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Entries Tagged as 'Events'

NY Tech Meetup — February 2010

February 9th, 2010 · Comments · Events, Technology

This month’s NY Tech Meetup was titled Rally for the Future. With almost 700 people in attendance at FIT’s Haft Auditorium, NYTM veered off its typical format of 7 presenters for 5 minutes each. Instead a wide variety of people gave impassioned arguments about how to bring New York to the forefront of the technology [...]

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NY Tech Meetup: The European Edition

January 20th, 2010 · Comments · Events

Last night, Dawn Barber and Meetup.com CEO and co-founder Scott Heiferman hosted a special edition of NY Tech Meetup at Meetup HQ.
NY Tech Meetup: European Edition gave 11 startups from all over Europe the chance to wow us tough New Yorkers with 3-minute demos of their webapps. The companies are all 2009 winners of [...]

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New to New York?

November 13th, 2009 · Comments · Events

My new friend Dave Dawson recently graduated college and moved from Cambridge to NYC. While I was timid and intimidated when I first entered the working world, Dave is quite the opposite –– he is eager to put himself out there, meet lots of new people, and see what the city has to offer.

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Whit Hour – Week 5

September 2nd, 2009 · Comments · Whit Hour

Thank you so much to the 20 or so folks who showed up for the fifth week of Whit Hour — my weekly one-hour video chat to answer any and all of your questions about user experience, consulting, and whatever else you throw at me.
I particularly appreciate your patience and determination to stick with me [...]

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My DIY UX talk is featured in InformationWeek

August 24th, 2009 · Comments · Articles, Events, User Experience

Many thanks go to Allen Stern of CenterNetworks for covering my DIY UX presentation in the InformationWeek blog. He was in attendance when I gave the talk to about 25 people at the NYC Customer Development Process Meetup last week.
Read his article: DIY Usability For Startups

I will be giving the presentation again at An Event [...]

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