How to Biz Dev in the Dog Days of Summer
That comic book filter does wonders for the abs This is a guest post by Alex Taub, who leads business development and partnerships at Aviary. He blogs at alexsrandomtechthoughts.tumblr.com So you’re...
View ArticleAviary Launches New Mobile SDK and Poaches Microsoft Exec for Biz Dev
Paul Murphy - VP of Business Development at Aviary Hot on the heels of their successful hack day, Aviary launched a mobile SDK today to embed their photo editing tools into mobile apps. They launched...
View ArticleAviary, Now Editing 10 M. Photos a Month on Mobile Alone, Launches Version 2...
via Aviary Aviary has done pretty darn well for itself in the four months since launching its mobile SDK. In a blog post announcing a new version of its embeddable photo editing software for web and...
View ArticleBiz Dev Is Having a Moment
Mr. Pollack, in a tux. Business development professionals still don't have their own noun. It's either "I do biz dev for ____" or "she's in biz dev" or, our favorite, "they're biz dev folks." Maybe...
View ArticleDwolla Prepares to Launch a New York City Office By Poaching Aviary’s Alex Taub
Mr. Taub Dang, looks like we missed a couple prime candidate from our spring Poachables list. Alex Taub, head of business development and partnerships at Aviary--and a familiar face to anyone in the...
View ArticleBetaworks Poaches Another NYC Startup Exec, Aviary’s Paul Murphy, for...
Mr. Murphy (Photo: Twitter) Looks like startup non-incubator Betaworks is in a hiring frenzy. Days after announcing it had snapped up former Tumblr VP Andrew McLaughlin, the company is making news...
View ArticleMeet Betabeat’s 2012 Tech Insurgents
(Illustration: Robert Grossman) Jack Dorsey, cofounder of Twitter and Square, recently tried to disabuse the tech industry of its infatuation with the word ‘disruption.’ “We don’t want ‘disruption,’...
View ArticleTech Insurgents 2012: Alex Taub and Michael Schonfeld
Mr. Taub and Mr. Schonfeld The Credit Card Killers With an ever-crowded financial tech market and companies like PayPal and Google Wallet elbowing for industry dominance, the race to kill the credit...
View Article‘Think Before Including Emoji in Every Text:’ NYC Techies’ New Year’s...
(Photo: DeviantArt) 2012 was quite a year for the New York tech community. Several NYC startups scored monster exits, while others raised millions to up their chances of scoring a ping pong table for...
View ArticleYour Attempts to Get Google Glass Are Pretty Embarrassing
(Screencap: YouTube) Google announced a campaign this morning that would allow non-developers to score a pair of Google Glass by tweeting a missive about what you'd do with the specs along with the...
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