"People wonder why their daughter taking 10,000 photos a day, They don't realize that she isn't preserving images. She's talking." - Evan Spiegel (Founder, Snapchat) // Snapchat & Hardware
"Human driving decisions carry ethical considerations. How self-driving cars are programmed also carry ethical consequences. So programming decisions should be clearly disclosed." // US Dept of Transportation's 15-point Checklist of Safety Guidelines for Self-Driving Cars
"Recent solar bid (2.42 cents/kwh) in Abu Dhabi is cheapest contract for electricity, anywhere on Earth, using any technology, EVER." // Solar Costs Plunging Faster Than Expected
Yahoo breach (500M+ accts); largest hack ever? Terabit Internet (125 GB/s) tested. Zuck & Priscilla investing $3B over 10 yrs to cure disease. BofA, Santander, RBC creating blockchain n/w. AT&T testing broadband over power lines. Tiangong-1 (Chinese space stn) out of control. Twitter for sale? Apple interested in formula-1 car-maker McLaren? And Airbnb raising $555M ($30B val).
Watch livestream (Sep 27 @ 2pm) of SpaceX founder Elon Musk's speech "Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species" @ Int'l Astronautical Conference in Mexico.
As y'all know, my New Years Resolution is to get to know GarysGuide members & subscribers better :) So shoot me an email & introduce yourself!
ANNOUNCING ==> The Hub @ GCT (2 months FREE at new 50K sq ft space @ 335 Madison Ave; For Urban Tech growth-stage & post accelerator/coworking companies w/ 10-120 ppl; With NYCEDC & GCT Accelerator); apply by Oct 31. Venturewell Grants (For student founders); apply by Oct 05.
ANNOUNCING ==> YCombinator Winter 2017 ($120K for 7% equity; Alums incl. Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe); apply by Oct 04. Summit-at-Sea Scholarship (Invite for 4 female founders to Summit-at-Sea in Nov); apply by Oct 05. Sandhill NYC (VCs @ Sequoia, Kleiner, A16Z visiting in Oct), request invite.
ANNOUNCING ==> Singularity University Labs Startup Accelerator ($100K funding for 7% equity; Co-work @ NASA Research Park; Focus on hard sciences, space & energy; Starts Feb 2017); apply by Sep 30. Mobileys Competition ($20K prizes; For apps/services making difference); apply by Oct 05.
ANNOUNCING ==> Techstars NYC Winter 2017 Session ($120K funding; Starts Jan; One of top accelerator programs in world; < 1% acceptance rate; World-class mentors & investors; KPI-focused curriculum; Alums incl. DigitalOcean, ClassPass, Plated); apply by Oct 15.
ANNOUNCING ==> Extreme Tech Startup Challenge (Seeking wicked-smart entrepreneurs executing big ideas; Top 10 startups pitch on Jan 07 @ CES in Las Vegas; Top 3 pitches invited on Feb 02 to Necker Island in Caribbean w/ Sir Richard Branson); apply by Sep 30.
BOOK DEAL! ==> Masters of Corporate Venture Capital (By author Andrew Romans of Rubicon VC; Collective wisdom from 50 VCs incl. best practices for corporate venturing, accessing startup innovation & getting funded); 5 FREE Copies ($35 each)!
DON'T MISS! ==> Sep 30 Social Enterprise Conference w/ Anthony Foxx (Secretary, US Dept of Transportation), Chris Davis (CFO, Managed by Q), Manik Bhat (Founder, Healthify), Amy Houston (MD, Robin Hood), John Farmer (Dir. Tech & Civic Innovation, Microsoft); 2 FREE Passes ($150 each)!
DON'T MISS! ==> Oct 05 MIPIM Proptech Real Estate Tech Summit w/ founders Michael Mandel (CompStak), Arie Barendrecht (Wired Score), David Eisenberg (Floored), Nick Romito (VTS), Paul Massey (ex-Pres., Cushman Wakefield & Mayoral Candidate); Invite only; 5 FREE Passes!
DON'T MISS! ==> Sep 30 #TECHmunch Food Blogger Conference w/ Cap Watkins (VP Design, BuzzFeed), Jessica Randazza (Mktg Head, Danone), Amie Valpone (Author, Eating Clean), Deborah Smith (Founder, JerseyBites), Kara Rota (Host, Clever Cookstr); 3 FREE Passes ($105 each)!
DON'T MISS! ==> Sep 28 TEDxNJIT w/ Gerard Adams (Co-Founder, Elite Daily), Tara Alvarez (Prof. Biomedical Engg, NJIT), Donald Sebastian (NJ Innovation); 5 FREE Passes! Oct 06 CRE // Tech: The Intersect (Honest Bldgs, Reonomy, Compstak, VTS, Hightower, SiteCompli); 5 FREE Passes ($80)!
DON'T MISS! ==> Oct 19 Brunchwork+ w/ Casper execs Neil Parikh (Co-Founder/COO), Taryn Laeben (CXO), Scott Breitenother (VP Data), Terri Rockovich (VP Mktg); 2 FREE Passes ($40)! Sep 27 Hustle Summit (Conde Nast, Etsy, Ralph Lauren, Livestream); 10 FREE Passes ($99)!
DON'T MISS! ==> Sep 26-30 Ad Week. Sep 27 BrexitCon w/ Wharton. Sep 28 ERA Demo Day. Sep 29 Techstars Demo Day. Sep 30 SheHacks. Sep 30 - Oct 16 NY Film Festival (Lucasfilm, AR/VR, Sherlock Holmes: IoT). Oct 01-31 Archtober. Oct 02 Giphy Loop Dreams (GIF Art).
DON'T MISS! ==> Oct 01-02 Maker Faire. Oct 07 IBM Blockchain Hackathon. Oct 08 Lady Problems Hackathon. Thru Oct 22 Blockchain Future States Exhibit. Oct 25 Matter Demo Day. Nov 01-06 Harlem Tech Week. Oct 28 OpenSpace Buildathon w/ NASA @ Natural History Museum.
Sep 26 Data Science Fall Bootcamp (12 Wks; Only bootcamp teaching Python, R, Hadoop, Spark). Sep 28 Kilobytes & Bagpipes: Scottish Pitch Night w/ Eric Vreeland (Bowery Cap), Ulrich Quay (BMW i Ventures), Sutian Dong (Female Founders Fund), Raju Rishi (RRE); 3 FREE Passes!
Sep 27 Startup Tour NYC w/ Julie Samuels (Exec Director, Tech NYC), Christiana Ting (Samsung Global Innovation Ctr), Lindsay Avagliano (NYS Innovation VC Fund), Chris Fortunato (KEC VC), Jason Shuman (Corigin VC). Sep 30 Raising Startup Capital w/ ICONYC; 2 FREE Passes ($90)!
Sep 28 Make It In Brooklyn Innovation Summit w/ Claude Silver (Vayner Media), John Frankel (ffVC), Peter Boyce (General Catalyst), Rachel Haot (1776), Katepalli Sreenivasan (Dean, Tandon Engg), Shawn Cheng (Vayner/RSE), Sherine Kazim (Huge), Dana Mauriello (Etsy); 5 FREE Passes ($399)!
Sep 28 Health Tech Panel + Pitch w/ Steve Barsh (CIO, DreamIt Health), Anthony Mason (CDO, MD Alert), Peter Fleischut (CIO, NY Presbyterian Innovation), Brad Weinburg (Blueprint Health). Sep 29-30 Droidcon (60+ Android talks w/ Google, Uber, Facebook, Instagram); 5 FREE Passes ($60)!
Sep 29 TAP Conference w/ Bonin Bough (Host, CNBC), Margaret Stewart (VP Product, Facebook), Gary Fritz (Chief Growth Officer, TripAdvisor), Lisa Manowitz (Partnerships, Pinterest), Lisa Gersh (CEO, Goop), Julia Beizer (Product Head, HuffPo), Ellie Wheeler (Greycroft); 4 FREE Passes ($499)!
Oct 03 Front-End Web Designer Bootcamp (Flex sched; Real-world examples). Oct 11 International Founders Dinners (Curated roundtables during International Week; Wanna participate? Email Marc & mention expertise eg. biz dev, mktg, fundraising, mentoring).
Oct 08 Brunchwork w/ Brian Cohen (Chairman, NY Angels) & Sara Chipps (Co-Founder, Jewelbots); 2 FREE Passes ($40)! Oct 15 / Oct 18 Product School incl. Weekend Edition (Oct 15 - Dec 17; Sat: 9:30am - 3:30pm) & Weekday Edition (Oct 18 - Dec 15; Tue & Thu 6:30-9pm).
FREE PASSES! (details) ==> Sep 26 Pricing Strategy. Sep 27 RE Tech Startups w/ founders of Naked Apts (acqd by Zillow), HoM, Joinery, FloorHacker, Founder House. Sep 27 Founders Freestyle. Sep 28 IBM THINK Leaders. Sep 28 SheWorx Breakfast w/ Sara Weinheimer (BroadMic).
Mo' FREE Passes! (details) ==> Sep 28 Ladies@ Workshop: Elevate Your Life IQ (Health Class 2.0, Trunk Club). Sep 28 Startup Rock Climbing. Sep 28 Caribbeans In Tech. Sep 29 Augmented Reality: Beyond Pokemon Go (Augment, Blippar, Samsung).
Mo' FREE Passes! (details) ==> Sep 29 Aging 2.0: Tech Enabled Concierge. Sep 29 Company Culture w/ Jeff Fernandez (CEO, Grovo). Sep 30 Lean Startup Night w/ Daniel Burka (Design Partner, Google Ventures). Sep 30 Lair East Fall Party. Oct 07 Blogologues.
UPCOMING EVENTS ==> Sep 27 Cocktails & Conversation w/ Chris Sacca (Star of ABC's Shark Tank & Investor in Twitter). Oct 10 Privacy & Internet of Things. Oct 12 Agile Environment. Oct 26 Product Mgmt Happy Hour.
CLASSES ==> Data Science + Fintech. Sep 26 Dev Bootcamp Interviews. Sep 28 Adobe After Effects Intro. Sep 28 Users & Product Adoption. Sep 29 Web Design Intro. Oct 04 Careers Job Search & Teamwork. Oct 05 Product Mgmt Info Session. Oct 19 Get Hired: Landing Product Job.
Mo' Classes ==> Sep 27 ML & Big Data Show Day. Oct 22 Data Science w/ R: Data Analysis & Visualization. Oct 23 Data Science w/ Python: Data Analysis & Visualization. Oct 23 Data Science w/ Python: Machine Learning.
DEADLINES ==> Oct 01 Emerging Writers Fellowship (For non-fiction writers; $12K stipend + mentorship by BuzzFeed). Oct 03 A.I. NexusLab (4 months; $100k; 8% equity; With NYU Future Labs, Tandon Engg & ffVC).
Mo' Deadlines ==> Dream Start (1 yr free mentoring for startups w/ 1 French founder & presence in US; With CCE, French Tech Hub, Consulate General of France). Square Roots Urban Farming Accelerator (1 yr; With Tobias Peggs & Kimbal Musk).
Mo' Deadlines ==> Dropout TV (Casting founders dropping out of school to pursue biz idea, record label, clothing line, restaurant). Flow Journeys (Sep 29 - Oct 02; @ Iceland; Ice-climbing, volcano lunch, secret lagoon). Unsettled: Buenos Aires (Nov 05 - Dec 04; Co-working w/ 40 entrepreneurs).
DEALS ==> Shutterstock PowerPoint Add-in (Millions of high-quality photos & illustrations; Free image for first 25K folks). Phone.com (1 year basic service FREE w/ code "GarysGuide"; Customers incl. BarkBox, Trello, Insightly).
CONGRATS! ==> Trade Desk (self-serve digital ad platform) went IPO at $30.10 / share. Paul & BrightFarm (futuristic greenhouses) raised $30.1M. Jacqueline & BrightLine (advanced TV solns) raised $20M. Michael & White Ops (invalid traffic detection) raised $20M.
Mo' Congrats! ==> Scott, Greg, Dan & Troops (slackbot for sales) raised $7M. Tirath, Chris & TrueFacet (preowned luxury jewelry & watch mktplace) raised $6M. Nucleus (smart intercom) raised $5.6M from Amazon Alexa Fund. Andre & LiveLike (streaming sports VR) raised $5M.
Mo' Congrats! ==> ACV Auctions raised $5M. Aaron & Vestwell (white-label retirement platform) raised $4.5M. Rebecca & Imbellus (job candidate screening) raised $4M.
Mktg at SHO Nutrition, Sr Front End Dev at Troops, Talent Coordinator at Thrillist , Data Analyst at Vimeo, Community at WeWork, Design at Warby Parker, Social Media Intern at BuzzFeed, Design at Honest Bldgs, Transportation Reporter at Mashable, Music & Talent Mgr at Vevo, Design at Codecademy, Biz Dev at Headout, Design at Livestream, Customer Support at Ando, Design at Kickstarter, Venture Biz Dev at Dentons, JS Dev at Gamechat,
Until next week :)
Gary
(aka "The Guy with the Red Tie")
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Spectacles are new video-grabbing sunglasses by Snapchat (Snap Inc), will retail for $130 and be able to record 10-second bursts of circular video. Nice, yo!
Port Authority unveiled 5 finalist proposals (Arcadis, Archilier, Hudson Terminal, Pelli Clarke, Perkins Eastman) for redesign of Bus Terminal & proposals will now be judged by the public.
Letrons (by Turkish company Letvision) are re-creations of the famous Autobots from Transformers & made from a BMW 3-Series. Want!
Nike's HyperAdapt 1.0 (designed by Tinker Hatfield) are power-lacing shoes mimicking the kicks from Back to the Future & will be available starting Nov 28.
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