Rose Tech Incubator Free Lunch Friday

Y Combinator: ambassador to the east

Posted by Daniel Kivatinos on Oct 22, 2010 in uncategorized | 0 comments

Today Y Combinator ambassador to the east Alexis Ohanian came by our office’s. He spoke about how YC helped him with his startup Reddit and how he is now working on breadpig.com. There was one thing that Alexis mentioned that really made me think why they are so succesfull at what they do. I think some of the secret sauce that YC has is a weekly dinner. I don’t think it is just the...

Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media

Posted by Daniel Kivatinos on Oct 2, 2010 in entrepreneurs | 0 comments

This month Alexis Ohanian, the founder of ReadIt will be talking at a Rose Tech Free Lunch Friday, I am looking forward to it! They were the first successful company to get an exist out of...

Free Lunch Friday Notes August 6th 2010

Posted by Daniel Kivatinos on Aug 14, 2010 in entrepreneurs | 0 comments

NYCSeed‘s managing director Owen Davis came by the Rose Tech Incubator this week to give a talk on what investors look for in startup’s. Some of the key points Owen mentioned that I took away from the talk are below. (NYCSeed only invests in the 5 NY borrows). FUNDING CRITERIA To anyone doing a startup, “Time matters”. Owen mentioned that committing large amounts of time...

Free Lunch Friday Notes July 30 2010

Posted by Daniel Kivatinos on Aug 7, 2010 in entrepreneurs | 0 comments

Kirill Sheynkman came over to the Rose Tech Incubator and spoke about pitching to VC’s. I took some high notes personal notes from the talk. The pitch. Tell them what you are doing. Market. Why now? “We are a _____ for ____ a market worth $$$.” What is the pain you are addressing. Who are the people that have the pain. How many are there? Product. Why this. Team. Why...

Free Lunch Friday Notes July 23 2010

Posted by Daniel Kivatinos on Jul 27, 2010 in entrepreneurs | 0 comments

We were honored this week to have David Rose talking about the direction that companies are going. I took a few notes on what he had mentioned. First he mention some great outsourcing resources: crowdspring elance guru odesk getafreelancer qurky David also mentioned that we should take a look at the books Wikinomic sand Three Moves Ahead a book by Bob...