by Brian Solis
While the state of the U.S. economy has many gripped with fear, the spirit of tech entrepreneurs appears to be alive and well, and perhaps most notably, determined to excel regardless of the hurdles that may lie ahead.
On November 11th in New York, Microsoft Startup Zone partnered with The TechSet (Stephanie Agresta and yours truly) to host Ignite New York to debut the newly launched BizSpark initiative. BizSpark is a comprehensive program that is dedicated to helping startups grow and succeed by offering to caliber services, resources, platforms and software.
The event was hosted at One Little West 12, an elegant and beautiful ultra lounge in New York’s stylish Meat Packing District – next door to the Hotel Gansevoort, made popular by the Sex and the City Franchise.
Close to 400 people celebrated the spirit of entrepreneurialism that night, which made for an evening rich with valuable and productive conversations and networking.
New York is the first in a series of events. Austin, you’re next! See you on November 20th. RSVP here.
I’ll let the pictures tell the rest of the story…
Leora Israel
Stephanie Frasco
Aaron Brazell (technosailor)
Adam Hirsh of Mashable and David Parmet
SavvyAuntie.com
Victor Karamalis
Laura Michaels and Bryan Thatcher of Fusebox and Empressr.com
Michelle DeForest
Karin Klein and Jennifer Klein
Peter Himler, David Parmet, Joe Ciarallo
Brett Petersel of Mashable stands out from the crowd
Stephanie Agresta and Steve Rosenbaum of Magnify.net
Jacob Mullins, Santiago Iturbe, Chris Brady
Victoria Stemmer and Paul Lewis of MTV
Mark Burstiner, Meghan Asha, and
Michael Lewis
Gary Sharma
Jonathan Dingman
David Blumenstein
RockBand – Kyle Sollenberger, Paul Lewis, Whitney Hess
Winner of the Twitter XBOX 360 contest
Arthur Boie, Chris Munns of Meetup.com, Damien Basile
Ari Greenberg and Bonnie Halper
Oz Sultan and Julia Johnston
Brian Solis
Brian August and Leora Israel
The Ignite Team, shot by Aaron Brazell
Earlier in the evening, team Ignite, attended the New York Newtech Meetup. To see my pictures of the meetup, jump over to my set on Flickr.
For more pictures from Ignite New York hosted by Microsoft BizSpark and TechSet, please visit my album on Flickr.
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