Charlie O’Donnell

By admin 5/24/11 8:11pm

Dancing for Dollars at the TechCrunch Disrupt After Party

By admin 1/10/11 2:39pm

NextNY Announces Fellowship Program

Charlie O’Donnell, partner at First Round Capital and man on scene in the New York tech world, has made it perfectly clear that he believes grassroots organizations are the key to Silicon Alley’s future.

To mark the fifth anniversary of NextNY, a group which O’Donnell helps to lead, he announced the NextNY fellowship program, Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 1/07/11 6:05pm

the talent drought

Less Talk, More Code: NYC's Non-Coding Techsters Taking the Plunge

First, investor Charlie O’Donnell called on New York’s tech scene to add 250 developers to the work force.

“What I’d like to figure out is how we can create a much more sustainable and much more robust pipeline of developers into the NYC innovation community and I’d like to propose a lofty goal to Read More

By admin 1/03/11 5:07pm

tech talent

NYC Tech’s New Year’s Resolution: Double the Developer Workforce

You can now add the space race to the smorgasboard of metaphors used to describe the talent war between Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley.

Charlie O’Donnell is one of the VCs most engaged with the city’s tech community on the street level. When’s he’s not planning events – like a geek snowball fight – Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 12/27/10 4:26pm

ruckus

Geek Snowball Fight! Madison Square Park, 2:30 p.m.

This is so going on YouTube. Charlie O’Donnell, First Round Capital principal investor and general man-about-tech, has declared an INNOVATION COMMUNITY SNOWBALL FIGHT!

“Two years ago, we had 50 people come out to Madison Square Park to toss ice balls in each other’s ears,” O’Donnell wrote to the Innovation Community listserve, which keeps New Read More

By admin 12/16/10 9:05pm

Venture Capital

First Round Capital Has The Best Holiday Card

Earlier this year Old Spice premiered an ad campaign in which their spokesman replied in real time to users Twitter comments.

The partners and portfolio companies from First Round Capital, which has a strong presence in New York, are recreating that act to send out their holiday greetings.

“Hello Internet denizens, how are you this Read More

By admin 10/05/10 12:37pm

Slideshow The Social Network

Zuckerberg: Friend or Fiend? NYC Techies Weigh in on The Social Network

The Social Network has topped the box office and divided generations of Americans. “When you talk to people afterward, it was as if they were seeing two different films,” said Scott Rudin, one of the producers, in the Times. “The older audiences see Zuckerberg as a tragic figure who comes out of the film Read More

By admin 9/28/10 9:51pm

These 5 Tech Startups Get To Pitch The Daily News

Five NYC startups have been selected to pitch The Daily News for a chance to partner on a new web venture.

The event is being run by NextNY, a group focused on young companies in the NYC tech scene.

Charlie O’Donnell, an entrepreneur in residence at First Round Capital and one of the folks Read More

By Gillian Reagan 1/02/09 3:35pm

New York Tech Smarties Make Industry Predictions for ’09

What will be the next big thing in tech this year? How will start-ups grapple with the economic crisis? What’s gonna happen to Google? Will Twitter take over the world?

Charlie O’Donnell, co-founder and CEO of career-building site Path 101, asked a bunch of tech-savvy New Yorkers and others to make a 7-second Read More

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Dancing for Dollars at the TechCrunch Disrupt After Party

NextNY Announces Fellowship Program

Less Talk, More Code: NYC's Non-Coding Techsters Taking the Plunge

NYC Tech’s New Year’s Resolution: Double the Developer Workforce

Geek Snowball Fight! Madison Square Park, 2:30 p.m.

First Round Capital Has The Best Holiday Card

Zuckerberg: Friend or Fiend? NYC Techies Weigh in on The Social Network

These 5 Tech Startups Get To Pitch The Daily News

New York Tech Smarties Make Industry Predictions for ’09

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