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New York App Week Puts Shippies Winners On Times Square Billboards Ahead Of Free Public Demo Day
October 21, 2026
New York App Week 2026 named seven Shippies winners on October 20 at the Intrepid Museum, sending each winning app to a Times Square billboard. The week closes Thursday, October 22, with Shipaton Demo Day in Times Square, a free event open to the public with no registration required. Key
The Second-Act Founder: Why One Executive Walked Away From the Corner Office to Start Over at Zero
September 29, 2026
By: Sarah Linden Daniel Cohen-Dumani built his first company with server racks and an office lease. Twenty-two years later, he started his second with a laptop and a credit card, and a theory about why the best time to found a company might be after 30 years of career. The
Jobs NYC Center Opens at 2 Lafayette Street as City Agencies Work to Fill 14,000 Vacancies
September 28, 2026
New York City opened the Jobs NYC Center at 2 Lafayette Street in Lower Manhattan on September 28, 2026, giving the city a permanent walk-in hub for public service hiring. The center arrives as city agencies carry more than 14,000 vacant authorized positions, and regular walk-in hours begin Monday, October
NYC Issues Cease-and-Desist Orders to 42 Online Retailers Over Illegal E-Bike Sales
August 6, 2026
New York City has issued cease-and-desist orders to 42 online retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy, and Wayfair, demanding they stop selling motorized devices that exceed legal speed and weight limits on city streets. Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani announced the enforcement action on August 5, giving retailers until August 18 to
Candace Singh Left Wall Street to Rewrite Hollywood’s View of Family
August 12, 2026
By: Elowen Gray Candace Singh spent a decade at two of Wall Street’s most demanding institutions, rising from Analyst to Vice President at Goldman Sachs in consecutive years before moving to JPMorgan to conduct due diligence on alternative investments. By every conventional measure, she had made it. Then, in March
What Shlomo Assa Knows About Building Something New That Most Entrepreneurs Never Learn
July 30, 2026
By: Natalie Johnson One thing that Shlomo Assa consistently emphasizes is the importance of the following steps in any endeavor. They are not an inspiring phrase. Listening. Observing. Analyzing. Understanding the mechanism of the problem before trying to solve it. And then be inventive. This algorithm is what his career
From Creator to Company: Why Rebecca Jackson Is Building More Than an Audience
August 3, 2026
By: Elowen Gray The creator economy has produced millions of influencers, but only a small number are making the transition from content creators to company builders. Rebecca Jackson believes the distinction matters. Known through her platform JACKSONSANDJESUS, Jackson has built an audience centered on faith, family, and intentional living. Her
Why Partnerships Help Entrepreneurs Thrive in New York
July 27, 2026
New York has long been associated with ambitious businesses, fast-moving industries, and dense professional networks. For entrepreneurs, that environment can create opportunities, but it can also make the process of building a company more competitive and complex. One strategy that can help founders navigate that environment is partnership. Whether the
New York’s Fiscal Health Becomes Concerning as Budget Gaps Grow
July 27, 2026
New York’s fiscal outlook is showing signs of growing pressure as spending commitments rise, projected budget gaps widen, and the state faces uncertainty over federal funding and the broader economy. The concerns do not point to an immediate fiscal crisis. New York continues to collect substantial tax revenue and maintains
Aaron Strazicich Builds Leep AI to Give Business Owners Their Time Back
July 20, 2026
Aaron Strazicich founded Leep AI in 2025 with a specific customer in mind. Owner-operators in home services still answer their own phones. They miss leads on job sites. They take calls during family dinners. Strazicich built a company to fix that. Leep AI sells voice AI as its core product.
Hudson Landing: Hochul Selects Developers For $1 Billion Hell’s Kitchen Housing Project Near Intrepid Museum
July 27, 2026
Governor Kathy Hochul has selected three New York developers to transform a state-owned parking lot in Hell’s Kitchen into a $1 billion, 1,127-unit mixed-use housing development directly across from the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on Manhattan’s far West Side. The project, dubbed Hudson Landing, marks one of the
Saan Enzo on Building a Business After Vine
July 14, 2026
Saan Enzo is a Canadian entrepreneur who has built a successful career by adapting to the fast-changing world of social media. Before focusing on business, he was active on Vine, the short-form video app that became popular for its six-second clips. Like many creators on the platform, he spent time
NFIB Report Reveals New York Small Business Confidence Falling Behind the National Average in 2026
July 13, 2026
New York small business owners are reporting lower confidence than their counterparts across the rest of the country in three fundamental economic categories, according to a new state-specific report from the National Federation of Independent Business released on July 9, 2026. The Empire State trails the national average in expectations
NYC Launches Clean-Powered Carts Challenge To Electrify Street Food Vendors in Queens
July 30, 2026
New York City officially launched a six-month pilot program on July 7 to replace gas-powered generators on mobile food carts with rechargeable electric batteries, starting with 10 vendors at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens. The NYC Clean-Powered Carts Challenge, unveiled by Chief Climate Officer Louise Yeung near the Unisphere,
Matt Sim and the Idea That Discipline Is Built, Not Born
July 2, 2026
Matt Sim signed his first professional esports contract at fourteen. By his own account, he ranked highly among Fortnite players and in a competitive Halo playlist. The trajectory looked set. Then it wasn’t. What came next was not a clean line from prodigy to founder. It ran through a stretch
Why Filmmaker Dante Hillmedo Chose To Bet On Himself To Bring ‘Butterfly’ To Life
June 22, 2026
By: Aman Jalan Entrepreneurship often comes down to a single question. How much are you willing to bet on yourself? For Bronx filmmaker and Team Elite Productions founder Dante Hillmedo, that question became very real during the production of his debut feature film, Butterfly. After spending more than a decade
Brooklyn-Based Chronograph Raises $140 Million in Growth Round Led by Sixth Street, Launches Private Credit Platform
June 18, 2026
Chronograph, the Brooklyn-headquartered portfolio monitoring and analytics platform serving institutional private capital investors, confirmed a strategic minority growth equity round of more than $140 million on Tuesday, June 16. Sixth Street Growth, the dedicated growth investing arm of Sixth Street, led the round. All existing investors — Summit Partners, Carlyle
How to Innovate Your Brand in 2026 with AI and One Connected App
June 16, 2026
By: Maria Williams Every entrepreneur knows the feeling. The idea is clear, the vision is strong, the ambition is there, but the moment it’s time to bring the brand to life, everything slows down. The designer is fully booked. The photographer is expensive. The consultant is unavailable. The logo doesn’t
Richard Turrentine Is Reimagining Independent Film Distribution
June 16, 2026
Independent filmmakers have never had more tools to make a movie, or fewer dependable ways to get it watched. Festivals are crowded, streaming catalogs are saturated, and the path from a finished film to a paying audience runs through a shrinking set of intermediaries. Richard Turrentine has spent more than
C.A. Victor Discusses The Conscious Pugilist, Brooklyn Roots, Music Industry Success, and Consciousness
June 15, 2026
By: Eliot Mercer Author, entrepreneur, former music producer, and creative visionary C.A. Victor is gaining attention for his debut literary work, The Conscious Pugilist Anthology Vol. One. The Brooklyn native, whose career spans music production, automotive management, entrepreneurship, real estate investing, and personal development, has created a book that blends
The AWS Architect Who Thinks AI Writing Tools Are Solving the Wrong Problem
June 6, 2026
By: Stephen Woodard How a career in enterprise systems led to a fundamentally different approach to AI and the written word. Before building Thanis, I spent a year working on a problem that had nothing to do with writing. The question was simpler, and in some ways more unsettling: how
Mike Hayes: The SEAL Commander Paying Off Mortgages for Gold Star Families
June 17, 2026
Written by: Dillon Kivo The Man Who Listens First In a lower Manhattan conference room, a man who once commanded a 2,000-person task force in Afghanistan and later helped close one of the largest software acquisitions in American history listens before he speaks. The habit shows up everywhere Mike Hayes
The Real Reason New York Taxis Turned Yellow
June 4, 2026
The yellow taxi reads, almost anywhere in the world, as shorthand for New York. Yet the color was neither original to the city’s cabs nor adopted for the reason most often repeated. The widely shared “fun fact” that a 1967 law made New York taxis yellow because a University of
