October 2009 NY Tech Meetup

“ The venue / AV setup is fantastic. I'm getting pretty tired of hearing about startups that are focused on twitter. There has to be other interesting stuff out there, right? ”

“ Some interesting presentations, though a few I had trouble seeing what the big deal was. Neat way to meet some cool people and companies, but much harder to do if they were not presenting. Just talking with our neighbor does not maximize the potential here, is there a way to foster more conversations? Even if it's contrived? ”

“ AnyClip and SetJam were cool, but I thought some of the others were less interesting/innovative in their respective spaces. The talk at the beginning about Big Apps was a bit long and dry, and not a good way to start the talks. ”

“ I had a good time, especially at the Gstaad afterwards where I got to meet a bunch of great entrepreneurs. ”

“ People need to write what they do or what they are looking for on their name-tags! This will make networking afterward a lot easier. Presenters were alright, but nothing with a major vision or catching core purpose. See everyone next time. ”

“ Great speakers! ”

“ I'm always inspired by the ideas and ambition out there. People in NYC really do follow their dreams. ”

“ This was my first and I am very much looking forward to the next one! ”

“ Most presenters were not interesting, several outright wastes of time. Only the deputy mayor and the first presenter were up to par. Nate took way too much time. ”

“ Presentations were long and some disappointing; venue didn't have enough networking space; after-party was too noisy to talk ”

“ First of all, thank you for your work. I think it is important. Comments: 1. You put two companies with very similar applications together in the same day - postlink and regroup, not to mention they were one after the other. That was a big problem for me. I was putting myself in the shoes of regroup and... 2. The auditorium is great. However, there is no real room for networking, also due to the amount of people attending. Stopping for 3 minutes and telling people to introduce themselves was very cool but too short of any meaningful exchange of personal information. ”

“ With all the momentum in past few weeks about NYC start up community, I would have love to seen all all-stars. Good lineup, but did not feel like creme de la creme. Also, would love more of a crowdsourcing environment where audience can participate. ”

“ A few interesting things, Nate's anyclip has a lot of promise but intellectual property concerns loom. The so called business tool "regroup" didn't do much at all but postling has promise for a niche market. "Tagnic" has a completely indefensible business model as anyone can create a similar service in a few weeks using Twitters API, the business card processor also tries to address a niche but there are players in that space, little unique differentiation. All in all an ok set , nothing to draw any major oohs and ahh's ..maybe next month! ”

“ Companies weren't all that interesting except for anyClip - which has more behind it than meets the eye, or so we were led to believe. ”

“ Some great products, and enjoyed the lively energies. Nate did his usual superb job of organizing, and for a change got to present. Too bad the NYC folks didn't hang around to chat afterwards. Wish that the post-meeting gathering location had been displayed on screen. ”

“ Really enjoyed the intro to setjam.com. The speaker engaged the audience from the get-go about something they cared about. The other demos were just feature/function/benefit which didn't compel interest as much, even though many of them were good products. ”

“ great seeing all the new ideas/start-ups. ”

“ Presentations were great - really interesting and efficiently presented -- never boring, good pace --I couldn't attend the networking after, so can't comment on that. Looking forward to the next.... ”

“ Good meetup. Glad I attended. ”