hackNY's Summer Lecture Series Intros Fellows to NYC Startups

hackNY's 10-week Summer Fellows Program includes a pedagogical lecture series designed to introduce Fellows to New York's vibrant tech community.Summer Series lectures featured a wide variety of speakers who introduced Fellows to the ins and outs of working for and founding a company. This year's speakers included a mix of technologists, founders, journalists investors and designers.June 1 - The first hackNY Summer Series lecture kicked off with Ann Miura-Ko, who has been called "the most powerful woman in startups" by Forbes.June 7 - hackNY Fellows attended the June 2011 New York Tech Meetup, the largest public event during Internet Week.June 8 - For the second installment of hackNY's Summer Series, Elena Silenok, founder of Clothia.com discussed her transition from computer science researcher to Wall Street to startup founder.June 14 - Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Fog Creek Software and Stack Overflow shared his academic experience and path to success during the third Summer Series lecture.June 7 - hackNY Fellows attended the July 2011 New York Tech Meetup, whose theme was "The Now Neighborhood"June 16 - Dan Guido, security consultant at iSEC Partners, spoke with hackNY Fellows about mobile application security.June 20 - Josh Knowles, managing director of Pivotal Labs, NYC, discussed agile methodologies, pair programming and the shop's philosophies.June 21 - Howard Morgan spoke with hackNY Fellows about his varied experiences, from professor to investor and many accomplishments between.June 27 - New York Times tech reporter Jenna Wortham gave tips on how to work with reporters to make sure your story gets told.June 30 - User experience designer Whitney Hess shared her experiences and tips for building products with good UX.July 7 - Christopher "moot" Poole talked with Fellows about starting 4chan and his latest startup, Canv.asJuly 11 - Chris Dixon, Hunch.com founder and angel investor, spoke with Fellows about a variety of topics including his experience starting a company and seeking funding.July 18 - Steven L. Baglio of Gunderson Dettmer, who represents many startups, including Christopher "moot" Poole's Canvas, told Fellows about startups' basic legal needs and things to look out for.July 20 - Startup coach Jerry Colonna told Fellows about NYC's startup ecosystem: then and now.July 21 - Hilary Mason, hackNY cofounder and bit.ly's chief scientist, discussed the impact and applications of "big data" in NYC startups.July 25 -Union Square Ventures' partners chatted with Fellows about the present and future states of NYC's startup ecosystem.July 27 - SecondMarket's Barry Silbert spoke with Fellows about the history of his company and how US markets are changing.Check out our collection of photos from these great events, and sign up for our newsletter to learn when applications open for next summer.