Rust Belt Startup · Venture Caplital and Leveling The Playing Field – James Shomar On today’s podcast I’m having a conversion with Mr. James Shomar. James is a partner at StartFast which is a venture accelerator program in Syracuse NY. I reached out to James after reading one of his LinkedIn posts about how he’s…
Hey everyone – I was going to say Happy 2021 until things all went sideways last week. Regardless this the first episode of Season 3 of the Rust Belt Startup Podcast. On today’s episode I’m actually reading a blog post in it’s entirety that I really enjoyed which was featured in Tim Ferriss’ newsletter ‘Five…
Today’s pod is a super-shorty episode (I’ll be experimenting with more of these) where we’re talking about the Trojan horse that is the Nike Run Club app. This app started as a sensor you’d put in your Nike shoes (Nike+) and evolved as smartphones entered the market to a full-fledged and full-featured digital community. And…
Today on the podcast it’s a little lighter and I’m chatting with a colleague of mine – Bernie Freytag. He is the Creative Director at Romanelli Communications and he has a new book called ‘Find Wonder In The Ordinary’, which is sort of a memoir mashed-up with New Yorker cartoons. So in this conversation we…
Today – a short reflection on the past several weeks and the role small towns and cities can have in meaningful change. Imperfect and incomplete. Rust Belt Startup · Storytellers and Story-Changers – Some (self) Reflection on Social-Justice
Rust Belt Startup · Functional Speed and the Evolution of Ice I’m in week 9 or 10 of work-from-home and quarantine at this point, and things are settling into a rhythm. At least the sun is starting to come out and working from home also includes working in with the laptop in the back yard.…
Today we’re going a bit tactical. I’m taking with Gary Maples about chatbots – now before you tune out, we should start to understand what a chatbot is and what it isn’t and most important – how the tech is really democratized and how small businesses and organizations can build their own with minimal expertise. …
Over the weekend I wanted to catch up with urbanist Arian Horbovetz in Rochester, NY. I’ve been enjoying his podcast The Urban Phoenix and wanted to dig into what cities might be like after the COVID19 pandemic. We get into urban planning, last mile transport, remote work, the changing commercial real estate market, and the…
Devin Mahoney is a Utica, NY native who spent a decade working and writing for TV and Film in LA, on shows such as Scrubs, before returning to upstate NY with the mission of taking over the Uptown Theater and turning it into a punk-rock version of a Fine Arts School. The theater is now…
I’m hunkered down at home on self-imposed quarantine (no symptoms, just staying safe) and have been thinking about how COVID19 is not only disrupting all of our lives, economies and governments, but what lasting change is it going to have on work culture, real estate, meetings, education and politics. Here are some of my hot…