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July 7, 2017
This week on the Latitude Podcast we chat with Noa Simmons, Executive Director at Upstate Venture Association of New York. Noa has spent time in Boston and Shanghai in her business career, more recently settling into the startup & entrepreneurship scene in the Hudson Valley. Noa gives us her insights into the role startups […]
LISTEN NOWJune 30, 2017
Rubens Mukunzi arrived in Buffalo in 2013 after leaving Rwanda. As a journalist in a country without freedom of speech or freedom of the press, Rubens found himself at odds with the government. He grew up during one of the worst genocides in human history, started an education focused newsletter while still and high school […]
LISTEN NOWJune 23, 2017
Well, actually it requires a boatload of work, but who doesn’t love a podcast title that plays on the title of a 1960’s Broadway musical? Anyway, this week on the podcast we’re talking with Somak Chattopadhyay, the managing partner at Armory Square Ventures. Somak talks about the type of startups his firm likes to invest in […]
LISTEN NOWJune 16, 2017
What is it like seeing your work launched into space? This week on the podcast we talk with 43North winning co-founder Sourav Sinha from Oncolinx, the $1 million winner. In May, Oncolinx’s cancer treatment experiment was launched to the International Space Station where astronauts there will conduct tests that allow the Oncolinx team to […]
LISTEN NOWJune 9, 2017
This week we sit down with CoachMePlus co-founder Kevin Dawidowicz, himself a serial entrepreneur, where he explains how CoachMePlus got started, the importance of the platform, and why teams’ wins and losses can’t be a metric for the platform’s success.
LISTEN NOWJune 1, 2017
Christina Orsi was one of the architects of the Buffalo Billion plan that has sparked a renewed entrepreneurial spirit in Western New York. This week on the Latitude Podcast Christina talks us through some of the reasons why 43North was part of that plan, the other projects succeeding in that plan and how Buffalo is […]
LISTEN NOWMay 26, 2017
Del Reid loves Buffalo sports. The co-founder of the “Bill Mafia” can be seen any given Sunday rooting for the Buffalo Bill, no matter their record. But Del had a greater purpose, helping those in need. In an age where people turn to crowdfunding to help offset medical expenses while their family battles cancer and […]
LISTEN NOWMay 19, 2017
Who would have thought selling Japanese pro wrestling tapes on eBay as a teenager would lay the groundwork for Rob Hunter and carry his entrepreneurial spirit into his 30’s? But that’s exactly what happened. Wrestling tapes led to real estate, which led to franchising ice cream shops in Canada, which led to starting up HigherMe […]
LISTEN NOWMay 12, 2017
10 million people in the United States and Europe have a difficulty communicated due to illnesses like ALS, Stroke and other medical conditions. Voiceitt, a Buffalo, NY and Israeli startup, has developed an advanced speech recognition technology currently being beta tested with users impacted with speech impairments. Voiceitt is a 2015 winner of the 43North […]
LISTEN NOWMay 5, 2017
Rachel Jackson could have continued her long, prosperous career as a corporate lawyer. But when she became a mother and realized the pain of nursing, and moreover the lack of relief on the market, Rachel realized she needed to do something. And thus, Rachel’s Remedy was born.
LISTEN NOWApril 28, 2017
Joe Neiman wasn’t content being the best used car salesman in a small town outside of Albany. When he returned to Buffalo a few years ago to manage the purchase of used vehicles for a large dealership, his discontent for the status quo grew. His decade and a half experience in the used car business […]
LISTEN NOWApril 21, 2017
This week on Latitude we talk with Francisco Aguilar, founder of Bounce Imaging. Bounce Imagine is a year three winner of the 43North competition and is quickly connecting law enforcement departments in WNY and across the country with their device. Francisco talks about Costa Rica not being a chicken shack like Jurassic Park portrayed, developing […]
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