Andrew Rasiej on the Next Big Wave in Tech - And How Young Treps Can Surf It

By Lyneka Little for Young Entrepreneur | July 28, 2012

YOUNG ENTREPPRENEUR - A wise real estate investment is partially responsible for Andrew Rasiej’s foray into technology. In the early 1990s, Rasiej renovated the event space that would later become Irving Plaza, a popular arts venue in New York City. In an effort to lure in consumers, Rasiej used the still newfangled internet to promote an online music festival...

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Tech Startups Making Millions Off the Presidential Race

By Julie Bykowicz for Bloomberg News | July 23, 2012

BLOOMBERG NEWS - Four years ago, Michael Beach was toiling inside the Republican National Committee, overseeing a voter-turnout operation that was overrun by President Barack Obama’s technology-driven grassroots army. After the election, he and another former RNC aide, then both 28 years old, set out to start a high-tech political consulting company that is now an expanding 50-person operation with offices in Virginia and Boston.

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New York Startups Help Fuel City's High-Tech Renaissance

By Gerry Smith for The Huffington Post | July 15, 2012

By appearances alone, this startup looks and feels like a movie set version of Silicon Valley.

The co-founder is a 22-year-old college dropout who wears flip-flops, drinks Red Bull and gives exuberant high-fives to his staff. The office has a pool table, a foosball table and growlers of beer in the corner. Young engineers in t-shirts write thousands of lines of computer code, sometimes past midnight...

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A Challenge to Digital Influencers: Join The #One4One Game

By Deanna Zandt for Forbes | July 9, 2012

Who would you name? We all say we despise those lists that get created to showcase influencers and hotshots in our field. But secretly, (a) we wish we were on them, (b) they didn’t pick the same small group of people all the time, and (c) we all know that people love lists, or else we wouldn’t keep making them. So, how can we break out of ruts that...

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