Innovation Days at Stevens and NJIT Highlight Student, Faculty Work

 Esther Surden | June 16, 2013 NJTech­Weekly.com covered the In­nov­a­tion Days at Stevens In­sti­tute of Tech­no­logy and NJIT this spring. Most of the stu­dent work was in the med­ic­al device and life sci­ences field, but there were some en­vir­on­ment­al pro­jects as well.

Startup Roundup: Clever Commute, Startup Valley, FocusedBuyer.com

 Esther Surden | June 14, 2013 In this Star­tup Roundup we cov­er Clev­er Com­mute which has re­leased a new ver­sion of The In­side Track that is down­load­able as a gift for Fath­er's Day; Star­tup Val­ley, the crowd­fund­ing site that is mak­ing pro­gress des­pite wait­ing for the SEC to fin­ish their rules-mak­ing work; and Fo­cused­Buy­er.com, a B2B In­ter­net buy­ing and selling plat­form launched in May.

NJ Angel Investor Tax Credit Program — Possible Boon to Emerging Tech — to Launch July 1

 Esther Surden | June 13, 2013 New Jer­sey is about to launch its An­gel In­vestor Tax Cred­it pro­gram Ju­ly 1, which will give NJ an­gel in­vestors more in­cent­ives to in­vest in risky young emer­ging com­pan­ies here in the state.
Photo: Reality Check Team for the May event(L-R): Mike Devito, Partner, WeiserMazars LLP; Pavita Howe, Principal, Plan B Strategic Marketing; Raj Menon, Mgr. for Industry Solutions; James Mielke, Assoc. Dir. Research, Rutgers University; Shahnam Sharareh, Partner, Fox Rothschild LLP Photo Credit: NJTC
Reality Check Team for the May event(L-R): Mike Devito, Partner, WeiserMazars LLP; Pavita Howe, Principal, Plan B Strategic Marketing; Raj Menon, Mgr. for Industry Solutions; James Mielke, Assoc. Dir. Research, Rutgers University; Shahnam Sharareh, Partner, Fox Rothschild LLP | NJTC

NJTC Tech Idea and Demo Days Bring New Companies, Ideas Into Focus

 Esther Surden | June 18, 2013 Thus far in 2013, the New Jer­sey Tech Coun­cil (NJTC) has held three Tech Idea and Demo Days in vari­ous parts of the state. The group wanted to cre­ate a for­um through which new ideas and new com­pan­ies could gain pub­lic ex­pos­ure and re­ceive a real­ity check from a pan­el of ex­perts. We cov­er the March and May events in Sum­mit and Pis­cat­away re­spect­ively in this art­icle.

NJ Tech Industry Pays $105,400 on Average; Supports 195,000 jobs

 Esther Surden | June 18, 2013 N.J. ranked ninth in the nation with 195,500 tech industry workers in 2012, a slight increase of 700 jobs from 2011, according to the TechAmerica Foundation (Washington) release of its 15th edition of its annual Cyberstates report. N.J. tech workers earned an average annual wage that was the fourth highest in the nation at $105,400 in 2012.

Coworking Important to New Jersey’s Tech Ecosystem

 Esther Surden | May 30, 2013
Cowork­ing makes a ma­jor con­tri­bu­tion to New Jer­sey's tech eco­sys­tem. We call on more tech en­tre­pren­eurs to get in­volved, find a cowork­ing space they are com­fort­able with, and make it home. The more tech en­tre­pren­eurs that settle in prox­im­ity to each oth­er, the more of a star­tup eco­sys­tem we will de­vel­op here in N.J.

Sponsored Post:Innovative Employee Benefits for Tech Companies

 Greg Colen, Ultimate Benefits, LLC | May 30, 2013
In this sponsored post, Greg Colen of Ul­ti­mate Be­ne­fits LLC talks about the need for Star­tups who ini­ti­ate health­care plans for their em­ploy­ees to make a health­care ad­voc­ate avail­able.
Around New Jersey

New Web Tool Will Link Enrollees to Expanded Medicaid

A new web portal will help the state sign up more than 100,000 new Medicaid enrollees starting this fall.

My Bus Now Coming to North Jersey

The MyBus Now feature that lets south Jersey NJ Transit bus riders check their smartphones to find when their bus is coming will be available in North Jersey.



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