108 posts found
March 1, 2018
This week on the podcast we talk with Marnie LaVigne from Launch NY. Launch NY is a great ambassador for the Buffalo startup scene and the team over there have been working hard at bringing idea and early-stage startups to the region and helping those with an idea launch their startup.
LISTEN NOWFebruary 21, 2018
This week on the podcast we chat with former 43North judge and Managing Partner at 1000 Angels Erica Duignan Minnihan.
LISTEN NOWFebruary 13, 2018
Alex Gress has been named the incoming Executive Director of 43North. So who is he? What’s his vision for the $5 Million Startup Competition? Where did he come from? Why did he come back to Buffalo? Why is he doing so much swimming?
LISTEN NOWFebruary 8, 2018
This week on the podcast we chat with business attorney Andrea HusVar. She works closely with startups getting off the ground and regularly provides expertise to help startups determine which route of funding they should take
LISTEN NOWJanuary 30, 2018
This week on the podcast we say so long to John Gavigan as he ends his tenure as Executive Director of 43North and look back at his time here and look ahead.
LISTEN NOWJanuary 26, 2018
This week on the podcast we talk with Pitchbook analyst Dylan Cox. Dylan recently spoke at an Upstate Capital Association event and we, quite literally, grabbed him prior to heading to the airport in order to get a word with him about developments in venture and private equity dollars in Western New York.
LISTEN NOWJanuary 19, 2018
This week on the podcast we talk to Dan about learning IT in high school, being eager to finish college because he was already working in IT at M&T Bank, leaving the comfortable job to dip his toe in startup life, directing the early team at Z80 labs and leaving the lab to cofound ACV Auctions.
LISTEN NOWJanuary 10, 2018
The Design Innovation Garage is one the premiere coworking and event spaces, not only on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, in all of WNY.
LISTEN NOWDecember 27, 2017
We’re of course talking about Nick and Jon from Helm UX. They’ve been around since the early days of the blossoming Buffalo startup ecosystem and their design firm has played an integral role in designing UI and UX for startups like ACV Auctions, Sentient Science, Clearview Social and even established businesses like Basil Automotive and Independent Health.
LISTEN NOWDecember 20, 2017
The University at Buffalo along with startup incubators across WNY are coming together to provide early-stage startups with the resources they need get off the ground.
LISTEN NOWDecember 14, 2017
This week on the podcast we talk with Jim Regenor, Business Unit Director & Transformative Technologies at Moog Inc. Jim and his team are pioneering blockchain implementation so a future of customers being able to manufacture Moog certified parts anywhere around the world is just around the corner.
LISTEN NOWDecember 7, 2017
This week on the podcast we chat with Oscar Pedroso, co-founder of Thimble. Thimble is WNY’s most successful project on Kickstarter (in WNY) to date. How did they grow the company from an idea to crowdsourced, to now one of the most successful maker boxes on the market today?
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