hey amber rae

Forbes features Ben, Allan, Jonathan & I re: the NYC tech and start-up scene:

Fisher’s vision of a business built within the community and to help the community is indicative of a larger trend—and the commitment of the New York scene to stay strong and innovative. Like Liou, whose Meetup event aims to connect entrepreneurs, programmers and investors, Adopt A Hacker is rooted in strengthening the community from the bottom up.

Fisher also runs a multi-city event called The Lean Startup Machine, a startup competition rooted in the “Lean Startup” principle, a method of using customer feedback to adjust the product or service on the fly. His colleague and friend, Amber Rae, is a founder of New York Night Owls, a weekly meetup of working professionals who’ve found there aren’t enough daylight hours in a week—and commit to working together from 10pm to 4am every Tuesday at the New Work City space.

If offering up couches to strangers and extreme late night commitment isn’t a sign enough of the strength and electricity of the community, consider the Night Owls’ rapid growth. Since March, what started as a late night Twitter conversation between Rae and cofounder Alan Grinshtein has exploded to over 700 New York members and outposts in 30 cities worldwide including burgeoning US scenes in Los Angeles and Boston as well as London, Stockholm and Tel Aviv.

The full article is here. Thanks Meghan for the write-up!

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