Now is the time to connect with diverse tech founders in NYC

Redefining social “meetups”

If you worked from home this week, did you notice whether you were more efficient in your project teams? 

When communication forced clarity, you likely got more work done at your job and in personal life, even exploring your local neighborhood during daylight hours.

Many of our diverse tech founders not only work remotely as a matter of course, but also have active teams collaborating all over the world for their products.

Our new normal is redefining what it means to be “social”.

We are being challenged to set new rules for meetups in a potentially pandemic-ridden planet. Please stay safe.

In this new world, you’ll either inspire innovation or signal your economic decay to the market, all depending on whether you embrace the moment or try to simply weather the storm.

I’m thankful we spent resources on high-quality video content for YouTube and JustMyNewYork because folks can still find us on house arrest, thanks to @iammikemose.

Small Meetups 

Smaller meetups have distinct advantages over large gatherings, sometimes.

Are you ready?

When the only media forms available are the internet and smartphone.

Let’s continue producing content even if months go by before trust is reestablished in human gatherings.

2020 turned all of us into so-called “extroverts,” out of necessity.

In professional settings, you cannot remain completely silent anymore is what I’m thinking.

If you do, you’ll be invisible.

This is an opportunity to encourage others in phone niceties and email etiqutte because in person comfort is basically removed without video calling, and even then.

If your social skills begin atrophy, have a plan to return to and embrace your authentic social, digital self.

The Opportunity

We need diverse tech founders now more than ever, and we provide access to a direct pipeline to tech startup talent through our startup showcases and app launch parties.

Here’s the deal, we’re committed now more than ever to provide a sanitized tech space and we’re taking additional steps to secure our guests safety.

Precautions

Germs are everywhere and we’re subject to them too, so we are taking precautions with you in mind, like asking everyone to take their temperature prior to entering our venues. 

First, our events require zero touching.

Second, we are basically 100% digital. We communicate with guests directly through their smartphones, via our projector screens and using QR codes that guests can scan by hovering their camera phones over the QR code.

Third, our app launch parties gently suggests to guests that they explore the digital world, in a physical space. 

In the not-too-distant future, augmented goggles could become the new normal in certain industries, so we are watching this trend closely.

If you can’t attend our next app launch party in person (which we recommend if you are well and trust our environment), you can watch our next startup showcase live online or afterwards in our post-event recaps, almost as if you were there (but not quite). 

We will continue expanding our platform to best showcase and partner with existing startups in the networking space.

Trust, more valuable now than ever before

Isn’t it funny?

Trust is essential to both our global and dinner-table economics? 

Regardless, our economies’ health depend on diverse tech founders and communities that support them.

In my opinion, this wealth is primarily spread through entertaining meetups that help to build rapport among founders, consumers and investors, incubate novel ideas and set strategic visions for partnerships and collaborations; and most importantly timely advice about how to avoid devastating losses ex ante.

Imagine for a moment that you’re a diverse startup founder, but that you’re broke in the trust economy.

To be honest, many early stage startups begin their careers this way.

These diverse tech startup founders launch as relative unknowns.

At best they launch with support from roughly 100 friends and family.

If they’re lucky.

In one night at our app launch parties, a diverse tech startup founder can meet close to three dozen tech-savvy guests.

You, regardless of background can receive direct, candid advice from VCs, other founders, bankers, artists and marketers, along with a guest list of potential future investors and customers.

Viable solutions are valuable in any economy

We allocate founders 4 minutes tell their story to our rapt audiences.

Luckily, our conversations are largely driven by guests' questions during our legendary post-Launch Q&A.

Our guests are smart.

Current events inform their insights and each query stands on its own, yet builts on its predecessor.

Most often founders field questions related to taking their target market global to increase their total adressable market, about drilling down further in their initial target customer base to clearly define traction, and also how guests can help them today.

Solutions develop organically in our intentionally-curated, vulnerable environments that allow folks who are either “too industry” to relax in normal startup networking events, to folks just starting out and may not know where to start. 

It’s an eclectic mix of myriad personalities coming together to support the local tech scene in New York City, and a single founder that evening.

It’s in environments like these where solutions are born.

Collaborations can transcend capital resources

It’s a saying repeated often at our events...

“We leverage the one thing older than capital, people and their feedback.”

As increasingly more white collar workers prepare to work from home for the long haul (as a new norm), our highly communicative environments will continue to flourish.

Communicative efficiency buttressed with clear goals and values can refine project timing and team expectations.

You should never lower your expectations.

Today, collaboration rules are consistently challenged (see the current state of affairs), so members of our community have an opportunity to generate creative solutions.

We have our sight set on our northern star: a better and fairer physical and digital world.

If you’ve been working from home, have you noticed how much more efficient your teams can be? 

For our diverse tech startup founders, working across longitude and latitudes is built into their business plan.

It’s in their DNA.

Poll your friends and family to see if they enjoyed it, as applicable?

In “work from home” world, how will you stay connected with folks outside of your immediate social media groups?

How will you meet new people?

For one, we intend to host safe, sanitized events with less than 250 people MAXIMUM and deliver all of our content online in articles, videos and community-connectivity apps like The Blast App.

We live in a tiny world now

Up to this point, one could essentially rely on catching trends if you visited someone in a far away place that was just a little bit ahead of the curve in a particular area. 

Today, we realize just how tiny the world is because if a microscopic virus that no naked eye can see, can spread around the world in 45 days it’s time to consider our world is not only flat, but tiny.

One authentic story of a diverse startup founder can span the globe because distribution networks, like our nervous systems, rely on something to actually flow through it.

That’s content and positive energy around a worthwhile idea that solves a problem.

We are really into producing content and building pipeline projects because these activities are valuable regardless of, and especially in, the new normal.

We plan to thrive with consistent high quality content, a continuous flood of new tech talent and expanding budding projects from established members of our community.

Great businesses and great leaders still exist

If you’ve been saving resources diligently for opportunities like these, now may be your time to consider many great businesses still exist and have emerged in all economies.

If you are searching for great startup companies lead by diverse founder teams, join us.

You’ll tap into a community that leverages its own successes to bring others along and pump life into solutions to tough problems.

Follow us at www.d-tech.fund

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