GoodCrush Launches!

by jonsteinberg on February 9th 2010 — Comment 
In time for Valentine's Day, Dogpatch Labs NY Resident Good Crush, has launched.  Be sure to check out the launch blog post, which also includes some great pictures of founder Josh Weinstein and the rest of the team hard at work in the lab over the past several weeks. Continue →

FanPulse Launches for Super Bowl

by Ryan on February 6th 2010 — Comment 
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Congratulations to Dogpatch Labs residents Fanpulse on the launch of their iPhone App - just in time for the Super Bowl. FanPulse allows sports fans to "check in" to sporting games and interact with other fans in real-time. Continue →

Brand Building Notes for Tech Startups

by vcmike on January 26th 2010 — 2 Comments 
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The following is a guest post by Mike Green of Collecta, a member of Dogpatch Labs New York: A common concern for tech startups is how to build a brand with limited resources and how to balance the effort required to develop great technology with the effort required to develop the brand.  Both can be major points of differentiation for an emerging company so I checked out a workshop called "PR and Marketing for Early Stage NYC Startups" last week and invited those interested from Dogpatch NY to come with.   Continue →

Three Takeaways from the Dogpatch Labs / Facebook Connect Event

by Ryan on January 23rd 2010 — 1 Comment 
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This article is from RyanSpoon.com and "Facebook Connect: It's More Than a Sign-On Tool". As Mike Hirshland wrote, "last night was a truly epic evening at Dogpatch Labs". Continue →

The Web as a Facebook Fan Page

by Ryan on January 22nd 2010 — Comment 
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This article is from VCMike's Blog and "When the Whoe Web is a Facebook Fan Page" Last night we had a truly epic evening at Dogpatch Labs, hosting the Facebook Connect team, 13 startups presenting on their implementations of Connect, and about 100 other guests. Continue →

Open Source Entrepreneurship

by jonsteinberg on January 15th 2010 — 5 Comments 
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We coined the term “Open Source Entrepreneurship” (OSE) to describe the philosophy behind Dogpatch Labs. And it dawns on us that while we continue to use the term we've never really explained it. OSE holds at its core that an entrepreneurial community benefits from a very high level of interactivity and sharing between the members of that community, whether it be the exchange of ideas, of expertise, or of referrals. Continue →

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