By: Martin Babinec Seems that almost every work day I’m speaking with other entrepreneurs – whether it’s people I’m collaborating with to build Upstate NY’s startup ecosystem or earlier stage entrepreneurs who I might be mentoring to help in decisions
This article is an article published in Dealflow.com’s technology, media and telecommunications newsletter. If you would like to receive our newsletter and read it in its entirety, sign up — it’s free. Mentoring and advice have been available ever since businesses using
By: Martin Babinec Our Syracuse based StartFast venture accelerator just completed our third cohort – graduating six teams at our August 14 Demo Day that featured 250 enthusiastic attendees. For the third year in a row, ours was the largest gathering of
By: Sarah Roche Last week was a busy one. I saw a lot of pitches; from Sandbox teams to Startfast teams to high school students’ pitching their ideas for businesses based on 3D printing technology. I love watching pitches, but more than that I love fixing
By: Chuck Stormon I’m an anomaly. I’m an entrepreneur, an angel investor and an institutional investor (venture capitalist) all at the same time. I’ve been an entrepreneur for 30 years, and angel investor for 7 years and a venture fund manager
We all need to get away and unplug every now and then. Email, phone calls, news, social media… you have to take some downtime and disconnect yourself from the constant bombardment of information. When we get away, however, we typically
As an avid reader of everything “entrepreneurship,” I often come across really interesting profiles of successful entrepreneurs, their stories and the tales of the serialization of their efforts. Just this morning, I read an online article profiling what a successful
Startfast, Syracuse’s Summer Venture Accelerator, has announced the teams that will be participating in the twelve week intensive program.
Victor Hwang of T2 Venture Creation and author of The Rainforest, recently visited Rochester, NY to speak at the 6th Annual Entrepreneurial Celebration Luncheon. As he stated, “Upstate, NY has tremendous DNA of innovation and entrepreneurship.” Below we share some
Entrepreneurs from Upstate, Philly, NYC and beyond, visited The Tech Garden in Syracuse, NY to pitch their ideas hoping to become nominees into the StartFast class of 2014. With only 5 minutes to sway the panel, the energy and enthusiasm
