We are seeing growth in the tech ecosystem in N.J., and evidence of this comes from the recent proliferation of Meetup groups dotting the state. Possibly the largest of the Meetup groups is the NJ Tech Meetup in Hoboken run by startup entrepreneur Aaron Price. However there are many more groups, some that existed before that one was established. There are Linux User Group Meetups, Sharepoint Meetups, Mobile App Meetups, Jersey Shore Tech Meetups, The NJ Connect Meetups...

Readers of NJTechWeekly.com have been asking us via Twitter to investigate a program being offered by Rutgers University that appears to provide free entrepreneurship training worth $8,000. We spoke to William Bigoness, executive director of the Rutgers Center for Management Development, and Debbie McDermott who is administering the program, to find out more about what is going on.

The first thing to know about the Rutgers program is that there is a hard deadline of February 10th to get...

Welcome to New Jersey Tech Weekly's Opinion section, where you'll find a blog about tech in N.J. written by the editor, Esther Surden, as well as some opinions from other stakeholders and members of the community.

When we launched New Jersey Tech Weekly, we wanted to see if we could start a dialog about making tech big in the Garden State.  This Opinion blog, similar to the editorial page in a newspaper, is another way for us to achieve our goal.

Esther's opinions are all her own, but we...