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Woke up last Thursday morning feeling like P. Diddy,
so from the whole team at StartupMixers.com we’d like to say
a) that’s a real feeling and b) thank you!

As the Lemonade Heroes say.. if you’re a founder, then you’re a hero
You’re also rockstars to party with! The Hornblower Infinity played luxurious host to 500+ of the NYC Startup Scene’s finest and it was our pleasure to spend the evening with a crew awesome & fun as this beautiful city of ours.
We hope to see each and every one of you at our next event so stay tuned, stay disruptive, stay NYC.

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The SmartMoney Entrepreneurs How To Get Funding From A Shark! was a tremendous success. Thank you to everyone who was able to make it through the bad weather. There were more than 100 people at the pre-event networking portion, including investors, entrepreneurs, and finance professionals. The CEO vs. Investor battle was packed with useful information for all the entrepreneurs in the room. And of course, the Investor Panel was the blockbuster highlight of the evening. Daymond John hosted the panel with Charlie O’Donnell, Brian Cohen, Alan Brody, and SME CEO Jeremy Andrews.

Check out the photos below!

It was an honor to co-host the official FundingPost Mobile Venture & Angel Conference Afterparty!

The panels for the day:

• Early-Stage Mobile Investing: How to meet investors, pitch them, where the capital is going and what it really takes to get them to write you a check!
• Growing your Mobile business: growing and selling your product, and positioning it for a capital raise.
• Future of Crowdfunding: How mobile companies will be able to take advantage of crowdfunding through rewards or equity.
• Keynote: Founding and Exiting a Mobile Company: Howard Schwartz, CEO, Human Demand
• Keynote: Invest as an Angel, Take Venture Capital, Go Public, Repeat: Steve Shwartz, Angel Investor in Tangoe

The panelists discussed trends in Early-Stage Mobile Investing, things that are most important to Investors when they are considering an Investment, the best and worst things an entrepreneur can do to get their attention, grow their business, use crowdfunding, additional advice for entrepreneurs, and, of course, the best ways to reach these and other Investors.

ADDITIONAL INVESTOR SPEAKERS
Ron Shah, Angel Investor (and JINA Ventures)
Jeff Pulver, Angel Investor, 140 Conference
Nikhil Kalghatgi, Softbank Capital
Matt Fates, Ascent Venture Partners

and the Crowdfunding Panel:
* Moderator: Douglas S. Ellenoff, Ellenoff Grossman & Schole
* Katherine O’Neill, Jumpstart NJ Angel Network
* Vladimir Vukicevic, RocketHub
* Ryan Feit, SeedInvest
* David Borish, Crowdhut

“No need to worry my accountant handles that.”

Opens Nick Sher, CPA & Founder of Sher & Associates, borrowing a Biggie quote, he touches on the importance of developing a relationship with an Accountant at the beginning of your startup’s lifecycle. Only you can make Accounting fun Nick and we love you for it, great job!

This was just one of the many lines that made last night memorable. We can’t say enough about our speakers and the energy and enthusiasm they brought to this speaker series held at Mercy College. Shout out to Professor Wazi, Founder of Let’s Order Now and President of the Mercy College Entrepreneurship Institute and Ed Weis, Dean of the College of Business for providing an excellent venue for the event – and even better food, wow, Mediterranean shrimp skewers?! bonus!

Some of the quotable moments of the night:

“Be knowledgeable enough to be dangerous…you should know more about your industry than I do.” Charlie O’Donnell, Partner, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures | @ceonyc

“Don’t ever confuse activity with achievement.” Gary Reloj, Founder, OMG Foodie | @OMGFoodie

“Make friends first, do business later, and shut up.” Mike Civello, Business Development, Plum Benefits on building strong business relationships | @plumbenefits

“You have to know the why. Guess what you’re not special. Your customers are being bombarded. You have to know what makes you stand out.” Michele Ashley, Founder, COEUR Coaching | @ubercoach

You can also find more memorable quotes on our Twitter account.

It was a great evening with a mix of Founder tips and stories, professional how-to’s, and networking. We look forward to hosting more of these and welcome any feedback or suggestions you all would have for topics, speakers, format, etc. – after all, we put these on so that you can learn as much as possible and connect with the right people that can help turn your dream to a reality.

So here’s to passion, drive and an insanity that only few can understand. Here’s to entrepreneurs!

Cheers,

Haithem
haithem@doitinperson.com

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Some more info on all the speakers:

Startup Speakers

Mahmud “Wazi”hullah, Founder, Let’s Order Now | @LetsOrderNow

Wazi is defined by his quest to make the world a better place through business.

Birthplace: A corrugated tin-hut in Bangladesh with no running water

Hobby: Luxuriating in the 12 Senses (The Pedestrian Five, Sixth, Common, Security, Humor, Community, Euphoria…)

Electrical Engineering: University of Pennsylvania; Finance: The Wharton School; MBA: Stanford University

Investment Banker: Drexel Burnham Lambert; Management Consultant: The Boston Consulting Group; Private Equity: The Yucaipa Companies; Lecturer/Director: Mercy College School of Business/Entrepreneurship Institute

Defining Moment: Death of his 3yr old son

Calling: LetsOrderNow.com - Empowering Philanthropy Without Cost

LetsOrderNow.com Increases Revenues and Decreases Costs for Merchants, Provides Convenient Ordering for Users, and Empowers Everyone to Donate to the Needy at No Cost Due to the Efficiencies Created.

Gary Reloj, Founder, OMG Foodie | @OMGFoodie

Gary is co-founder of OMG Foodie, a weekly email newsletter that features recommendations on where to find the best food and food events in your city. Gary is also co-founder of Founders Block, a media platform and education resource center that curates content relevant to the early-stage entrepreneur.

Lee Edwards, Lead Engineer, SideTour | @terronk

Lee is in charge of telling our computers what to do so that you can discover and book SideTours on your computer. He used to build robots for the military, and has never, ever, used that line to impress a date.

Anoop Kansupada, Founder, Dapprly | @Dapprly | @noop212

Anoop is founder and CEO of Dapprly, a social men’s application that helps you get dressed with what you already have. He believes you can have your own style and kill it anywhere you go. He won 3rd place at startup weekend and 2nd place at Lean Startup Machine. He has done a lot of stuff wrong. More then he will admit. But the thing he knows is that every mistake is an expensive lesson.

Michele Ashley, Founder & CEO, COEUR Compass Coaching | @ubercoach

Michele Ashley is Founder and CEO of COEUR Compass Coaching where she works as chief facilitator of women’s empowerment workshops and seminars globally.

After ten years in corporate America and living in the United Kingdom for three years (2005-2008), Michele created COEUR Compass Coaching to serve as a platform to provide a ‘safe haven’ for women to learn key life skills and tools to define their lives to live their true passion. COEUR is about providing life-coaching services that allow women to connect to their truth so as to make the best choices for their lives the first time around.

Ms. Ashley served as Chairman of the Board of Directors for WEST Inc. (Women of Excellence, Strength & Tenacity, Inc.), a non-profit organization based in New York City in 2011. She is a member of the Women’s Information Network (WIN) and has recently been appointed the Event Director for the Global Women’s Summits 2012 for the North Eastern Region of the US.

Professional Speakers

Charlie O’Donnell, Partner, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures | @ceonyc

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures seeks to make investments in early and seed stage technology companies in the “Greater Brooklyn Area” (which includes Manhattan and other boroughs) across a variety of information technology sectors. It will also have the capability to lead or co-lead seed rounds and will be based out of the NYU-Poly Incubator in DUMBO.

Michael Civello, Director, Client Relationships, Plum Benefits | @PlumBenefits

Michael Civello is the Director of Client Relationships and one of the original members of Plum Benefits, joining the game-changing employee benefit company shortly after its inception. During this time, Michael has become renowned in the Human Resources national community as a crucial relationship builder and B2B connector.  For a decade, Michael has built strategic personal relationships with more than 20,000 Human Resources departments and “C” suite executives including most of the Fortune 500 companies in his New York City base.

Gil Rachlin, Founder, BlueOceanStartup | @gilrachlin

Gil Rachlin is a seasoned product and data strategist with over a decade of experience with both startups and large corporations.  He discovered his passion for growth generating innovation early on, but found it to be a distinction during his masters studies when he was constantly looking for ways to take existing research ideas to the next level for his thesis and developed a new methodology for predicting stock trends using news analysis and fundamental analysis, which had breakthrough results and is still being studied and funded in the academia.

For the past 6 years he has been part of the growing community of New York’s Silicon Alley and was part of the leadership team of companies like: Quigo (until its sale to AOL for $360 Mill) and Kgb inc. ($1Bill company, which is known for its 411 services, kgbkgb and kgbdeals services).

Currently Gil runs Xtrech Holdings (stands for eXtreme Technologies), where he pursues his passion of helping companies find true innovation without competition. Xtrech companies include: ScanBizCards, AdFin Solutions, Legal FaceOff, Appinions, SeaPass,  Bolt Insurance, 10sum.

After helping multiple companies innovate their way into growth and measuring their success, Gil found that both Blue Ocean Strategy and Lean Startup techniques can’t reside separately and decided to combine them into Blue Ocean Startup. He is now spreading the word and helping companies methodically use these to grow their efforts.

Christopher Kula, Corporate & Business Law Department, Phillips Nizer LLP

Christopher Kula is counsel in the Corporate & Business Law Department at Phillips Nizer LLP where he concentrates his practice in securities, corporate finance matters, emerging companies and mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Kula handles private and public offerings of equity, debt, and convertible securities, SEC periodic reports, proxy statements, and registration statements (including for both U.S. issuers and foreign private issuers), Sarbanes-Oxley and corporate governance matters, stock-based mergers, reorganizations, or transactions and general corporate matters, as well as occasionally advising on broker-dealer and investment adviser regulatory matters.  Mr. Kula also has experience with structuring and drafting operating agreements of limited liability companies.

As a supplement to his primary focus, Mr. Kula also handles technology related matters including software license agreements, website development agreements, maintenance and service agreements, domain name transfer agreements, as well as terms of use and privacy policies for websites.

Nick Sher, Founder, Sher & Associates

Nick founded Sher & Associates in September of 2010. After beginning his career as a tax associate in the Ernst & Young LLP Real Estate Group, Nick moved on to work as a senior tax accountant at Marcum LLP. He specializes in individual and partnership taxation, serving both his client’s compliance and consulting needs. He also represents his clients before the IRS and state tax authorities. Nick’s current and former clients include high net worth individuals, private equity funds, real estate companies, and many other entities. He has developed a stellar reputation for exceptional service among his clients. He received his BBA in accounting from Baruch College and his Masters in Taxation there as well. Nick is an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of CPA’s. He volunteers and supports the Anti-Defamation League with this as his primary philanthropic focus. Nick also serves on the Board of Directors of the Shorefront Jewish Community Council and is the Treasurer of the non-profit organization.

Fun times at the Beekman Beer Garden!

We ended the summer with an event dubbed ‘Startup Beach Party…in the city’ featuring beautiful scenery and one-of-a-kind views at the Beekman Beer Garden Beach Club at South St. Seaport in Manhattan. As the weather began to chill, our guests enjoyed one last outdoor ‘hoorah’ networking and socializing with the entrepreneurs, students, and investors in attendance.

The BUZZtheBar team was in full effect offering discounted drink specials through their dedicated bartender for the event. Always a fun time when BUZZtheBar is involved!

New NYC Startup Brightbox had their (pretty awesome) smartphone charging station set up so we didn’t ever have to worry about losing juice!

HUGE props to our photographer, Cornelle Pearson of The Fourth Coming for the amazing pictures and moments captured that are shared below.

All in all a great event. Thanks to everyone who came out, hope to see you again soon!!

Eventbrite Page: http://startupbeachparty.eventbrite.com

In case you missed it the 3rd installment of the www.amusemi.com NYC Tech Picnic series went off like a charm with great weather, great company, and hassle-free eats thanks to Let’s Order Now.

NYC Startup Mixers partnered up with Amusemi – an interesting twist on a dining/networking club made up of designers, entrepreneurs and friends alike – to host members of the NYC Tech community at a picnic on Pier 64 of Chelsea Piers in Midtown Manhattan.

A big thanks to the NYC Startup Let’s Order Now – www.letsordernow.com/nycsm – who provided the attendees food by teaming up with a local restaurant to have our food delivered to us at the picnic! Let’s Order Now’s allows everyone to order and pay for their food individually while offering a discount to all who order, consider it social ordering with a group discounting built in. The more people who order the greater, the discount we all receive. Needless to say, this was a big hit sparking intrigue among the event-goers.
Amusemi did a great job of bringing together some great people in the NYC Tech community. Several developers were in attendance, some with their own startup, and others in search of a cool project to take on – calm down business founders I can hear you salivating now :p

Latin American startup, Buscand2, was also in attendance sharing with us a cool social networking platform with gamification elements built in. (how cool is that?!)

All in all, the scenery could not be beat and we look forward to more events like these in the future.

Thanks again to our sponsors – Flurry - increasing user engagement and maximizing monetization (www.flurry.com) and Social Chorus – a Social SaaS and Services Company (www.socialchorus.com).

Sadly with the summer winding down, our time for outdoor events is limited, but it’s not over yet! We just launched our last summer series event which will be at Beekman Beer Garden in South St. Seaport on Wednesday, September 19th. There’s no better place to close out a summer of great networking than at the scenic Beekman Beer Garden, we hope to see you there! Register at www.startupbeachparty.eventbrite.com

Our 2^nd installment of our summer networking series was held at the beautiful Hudson Terrace overlooking the Hudson River on the west side of Manhattan. This event featured even more students from NYU, Columbia, NYU-Poly, Baruch and many more. After word got out of our last event, our partnerships and sponsorships started growing. We partnered with the Columbia Entrepreneur’s Organization as well as NYU Stern School of Business to make sure that we were bringing together the brightest young minds in the NYC community to network with our friends/colleagues in the NYC startup space. The event was sold out 2 weeks prior, and we had the (good) problem of needing to keep up with the high demand for tickets! We upgraded our venue to the rooftop of Hudson Terrace where we were able to spread out and have enough room to network and party! Special invited guests to this event included Tech @ NYU, Columbia Business School, and members of the press.

To many of our members delight, Wednesday’s crowd included a lot more computer programmers and developers. Based off of the feedback from our prior event, we partnered with an app called herematch, which enables people to connect with each other based on their skills at events in real-time.  We also made an effort to have people in the crowd making sure that the right connections were being made. We expect to continue improving on this front, and we welcome any feedback or suggestions you may have!

Our sponsors, including Uber, who sponsored black-car service rides for all attendees to/from the event, definitely brought much more to the table for our members! Bring10.com was a hit with their drink promos and swag. We also partnered up with the Columbia start-up, BUZZtheBar, who had their own dedicated bartender that allowed users to pay on their phones and skip the lines to get their drinks! A new, up and coming startup, with an innovative idea, LetsOrderNow.com was in full effect offering free meals to all attendees and even running a contest for free lunch for a lucky participant and their whole office!

Special thank you to our event partner, Marte MultiMedia, who’s designs made the signage and event décor give a unique personality to the night!

And a big shout out to our hosts, Hudson Terrace, for the great venue and beautiful rooftop setting.

Thank you to all of our sponsors for making this a special evening and we hope you all had fun and made some great connections!

Let’s Order Now is a Simple, Social Ordering system that allows you to get your favorite meals at below menu prices everyday. The more people who sign up the bigger the discount. Sign up through this list and get your first meal free! Join at www.letsordernow.com/nycsm

bring10 is bringing more to the table – no pun/s intended! – with some drink promos and swag – while supplies last! Stop by their table, check out the app and see what they have for you guys! Check out the app at www.bring10.com/r/nycsm-082012

RoomMatchers.com is a one-stop shop to organize students and young professionals into the best living arrangements. The website enables students and young professionals to locate and network with potential roommates, as well as research available properties – all in a user-friendly, entertaining, and interactive environment. Sign up for your free profile at http://www.roommatchers.com/index.php?refcode=HAITHE

Pearson -  The company behind Penguin Books, The Financial Times, The Economist, and multiple education businesses now has a developer platform! Build your own applications today using Pearson’s high-quality curated content packaged in easy to use RESTful APIs (JSON, XML, HTML). Check them out at http://developer.pearson.com

BestVendor helps you find and discover business tools to get things done. We believe the right product or hack can transform your work life — and that there’s no better way to find them than through peers, contacts, and others who’ve been in your shoes. Sign up at http://bestvendor.com. Check out our new lists feature at http://bestvendor.com/lists.

DataArt is a custom software development firm that builds advanced solutions for the financial services, healthcare, hospitality and other industries. Combining domain knowledge with offshore cost advantages and resource flexibility, DataArt develops industry-defining applications, helping clients optimize time-to-market and minimize software development risks in mission-critical systems. Learn more at http://www.dataart.com/

New York Life is dedicated to protecting your business. We specialize in key employee insurance, business succession plans, and guaranteed tax- free cash accumulation.  Don’t leave free money on the table! Contact a New York Life agent today. Learn more at http://newyorklife.com/

The Minton Law Group is a boutique corporate law practice located in the heart of midtown Manhattan. Their practice focuses on representing startups and emerging businesses with business formation, capital raises and other transactions. Learn more at http://mintonlawgroup.com/

Sylvan Social Technology is a one-stop shop for Web Development and Business Strategy, catering to small business and solo entrepreneurs. To learn more, visit http://sylvansocial.com.

Platform45 is a Ruby on Rails software development company from Cape Town, South Africa. We are hired by enterprise and startups looking to build creative, cutting edge products to solve their business problems. We are doing our part in contributing to the technological singularity that will one day take over from mankind as the next step in evolution. Learn more at http://www.platform45.com/

Plum Perfect – Our inaugural website, http://www.plumperfect.com/, and our new iphone app, are for the Beauty shopper. From just a photo of your face, our popwerful patent-pending technology analyzes the color of your Skin, Hair, Eyes, and Lips. With a lot of math and tons of research with beauty professionals powering our application, we can make exacting recommendations for the right color cosmetics for your unique color signature. From Foundation to Eye Shadow, Lipstick and beyond, we cut through the thousands of products in the market and present you with a personalized selection that you can then narrow down to your favorites brands, retailers, price, color families, formulation, and many other criteria.

We kicked off our summer mixer series with an event at Village Pourhouse. This was a fun one and met a lot of great people. It was very exciting to see the positive response that we received from the 200+ attendees advocating for more of these types of events. The crowd included students from NYU, Columbia, NYU-Poly, Baruch, Fordham as well as entrepreneurs, startup founders/employees and investors. The idea behind this event was to bring together the business/technology schools in NYC with the startup scene. We especially take pride in the attendees who contacted us after to let us know of the opportunities that came about as a result of being there, some of them even landed jobs! We also heard of a lot of new business ideas exchanged that night. Feedback was that we needed a bigger venue and more facilitation of connections in real-time, we started on working on that right away.

A special thanks to our bartender, Vallery, who kept the drinks flowing all night!

And last but certainly far from least, thank you to our sponsors who made this event that much more fun by being great hosts at their tables:

 YourPartyHub.com is a social search engine that allows users to find nightlife events and bar venues based on location. It serves as a platform as well for bar owners, party promoters and DJ’s to upload their event/party information for users to find. With YourPartyHub.com you will never be out of the loop concerning nightlife events and deals in your area.

Bisnow Media is the largest publisher of Commercial Real Estate News here in the United States. A start up that went from 10 employees to over 80 in the last 2 years, Bisnow Media strives to provide opportunities for hungry, intelligent and hardworking individuals, who thrive in a work hard play hard environment. We encourage our employees to try and fail as opposed to fail to try. To make mistakes, admit the mistakes, learn from them and not repeat them. We value our employees more than anything else in the world and attempt to provide them with a career that challenges, motivates and empowers them to do amazing things. Think you can hack it? Send us a note to careers@bisnow.com

KAYWEB Angels, LLC is an angel investment group based in New York City, providing development services and mentoring to web and mobile startups in exchange for equity. Our board of directors are experienced internet and technology industry professionals who, together, mentor selected startups towards success.

Inside Startups provides a weekly email with top startup jobs, class discounts, and info about local events. Free to receive and low-cost to post, it’s a great resource whether you’re looking for opportunities, aiming to hire quality talent, or just wanting to stay informed. Sign up today at insidestartups.org and contact ali@insidestartups.org with any questions. Be sure to also follow @insidestartups for news, updates, and more jobs. Based in NYC, Inside Startups was founded in 2011 by Dan Porter, CEO of OMGPOP.

Sylvan Social Technology is a one-stop shop for Web Development and Business Strategy, catering to small business and solo entrepreneurs.

Appboy is a customer relationship management and analytics platform for mobile apps focused on building user engagement. Appboy provides an SDK and online dashboard to help app developers build rich user profiles and push content out to their users.

Solomon Page Technology Partners (SPTP) has a longstanding track record of excellence, satisfying a broad range of client staffing requirements.

Other guests included Badgeville, LocalResponse, DFJ Gotham, Tom’s Apps, MIKEL, MoviePass, and more.