On February 7th, 2013 OLC sponsored and attended FundingPost’s 2013 NYC VC & Angel Showcase, co-sponsored by and held at the offices of Credit Suisse on Madison Square Park. Over 35 VC and Angel investment firms were in attendance and in the unique “Reverse Venture Fair” format, individuals from each firm were available to meet entrepreneurs and answer questions about their firm and its investment strategies.
www.meetup.com/techinmotionnyc/events/102381422/ OLC attended Tech in Motioni's inaugural Speaker Series featuring Peter Miron, SVP of Engineering at Bit.ly on Thursday, Februrary 28, 2013. The meetup revolved around the moderator questioning Peter Miron about his background, how he became the SVP of Bit.ly, and advice to give to aspiring CTOs and VPs.
www.nyalt.net/events/57928902/?eventId=57928902&action=detail On Wednesday, February 27, 2013, OLC attended NYALT.NET's meetup: Become a Superior Programmer In Any Language featuring Mauricio Mendoza, who focused on exploring how five aspects of a programmer's personal character directly affects their ability to write computer programs.
www.meetup.com/cs-nyc/events/100494942/ On February 26th, 2013 OLC attended Future-Ready: Preparing Your Content—and Your Company Event with Sara Wachter-Boettcher at Ogilvy One Worldwide.
www.meetup.com/gaming/events/102222692/ On Tuesday, February 26, 2013, OLC attended NYC Gaming's Demo Night, which featured seven developers, each showcasing their unique and exciting games. Alec Andronikov of Just Sing It, Julian Volyn of Tin Man Can, Jim Babb of Bout, Vikram Subramanian of Tossers, Josh Raab of Nika, Nikhil Sinha of Spell or Die and Jon Stokes of Whiskers all pitched and demoed their games.
er55.eventbrite.com/ On Monday, February 25, 2013, OLC attended Entrepreneurs Roundtable 55 at NYU Stern. Dayna Grayson of New Enterprise Associates Inc. briefly talked about NEA and herself and five entrepreneurs pitched their ideas.
The fastest way to an emerging tech company’s heart is through its venture capitalist.
Such has been the modus operandi of Jack Petrie, the President of OfficeLeaseCenter.com who has amassed a list of clients that reads like a veritable who’s who of Silicon Alley. He’s found these clients through contacts and clients of his in venture capital.
“I [find] that usually I can connect the dots with a lot of these companies with relationships I have with V.C. firms and people I have met through the community,” said Mr. Petrie, 50.
PulsePoint, Clearspring and Jingle Networks have all found new office space through the aid of Mr. Petrie.
Young firms like Sailthru, a behavioral email marketing service, and GramercyOne, a cloud-based software development firm, recently secured seed money from venture capitalists and tabbed Mr. Petrie to find them 15,000 square feet and 5,000 square feet of office space, respectively.
He helped Amazon expand to 60,000 square feet of space at 1350 Avenue of the Americas this year—and the online retail giant is counting on him for future growth... view more
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