Roger Ehrenberg
VC, blogger, entrepreneur

The world now contains unimaginably vast amounts of digital information, which is growing exponentially. The era of big data presents incredible opportunities—smarter cities, stronger companies, faster medicine—but just as many challenges. Storage is scarce, systems overloaded, governments and businesses know too much.

Managed well, the...

Startup 2011 is NYC's premier business plan competition and entrepreneurship conference. Headlined by keynote speaker Fred Wilson, the speaker list is shaping up fantastically and we're psyched for a jam-packed day that will cover these topics and more:

* What I did differently the second time around: Lessons from serial...

TechStars is currently running its first New York City program and 8th program overall, which will conclude with a demo event on April 14th, 2011 featuring 11 companies. Also added: an additional summer program in New York that starts in July, 2011, based on demand.

The GVLL - 2011 OPENING DAY CELEBRATION to start the season will feature Chris Carlin of SNY emceeing the event. We will also have the pleasure of an appearance by Nikki Van Cassele who will be performing the National Anthem.



Along with the traditional Parade of Teams, Official MLB Mascot Visitors, and Elected Dignitaries the 2011 Opening Day...

NYVC: Speaker Series with Jeff Clavier from SoftTech VC April 6th, 6:30-8:30 PM Organized by New York Venture Community (NYVC) Dogpatch Labs 36 East 12th Street New York, NY 10003     Jeff Clavier Bio Based in Palo Alto, California, Jean-Francois “Jeff” Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, one of the...

The Day 1: Technology Expo is a new initiative designed to showcase NYU’s promising information technology research.

The inaugural event on November 29 will celebrate NYU’s IT innovations and create opportunities for commercialization by connecting NYU research with New York’s entrepreneurial community.
D1 Expo can open doors for...

This is an invite-only event.

New York City has been very good to First Round Capital over the last six years. So good, that we opened up an office here in May, right on Union Square.  We had two NYC companies exit this year (Invite Media and Hot Potato), and we've made over 10 new investments in the city over the past 12 months. ...