Monthly Archives: February 2015

Paying it Forward – Why I’m a Speak Easy Mentor

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The first time I spoke in public was a complete disaster.

I was working in London as a Managing Consultant running the Software QualityManagement practice for the UK and the MD of the region asked me to give an overview of the business – at the annual meeting of the entire company! Now I had spoken dozen of times in private at project and sales meetings, but this was different, as I had never gotten up on stage to present in front of hundreds of people. But being filled with my usual unwarranted self-confidence, I readily said “of course” when asked and then set about trying to figure out what I was going to do.

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Digital.NYC is coming to the Bronx!

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Digital.NYC Five-Borough Tour: #Bronx

Come hear NYC’s leading entrepreneurs and investors discuss startup life in the Bronx and NYC. Panelists will discuss their experiences, highlighting the challenges and triumphs of startup business in the City.

Register HERE

Panelists include:

Majora Carter: Co-founder, Startup Box

Pedro Torres Picón: Founder, Quotidian Ventures

Kathryn Finney: Founder & Managing Director, DigitalUndivided

Keith Klain: CEO, Doran Jones

Issie Lapowsky: Staff Writer, Wired

Additionally, the Digital.NYC partnership will outline NYC’s best tech and startup resources, including today’s most effective ways to find a job, access startup capital, and tap into NYC’s burgeoning tech and startup scene.

This event is being held in partnership with the Bronx Academy of Software Engineering and the Bronx Tech Meetup.

Digital.NYC is the official online hub of the New York City startup and technology ecosystem, bringing together every company, startup, investor, event, job, class, blog, video, workspace, accelerator, incubator, resource and organization in the five boroughs. It is the result of a unique public/private partnership between the office of Mayor Bill de Blasio, the New York City Economic Development Corporation, IBM, Gust, and over a dozen leading NYC-based technology and media companies.

Tech Heads to the Bronx – Marketplace

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Love this story on the Doran Jones UDC in Marketplace! Listen to the story here

Tech Heads to the Bronx

by Nova Safo

Friday, February 6, 2015 – 05:00

Hoping to take advantage of a growing trend to bring IT jobs back to the U.S., a technology consulting firm is setting up shop in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country, hoping to create a viable business and serve a philanthropic purpose at the same time.

That neighborhood is the South Bronx of New York, where within a two-mile radius there are five large housing projects and where 38 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, according to the 2010 Census. It is the poorest congressional district in America.

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