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 →

I know, I know,  the blog has been dormant for the last 8 months. But the Lab certainsly hasn't! We've been busy beavers and the place is humming. The Lab itself has grown from 5 desks to 20, going to 35 by September 1. Amongst our current residents are EtherPad, Mr. Tweet, Foul Play, Umamibud, and some as yet unnamed projects. And a bunch of cool new startups have joined us down here at Pier 38, including Automattic, Threadsy, Poken, Social Gold and CoTweet, just to name a few. Lots lots more lies ahead over the next couple months, starting with a blog redesign. A new member of the Polaris team, starting Monday, will be based at the Lab -- more on that next week. And, we have a really exciting new project, called theStartProject, coming this fall. Stay tuned!

The SeedCamp team is invading Silicon Valley! To help welcome them to our 'hood, we are hosting a "pitch day" here at the Dog Patch Lab. We are looking forward to having them here! Collaborating with the various start-up "accelerators" is something we plan to do lots of, so expect to see more similar functions here at the Lab.

We've been at it for nearly a year now here at Dog Patch Labs, and it just dawned on us that we should start a blog. Stay tuned for content, if we can think of any. In the meantime check out what Dog Patch Labs is all about, and who we are.