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Why Tomorrow Night’s NYTM is so Important

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Tomorrow night -- on Tuesday, September 1st -- the NY Tech Meetup will feature 4 presentations of technology and research which originated at New York and Columbia Universities' computer science departments.

It's about time the University and Commercial tech communities did something together. This is why you should RSVP for it now:

The "NY tech community" as most of our 10,000 members consider it, is largely comprised of people in the commercial world. We are entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, and technologist-employees in companies large and small.

For the most part, in the commercial world, we do an amazing job at solving tech's medium-sized and important problems. If you're lucky enough to work a small handful of our member startups and you work on something like Health Care, you're among the few working on a super-sized problem and massively important.

However, for the most of us in the private, commercial space, we're at our best when giving you the ability to find what bars your friends are in or edit images in browsers or even serve advertisements in effective manners.

Great stuff. Innovative stuff. But that's not always where revolutionary technology comes from.

Universities are hugely important pieces of a technology ecosystem because they often produce revolutionary technology (TCP/IP, Apache, Mosaic, Google), and thus should be cornerstones of our communities.

However, in New York City, we fail at integrating our University and Commercial technology communities.

Until now. Tomorrow night we're showing off 4 amazing demos from some innovative teams located at NYU and Columbia University. You'll learn about "Musically Intelligent Machines," "Teaching Robots to See" and much, much more.

So come out and celebrate this great research happening in our back-yard.

It's important.

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Nate is the Co-Founder and VP Product of AnyClip. He is also the Organizer of the 10,000 member NY Tech Meetup.
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    This seems like a great event, yet experienced professionals in the private and commercial tech-space and businesses aren't always so willing to offer their expertise, knowledge, and mentorship to teach and help entrepreneurship and tech-interested young students in these universities establish their own startups and businesses (their young ages and lack of experience shouldn't be held against them). How do I know this? Well, I have an intern this summer from CU and he's been having trouble finding the right willing and generous mentors, which I am helping him seek, as I don't exactly have the expertise in the areas he is interested in venturing and creating startups in.
  • It's not just about mentorship. It's about partnership too. The
    technology being developed in the universities can be game-changing
    for some companies. The problem is most companies don't know what tech
    is being developed at universities and most universities dont know
    what problems people with businesses have.
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