Aug
15
The inside story of DreamIt Ventures’ first New York City accelerator
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By Courtney Boyd Meyers
“Have you ever had a failed startup?” I asked Mark Wachen, the managing director of DreamIt Ventures’ New York accelerator program.
He laughs, “Well, in the mid 1990s, I had what one might call a start-down.” It was between graduating from Harvard Business School, helping to launch the original Sony Music website, running music promotions with Yahoo, leaving Sony and then returning to Sony that Wachen tried to launch his own company. He became distracted by the freneticism of the time, and people around him who said “I don’t like your idea, but hey there’s this other opportunity…” Shortly after, Sony recruited him back to start a corporate venture group, which Wachen cites as a great learning experience for his current role leading fresh young startups into the world.
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http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/08/14/the-inside-story-of-dreamit-ventures-first-new-york-city-accelerator/
Aug
11
Pick Your Ponies: DreamIt Demo Day is Here
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by Ben Popper
There is nothing Betabeat likes better than squeezing into a tightly packed mob of investors and watching a cattle call of young start-ups strut their stuff on stage (more metaphors, please! –ed). The tweets are flying fast and furious while handshakes and checks are being exchanged. At least that was the scene at our first rodeo, when we attended TechStars NY Demo Day at Webster Hall. Today Philly-based DreamIt Ventures will unveil their first class of New York start-ups.
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