NYC SeedStart Program

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SeedStart is interested in companies focusing on advertising infrastructure, e-commerce, digital content, and mobile technology.

Our goal is to help close the gap between funding and the teams who are just getting started in NYC. A major advantage of SeedStart Media is the vertical approach to the program. By involving professionals from the venture capital and startup world as well as mentors from large media companies, a full complement of guidance and marketplace feedback can be combined into the same program. Some example applications include companies that can deliver creative ideas in relation to digital and mobile advertising, virtual publications, mobile e-commerce platforms, and cloud computing in relation to media businesses.


SeedStart Media will provide finalists access to entrepreneurial mentors, $20,000 in funding, work-space, and partner and customer introductions for the company. The program will also conclude with an investor pitch day that will allow the teams a further opportunity to raise more capital.

Can we really trust the cloud? VentureBeat.com (Canada)

Can we really trust the cloud?
January 31, 2011 | Matthew Lynley
Software architects like to shorthand the spaghetti of interconnected networks that make up the Internet as “the cloud” — an amorphous entity, somewhere distant, that you don’t need to fuss over.

But events around the world have brought cloud advocates back to Earth. From Egypt and Canada to Capitol Hill and beyond, we’ve been reminded that what we call the cloud is just a bunch of computers, in buildings, tied together by fiber-optic cables, and ruled by other human beings.

Just like the rest of the Internet, cloud computing — services run on remote servers and deliver files and computing power over the Internet — are vulnerable to the whims of regulators and governments. Residents of Egypt learned that lesson the hard way when the government abruptly shut off most Internet service providers in a frantic attempt to gain control of its rioting populace after rising unrest.
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