computing and Java as a Software (JaaS). It allows Java to run in a cloud environment without the need for code change. Preact is... Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-11th-2013-nytech-council-legal-essentials-for-startups--intellectual-property-protection.html https://www.nytech.org/events/Intellectual-Property-Protection On Monday, March 11, 2013, OLC attended NYTech Council's Legal Essentials for Startups: Intellectual Property Protection featuring Jerrold Spigel, Partner at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz; Glen K. Westerback, Associate at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz; Jessica Friedman, Of Counsel at Paul Ellis Law Group; Marc S. Reisler, Partner at Holland & Knight as the panelists and Paul Ellis, Principal at Paul Ellis Law Group acted as the moderator of the night. Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-7th-2013-the-product-group-march-2013.html http://www.meetup.com/TheProductGroup/events/96757902/ The Product Group Meetup at the Viacom Building/MTV Networks in Times Square March 7 was attended by nearly 400 people, all excited to share their insights about millennials, including Arel English, founder, product manager and one of the developers of Vitogo (vitogo.com), a personal trainer app. Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-6th-2013-march-nyfts--demo-day-seedinvest-equametrics-vestorly-tradeembark-and-more.html http://www.meetup.com/NY-FinTech-Startups/events/103567252/ If there is an award for the Best Dressed Meetup Group among startups, the Fintech Startup meetup March 6 could win it, hands down. The four startups and the attendees were dressed up for success at the meetup held at Dechert LLC in a gleaming tower overlooking Bryant Park. It’s the finance world, after all. Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-5th-2013-the-future-of-food--a-talk-at-the-museum-of-natural-history.html http://www.meetup.com/food-tech/events/106934562/ On March 6th, 2013, OLC attended the Future of Food - A talk at the Museum of Natural History Event. The American Museum of Natural History gathered experts from various fields to talk about the “Future of Food,” as genetically modified crops or organisms (GMOs) or food by any other means not naturally occurring have become one of the most contested issues of our time. Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-7th-2013-html5-games-meetup-adobe-presents-multiplatform-game-development-using-adobe-gaming-sdk.html http://www.meetup.com/HTML5Game/events/98974382/ OLC attended HTML5 Games Meetup's event, Adobe Presents: Multiplatform Game Development Using Adobe Gaming SDK featuring Lee Brimelow, a developer evangelist at Adobe currently focusing on Flash gaming and HTML5 on Thursday, March 7, 2013. Brimelow presented on developing multiplatform games using Adobe's new gaming tools. Adobe AIR and Stage3D were covered and CreateJS as well as PhoneGap was discussed. Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-6th-2013-nytech-international-meetup-talks-on-international-incubation-and-acceleration.html http://www.meetup.com/NY-Tech-International/events/98911272/ OLC attended NYTech International Meetup's event: Talks on International Incubation and Acceleration at Columbia Business school on Wednesday, March 6, 2013. The event featured five panelists: Tom Bronfeld, co-founder of IDC Elevator; Mahogany Beckford, who works for JFDI Asia, Singapore's first startup accelerator; Anatole Faykin, an entrepreneur formerly based in Santiago, Chile as part of the Startup Chile program; Tiago Compagnoni, creator of the original WEDEMAND system with the help of Brazilian incubator, 21212.com; and Jayesh Parmar, CEO of Picatic. Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-5th-2013-crowdfunding-cleaner-waterways-with-pool.html http://www.meetup.com/Huge-Design-Events/events/105914702/ On Tuesday, March 5, 2013, OLC attended Huge Design Events' Crowdfunding Cleaner Waterways with +POOL at Huge Brooklyn. The event featured Dong-Ping Wong of FAMILY and Archie Lee Coates IV, where they explained the concept of +POOL and the journey of their idea from paper to reality. Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-4th-2013-foundersfail-how-to-build-a-community-one-customer-at-a-time.html http://foundersatfail.com/events/   On Monday, March 4, 2013, OLC attended Founders@Fail's event, How To Build A Community One Customer At A Time featuring Mark Peter Davis, founder of Kohort, Amanda Hesser, founder of Food52, and Kathryn Minshew, founder of The Muse. The panel discussed how to create and maintain a community and how to grow it while not alienating power users. Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/waiting-for-the-workplace-wave-to-crash.html Yahoo’s recent decision requiring all work from home employees to return to the office was both controversial and newsworthy.  Even Bill Gates has weighed in on the controversy, calling the decision “counter” to giving “employees more flexibility” in a CNNMoney interview.  But was it the right decision? Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:38:07 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-1st-2013-alley-weekly-erick-schonfeld.html http://www.meetup.com/nycapps/events/106964332/   Alley NYC Week’s informal fireside chat series in midtown Manhattan March 1st, 2013 gave New York techies a good reason to dash off for a quick lunch with guest Erick Schonfeld, the technology journalist who is also the executive producer of DEMO (thedemo.com) and partner of Bmuse (bmuse.com). Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-28th-2013-digital-creatives--increase-your-income-building-websites.html http://www.meetup.com/DigitalCreatives/events/103659512/   Wix tackles the business side of Web site designing. Looking for a new career or additional income, even one not in your skill set? Web/graphic designer Ariele Krantzow has the answer for you: Wix (wix.com). Early in January, she talked about how to make Google find you. On February 28th, 2013, she talked about how you can find extra money to create Web sites for small business owners. These can be your neighborhood dentist, nail salon owner, plumber, chiropractor, singer, actor and lawyer. Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-7th-2013-fundingpost-nyc-vc-andamp-angel-showcase.html On February 7th, 2013 OLC sponsored and attended FundingPost’s 2013 NYC VC & Angel Showcase, co-sponsored by and held at the offices of Credit Suisse on Madison Square Park.  Over 35 VC and Angel investment firms were in attendance and in the unique “Reverse Venture Fair” format, individuals from each firm were available to meet entrepreneurs and answer questions about their firm and its investment strategies. Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:32:54 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-28th-2013-tech-in-motion-inaugural-speaker-series-featuring-peter-miron-svp-of-engineering-at-bitly.html http://www.meetup.com/techinmotionnyc/events/102381422/ OLC attended Tech in Motioni's inaugural Speaker Series featuring Peter Miron, SVP of Engineering at Bit.ly on Thursday, Februrary 28, 2013. The meetup revolved around the moderator questioning Peter Miron about his background, how he became the SVP of Bit.ly, and advice to give to aspiring CTOs and VPs. Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-27th-2013-nyaltnet-meetup-become-a-superior-programmer-in-any-language.html http://www.nyalt.net/events/57928902/?eventId=57928902&action=detail   On Wednesday, February 27, 2013, OLC attended NYALT.NET's meetup: Become a Superior Programmer In Any Language featuring Mauricio Mendoza, who focused on exploring how five aspects of a programmer's personal character directly affects their ability to write computer programs. Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-26th-2013-futureready-preparing-your-content-and-your-company.html http://www.meetup.com/cs-nyc/events/100494942/ On February 26th, 2013 OLC attended Future-Ready: Preparing Your Content—and Your Company Event with Sara Wachter-Boettcher at Ogilvy One Worldwide.  Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:00:46 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-26th-2013-nyc-gaming-demo-night.html http://www.meetup.com/gaming/events/102222692/ On Tuesday, February 26, 2013, OLC attended NYC Gaming's Demo Night, which featured seven developers, each showcasing their unique and exciting games. Alec Andronikov of Just Sing It, Julian Volyn of Tin Man Can, Jim Babb of Bout, Vikram Subramanian of Tossers, Josh Raab of Nika, Nikhil Sinha of Spell or Die and Jon Stokes of Whiskers all pitched and demoed their games. Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-25th-2013-entrepreneurs-roundtable-55--nyu-stern.html http://er55.eventbrite.com/ On Monday, February 25, 2013, OLC attended Entrepreneurs Roundtable 55 at NYU Stern. Dayna Grayson of New Enterprise Associates Inc. briefly talked about NEA and herself and five entrepreneurs pitched their ideas. Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-22nd-2013-social-media-weeks-the-greatest-idea-never-bought-at-jwt.html On February 22, 2013, OLC attended Social Media Week's The Greatest Idea Never Bought at JWT. The panelists for this meetup were: Anna Lindow, General Manager at General Assembly; Oskar Serrander, Director, Sales and Marketing Solutions at Spotify; Katie Richman, Director of Social Media Strategy & Social Products, X Games & espnW at ESPN; Marian Salzman of Havas Worldwide; Jeff Hodsdon of Wefollow; and Cindy Gallop, Founder and CEO of IfWeRanTheWorld and MakeLoveNotPorn. Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/guest-post-the-office-of-the-future-is-yahoo.html http://www.yourofficeagent.com On Friday, Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO made a statement telling all remote employees that, by June, they needed to be working in Yahoo offices.  Anybody who couldn’t, or wouldn’t, should quit. Well, wait a second… I thought Yahoo of all companies would be, in part, leading the trend towards alternative working?  Alternative workplace environments fueled by the need to be productive while being sensitive to the employees work/life balance.  The same alternative Silicon Valley work environments made popular by Google and Yahoo as well as other young, tech start ups to promote a more effective collaborative work environment.  So... Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:55:58 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-21st-2013-queens-tech-meetup-featuring-singleplatform-backspaces-yog-and-fiestah.html OLC attended the Queens Tech Meetup in Long Island City on Thursday, February 21, 2013. The Queens Tech Meetup in Long Island City is quite a trek from Chelsea's Silicon Alley, but you can trust techies to go where location has always been relative. Five founders brought their amazing stories to Queens: Wiley Cerilli, he of the famed SinglePlatform (http://singleplatform.com) until he sold his company to Constant Constant for a deal reportedly worth $100 million; Adam Sanders of Backspaces (http://backspac.es), Peter Pelberg of Yog (http://getyog.com) and Stefanos Missailidis of Fiestah (http://www.fiestah.com).    http://www.meetup.com/queens-tech/ Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:40:18 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-21st-2013-social-media-weeks-purpose-driving-the-new-economy.html OLC attended Social Media Week's Purpose Driving the New Economy on Thursday, February 21, 2013 at Bloomberg. The panelists for this event were James Slezak, Partner and New Economy Practice Founder of Purpose; Marissa Feinberg, co-founder of Green Spaces; Aparna Mukherjee, Editorial Adviser of Rawporter; and moderated by Erica Berger, Director of Publisher & Partnership Development at Storyful. The panel tackled issues about accelerating digital movement towards sharing, renewable energy and further democratization of the economy. Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:10:07 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-21st-2013-social-media-weeks-deep-focus-an-evening-of-disruption-at-jwt.html OLC attended Deep Focus: An Evening of Disruption at JWT on February 21, 2013. The selected panelists: Adam Klaff, Head of Business Development at VHX; Chantel Waterbury, Founder & CEO of chloe+isabel; Rachael Chong, Founder & CEO of Catchafire; Brian Bedol, Founder & CEO of Bedrocket; Andrew McLaughlin, former Deputy White House CTO and current Entrepreneur at Betaworks were asked a series of questions by Ian Schafer, Founder & CEO of Deep Focus. Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:06:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/q-how-do-you-get-internet-access-today--is-t1-service-still-a-standard-or-are-there-newer-connectivity-options.html A. T1 was the standard for a long time and is still prevalent today, however, there are more options and better values than T1.   Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:07:42 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-21st-2013-social-media-weeks-changing-the-expectations-of-customer-service.html On Thursday, February 21, 2013, OLC attended Social Media Week's Changing the Expectations of Customer Service held at AOL HQ. The panel: Erin Robinson, Social Media Manager of AOL; Laurie Meachem, Manager Customer Commitment of JetBlue Airways; Jen Rubio, Head of Social Media at Warby Parker; Scott Gulbransen, Director of Social Business Strategy at H&R Block; and Richard Guest, President of Tribal DDB; were asked questions exploring how marketers can take advantage of changes in society and technologies to bring customer service that promotes brand value by moderator Christopher Heine, Staff Writer at AdWeek. Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:08:33 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-20th-2013-content-conversations-can-content-help-us-find-love.html http://www.meetup.com/contentconversations/events/102903112/ On Wednesday, February 20, 2013, OLC attended Content Conversations: Can Content Help Us Find Love? An Evening with How About We at Outbrain HQ. Chris Lavernge, founder of Thought Catalog moderated the event, with Melissa Wall, the new Editorial Director at How About We's Date Report and Chiara Atik, Dating Expert and regular contributor to The Hairpin, Gawker and The Huffington Post as the experts. Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:10:09 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/guest-post-google-hangouts-as-live-events-for-social-media-week-2013.html http://www.popularindustry.com One big difference between Social Media Week 2012 and 2013 is the amount of Google+ Hangouts hosted this year. Google+ Hangouts has been a hit with brands and publications when it comes to hosting live discussions with viewer participation. Great example leading this format is HuffPost Live. What’s also impressive is the comments to the right of the video screen usually holds a steady active stream during the live programming. Mon, 25 Feb 2013 07:30:19 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-19th-2013-content-marketing-bootcamp--a-social-media-week-event-hosted-by-360i.html       http://www.meetup.com/360i-New-York-Presents-The-Startup-Outlook/events/102502862/ On February 19th, 2013 OLC attended Content Marketing Bootcamp, one of the 360i Events - Powered by Curiousity Meetups in conjunction with Social Media Week. Mon, 25 Feb 2013 06:48:14 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-19th-2013-social-media-weeks-andquotkeeping-up-with-the-agile-consumerandquot.html http://socialmediaweek.org/newyork/events/?id=53067#.USp5-GfqGSo On Tuesday, February 19, 2013, OLC attended Social Media Week: Keeping Up with the Agile Consumer hosted by Offerpop and held at the Advertising & Marketing Hub at JWT. Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:39:30 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-14th-new-york-linux-users-group-andquotthe-ups-and-downs-of-migrating-to-python-3-a-pragmatic-approachandquot.html http://www.meetup.com/nylug-meetings/events/82181832/ On February 14th, 2013 OLC attended New York Linux Users Group's monthly meetup "The Ups and Downs of Migrating to Python 3: A Pragmatic Approach" featuring Julian Berman and hosted by Google. Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:01:03 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-13th-2013-new-york-investing-meetups-andquotcrowdfunding-raising-startup-capital-for-the-99andquot.html http://www.meetup.com/nyinvestingmeetup/events/97934812/ On February 13th, 2013 OLC attended the New York Investing Meetup's event, Crowdfunding: Raising Startup Capital for the 99%.  Here's our recap: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:11:05 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/guest-post-3-simple-ways-to-boost-office-productivity-when-relocating.html Whether you are relocating your office to another town or just shifting to another floor in the same building, the very thought of office relocation possibly isn’t so alluring. Moving a home or office is one of the most time consuming and stressful tasks you ever experience. Maximum of your valuable work time is lost during an office move. So how can you best utilize your precious work time and stay productive during an office move? Here are a few ideas that will help you stay organized and carry out your office tasks in full flow even during the move: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:27:43 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-13th-2013-growth-hacker-meetup-with-appboys-cezary-pietrzak.html http://www.meetup.com/growhack/events/95756642/ OLC attended Grow/Hack's February Meetup featuring Cezary Pietrzak from Appboy. Cezary Pietrzak is an entrepreneur, marketer and strategist who currently runs marketing for Appboy. Appboy is a customer engagement platform for mobile apps. Pietrzak co-founded Wanderfly, which was acquired by TripAdvisor in 2012. He then started a digital marketing consultancy at QLabs. Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:22:16 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/guest-post-could-the-post-office-pivot.html http://www.ibreakfast.com Imagining what might happen if Entrepreneurs were in charge of those friendly folks in blue outfits. You know the joke: How did the Post Office fire 20,000 people?  With an email, of course.  The real joke is that the Post Office itself was fired by the Internet.  So what if the Post Office had embraced it - becoming the servant of the Internet instead of its victim? Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:09:20 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/guest-post-the-office-of-the-future-is-a-virtual-office.html http://www.yourofficeagent.com A virtual office combines  address services with off-site technological communications enabling people to  lessen their overhead costs while still managing to keep business  professionalism intact. Not all people have the cash to fund and maintain a  traditional office; therefore, a virtual office can provide you with a  professional business address cutting down on your office expenses and at the  same time ensuring that you effectively run your business.       Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:05:38 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-13th-2013-ny-enterprise-technology-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/ny-enterprise-tech/events/92993122/?a=me1_grp&rv=me1 On Tuesday, February 12, 2013, OLC attended New York Enterprise Technology Meetup's monthly event. There were five presenters this time around: Aerohive Networks, working to simplify (Simpli-Fi) enterprise access networks with a cloud-enabled, self-organizing service-aware, identity-based infrastructure that includes innovative Wi-Fi, VPN, branch routing and switching solutions; Datasift, a leading social data platform, enabling companies to aggregate, filter and extract insights from billions of public conversation on social networks as well as from other social platforms. It provides access to real-time and historical social data to uncover insights; MapR Technologies, a managing platform for Hadoop systems making analyzing big... Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:50:11 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-13th-2013-the-electric-locomotive-interview-wsumalls-dane-atkinson.html On Wednesday February 13, OLC attended The Electric Locomotive’s interview with Founder & CEO of SumAll, Dane Atkinson. The event was hosted by Wakefield at The Kraine Theater. http://electric.splashthat.com/ Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:27:03 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-11th-2013-big-data-warehousing-meetup-andquotexploring-big-data-analytic-techniques-with-datameerandquot.html http://www.meetup.com/Big-Data-Warehousing/events/96079302/ On Monday, February 11, 2013, OLC attended BDW Meetup's [Big Data Warehousing] event, Exploring Big Data Analytic Techniques with Datameer. Joe Caserta (President and Founder of Caserta Concepts), Elliott Cordo (Principal Consultant at Caserta Concepts) and Adam Gugliciello (Solutions Engineer at Datameer). Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:17:17 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-7th-2013-ny-technology-councils-advanced-linkedin-marketing-beyond-the-request-to-connect.html https://www.nytech.org/events/linkedin-marketing OLC attended NY Technology Council's event at Infor featuring Ruben Quinones who set out to present Advanced LinkedIn Marketing: Beyond the Request to Connect. Quinones is the Director of New Media at Path Interactive, providing forward-thinking leadership. Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:04:40 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-6th-2013-the-future-of-journalism-andamp-news-meetup--andquotsharing-visions-for-the-futureandquot.html http://www.meetup.com/futureofnews/events/102088492/ On February 6th, 2013 OLC attended The Future of Journalism & News Meetup - "Sharing Visions for the Future".  Here is our recap: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:32:23 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-6th-2013-new-york-technology-councils-andquotcritical-new-ux-design-optimization-researchandquot-event.html https://www.nytech.org/events/UX-Optimization-Trends OLC attended New York Technology Council's event at Anchin: Critical New UX Design Optimization Research featuring Paul W. Thurman. Thurman teaches strategic management and data analysis courses at SIPA and at Columbia University. He is a highly regarded customer experience optimization specialist. His professional experience includes Booze Allen Hamilton and American Express. Thurman specializes parsing complex consumer behavior for business optimization and innovation. Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:23:09 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/guest-post-how-to-build-a-five-star-business-mobile-app--problemio-apps-case-study.html http://www.popularindustry.com/how-to-build-a-5-star-app-problemio/ Alex went from learning how to develop for Android and IOS apps to earning hundreds of reviews of 4.5 to 5 stars in Google Play & iTunes in 4 months. Sun, 10 Feb 2013 09:25:59 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-5th-2013-nyc-technology-startups-meetup-andquotyou-are-doing-it-all-wrong--tips-for-entrepreneurs-on-finding-great-developersandquot.html http://www.meetup.com/NYC-Technology-Startups/events/101300202/ On Tuesday, February 5, 2013, OLC attended NYC Tech Startup's You Are Doing It All Wrong: Tips for Entrepreneurs On Finding Great Developers. Aleksandr Yampolskiy moderated the event, which featured six panelists: Josh Weinstein, CEO of Youare.TV; Sloane Barbour, Division Head of Jobspring; Seth Lopez, Director of Engineering at Cinchcast; Brandon Kessler, CEO of ChallengePost; Will Koffel, CTO of Thumb.IT; and Raj Singh, CEO of Tempo.Ai. Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:53:07 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/february-4th-2013-foundersfail-interviews-spinbacks-corey-capasso.html http://foundersatfail.com/events/ OLC attended Founders@Fail on Monday, February 4, 2013 featuring Spinback founder, Corey Capasso. He also launched Add the Flavor, Exchange Hut and Nomi. The serial entrepreneur discussed horror stories and the lessons learned. Sat, 09 Feb 2013 07:26:24 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-31st-2013-new-york-altnet-group-meetup-andquotaltcloud--a-pattern-based-comparison-of-windows-azure-and-amazon-web-servicesandquot.html http://www.nyalt.net/events/57928772/?eventId=57928772&action=detail On Thursday, January 31, 2013, OLC attended NY Alt.NET group's event, ALT.Cloud Pattern-based Comparison of Azure and Amazon Web Services featuring Bill Zack. The event focused on common design and department patters for .NET apps that run on both Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services. Zack focused on five categories: the definition of cloud, top four to five cloud providers, brief overview of Windows Azure and AWS, how a typical application structure looks like and cloud portable apps. Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:16:06 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-30th-2013-developers-for-good-meetup.html http://meetup.developersforgood.org/events/95557872/?eventId=95557872&action=detail On January 30th, 2013 OLC attended the Developers for Good Meetup organized by Vanessa Hurst and hosted by ThoughtWorks.  Here is our recap: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:33:48 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-30th-2013-prince-building-tech-talks-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/Prince-Building-Tech-Talks/events/96707652/?a=ea1_grp&rv=ea1&_af_eid=96707652&_af=event On Wednesday, January 30, 2013, OLC attended Prince Building Tech Talks Meetup hosted by ZocDocs and featuring Ryan Nitz of 10gen and Ana Hevesi of Nodejitsu. Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:10:16 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-29th-2013-ny-gaming-meetups-january-nyc-gaming-demo.html http://www.meetup.com//gaming/events/calendar/ On Tuesday, January 29, 2013, OLC attended NY Gaming Meetup's January NYC Gaming Demo held at Microsoft and featuring seven demos from Andrew Garrahan, Andy Wallace, Bez Arkush, David Kuelz, Glen Straub and Andrew Kallen, Jesse Freeman and Roger Purcell. Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:28:10 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-28th-2013-disruptive-technologists-in-nyc-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com//Disruptive-Technologists-in-NYC/events/calendar/ On Monday, January 28, 2013, OLC attended Disruptive Technologists' second Meetup held at New York Institute of Technology. There were four speakers: J. Skyler Fernandes, Chairman at CareBooker.com, Michael Chiang, Founder and CEO of MatchPuppy.com, Dr. Justin Bazal, Optometrist and owner of Park Slope Eye, and Andres F. Campanella of LoCreep.com. The event was moderated by event organizer, Lauren Keyson. Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:57:14 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-25th-2013-hackshackers-nyc-algorithms-art-andamp-authorship.html http://meetupnyc.hackshackers.com/events/99458072/?eventId=99458072&action=detail On Thursday, January 25, 2013, OLC attended Hacks/Hackers NYC: Algorithms, Art & Authorship hosted at Meetup HQ and featuring Jer Thorp. Thorp is an artist and educator using algorithms as computational and artistic, creative instruments. He discussed the use of algorithm to solve every day problems and designing architectural problems. Sat, 02 Feb 2013 08:41:27 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-24th-2013-ny-video-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/nyvideo/events/98586862/ On January 24th, 2013 OLC attended the NY Video Meetup held at Columbia University's Warren Hall and featuring presentations by Vidwala, NowThis News, Montaj & NYVS. Fri, 01 Feb 2013 05:45:26 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-23rd-2013-goodniks-new-year-new-social-enterprise-tech-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/goodnik/events/93915392/ On January 23rd, 2013 OLC attended Goodnik's New Year, New Social Enterprise Tech Meetup hosted by New Work City at 412 Broadway. Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:38:19 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-23rd-2013-content-conversations-branded-content-in-the-social-realm-with-buzzfeed-andamp-ge.html http://www.meetup.com/contentconversations/events/98758842/ On Wednesday, January 23, 2013, OLC attended Content Conversations: Branded Content in the Social Realm with BuzzFeed's Jonathan Perelman & GE's Katrina Craigwell and hosted by Outbrain. Shane Snow, the co-founder of Contently moderated the conversation, asking questions to Jonathan Perelman, VP of Agency Strategy and Industry Development at BuzzFeed and Katrina Craigwell, Lead Digital Content Editor at GE.   Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:47:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-22nd-2013-responsive-web-design-nyc-meetup--andquotthe-basics-learning-the-essentials-to-design-responsivelyandquot.html http://www.meetup.com/ResponsiveWebDesign/events/75661152/ On January 22nd, 2013, OLC attended the Responsive Web Design NYC January Meetup - "The Basics! Learning the Essentials to Design Responsively", hosted by Meetup and featuring a conversation with Clarissa Peterson. Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:44:27 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-22nd-2013-ny-gamings-meetup--deep-dive-how-to-master-prototyping-your-game-idea-on-paper.html http://www.meetup.com/gaming On Tuesday, January 22, 2013, OLC attended NYGaming's Deep Dive: "How To Master Prototyping Your Game Idea on Paper" hostedd by AOL. The event's keynote speaker, Joshua DeBonis, is the CEO of Sortasoft Games and he is an award-winning game developer. Sortasoft Games is an indie game studio in Brooklyn. DeBonis is currently developing a historical RPG game, Meriwether, which is in full-force production. Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:25:13 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-19th-2013-the-hatchery--new-york-dot-comers-andquotraju-rishi-on-vc-investing-in-companiesandquot.html http://events.hatchery.vc/events/96074022/?eventId=96074022&action=detail On Friday, January 19, 2013, OLC attended the Hatchery's event on venture capitalists featuring Raju Rishi, an experienced technology entrepreneur and executive that helps early-stage startups become successful. He has founded two companies and served as an advisor on numerous startups. Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:06:37 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-17th-2013-mobile-web-ny-meetup-andquothtml5--monetization-games-frameworks-es6-and-moreandquot.html http://www.meetup.com/Mobile-Web-New-York/events/95674842/ On Thursday, January 17, 2013, OLC attended Mobile Web New York's "HTML5 - Monetization, Games frameworks, ES6 and more" event at Dada. There were three presentations on HTML5 Mobile web app monetization strategies, creating cross-platform games with one HTML5 code base, and on ES6. Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:14:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-16th-2013-the-hatcherys-andquotare-you-seriousandquot.html http://events.hatchery.vc/events/95810772/?a=ea1_grp&eventId=95810772&action=detail&rv=ea1&rv=ea1 On Wednesday, January 16th, OLC attended The Hatchery's, “Are you Serious?” Meetup, hosted by Chadbourne & Park, where five (5) different startup businesses presented their business plans to a panel of VC's including Klifer Capital's Sachin Jade, Paladin Capital's Bill Reinisch and First Mark Capital's Paul Cianciolo.                                        http://www.klifercapital.com   http://www.paladincapgroup.com         http://www.firstmarkcap.com Fri, 25 Jan 2013 06:34:15 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-16th-2013-internet-society-ny-chapters-captive-audience-the-future-of-information-in-america.html http://www.meetup.com/isoc-ny/events/97652892/ On Wednesday, January 16, 2013, OLC attended Internet Society's event at Cardozo School of Law. Susan Crawford was the features speaker at the event titled, Captive Audience: The Future of Information in America, which is the title of her newest book about the current state of Internet providers and why Americans pay so much for high speed Internet access. Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:34:10 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-15th-2013-ny-enterprise-technology-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/ny-enterprise-tech/ On Tuesday, January 15, 2013, OLC attended the monthly NY Enterprise Technology Meetup hosted by the law firm Cooley LLP. The featured demos were eZ Systems, a globally recognized commercial, open source content management software provider; Pursway, a big data algorithm developer that identifies social networks of customers and key influencers in that network; MemSQL, an in-house memory database for real-time analytics founded by former Facebook engineers; and Visual Revenue, a platform that helps media organizations and editors set the best possible front page using their content and layout. http://www.cooley.com Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:55:02 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-15th-2013-ny-hardware-startups-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/NY-Hardware-Start-up/events/95142882/ On January 15th, 2013 OLC attended NY Hardware Startups Meetup 5th Event, hosted by BMWi Ventures at 95 Morton Street. Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:09:50 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/guest-post-gov-20-what-to-do-about-aaron-swartz-andamp-the-officials-you-dont-get-to-vote-on.html   http://ibreakfast.blogspot.com   I never met Aaron nor do I use Reddit. Once in a while I ran into JSTOR online – the database he is accused of hacking - and I do appreciate his involvement in RSS. In other words, I am an indirect beneficiary of the people like him who shaped the Internet. I am part of the Internet “crowd.”   Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:53:32 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-10th-2013-ultra-light-startups-investor-feedback-forum.html http://www.ultralightstartups.com On Thursday, January 10, 2013, OLC attended Ultra Light Startups hosted by Graham Lawlor and David Carlos. The forum featured nine pitches and four panelists. The pitches were from Glyph, Curioos, Vestorly, Vidaao, NimbusBase, Freshneck, Sumpto, Content Galaxy and Mana Health. The panelists were BHV's Bradley Harrison, Lerer Ventures' Eric Hippeau, iNovia Capital's Geoff Judge and Paladin Capital Group's William Reinisch.               http://www.bhv.vc            http://www.lererventures.com                                   http://www.inoviacapital.com       http://www.paladincapgroup.com Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:00:30 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-10th-2013-anthrotech-meetup-education-andamp-technology.html http://www.meetup.com/AnthroTech-Anthropology-in-Technology/events/97495212/ On Thursday, January 10th OLC covered the AnthroTech Meetup: Education and Technology, held at NYU's Kimball Hall and packed with a predominantly academic crowd. Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:44:12 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-9th-2013-ny-enterprise-search-user-group-meetup-andquotsearch-driven-design-patterns-for-sharepoint-2013andquot.html http://www.meetup.com/EnterpriseSearch/events/95662852/ On January 9th 2013, OLC attended the NY Enterprise Search User Group Meetup which covered the topic, “Search-Driven Design Patterns for SharePoint 2013”.  The event was held at Microsoft's offices at 1290 Avenue of the Americas. Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:32:03 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-9th-2013-ny-fintech-startups-meetup-andquotvc-panel-raising-capital-in-fintech-and-2013-forecastandquot.html http://www.meetup.com/NY-FinTech-Startups/events/91307102/ On Wednesday, January 9th, OLC attended the NY Fintech Startups Meetup, where several venture capital firms discussed capital raising strategies for future entrepreneurs and their 2013 predictions. Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:19:12 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-8th-2013-digital-creatives-new-york-meetup-andquotthe-art-of-being-found-on-google-seo-101andquot.html http://www.meetup.com/DigitalCreatives/ On January 8th, 2013 OLC attended the Digital Creatives NYC Meetup, "The Art of Being Found on Google: SEO 101", hosted by Wix Lounge. Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:06:54 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-8th-2013-digital-marketing-professionals-2013-kickoff-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/Digital-Marketing-Professionals-Brands-and-Agencies-NYC/events/97489442/ On Tuesday, January 8th, OLC attended Digital Marketing Professionals 2013 Kickoff Meet Up where several panelists offered their expertise on the consumer engagement and marketing world.   Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:09:24 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-9th-2013-ny-legal-hackers-roundtable-iv-hacking-the-law-of-fashion-design.html On Wednesday, January 9, 2013, OLC attended NY Legal Hackers' event, Roundtable IV: Hacking the Law of Fashion Design, featuring Joseph Murphy, Peter Fields and Jeff Trexler. Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:59:44 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-8th-2013-ny-tech-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/ On January 8, 2013, OLC attended NYTech Meetup's presentations featuring 10gen, CouchCachet, Disaster Remote Response, HeTexted, PeopleHunt, Maker's Row, GoldRun, Sherpaa, Karma and Voluntarily. Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:31:42 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/guest-post-ces-2013-qualcomms-buzzy-keynote.html http://www.popularindustry.com Day 1 at CES 2013 and instead of the usual keynote made by Microsoft, Qualcomm took the stage with a much more eccentric/weird/surreal approach. Coining the phrase “Generation M”, 3 actors were on stage representing 3 types of young mobile users: The Gamer, The Entrepreneur, and The Socialite. Their dialog boasted what it means to be born mobile. Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:31:48 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-7th-2013-foundersfail-featuring-a-conversation-with-adaptly-founder-nikhil-sethi.html http://www.foundersatfail.com On Monday, January 7, 2013, OLC attended Founders@Fail featuring Nikhil Sethi of Adaptly. The conversation ranged from finding a co-founder to dealing with investors and scaling business culture. Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:33:57 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/guest-post-why-we-need-to-rethink-our-fears-of-crowdfunding.html http://www.ibreakfast.com   Why we need to rethink our fears of Crowdfunding. Is fraud really the big issue in equity crowdfunding? According to this article, the SEC thinks so. As a result JOBS Act regulations allowing equity crowdfunding is being delayed by as much as a year.    Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:23:18 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-3rd-2013-embracing-technology-to-grow-your-business-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/NYC-Business-Technology-and-Cyber-Security/events/94361482/ On Thursday, January 3rd, OLC attended the Embracing Technology to Grow Your Business Meetup, Explore Social Media, where different companies talked about how they protect their social media. Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:17:34 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-3rd-2013-the-product-group-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/TheProductGroup/ On Thursday, January 3, 2013, OLC attended the Product Group's event at Viacom featuring Jared Raskin, Manager, Site & Subscriber Analytics at Weight Watchers.com. The meetup was to answer questions and provide suggestions on how to develop customer acquisition and retain customers. Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:01:35 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/guest-post-why-pixable-is-worth-265-million-vs-pinterests-15-billion.html   It is not often that you get an inside look at the critical moment of a company’s development - and then a chance to see the outcome. Now that Pixable has been sold for 26 million while an arguably similar company, Pinterest, is now valued at around $1.5bn - we have a rare moment to make a comparison.   Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:53:49 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/guest-post-yahoos-new-homepage-design.html http://www.popularindustry.com There have been a few versions of the new Yahoo homepage designs circulating the net.  TechCrunch talked about a version using large tiles similar to those live tiles found on Windows 8 design in early November.  More recently, a version that is mobile-minded using responsive design with more pictures and fewer text links has been released for testing.  According to All Things D, Yahoo was going to veer toward a "mobile-first" sensibility. Sun, 06 Jan 2013 08:27:18 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/sda-lighting-hires-olc-to-sublease-29th-street-prebuilt.html SDA Lighting, a leading manufacturers' representative for commercial and residential lighting systems, has recently engaged OfficeLeaseCenter.com to market and sublease their former NYC showroom and offices at 129 West 29th Street.  SDA was the initial tenant to sign a lease in the property after the landlord's complete renovation and repositioning of the building as a Penn Plaza/Chelsea boutique office property.  The existing installation, custom prebuilt by the landlord for SDA's occupancy, is brand new and features lighting upgrades provided by the tenant. Sun, 06 Jan 2013 08:19:08 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-2nd-2013-drupal-nyc-meetup.html http://groups.drupal.org/node/274448 On Wednesday, January 2nd, OLC attended the Drupal NYC Meetup, which featured different aspects of Drupal development. Sun, 06 Jan 2013 08:03:58 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/january-2nd-2013-startup-pitch-night-at-bar-13.html http://www.meetup.com/New-York-Startup-Pitch-Night/ On Wednesday, January 2, 2013, OLC attended Startup Pitch Night at Bar 13. There were over 30 pitches at the event. The pitches were 60 seconds in length and the audience was to provide feedback through voting done online (accessed by phones or computers or any other mobile device). The winner of the pitch won a significant prize to help progress their startup. Craig Delsack, Counselor at Law at NYCCounsel.com presented on legality of intellectual property and trademarking brands and finding a co-founder. Sat, 05 Jan 2013 10:45:04 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/q-what-is-a-good-guy-guarantee.html A. A “good guy” guarantee is a limited personal guarantee for a lease obligation. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 08:17:54 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/q-how-is-a-tenant-billed-for-electricity-charges.html A. Electricity charges can be billed to the tenant in one of three ways: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:12:26 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/december-20th-2012-nyc-machine-learning-meetup-at-pivotal-labs-featuring-joseph-turian-of-metaoptimize.html NYC Machine Learning http://www.meetup.com/NYC-Machine-Learning/events/94467162/ On Thursday, December 20th, 2012, OLC attended the NYC Machine Learning Meetup at Pivotal Labs featuring Joseph Turian, head of MetaOptimize. He consults on machine learning, natural language processing and predictive analysis. Turian talked about crowd-learning programming patterns and its current state and where the tech market is moving towards. Wed, 26 Dec 2012 10:26:21 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/december-19th-2012-new-york-gaming-meetups-demo-night-at-microsoft.html http://www.meetup.com/gaming/events/93241222/ On Wednesday, December 19th, 2012, OLC attended New York Gaming Meetup's Demo Night at Microsoft. Six groups presented their games: Traci Lawson of Taptiles, Michael Weiksner of Tip or Skip, Dat Nguyen of Smart Kick, Vianel Aquino of Wavelogy, Muse Games presenting Guns of Icarus and Noah Sasso presenting BaraBariBall. Mon, 24 Dec 2012 09:12:57 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/december-18th-2012-ny-enterprise-technology-meetup-featuring-keynote-by-union-square-ventures-fred-wilson.html http://www.meetup.com/ny-enterprise-tech/events/85608032/ On December 18th, 2012, OLC attended New York Enterprise Technology Meetup's December event featuring Union Square Venture's Fred Wilson. There were three presenters: Tracx—a SaaS-based (Software as a Service) unified social intelligence platform, JouleX—a leading innovator in sustainable energy management for the enterprise and SoMoLend—a web-based lending platform that connects small business borrowers with individual lenders.  The presentations were followed by keynote speaker, Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, who gave a short talk about network effects in enterprise technology. Sun, 23 Dec 2012 07:53:45 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/december-14th-2012-the-hatchery--new-york-dot-comers-featuring-espncoms-john-kosner.html http://events.hatchery.vc/events/87196202/?eventId=87196202&action=detail On Friday, December 14th, 2012, OLC attended The Hatchery - New York Dot Comer's event featuring John Kosner, head of ESPN.com. Sat, 22 Dec 2012 09:28:43 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/december-13th-2012-ultra-light-startups-december-investor-feedback-forum.html http://www.ultralightstartups.com On December 13th, 2012, OLC attended Ultra Light Startups December Investor Feedback Forum hosted by Graham Lawlor of Ultra Light Startups and Mary Howard of MIT Enterprise Forum.  The event was held at the offices of Microsoft at 1290 Avenue of the Americas. Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:48:07 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/december-13th-2012-new-york-sports-tech-meetup-featuring-qfive.html http://www.meetup.com/NYSportsTech/events/91671632/ On Thursday December 13th, OLC attended the New York Sports Tech Meetup featuring the company Qfive. Thu, 20 Dec 2012 08:16:30 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/december-13th-2012-publishing-tech-meetup-nytimes-vp-of-tech-brad-kagawa-on-building-their-custom-cms.html http://www.meetup.com/publishingtech/events/92669092/ On December 13th, 2012, OLC attended Publishing Tech Meetup's event: NYTimes Vice President of Technology Brad Kagawa on Building the Times' Custom CMS at Contently HQ. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:42:56 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/december-12th-2012-open-analytics-nyc-using-open-source-technologies-for-social-network-analyis.html http://www.meetup.com/Open-Analytics-NYC/events/90259062/ On Wednesday, December 12th, 2012, OLC attended Open Analytics' NYC: Using Open Source Technologies for Social Network Analysis featuring Craig Vitter, Product Evangelist for IKANOW and Jason Capehart, Data Scientist for Research and Development Ventures, New York Times. Vitter spoke about exploring strategies and methods for extracting and harvesting data from social media sources. Capehart talked about the Cascade project, "which allows for precise analysis of the structures which underlie sharing activity on the web." Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:21:33 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/olc-revives-internet-speed-to-real-estate-leases.html Remember back in 1999 when technology companies talked about getting things done at “internet speed”?  Unfortunately, the real estate industry has slowed down since then.  OfficeLeaseCenter.com has worked hard to maintain internet speed in leasing office space so technology companies can find new offices quickly.  Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:46:09 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/san-diegobased-slacker-inc-relocates-nyc-office-to-19-west-21st-street-in-flatiron-district.html http://www.slacker.com Slacker, Inc., the creators of Slacker Personal Radio, a music personalization suite has recently signed a lease for a portion of the 10th floor at 19 West 21st Street.  The property is a boutique, twelve-story, 130,000 square foot office property constructed in 1894 and currently owned by Professional Consortium Ltd. Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:33:39 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/december-11th-2012-content-conversations-how-content-is-changing-the-way-we-shop.html http://www.meetup.com/contentconversations/events/93510792/ On Tuesday December 11th, OLC attended Content Conversation’s How Content Is Changing The Way We Shop, with Etsy's Editor-in-Chief. The event was sponsored by Outbrain and Contently, and featured Alison Feldmann, Chief Editor at Etsy and Erin Griffith of PandoDaily. Tue, 18 Dec 2012 06:40:33 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/december-10th-2012-technapex-nyc-edtech-event-open-and-social-education.html http://technapex-nyc-open-and-social-education.eventbrite.com/ On Monday, December 10th, OLC attended Technapex NYC EdTech Event: Open and Social Education. The event featured the following companies: Jeremy Johnson,cofounder and President of Undergraduate Programs at 2U (formerly known as 2tor); Nihal Parthasarathi, cofounder of CourseHorse; Hunter Horsley, marketing and operations lead at Lore and Eric Ma, engineer at Skillshare. The event was moderated by Laura Pappano, award-winning journalist, author and blogger. Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:11:57 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/december-11th-2012-ny-intrapreneur-event-innovation-in-the-enterprise.html http://www.meetup.com/NY-Intrapreneur-Innovation-in-the-Enterprise/events/88679482/ On Tuesday, December 11th, 2012, OLC attended NY Intrapreneur: Innovation in the Enterprise event, The Six Phases of Effective Decision Making. Doug Sundheim was presenting to help the intrapreneurs make effective and quality decisions and develop trust throughout their teams. Sun, 16 Dec 2012 08:32:15 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/december-10th-2012-prince-building-tech-talks-meetup-bootstrapping-your-startup-in-the-cloud.html http://www.meetup.com/Prince-Building-Tech-Talks/events/88383612/ On Monday, December 10th, 2012, OLC attended Prince Building Tech Talks Meetup: Bootstrapping Your Startup in the Cloud with Andy Parsons of Happify and Meghan Gill of 10gen. Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:01:50 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/mayor-bloomberg-launches-competition-to-install-free-fiber-cable-wiring-in-growing-businesses-across-nyc.html Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced the launch of ConnectNYC, an innovative City-sponsored competition to encourage growing commercial and industrial businesses in New York City to apply for free fiber cable wiring and to ensure the City continues to establish itself as a leader in connectivity and innovation. The competition – one of a suite of initiatives originally announced by Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert K. Steel in June – is designed to assist small or medium-sized businesses in unwired or underwired buildings by providing an opportunity for free, fast-track wiring. Beginning today, companies can apply through a competitive process being... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:41:16 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/december-5th-2012-ny-fintech-startups-meetup-featuring-bain-capital-ventures-and-clearserve.html http://www.meetup.com/NY-FinTech-Startups/events/83042442/ On Wednesday, December 5th, 2012, OLC attended the December NY FinTech Startups Meetup featuring Matt Harris of Bain Capital Ventures and High Nguyen of ClearServe. Wed, 12 Dec 2012 06:16:16 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/december-4th-2012-ny-tech-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/events/74527462/ On December 4th, 2012, OLC attended NY Tech Meetup's December 2012 event at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Ten startups presented their platforms: Punch.is, Betterment, Glide, BackSpace, Pling, Hacker Union, Luci, Boxee, LittleBits, and Reveal.is & rvl.io. Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:47:36 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/december-4th-2012-mit-enterprise-forum-of-nycs-startup-showcase.html https://mefny.memberclicks.net/ On Tuesday December 4th, OLC attended MIT Enterprise Forum of NYC’s Startup Showcase: Innovations in Products and Services Distribution. The showcase featured five disruptive early-stage tech startup companies pitching their ideas to a seasoned panel of experts. The panel included; Jeffrey Parkinson, Director for KEC Holdings; Geoff Scneider, Managing Partner and Founder at Cava Capital and Lori Hoberman, partner at Chadbourne & Parke LLP. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:07:16 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/december-3rd-2012-ny-mobile-apps-mobile-app-pitch-showdown.html                                       http://www.meetup.com/nycapps/  http://www.appstori.com  http://nyalley.com http://www.meetup.com/nycapps/events/91128822/ On Monday, December 3rd, 2012, OLC attended NYC Mobile Apps' Mobile App Pitch Showdown, co-organized by AppStori and hosted by AlleyNYC. Five panelists were present, acting as commentators for the startups: Charlie O'Donnell, VC at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures; Chieh Huang, Director of Zynga NY; Nihal Mehta, Founding General Partner at ENIAC Ventures; Heather Hromoho, Director of Global Monetization at Millennial Media; and Sim Blaustein, Principal Partner at Bertelsmann Venture Capital. There were seven startups presenting: Room Hints, NiteEvo, Find Your Lobster, Psyqic,... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:49:18 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/november-29th-2012-digital-dumbo-social--its-a-digital-mission.html http://brooklyn.digitaldumbo.com/events/dd-social-it-s-a-digital-mission-presented-by-uk-trade-investment On Thursday November 29th, 2012, OLC attended dd:SOCIAL - It's A Digital Mission presented by UK Trade & Investment and hosted by Digital Dumbo. Sat, 08 Dec 2012 08:27:19 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/november-29th-2012-ny-enterprise-technology-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/ny-enterprise-tech/events/85607682/ On Thursday, November 29th, 2012, OLC attended the NY Enterprise Technology Meetup to see four promising startups pitch their product: Namely, Dwolla, Vaultive and Badgeville all presented their platforms. Fri, 07 Dec 2012 08:42:11 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/november-28th-2012-inaugural-disruptive-technologists-in-nyc-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/Disruptive-Technologists-in-NYC/events/89599532/ On Wednesday November 28th, OLC attended the inaugural Disruptive Technologists in NYC meetup. The event featured a panel of experts including; Murat Aktihanoglu of Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator; Nelly Yusupova, CTO of Webgrrls International; Steve Rosenbaum, CEO of Magnify.net; Joe Rubin, Director and Co-Founder of FundingPost.com; and Joanne L. Scillitoe, Ph.D, Director, Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at host, New York Institute of Technology. Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:19:09 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/november-28th-2012-content-conversations-is-curation-and-art-or-a-science.html http://www.meetup.com/contentconversations/events/91707492/ On Wednesday, November 28th, 2012, OLC attended Content Conversations: Is Curation an Art or a Science? A Discussion with Techmeme's Gabe Rivera and hosted by Outbrain. Gabe Rivera, founder of Techmeme was the speaker and Steve Kovach, Business Insider's founding editor was the moderator. Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:15:28 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/november-27th-2012-ny-tech-councils-legal-essentials-for-startups-part-2-of-3-financing-the-entity.html https://www.nytech.org/events/financing-the-entity On Tuesday November 27th, OLC attended NY Tech Council's Legal Essentials for Startups: Part 2 of 3: Financing the Entity. The panel featured Paul Ellis, Principal at Paul Ellis Law Group LLC; Frode Jensen, Partner at Holland & Knight LLP; and Jerrold Spiegel, Partner at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz. Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:50:11 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/november-27th-2012-nyc-gaming-november-meetup-demo-night.html http://www.meetup.com/gaming/events/87227722/ On November 27th, 2012, OLC attended NYCGaming's Demo Night held at Microsoft. There were six game presenters and one presenting tips on in-game monetization. Joshua DeBonis presented Meriwether, Scott Rapp presented Instreamia, Greg Irwin presented BigTwist, Eric Schwertzel presented Deckdaq, John Nguyen presented Super Bunny Breakout, Ien Cheng presented Grasshopper and Glen Straub of Millenial Media gave tips on in-game monetization. Sun, 02 Dec 2012 07:49:21 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/november-26th-2012-html5-meetups-create-the-web-tour.html http://www.meetup.com/how-to-javascript/events/84346652/ On Monday, November 26, 2012, OLC attended the HTML5 Meetup's Create the Web Tour featuring Christophe Coenrats and Andrew Trice of Adobe and hosted by Kaltura. They gave an extensive talk on the new features of HTML 5 and its capabilities. Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:17:36 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/after-sandy-make-a-plan-to-run-your-business-and-find-office-space-in-nyc.html Prepare For Future Disasters With A Plan To Protect Your Office Space In NYC If you thought that an occasional snow storm was the biggest natural disaster your business could face, Hurricane Sandy probably changed your mind. The storm that devastated the New Jersey Shore also brought flooding, power outages, subway and airline interruption, widespread closings, and shipping and mail stoppages to many boroughs in New York City and beyond for several days or more. Many were flooded out of their office space in NYC and even their home offices. Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:57:48 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/november-20th-2012-nyc-data-business-meetup-10.html http://www.meetup.com/NYC-Data-Business-Meetup/events/90211062/ On November 20th, 2012 OLC attended the NYC Data Business Meetup #10 hosted by Matt Turck of Bloomberg Ventures and featuring panelists Christopher Ahlberg of Recorded Future, Josh Becker of LexMachina, Hjalmar Gislason of DataMarket and Nicholas Bonnadio of NumberFire. Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:05:30 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/november-20th-2012-nyc-mysql-groups-building-fast-scalable-database-apps-the-easy-way.html http://www.nycsql.com/events/85363422/ On Tuesday, November 20th, 2012, OLC attended The New York City MySQL Group's Building Fast Scalable Database Apps the Easy Way, an event held at AppNexus featuring Ariel Weisberg, Software Engineer for VoltDB. At the event, Weisberg explained and demonstrated the features of VoltDB as well as the upcoming changes in VoltDB 3.0. Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:05:54 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/november-19th-2012-nyc-technology-startups-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-startup-law.html http://www.meetup.com/NYC-Technology-Startups/events/calendar/ On Monday, November 19, 2012, OLC attended NYC Technology Startups' Everything You Wanted To Know About Startup Law at Pivotal Labs. Roman Fichman, a startup-friendly attorney specializing in startups, internet law, intellectual property and technology, and Boris Segalis, partner of InfoLawGroup, specializing in social media, e-commerce, data confidentiality, privacy and security gave their talk in front of a very enthusiastic audience. Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:47:40 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/for-occasional-office-space-in-nyc-consider-a-shared-office-space.html Only Need Occasional Office Space In NYC? Shared Office Space Might Be The Perfect Solution Wed, 21 Nov 2012 06:33:19 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/november-14th-2012-ultra-light-startups-future-energy-investor-feedback-forum.html http://ultralightstartups.com/2012/november-2012-pitch-contest-winners/ On Wednesday, November 14th, 2012, OLC attended Ultra Light Startups' Future Energy Investor Feedback Forum held at NYU's Stern School of Business. Four panelists: Andrew Garman of New Venture Partners, Arrun Kapoor of SJF Ventures, JimLoGerfo of Earthrise Capital, and Willem Rensink of Shell International, and eight startups: Alan Rae of ReNew, Paul Schwartz of ThermoLift, James Shomar of Solstice Power, Robert Lumley of KiteFarms, Tinia Pina of Re-Nuble, James Smith of Lucidity Lights, Derek Grassman of Kohilo Wind, and Gail Busch of Algepower were present. Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:04:10 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/november-13th-2012-ny-tech-meetups-academic-night.html http://nytm.org/events/meetup/november-13-2012-nytm On Tuesday, November 13th, 2012, OLC attended NYTech Meetup's Academic Night held at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Twelve presenters demoed their startups and drew a lot of attention to their innovative products. Mon, 19 Nov 2012 06:52:45 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/november-12th-2012-new-york-city-mysql-groups-appnexus-ad-platform-event.html http://www.nycsql.com/events/78001362/?eventId=78001362&action=detail On Monday, November 12th, 2012, OLC attended The New York City MySQL Group's AppNexus Ad Platform Event: Building For Scale with NoSQL, MySQL, Hadoop and more. Mike Nolet, CTO and co-founder of AppNexus gave the talk and answered questions from the audience. Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:12:43 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/november-8th-2012-geoweb-summit-fall-2012-at-the-dumbo-spot.html http://geowebsummit.com/fall2012/ On Thursday November 8th, 2012, OLC attended the Geoweb Summit Fall 2012 at The Dumbo Spot in Brooklyn. Panel three discussed location data insights and featured David Petersen, CEO of Sense Networks; Kipp Jones, Chief Architect of Skyhook; David Shim, CEO of Placed and Drew Volpe, CTO of Locately. Panel four discussed proximity marketing in retail and featured Keith Fiore, CEO of Zenplaya; Brett Martin, CEO of Sonar; Mike Gamaroff, founder of LifeSynk and Lee Karchawer, National Sales Manager at Placecast. Thu, 15 Nov 2012 08:20:49 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/november-8th-2012-new-york-gaming-meetups-nyc-gaming-conversation.html On Thursday, November 8th, 2012, OLC attended New York Gaming Meetup's NYC Gaming Conversation: Monetization at Baruch College. A panel of three—plus a moderator were present at the event and gave short presentations: Wade Tinney (CEO, Founding Partner) of Large Animal Games, Glen Nigel Straub (Global Monetization Solutions) of Millennial Media, Deepa Muralikrishnan (General Manager, Global Payments) of Live Gamer, and Paul Canetti (CEO) of MAZ Digital. http://www.meetup.com/gaming/ Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:55:32 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/november-7th-2012-prince-building-tech-talks-the-state-of-nyc-investing.html      On Wednesday, November 7th, 2012, OLC attended Prince Building Tech Talks: The State of NYC Investing hosted by ZocDoc. Two presenters gave short demos: Matt Witheiler, Principal at Flybridge Capital Partners and two members of the Thrillist Media Group—Jay Chinthrajah and Ken Peltzer. http://www.meetup.com/Prince-Building-Tech-Talks    http://www.zocdoc.com Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:23:02 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/november-7th-2012-ny-fintech-startups-event-featuring-localbonus-and-bloomberg-ventures.html On Wednesday November 7th, OLC attended the November NY FinTech Startups event. The evening featured Derek Webster, Founder/CEO of LocalBonus and Matt Turck of Bloomberg Ventures. http://www.meetup.com/NY-FinTech-Startups Sun, 11 Nov 2012 08:11:50 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/november-5th-2012-foundersfail-pitching-publishers--the-dos-andamp-donts-of-selling-into-big-media.html On Monday, November 5th, 2012, OLC attended Founders@Fail: Pitching Publishers: The Do's and Don'ts of Selling Into Big Media. Four panelists: Bryan Birsic of SimpleReach, Dennis Mortensen of Visual Revenue, Shafqat Islam of NewsCred and Jake Dunlap of ChartBeat were questioned by Schuyler Brown, the moderator and host of Founders@Fail. http://www.foundersatfail.com Sat, 10 Nov 2012 08:54:58 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/october-25th-2012-enterprise-tech-meetup-best-practices-in-startup-hiring.html On Thursday October 25th, OLC attended Enterprise Tech Meetup: Best Practices in Startup Hiring. The evening featured the following presenters: David Teten, Partner at ff Venture Capital, Sean MacIsaac, CTO at Yext, Debbie Madden, Senior Vice President at Cyrus Innovation and Daniel Chait, CoFounder at Greenhouse. http://www.meetup.com/enterprisetech/ Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:16:36 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/october-25th-2012-ny-tech-councils-legal-essentials-for-startups-part-1.html On Thursday, October 25, 2012, OLC attended NYTech Council's Legal Essentials for Startups: Part 1 of 3: Organizing the Entity, at Anchin. Three panelists were present—Frode Jensen, Partner at Holland & Knight LLP; Glen K. Westerback, Associate at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz; and Paul Ellis, Principal at Paul Ellis Law Group LLC. http://www.nytech.org Mon, 05 Nov 2012 06:58:47 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/october-24th-2012-nyc-mobile-forums-october-mobile-demo-night.html On Wednesday October 24th, 2012, OLC attended NYC Mobile Forum’s October Mobile Demo Night. The evening featured presentations by start- up companies BuzzVote, Blaboid, Hubbl, Aquent Talent App and the Jillian Michaels Slim Down Solutions App. Each company had the chance to present their app and take questions from the audience. http://www.meetup.com/NYCMobile/ Sun, 04 Nov 2012 17:49:47 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/october-23rd-2012-hackshackers-ny-event-displaying-data-on-mobile-devices.html On Tuesday, October 23, 2012, OLC attended Hacks/Hackers NY: Displaying Data on Mobile Devices at the Hilton Hotel. Panelists Luke Miller, senior UX architect and mobile lead for The Wall Street Journal and Zach Seward, Senior Editor of Quartz (qz.com) presented. http://meetupnyc.hackshackers.com/ Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:52:03 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/october-22nd-2012-new-york-gaming-meetup-demo-night.html On Monday, October 22, 2012, OLC attended New York Gaming Meetup's Demo Night at Microsoft where seven game developers took the stage to showcase their platforms. http://www.meetup.com/gaming/ Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:44:34 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/insiders-look-at-hot-new-office-neighborhood-times-square-south.html Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:47:35 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/gadgets-reinvent-the-work-environment-reduce-waste-improve-efficiency.html By using smartphones, tablets and laptops in the workplace, companies can look for smaller office space for lease, opening the doors for telecommuting and a paperless office. Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:37:18 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/grovo-expands-leases-loft-space-on-19th-street-in-gramercy-park.html Grovo, an an online training and education platform that helps people find and use websites, has recently signed a lease for the entire 7th Floor at 29 East 19th Street.  Grovo signed a lease for 5,500 square feet.  29 East 19th Street is a boutique, eight-story, 48,500 square foot office property constructed in 1924 and currently owned by the S. Axelrod Company. http://www.grovo.com Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:13:04 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/october-18th-2012-nybeta-social-media-edition-social-week.html OLC attended the NYBeta Social Media Edition at AlleyNY on Thursday, October 18, 2012. Fourteen participants were on the floor and each had a special product to promote. http://www.nybeta.org Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:34:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/october-18th-2012-mit-enterprise-forum-of-nyc--operations-andamp-technology-roundtable-discussion.html http://www.mitef-nyc.org/mc/community/eventdetailsPrint.do?print=true&eventId=365876 On Thursday, October 18th, OLC attended the MIT Enterprise Forum of NYC presents: Operations and Technology - Roundtable Discussion for the Venture Capital and Private Equity CFO. This part one of a three part series featured: Nicholas Schiavo, Accounting Director for AltResources; Alex Katz, Partner and CFO, ff Venture Capital; Aron Grossman, CFO and VP of Corporate Development at Voxy and Beth Brinkman, Director of Professional Services US for Vertice Technologies LLC. Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:33:39 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/october-16th-2012-entrepreneurs-roundtable-52-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/messages/42954442/ On Tuesday, October 16, OLC attended the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Meetup 52 at NYU Stern. Akihiko Okamoto gave a brief background of his company, Recruit Strategic Partners Inc., and gave a short presentation about its success. Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:52:51 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/october-16th-2012-future-of-fashion-emerging-startup-series-3-event.html http://futureoffashion-3.eventbrite.com/ On Tuesday, October 16th, OLC attended the Future of Fashion, Emerging Startup Series #3 event at Projective Space. The presentation featured the following companies: Handshake, Clothes Horse, Perch Interactive and D’Marie. Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:37:14 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/october-11th-2012-new-york-gaming-meetup--nyc-gaming-conversation-user-acquisition.html On Thursday, October 11, 2012, OLC attended New York Gaming Meetup's NYC Gaming Conversation event dedicated to probing user acquisition. How does a gaming startup find users for its product? How do you get users to play your game? These questions were asked and answered by the presenters: Arseny Lebedev of Signus Labs, Mattan Griffel of The Front Labs, Fred Kahl of Funny Garbage, and Brian Wane of Smerc Design. http://www.meetup.com/gaming/ Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:38:33 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/october-11th-2012-ny-tech-mixers-fashiontech-demos-andamp-drinks.html http://www.meetup.com/NYTechMixer/events/80805462/ On Thursday, October 11th, OLC attended NY Tech Mixer’s Fashion-Tech Demos & Drinks featuring the following start-up companies: Swaag.it, TrendSeeder, Carrie Hammer custom apparel, Bazaart, Boutiika and Dapprly. Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:17:12 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/october-9th-2012-foundersfail-bringing-bad-news-to-your-board.html On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, OLC attended Founders@Fail held at General Assembly regarding bringing bad news to the startup's board. The panelists included Rudina Sesari of Fairhaven Capital, Owen Davis of SeedStart and Danny Schultz of DFJ Gotham. http://www.foundersatfail.com Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:01:52 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/october-9th-2012-decoded-fashion-the-new-ecommerce--making-content-shoppable.html http://www.meetup.com/Decoded-Fashion/events/78872492/ On Tuesday, October 9th, OLC attended the Decoded Fashion presentation “The New E-Commerce: Making Content Shoppable” featuring the following start-ups: AHALife, Kaleidoscope, 72Lux and FinoFile. The event was hosted at Spaces530, a shared workspace for fashion businesses. Wed, 17 Oct 2012 08:29:19 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/october-4th-2012-xconomy-xchange-reinventing-biotechs-business-model.html http://xconomyxchange6.eventbrite.com/ On Thursday, October 4, OLC attended the Xconomy Xchange at the Alexandria Center. The topic of the evening was Reinventing Biotech’s Business Model for the Big Apple. Wed, 17 Oct 2012 08:10:16 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/october-4th-2012-inside-startups-club-company-presentations.html http://www.meetup.com/insidestartupsclub/events/81376032/ On Thursday, October 4th, OLC attended the Inside Startups Club held at the Chelsea Piers office of Noodle Education,and featuring the following presenters: Noodle Education, 2Tor, Skillshare and EssaySafe. The presenters each discussed their particular startup, and answered audience questions. Sun, 14 Oct 2012 12:25:44 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/october-4th-2012-twilio-meetup-at-union-square-ventures.html http://www.meetup.com/Twilio/New-York-NY/753692/ On Thursday, October 4, 2012, OLC attended the October Twilio Meetup and watched live demos from three members of the hacking community: Colin Nederkoorn, co-founder of Customer.io; Arun Nagarajan, Developer Advocate at Google; and Aditya Mukerjee, hacker on Lobbyists From Last Night.   Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:55:27 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/zen-andamp-the-art-of-shared-office-environments.html A Virtual Office Worker’s Utility Belt of Shared Environments Take one part Regus, mix in a little PowerSPACE, season to taste with Grind and New Work City and accompany with an occasional LooseCube, this is my personal recipe for creating the ultimate affordable and flexible office space in NYC. Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:10:34 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/october-2nd-2012-ny-technology-council-event-content-marketing-beyond-andquotlikingandquot-and-tweeting.html On Tuesday, October 2, 2012, OLC attended New York Technology Council's event on Content Marketing: Beyond "Liking" and Tweeting presented by Ruben Quinones of Path Interactive. http://www.nytech.org Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:45:20 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/october-1st-2012-nyu-startup-week-hacking-industries-event.html http://nyustartupweek-hackingindustries.eventbrite.com/ On Monday, October 1st, OLC attended the NYU Startup Week: Hacking Industries held at Vanderbilt Hall and featuring the following panelist: Jason Baptiste, CEO of Onswipe, Dan Teran, Artist Community Manager of Artsicle, Cindy Gallop, founder of IfWeRanTheWorld and MakeLoveNotPorn.tv, Niels Meersschaert, SVP Technology at LocalResponse and Nick Miller, Government Relations Liasion at Boxee. Tue, 09 Oct 2012 08:42:11 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/september-27th-2012-entrepreneurs-roundtable-51-presentations.html http://er51.eventbrite.com/ On Thursday, September 27, 2012, OLC attended the Entrepreneurs' Roundtable 51 at NYU's Stern School of Business.  Here is our recap: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 07:47:20 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/september-25th-2012-startupfix-at-culturefix-event.html http://startupfix4.eventbrite.com/ OLC recently attended the September 25th, 2012 #Startupfix at Culturefix featuring presentations by Updater, Burn Note and Fitocracy and co-sponsored by TriNet, Flavorpill/Gel, Wakefield and Culturefix. Below is more information on the presenting companies and sponsors: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 22:00:19 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/september-25th-2012-ny-tech-mixers-demos-andamp-drinks-presentations.html http://www.meetup.com/NYTechMixer/?page_start=1356039208868 OLC recently attended NY Tech Mixer’s Demos & Drinks on Tuesday, September 25th.  The event was an evening of networking and live demos Gallery Bar on Orchard Street.  NY Tech Mixer provides the New York Tech community with a space where members can meet, socialize, and talk tech in a fun and informal setting and the format is a mix of both networking and demos.  Three startup companies gave lighting-round demos, followed by general networking.  The following were the presenting companies. Sun, 07 Oct 2012 23:39:44 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/september-25th-2012-enterprise-tech-meetup.html On Tuesday, September 25th, 2012, OLC attended the Enterprise Tech Meetup with NYBI Meetup at Microsoft. The event was moderated by Andrew Brust, of ZDNet and Blue Badge Insights. http://www.meetup.com/enterprisetech/ Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:12:23 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/september-24th-2012-nyc-gaming-meetups-demo-night.html http://www.meetup.com/gaming/events/77732032/ On Monday, September 24th, 2012, OLC attended NYC Gaming Meetup's Demo night at Microsoft. Seven startups presented their games to the community. Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:16:03 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/september-20th-2012-entrepreneur-andamp-small-business-forum-choosing-the-right-incubator.html http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/messages/boards/thread/26904432 On Thursday, September 20, OLC attended the Entrepreneur & Small Business Forum. The topic of the evening was Choosing the Right Incubator. Eva Cramer of SUNY Downstate and Jerry Creighton of the Economic Development Center at NJIT presented on the incubators they oversee. Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:02:30 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/september-20th-2012-lean-founders-studio-with-artsicle.html http://www.meetup.com/lean-startup/events/81130792/ On September 20th, OLC attended the Lean Founders Studio discussion featuring Artsicle.  Artsicle, co-founded by Alex Tryon and Scott Carleton, started with Alex trying to buy art from galleries. She found herself getting the run-around from them and so, she decided that she had enough. The idea didn't kick into full force until she and Scott—after talking to a friend who lamented that Kickstarter was a poor platform for artists—realized that this was a great way to enter the art market. Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:12:52 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/september-19th-2012-the-hatchery--are-you-serious-event.html http://events.hatchery.vc/events/41420902/?eventId=41420902&action=detail OLC recently attended the September 19th, 2012 Are You Serious? event sponsored by The Hatchery and held at Mercy College Main Campus in Midtown Manhattan.  Three venture capitalists/investors (Klifer Capital’s Sachin Jade, RTP Ventures’ Kyrill Scheynkman and angel investor Andrew Ackerman) heard presentations from startups Docracy, Stereotypes and Muvi.                                                      http://www.klifercapital.com                                               ... Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:03:22 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/september-18th-2012-pushstart--angelcube-demo-night.html http://australiandemoday.eventbrite.com/ On Tuesday, September 18, 2012, OLC attended the PushStart + AngelCube Demo night. Eight startups presented their companies, expressing a desire to expand into the United States. Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:52:43 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/september-13th-2012-ultra-light-startups-investor-feedback-forum.html http://ultralightstartups.com/2012/september-2012-pitch-contest-winners/ On September 13th, 2012 OLC attended and sponsored Ultra Light Startups’ Investor Feedback Forum held at Columbia University and sponsored by Columbia Entrepreneurs Organization, Columbia Technology Ventures, CVC, InSite, Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLC and Amazon Web Services.  The hosts were Graham Lawlor of Ultra Light Startups and Michael Gold of Clubster and techdrinkup. Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/september-13th-2012-enterprise-tech-innovations-enterprise-insights-working-with-big-brands.html http://www.meetup.com/enterprisetech/events/73451252/ On Wednesday, September 13th, OLC attended the Enterprise Tech Innovation’s Enterprise Insights: Working with Big Brands featuring the following presenters: Alex Horovitz, Partner and COO of AppOrchard; Art Chang, Founder and CEO of AppOrchard; Shawn Cheng, Digital Strategist  at BBDO; Tad Martin, Co-founder and CEO at Collective[i] and Amit Avner, Co-founder and CEO at Taykey. The presenters each answered questions involving big brands in today’s world. Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/september-12th-2012-mit-enterprise-forum-innvoations-in-digital-media-panel.html http://mefny.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=360613 On Tuesday, September 12th, OLC attended the MIT Enterprise Forum of NYC’s Innovations in Digital Media featuring the following presenters: Brightdriver, Cannonball, TinyPass, Appboy and iMediaShare The presenters each pitched their business plans and tactics for their respective start-up company. Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/september-11th-2012-new-york-tech-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/events/74526562/ On Tuesday, September 11th 2012, OLC attended the New York Tech Meetup. Nine companies and one hack pitched, here’s the scoop: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/gramercyone-subleases-former-contextweb-space-at-22-cortlandt-street-from-pulsepoint.html GramercyOne, a leading provider of cloud-based business management and marketing software to businesses, has recently signed a sublease to take over the former ContextWeb space at 22 Cortlandt Street.  The space, located on the eighteenth floor of the building, was formerly occupied by ContextWeb, who recently merged with Datran Media (another OLC client) to form PulsePoint.  GramercyOne signed a sublease for 16,600 square feet, which comprises the entire eighteenth floor. Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/september-11th-2012-ny-enterprise-technology-meetup.html http://www.meetup.com/ny-enterprise-tech/events/76116542/ On Tuesday, September 11, 2012, OLC attended NY Enterprise Technology Meetup hosted by Cooley LLP. The presentations were smart and the panel, enthusiastic and humorous. Demos from Digital Reasoning and Smartling warmed the room up to translation services and big data, and Steve Rosenbush, Deputy Editor of CIO Journal, moderated the panel. Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/september-5th-2012-ny-fintech-startups-meetup-featuring-axialmarket-and-corise.html http://www.meetup.com/NY-FinTech-Startups/events/72746342/ On Wednesday, September 5th, OLC attended NY FinTech Startups Meetup hosted by Day Pitney LLP and featuring executives from AxialMarket and CoRise. Peter Lehrman, founder of AxialMarket presented his story as a founder and Dan Ramsden, a domain expert from CoRise shared insights on his business. Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:59:21 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/september-4th-2012-ignite-fundraisers-event-coverage.html http://www.meetup.com/IGNITE-Fundraisers-monthly-startup-pitch-events/events/75191182/ On Tuesday, September 4th, 2012 OLC attended a presentation hosted by Ignite! It was an evening of quick and speedy sells. Max Shapiro, CEO of PeopleConnect, hosted the company’s monthly startup pitch event and LeClairRyan and Microsoft sponsored the event which took place at Microsoft’s New York City office. Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/the-writing-on-the-real-estate-wall-iscoworking.html Just five years ago in 2007, the commercial office landscape was a different vista.  At that time, if I had proposed to a tenant that they share office space with another unrelated business, I would have been considered crazy.  It would have been weird, like having a roommate, or worse, like sharing an apartment with a total stranger.  This is New York City.. real businesses don’t need to resort to that... Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/locating-your-business-in-the-right-neighborhood-is-vital-to-your-companys-continued-growth-and-success.html Is your firm in the market for office space for lease? Finding the right space in the right location for your start-up firm or growing business is a major undertaking. Many entrepreneurs are turning to a professional tenant representation firm to help them navigate the real estate market in the hottest tech areas. With industry specific real estate knowledge, these experts can help you find the right space in the up and coming area vital to your success as a tech business. Mon, 03 Sep 2012 09:47:38 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/as-the-average-age-of-entrepreneurs-drops-so-does-their-experience-level.html With the constant changing atmosphere in today’s technology world, it is not a surprise that the profile of today’s entrepreneur is a young, creative and bright individual with a new idea and the will and dedication to turn that idea into reality. While this individual provides the talent and ideas necessary to succeed in this industry, he or she often come with less experience in the business world, leaving these new companies vulnerable to difficulties in areas of day to day business execution, including finding commercial office space for rent that will fit the company’s needs. Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/august-28th-2012-digital-signage-to-mobile-screens-event.html http://dooh-mobile-mediacrossmedia-aug-2012.eventbrite.com/ On Tuesday, August 28th, OLC attended Digital Signage to Mobile Screens: "Making way for an Out-of-Home Cross-Screen Marketing Strategy” featuring the following presenters: Michael Scheiner of MWW, Carolyn Kelly Walkin NEC Display Solutions and Don Blanton of the Wow Factor. The presenters each discussed the future and current trends of out-of-home digital marketing. Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:57:54 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/august-22nd-2012-nyupoly-summer-incubation-program-final-presentations.html http://nyupolyeia.org/summer-incubation-program-winners/ On Wednesday August 22nd 2012, OLC attended the final presentations for the NYU/Poly Summer Incubation Program. Judging the presentations were panelists Owen Davis, Ellie Wheeler, Lindsey Marshall and Steven Kuyan.  After each of the five companies made a ten minute business plan presentations, the judges deliberated and gave one group the opportunity to fund their business. Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:53:18 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/august-21st-2012-next-generation-social-media-andamp-seo-event.html http://smallbiznewyork1.eventbrite.com/ On Tuesday, August 21st OLC attended the Next Generation Social Media & SEO - Step it Up! Event hosted by American Airlines.   The event featured panelists Joe Apfelbaum, CEO/Co-founder of Ajax Union and Jenna Burke, Director of PR/Social Media for RealBeanz.  Together they shared their insights and knowledge on what small businesses should really be doing to get their business the attention on the web that it merits.   Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:26:34 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/august-9th-2012-ultra-light-startups-investor-feedback-forum.html http://ultralightstartups.com On Thursday, August 9th, OLC attended Ultra Light Startups’ Investor Feedback Forum featuring the following panelists: David Aronoff of Flybridge Capital Partners, Jim Estill of CanRock Ventures, Weston Gaddy of Bain Capital Ventures and Bill Reinisch of Paladin Capital.  Eight (8) companies pitched, here is our commentary: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/august-1st-2012-crowdfunding-new-opportunities-new-risks.html http://www.gothammediastrategies.com/ OLC was in attendance this week at the Wednesday, August 1st Gotham Media Ventures Event on Crowdfunding: New Opportunities, New Risks. The event, hosted by Wix Lounge on West 18th Street was a panel discussion moderated by Jerry Spiegel, a partner in the law firm of Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz P.C. Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/commercial-office-spaces-and-more-key-ways-business-are-catering-to-the-current-workforce.html   It's no secret that, in order to procure the most talented workforce available in the marketplace, employers need to offer staff a comprehensive range of workplace differentiators. These workplace distinctions not only ensure that they hire the best and brightest, but also help organizations to retain once they've joined the team. Just when business owners thought that they had their fingers planted firmly on the pulse of what GenX and Y'ers were seeking at their places of business, the Millennial employees came of age and joined the mix. These three particular generations have revamped the way that business properties... Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:54:23 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/teaming-with-a-tenant-representative-gets-the-best-value.html   What Does A Tenant Representation Firm Bring To The Table? When leasing office space in New York City, or any other big city, a lot can go wrong. Buyers who opt to go it alone can often find themselves navigating cautiously through unfamiliar waters, unsure of how to not only find the appropriate space, but also how to manage the many logistics that come up at various points throughout the transaction. The result? All too often, buyers enter into lease agreements without fully understanding everything there is to know about the space they are leasing and the landlord they are... Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:42:39 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/olc-featured-in-nyconvergencecom.html OfficeLeaseCenter.com launched recently and has made an impact on many emerging tech companies by helping them connect with people inside NY’s leasing and construction markets. Jack Petrie, a senior VP at CresaPartners, founded the site and has used his contacts and clients in venture capital to help young firms find office space.  Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:52:39 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/the-tao-of-shared-office-space.html Shared office space is becoming more and more popular. As we’ve noted previously, the benefits of sharing an office can include pooled expenses, on-site networking opportunities, professional meeting space, and easy access to the advice of another professional.  But there’s a bit more to shared office space than just choosing your office partners and setting up shop. As in many other relationships, familiarity (and close quarters) can breed all sorts of interpersonal issues.  Addressing some particular subjects at the onset can help keep peace and harmony in your shared space.   Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/think-shared-office-space-will-cramp-your-business-style-think-again.html Are you currently scouring the market for office space in NYC for your business? If so, you already know that this marks a major milestone in your tenure as a business owner. You also know that items such as location, lease terms, space and a slew of other amenities have all instantly jumped to the forefront as major priorities and the endless list of options for office space in NYC can quickly feel daunting. It's no secret that making the foray into commercial office space in NYC is a big next step. However, savvy entrepreneurs are proving that this big... Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-28th-2012-best-practices-featuring-joe-chin-jared-hecht-andamp-ben-lerer.html http://best-practices.meetup.com On March 28th, 2012, Joe Chin held his Best Practices Meetup at NYU's Stern School of Business. The featured speakers were Jared Hecht of GroupMe and Ben Lerer of Thrillist and Lerer Ventures.  The topic of the discussion was Creating New Markets.  Jared is a Co-Founder of GroupMe, the group messaging service that was acquired by Skype in August, 2011 for more than $50 million.  Ben is the Co-Founder/CEO of Thrillist Media Group (Thrillist, Jackthreads), which has $40 million in revenue and 4 million subscribers.  Ben is also Co-Founder/Managing Director of Lerer Ventures, a seed stage venture capital fund... Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:00:29 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/turn-two-media-signs-lease-renewal-at-33-east-33rd-street.html Turn Two Media, an online media firm, has recently renewed its lease at 33 East 33rd Street.  The space was formerly a sublease from Cambridge Systematics, which Turn Two has converted into a direct lease.   Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:02:26 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/sailthru-leases-former-nyupoly-incubator-space-at-160-varick-street.html Sailthru, the ubiquitous email deliverability and analytics firm, has recently signed a lease to take over the former NYU/Poly Incubator space at 160 Varick Street.  The space, located on the top floor of the building, aka 10 Hudson Square, was vacated at the end of last year by the incubator, who relocated to 137 Varick Street, a few blocks away.  Sailthru signed a lease for 17,775 square feet, which includes access to the property’s rooftop.   Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:46:20 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-15th-2012-you-cant-patent-time-traveland-other-startup-lessons.html https://www.tie.org/ In one of the more interesting recent startup panels, TiE (The Indian Entrepreneurs) NYC hosted a panel discussion on Thursday, March 15th, 2012 at the NYC offices of King & Spalding at 1185 Avenue of the Americas.  The discussion, titled "Jumpstart Your Idea - Taking the Plunge and Starting Your Dream Venture", featured Brooklyn Bridge Ventures' Charlie O'Donnell, Mojiva's Miles Spencer and Hotlist's Gianni Martire discussing common scenarios all entrepreneurs face when embarking on their first venture. Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:12:13 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/tagman-signs-lease-to-relocate-to-575-eighth-avenue.html Tag management firm TagMan has signed a lease to occupy 5,302 square feet on the 9th floor of 575 Eighth Avenue, located between 38th & 39th Streets in Times Square South.  TagMan is the global leader in tag management, with the industry’s most mature and proven platform for enterprise ecommerce.   Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:45:14 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-8th-2012-ultra-light-startups-investor-feedback-forum-and-pitch-showdown.html http://ultralightstartups.com/ On Thursday, March 8th, 2012, Ultra Light Startups hosted its monthly Investor Feedback Forum and Pitch Showdown at Microsoft's NYC headquarters at 1290 Avenue of the Americas.  The Forum featured short presentations by nine (9) startups to an all-star panel of entrepreneurs and investors including First Round Capital's Phin Barnes, Paladin Capital Group's Bill Reinisch, ER Accelerator's Murat Aktihanoglu and Visual Revenue's Dennis Mortensen (billed as the ultimate bootstrapper). Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:47:10 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/europeanamerican-economic-forum.html The European-American Chamber of Commerce in the U.S. presented a European-American Economic Forum on Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 at the Union League Club in NYC.  The topic discussed was "Currencies, Credit Ratings and the Crisis: Facing the Power of the Markets" and featured a panel discussion moderated by Justin Fox, Editorial Director of Harvard Business Review. Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:24:34 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/worldwide-investor-network--introducing-win-graduate-buddha-the-app.html http://worldwideinvestornetwork.com/ Worldwide Investor Network hosted a reception on Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 to introduce Buddha, a recent graduate of its investment program.  Buddha is a free and revolutionary patent-pending application that helps you expand your social network and find new connections based on your personal likes, interests and location.  It removes the need to actively search for new friends and connections by letting you set up proximity alerts and shared interests. Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/march-6th-2012-7th-annual-small-business-summit-2012.html On March 6th, 2012, the 7th Annual Small Business Summit 2012 was held at Metropolitan Pavilion, in the Flatiron District of Manhattan.  The Small Business Summit is New York's premier event for small business owners looking to network with other decision-makers, attend cutting edge seminars and shop around for products and services available to help small businesses succeed. There were over five-hundred attendees, a great lunch spread and giveaways at many of the sponsor booths.  I particularly enjoyed stopping by to speak with Data.com (fka Jigsaw), Webgrrls and TurnStone.  Best of all, Business Insider was in the house, covering the... Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:52:51 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/taptankcom-hosts-presxsw-event-at-the-empire-room.html On Monday evening, March 5th, 2012, I attended an event at the Empire State Building's Empire Room, hosted by tapTank.com, a social network  focused on helping its users attain their personal goals and ambitions.  The event was billed as a Pre-South-by-Southwest Event and judging by my twitter feed, SXSW has really become the place to be for NYC's growing technology community. I was fortunate enough to meet and have a quick conversation with Joe Choi, Founder of tapTank.com and hear more about his exciting venture.  I left relatively early, however, and was unable to catch up with uber-networkers Michael Gold... Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:52:49 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/rip--the-workstation.html A Historical Review of Space Densities After the “Web 1.0” market corrections of the early part of this century, investors in venture capital-backed technology firms no longer wished to see a large portion of their early stage investment fund non-core expenditures such as real estate.  Accordingly, the trend in space requirements for tech firms became 1) built space (sublease or direct), 2) in “move-in” condition, 3) available for terms of less that five years and 4) configured in a high-density layout/ seating plan. With the recent advent of cloud-based infrastructure and the subsequent reduction of ramp-up costs for technology startups,... Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:11:25 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/lumeric-consulting-subleases-at-440-park-avenue-south.html Lumeric Consulting LLC, a management consulting firm has recently subleased space at 440 Park Avenue South from MBAF-ERE, an accounting firm.   Lumeric is a management consulting firm that assists middle-market investors and business operators with identifying, evaluating and executing strategic opportunities fro growth and performance improvement.  MBAF, which is one of the nation's top 40 accounting firms, was Florida's largest independent accounting firm prior to its 2011 merger with ERE, LLP.  MBAF-ERE is a division of MBAF and includes Fiscal Management Associates, LLC, who focus on business consulting services to the non-profit sector. OLC's Jack Petrie represented both parties... Sat, 25 Feb 2012 06:45:53 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/gramercyone-subleases-at-22-cortlandt-street.html GramercyOne, a venture-backed software company, recently expanded and relocated to 16,600 sf at 22 Cortlandt Street in Lower Manhattan.  G1, which had been located at 257 Park Avenue South, subleased space from ContextWeb, which had recently been acquired by Datran Media and the combined entity renamed PulsePoint.  G1, which recently received $14.5 million in Series A funding from investors including Grotech Ventures, Jubilee Investments, Revolution Ventures and TDF, virtually tripled its space as part of an aggressive growth campaign. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:02:49 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/tagman-selects-petrie-for-office-search-requirements.html   Tag management company TagMan is on the prowl for new office space, and the company has conscripted CresaPartners’ Jack Petrie to aide in their hunt, he told The Commercial Observer Monday. TagMan, which currently leases an office space at 260 W. 35th Street, is citing a growing headcount and a future demand for larger space as its reasons for the impending move, Mr. Petrie (pictured) said yesterday morning. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:39:38 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/2011s-top-story--its-not-lonely-at-the-top-and-it-isnt-pretty-either.html Earlier this year, Manhattan experienced a game of real estate musical chairs among the available large blocks of space surrounding Grand Central Terminal.  The players included some of the city’s biggest and best known tenants: Bloomberg, Citigroup, Hartford Insurance, JPMorganChase, Meredith Corporation, Pfizer, Tishman Construction and Wells Fargo.  When the dust cleared, several million square feet of leases had been signed and the vacancy rates in Grand Central had dropped significantly.  Furthermore, this shakeout at the top of the market would have a “trickle-down” ramification for midsize and smaller tenants throughout this submarket. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:08:09 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/2012-nyc-real-estate-market-forecast.html Manhattan’s office market is likely to face a range of challenges in 2012.  The economy has yet to settle into a steady pace of sustainable recovery.  Some uncertainty is likely to surface in 2012 until the results of the presidential election suggest a probable direction.  In the meantime, employers continue to adapt to doing more with less.  New businesses are coming of age and will start to hire more and take more space. Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/november-29th-2011-ny-tech-meetup-recap.html I recently attended the “December” NY Tech Meetup at NYU’s Skirball Center on Tuesday, 11/29/2011.  I have attended many of these events over the years at the various locations ranging from Cooper Union to IAC to 92nd Street Y to NYU and always enjoy the format as well as the presentations.  At the most recent event, however, I have noticed the following trends in the companies presenting as well as the presentations themselves: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:24:51 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/3q-2011-market-update--potholes-on-the-path-of-recovery.html   The city’s economy stabilized during  Q3 but it is already bracing itself for a new round of layoffs on Wall Street.  Although NYC’s employment level dropped minimally for the quarter, it is 54,000 jobs ahead of a year ago and an 8.6% unemployment rate remains well below the National average.  For the quarter, total employment dropped by 4,800 jobs. In contrast to the rest of the nation, the government sector added 11,100 jobs over the quarter, while the private sector shed 15,900 jobs.  By industry, Business Services added 9,700 new jobs and Financial Activities employment grew by 5,300 jobs. ... Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/cresa-brokers-win-award-at-20th-annual-greendeal-awards.html CresaPartners' brokers Jack Petrie and Justin Halpern were recently honored at the 20th Annual GreenDeal Awards sponsored by S.L. Green and held on November 15th, 2011 at Cipriani, 110 East 42nd Street, NYC.  Petrie and Halpern were honored with an "Encore Award for Two Expansions in One Building" for their representation of Amazon.com's recent lease expansion at 1350 Avenue of the Americas. Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/seven-reasons-every-tenant-should-hire-an-exclusive-tenant-representative.html Seven reasons to choose a tenant representation firm Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/pixfusion-takes-7400-rsf-at-390-park-avenue-south.html CRESA Partners has negotiated a short-term lease providing PixFusion LLC with 7,400 rentable square feet ("rsf") at 390 Park Avenue South in Manhattan. PixFusion, a provider of personalized video technology, is relocating from 535 West 34th Street and will occupy its new headquarters immediately. Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/a-day-with-craig-newmark.html CRESA Partners cosponsored the January 12th, 2007 iBreakfast with Craig Newmark of Craig's List.  Here's the official event recap: 6 Billion Pageviews Worldwide It is fascinating to meet the man behind a site that grew from a "new-kid-on-the-block", programmer’s social advancement tool to a six billion page view worldwide listing phenomenon. http://www.ibreakfast.com/ http://newyork.craigslist.org/   Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/green-buildings-are-the-places-to-be.html By doing a portion of the above, tenants will see improvements in both operating costs and worker productivity that will outweigh the expense of implementation.  Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/fourth-quarter-2006-market-overview.html Tenant's Viewpoint In this landlords' market, tenants should expect to see a continuing rise in overall occupancy costs Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/pixfusion-signs-with-marvel-for-spiderman.html Produces Personalized Video for Children    CRESA Partners' client, PixFusion LLC www.pixfusion.com, creator of personalized, branded video products, has signed a multi-year licensing deal with Marvel/Spider-Man™ Merchandising L.P. (NYSE: MVL) www.marvel.com, one of the world's most prominent character-based entertainment companies, for the licensing of Spider-Man™ and his family of characters. ‘I Am the Amazing Spider-Man’ Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/web-20-search-ibreakfast-report.html FAST Enterprise Search is a public company founded in 1997, with 750 employees. Matching customers/employeees to communities of content and commerce, FAST features a "learning algorithm" that learns user's preferences with experience, using a semantic network. Clients include MTV, Comcast, Softbank, Zibb (B2B search). FAST's R&D group is based in Oslo, Norway. Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/pixfusion-expands-team-and-opens-florida-offices.html PixFusion LLC (http://www.pixfusion.com/), creator of personalized, branded video products, has expanded its management team, hiring three executives in New York and added four managers to run new offices operating out of Palm Beach and Cooper City, Florida. Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/cresa-partners-international-reaches-ireland.html CRESA Partners' international partner, Atisreal, has recently acquired Harrington Bannon, an Irish real estate firm, to create Atisreal Ireland. Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/december-6th-the-true-art-of-networking.html On December 6th, NYSIA (New York Software Industry Association) hosted a very successful SIG (Special Interest Group) meeting on self marketing and networking strategies at CRESA Partners' New York City offices, hosted and moderated by Sherri Sklar of Sherri Sklar Strategies, LLC. The presenter, Andrea Nierenberg, CEO, The Nierenberg Group had prepared a hands-on networking workshop. Attendees were invited to a pot luck style event where learning and practicing went hand-in-hand. Over 40 people followed the call and enjoyed the evening. Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/web-20-video-ibreakfast-report.html Based on the enthusiasm for this event it is clear that the standard website of tomorrow will have plenty of video for all kinds of things, customer service, explaining products and even taking feedback. Whether this eclipses TV, as we know (unlikely) or expands it in whole other way (more likely) is the subject of the upcoming Web 2.0 NY Conference in February. Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/third-quarter-2006-market-overview.html The reality of triple digit rental rates should cause alarm for service industry providers that want to be positioned in "Class A" Midtown properties, as costs become prohibitively high. Low margin businesses will feel the greatest impact if real estate prices continue to escalate at 10% - 15% per annum. Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/we-listen.html Last month, after an extensive process conducted by our public relations firm, Richards/Gravelle (“R/G”), CRESA Partners introduced our new branding tagline – “We Listen”. The selection process consisted of several client and prospect interviews with regard to what they looked for in a real estate service provider and why they selected CRESA. Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/municipal-incentives-bridge-real-estate-budget-gaps.html The real estate sweet spot for the newly-funded and high growth technology firm is the 5,000-25,000 rentable square foot (“rsf”), move-in condition, $30/rsf, short-term sublease space in the Soho/Noho submarkets of Manhattan. Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/cresa-partners-muncipal-incentives-partner-acquired-by-adp.html ADP Employer Services, a leading provider of outsourced payroll, benefits and HR services, recently announced the acquisition of the tax incentives business of Mintax, Inc. based in East Brunswick, New Jersey. Mintax is CRESA Partners' municipal incentives services partner. Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/tech-firms-diminishing-space-standards.html A prime lesson learned from the “Web 1.0” market corrections of the early part of this decade is that the governance boards of Venture Capital-backed technology firms no longer wish to see a large portion of their early stage investment money go towards non-core expenditures (think traditional brick-and-mortar real estate in the form of lavishly appointed offices with long-term lease obligations.) Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/why-the-germanamerican-chamber-of-commerce-is-locating-in-downtown-manhattan.html Recently, the New York City chapter of the German American Chamber of Commerce moved its headquarters from Midtown to Downtown Manhattan. A key driver in the relocation was the continued cost pressures of maintaining a Midtown office. Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/aer-lingus.html Driven by a client’s desire to support its investments in the new technology needed to better serve its customers while providing an optimum work environment for its staff, CRESA Partners has succeeded in finding and negotiating long-term office space for Aer Lingus with the technological capabilities the international carrier needed. Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/leverage-project-management-up-front-to-construct-the-ideal-lease.html As a commercial tenant, how did you gauge the success of your last transaction? Chances are that you measured it by the difference between the current market rental rate and your negotiated lease rental rate. You certainly are not alone in using that assessment. Even a $2 per rentable square foot ("rsf") differential from the market rental rate can add up quickly. On a 50,000 rsf, ten-year lease term, for example, the savings would translate into a significant savings of $1,000,000. Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/email-data-source-relocates-downtown-headquarters.html NEW YORK CITY, June 20 – CRESA Partners has negotiated a 4,148 rentable square foot ("rsf") lease for Email Data Source at The Media Technology Center, 65 Broadway, in downtown Manhattan, announces Jack Petrie, vice president of CRESA Partners. Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT http://www.officeleasecenter.com/articles/further-thoughts-on.html Recent media commentary has focused on the existence of “phantom” space in the New York City real estate market. One report found that over the last fifteen years, approximately one-third of a random sample of fifty properties in Midtown “grew” their rentable square footage ("rsf") on average by greater than 5%. Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT