Security Check: Matt currently works at General Assembly as the Global Alumni Director. By the end of 2015 GA will have nearly 40,000 alums of our long form programs. These are people with ambition, work experience, an entrepreneurial spirit, and, now, equipped with some of the most important skills of the 21st century. When you…

Security Check: Our passenger is Avery Roth. She currently lives in Miami but not long ago was a New Yorker in London. She is also the founder of The Startup Consulting Group, which aims to be the McKinsey for startups. A group that is providing business advisory and analysis such as business planning, marketing planning,…

What does an Apple-fanatic team do when they don’t want to equip their shiny Macbooks with an outdated enterprise software? You guessed right: they develop their own. Loomideck is an enterprise social network for team collaboration and project management. Share bookmarks and images with your team just like on Pinterest, use hashtags, and share files…

Tikva is a UX Designer, Product Strategist, and User Researcher with a focus on designing social systems/products (mostly recently, she worked at Facebook). She is also Curator and Director emeritus of Ignite NYC. What’s your historical San Francisco and New York connection? San Francisco is the first city I ever visited as a 13 year old, and…

Storytelling is a tool that helps children understand themselves and their world. Twigtale believes that when we provide children with words for the experience and the feelings they may have about the experience, we can empower them to calm unsettled emotions. The Twigtale Starting Preschool book allows the child to make sense of a new, and…

Retention Science leverages big data algorithms to help e-commerce companies retain and re-engage customers to maximize customer lifetime value. Our SaaS profiling engine uses machine learning techniques to predict customer behaviors based on massive data sets to automatically create individually-tailored retention campaigns.