Here is some good news for New York. Businessweek reports that New York City continues to have the most tech jobs in the nation. Unfortunately, due to the recession overall job growth in the sector fell 2 percent, year-over-year. The computer system design and telecommunications services sectors have been hit especially hard.
The always excellent blog Business Insider lists New York’s Coolest Tech People in 2010. The end of the list was a bit weak. What’s up with listing Glen Beck has a NY tech powerhouse?
What do you think of the list? I’m working on a top secret start-up right now. Perhaps I will be on it next year.
Thinking startup? Since you are reading this blog, you probably are. David S. Rose‘s rapid-fire TED U talk on pitching to a venture capitalist tells you the 10 things you need to know about yourself — and prove to a VC — before you fire up your slideshow.
Here are a few talking points:
Integrity and passion are the 2 most important characteristics of an entrepreneur.
There is an interesting guest post on Techcrunch Europe by Richard Leyland, an entrepreneur who started WorkSnug, a location-based service for mobile workers. His company has launched in sixteen cities and may be considered a global company.
What is unique about his company is its committment that none of his employees will fly in the course of its business. His employees travel via cars and trains. The reason: climate change. According to Mr. Leyland flying is far from the only factor causing climate change, but as an example of our wasteful fossil fuel addiction it really takes the biscuit.
So how is his company doing? The first thing they have done is take to the trains. He reports that trains are more difficult to book, more expensive and a longer journey. But trains are excellent for concentrated work, they drop his employees in the middle of cities and airport stress is relieved.
Worksnug also relies on technology. Like 37signals, another innovative startup, Worksnug has interviewed and hired employees using Skype. They also report using social media tools, such as Twitter to stay connected with their employees.
Mr. Leyland admits that there is nothing revolutionary happening at his company. After all, you do all these things too. The simple act of abandoning the plane is unique.
What do you think? Is it possible for your company to forgo air travel?
If you are a heavy user of Twitter, nothing is worse than trying to find an important link that is buried in your feed. Check out Twitter Archives. If you think the interface to the Google homepage is stark, wait till you take a look at Twitter Archives.
One big problem with the site is that you cannot conduct any type of search. Let’s say that you are really ichin’ to find my post on Legal Problems of Social Networks. You would be SOL. The site simply lists your Tweets page by page, which is still better than the Twitter website.
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Protecting intellectual property from a cyber attack is something that all companies need to be concerned about. Google recently released information about a targeted attack on their intellectual property and data that occurred in December, 2009. The attack came from China and according to Google, resulted in the “theft of intellectual property from Google.” Apparently they were [...]
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Both TechCrunch and Mashable reported on the launch of iSites, a new service that makes it really easy to launch both an iPhone and Android app for your website in 10 minutes. As a side note, too bad all the cool lower case i legal names are taken. Perhaps I should rename my firm iAbramson [...]
