To be in Silicon Valley or New York
Sarah Lacy talks to executives from Birchbox, Thrillist, One Kings Lane, and Warby Parker about whether not it is difficult to start an ecommerce company outside of Silicon Valley.
How Texas Innovates In Healthcare
Governor Rick Perry talks to Forbes contributor Avik Roy about healthcare policy in the Lone Star state. From the Forbes Healthcare Summit in New York City.
The First Entrepreneur At Large on Incubating NYC Startups
Jane Pauley interviews Steve Rosenbaum, appointed by the New York City Economic Development Corporation as the city’s first Entrepreneur At Large. He speaks about his new role incubating startups and why he thinks New York’s tech sector will soon surpass Silicon Valley.
New York City is always pushing itself to compete with Silicon Valley in terms of launching competitive startups. Although New York City startups do not share the same prominence as that of the Googles and Facebooks, it is has young and up and coming entrepreneurs who share the same promise, with their raw energy levels and desire to persevere.
Below is the list of CEOs, who represent the 25 hottest up and coming startups. To learn more about each CEO, please click on the title.
- Jason Goldberg, CEO of Fab
- Dave Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal, co-CEOs of Warby Parker
- Jake Schwartz, CEO of General Assembly
- Lily Liu, CEO of Public Stuff
- Matt Meeker, CEO of BarkBox
- Vinicius Vacanti, CEO of Yipit
- Perry Chen, CEO of Kickstarter
- Bre Pettis, CEO of Makerbot
- Neil Capel, CEO of SailThru
- Jonah Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed
- Wiley Cerilli, CEO of SinglePlatform
- Irving Fain, CEO of CrowdTwist
- Jason Baptiste, CEO of OnSwipe
- Chantel Waterbury, CEO of Chloe + Isabel
- Ari Jacoby, CEO of Solve Media
- Philip James, CEO of Lot18
- Noah Brier, CEO of Percolate
- Nihal Mehta, CEO of LocalResponse
- Britta Riley, CEO of Windowfarms
- Katia Beauchamp and Hayley Barna, co-CEOs of Birchbox
- Jordy Leiser, CEO of StellaService
- Joe Essenfeld, CEO of Jibe
- John Laramie, CEO of AdStruc
- Jonathan Hefter, CEO of Neverware
- Aaron Schildkrout and Brian Schechter, co-CEOs of HowAboutWe
